That particularly bleak movie-making style called film noir is in the air these days. Brian De Palma's The Black Dahlia opens next week and Hollywoodland hits screens today. Los Angeles Times and ...
William and Mary professor Nancy Schoenberger co-wrote a book about the mysterious death of George Reeves. Now a version of the story is a movie. Nancy Schoenberger is pretty sure she knows who killed ...
When Hollywood superstar George Reeves dies in his home, private detective Louis Simo is hired to investigate his death and gets caught in a web of lies involving a big studio executive's wife. Based ...
On Fridays, the online magazine Slate compiles a digest of what movie critics are saying about the new releases. Here is Mark Jordan Legan with this week's Summary Judgment. MARK JORDAN LEGAN: First ...
Get cape, wear cape, fly... Ben Affleck and Diane Lane in Hollywoodland Hollywoodland embodies a peculiar cinematic paradox: the great star vehicle that is itself a not especially good movie. Judged ...
Like George Reeves, the tall, dark, handsome and frustrated actor who played Superman on early television and on screen in “Superman and the Mole-Men,” the new film “Hollywoodland” may have a hard ...
'Hollywoodland" is an intriguing place to visit, but you wouldn't want to live there. In fact, people who live there often wind up dead or wishing they were. The compelling new film "Hollywoodland" ...
Hollywoodland is an ambitious film that succeeds up to a point, but no further. It's a reasonable facsimile of film noir, but it's also an overly derivative piece of work that thinks it is doing and ...