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Roman Holiday: The Power of Silence

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Roman Holiday: The Power of Silence

Shawn Hall June 12, 2026 5

Sometimes we let a genre fool us. Whether horror, melodrama, or romance, in the case of...

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Josef von Sternberg from The Salvation Hunters to Anatahan

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Josef von Sternberg from The Salvation Hunters to Anatahan

Shawn Hall May 23, 2024 10

Whether in a close-up of the glamorous Marlene Dietrich or an alluring wide shot of the...

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Empire of Dreams: The Epic Life of Cecil B. DeMille—Book Review

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Empire of Dreams: The Epic Life of Cecil B. DeMille—Book Review

Shawn Hall June 2, 2023 2

Over eighty years after his death, Cecil B. DeMille remains one of the most recognizable classic...

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Barbara Stanwyck in Dick Powell’s Zane Grey Theatre

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Barbara Stanwyck in Dick Powell’s Zane Grey Theatre

Shawn Hall May 19, 2023 6

For five seasons in the late 1950s and early 1960s, Dick Powell hosted and produced his...

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The Sound of Fury (1950) — A Blacklisted Film Noir

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The Sound of Fury (1950) — A Blacklisted Film Noir

Shawn Hall May 10, 2020 0

The Hollywood Blacklist in the 1950s really cut short a lot of interesting careers and forced...

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What Makes a Great Film

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What Makes a Great Film

Shawn Hall March 30, 2020 0

I recently watched Ingmar Bergman’s classic The Seventh Seal for the first time. To be brutally...

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