The folks at Flavorwire put together a very funny video of some very notable “Manic Pixie Dream Girls” dating all the way back to the original one, Katherine Hepburn in Bringing Up Baby. The video does a good job of pointing out some writer/directors who use the Manic Pixie Dream Girl as a crutch (Cameron [...]

Ask someone what they think of when you mention the actress Barbara Stanwyck. My mom, a baby boomer, thinks of the westerns Stanwyck did later in her career. For some reason folks my age tend to think of those over the top melodramas she made for a while. Many cinephiles immediately think of her fantastic [...]

Contrary to popular belief the United States has always been a bit more conservative than its peers of modern western civilization. When those Puritans toddled over to escape King James’s religious persecution they brought with them a few boat loads of social hangups that have managed to persist in American culture well into the modern [...]