Year by Year: Best Comedic Performances: 1960s Who are your favorite comedic actors? Think throughout the history of film. Chaplin? Keaton? Hepburn? What about more recent performers? Will Adam Sandler, Jack Black and Tina Fey live on and be remembered with the greats? Only time will tell. Comedy is a slippery thing. What one person finds comic, another will not even crack a smile. Only a few … Read More
Re-Make/Re-Model: The Taking of Pelham One Two Three (1974) vs. The Taking of Pelham 1 2 3 (2009) Remakes have been around nearly as long as Hollywood itself, and not always for the reasons or with the results you’d think. Spectrum Culture’s new feature Re-Make/Re-Model will examine the long history of cinematic remakes, the good movies turned great, the bad ideas turned worse and the weird ones turned boring. Made during the two lowest points of American faith … Read More