Apollo 18 (2011) ✰ ✰ ½

Pseudo-documentaries with horror aspects have become relatively commonplace since the surprise hit The Blair Witch Project back in 1999, and with good reason: it is seemingly easy to create “lost footage” which, when suddenly, conveniently found, tells some very harrowing tales. […]

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The book

Lee Marvin did not receive his first starring role until he was 40, but in three short years — following the successes of Cat Ballou (for which he won the Academy Award as Best Actor), The Professionals and especially The Dirty Dozen — […]

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Why Lee?

For years I had been searching for a subject interesting to me that I could knowledgeably write about to break into the publishing world.  I tried a book about baseball movies, but by the time I was into it, several […]

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The book

A marvelous actress, Gloria Grahame (1923-1981) was also an iconic figure of film noir. Her talents are showcased in several classic motion pictures of the 1940s and 1950s, including It’s a Wonderful Life, Crossfire, In a Lonely Place, The Greatest Show […]

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Why Gloria?

A question I am frequently asked is why write about Gloria Grahame? What is it about her or her movies that demanded my attention? As happened with my second book project, Korean War Filmography, I was led to Gloria by […]

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