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The Masterpiece that Almost Was: The Quick and the Dead

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|Ryan Sanderson| You’re Sharon Stone. Congratulations. You’ve just achieved massive stardom with Basic Instinct. Now Sony’s come knocking with a metatextual riff on Sergio Leone Westerns, the Clint Eastwood Man With No Name archetype written for a woman. You sign on… Continue reading

Charlie Chaplin’s Renegade Anti-Fascism in The Great Dictator

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|Ed Dykhuizen| During the first half of the twentieth century, there was no bigger star than Charlie Chaplin. At a very young age he rose from English music halls to American comedy shorts. His defining character The Little Tramp debuted in only his second film, the 1914 Keystone… Continue reading