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FP032: “It’s a Good Day to Die!"
March 30, 2007
A powerful film from one of the hot new directors of the late 1960’s, Arthur Penn. One of the few films that successfully manages to...
FP031: “Have You Ever Heard of—KONG?”
March 23, 2007
What can we say? This is it—the original article. The one and only real, genuine, accept-no-substitutes KING KONG, in glorious, luminous...
FP030: “What a Super Man!"
March 16, 2007
Richard Donner’s magnificent, half-finished epic has become the iconic embodiment of The Man of Steel, regardless of the machinations of...
FP029: “Death is Not an Adventure…"
March 9, 2007
Lewis Milestone’s ground-breaking sound film epic treats WWI not as an allegory, as many of its predecessors had, but as a painfully...
FP028: “It Ain’t a Fit Night Out for Man or Beast!"
March 2, 2007
It is thought that these shorts were made so that the executives at Paramount could see just how good or bad W.C. Fields was on the...
FP027: “That Shaft Is One Bad Mother—”
February 23, 2007
Gordon Parks’ breakthrough detective film resonates with as much or more power than it did when it exploded on the scene back in 1971....
FP026: “Keep Your Eyes On The Prize, Oh Lord.”
February 16, 2007
Henry Hampton’s fourteen hour journey through the American Civil Rights Movement should be required viewing for all, especially those...
FP025: “What do you call that hairstyle?” “Arthur.”
February 9, 2007
“Are you a mod or a rocker?” “I’m a mocker.” Ringo’s exchange sets the tone for Richard Lester’s wild, free and groundbreaking little...