*contains spoilers For some the meaning of life is the movies. And some readers of this article may be lost without them. Isn’t that absurd that the movies as opposed to some divine being in the universe should be the meaning of life? … Or at least part of it? Perhaps you believe in both!…
Read more The Religion of Movies and The Purple Rose of Cairo (1985)
One title among the first wave of Cinemascope films from the studio which initiated the process, 20th Century Fox, was Garden of Evil (1954). This western, which is set south of the border, stars Gary Cooper (1901-61 prostate cancer), Susan Hayward (1917-75 lung and brain cancer), Richard Widmark (1914-2008 long illness), and Cameron Mitchell (1918-94…
*contains spoilers There are movies that people either absolutely love or hate in equal measure and Norman Mailer’s (1923-2007 renal failure) Tough Guys Don’t Dance (1987) has been one of those polarising movies. I love it, and always have since I saw it on VHS back when it was first released in the late 1980s…
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