This is an article I wrote for the second issue of Filmbobbery (1:2; Autumn 1999), in which I offered twenty-five cinematic alternatives to the more popular vampire, werewolf, zombie, alien, serial killer, demonic and slasher films so often associated with […]

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I recently came across this reference and quotation from Charlton Heston regarding westerns, and it made me think very carefully about what he was saying. “Late in 1956, Charlton Heston was asked why he had elected to follow his career-defining […]

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The Ten:  (arranged chronologically) 1955  Henry Fonda, Mister Roberts  Actor 1956  Eddie Albert, Attack  Supporting Actor 1956  Jack Palance, Attack  Actor 1962  Robert Mitchum, The Longest Day  Supporting Actor 1964  George C. Scott, Dr. Strangelove…  Actor 1970  Karl Malden, Patton  […]

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This article was originally published in Filmbobbery in 2008 (Volume 9, Issue 4, pages 26 – 30).  It has been updated for this website. Much of the discussion in this issue has centered on cinematic “Essentials,” those movies universally acknowledged to […]

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Note: This article was written in the spring of 2009 and published in the final print issue of Filmbobbery (10:4).   As I am saying farewell with this issue, I thought it might be interesting to look at how some […]

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Dana Andrews (1909-1992), was a handsome, versatile actor with a wonderfully smooth voice best known for some classic 1940s dramas, and who, between 1957 and 1975, came to embody some of the unluckiest pilots in the movies.  Those few appearances […]

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