Words by Alan and Marilyn Bergman Music by Neil Diamond, Dave Grusin, Marvin Hamlisch, Quincy Jones, Michel Legrand, Norman Luboff and Lew SpenceToday is the ninetieth birthday of Marilyn Bergman, one...
A week ago I was having a conversation in the Fox News green room about the Downton Abbey movie with ...well, go on, guess: Tucker? Kilmeade? No, it was Tyrus. A hulking ex-professional wrestler who could...
Just ahead of my imminent appearance on Outsiders on Sky Australia, here's our Saturday movie date: Who's the best Blofeld? Well, that would be the guy in the books. Ian Fleming's Blofeld is very precisely...
Three quarters of a century ago - September 1944 - this week's song was in the midst of a nine-week run at Number One. It's stuck around through all the decades since - which is unusual because it's not...
In this week's Mark at the Movies, Kathy Shaidle does a deep dive into the pre-CGI era of Hollywood special effects, looking at a few standouts from Buster Keaton's Sherlock Jr. to the skeleton fight in...
This month marks the eightieth anniversary of one of the greatest and most enduring film musicals ever made, and one of the few to match the dramatic ambition of the best Broadway shows. The Wizard Of...
In this week's Mark at the Movies, guest columnist Kathy Shaidle explores the subtle touches and edge-of-your-seat twists of Fritz Lang's detectiveless film noir, Scarlet Street
In this week's Mark at the Movies, guest columnist Kathy Shaidle delves into the evocative Seconds, starring Rock Hudson. The 1966 sci-fi drama is "fantastical," but also real in its depiction of a man's...
In this week's Mark at the Movies, Kathy Shaidle explores the best Catholic movie ever made by two Jews, 1943's The Song of Bernadette, based on the book about Bernadette Soubirous, later known as Ste....
Enemy at the Gates (15, selected cinemas) Stalking in Stalingrad Mark Steyn The old-time Hollywood execs would have identified the problem easily enough: Nazis vs Commies — who cares? The riposte,...
I lost most of this last week to various impositions by litigious wankers, which is very boring, of course. On the other hand, it does mean that I've involuntarily acquired more knowledge of American legal...
Imagine a 1960s without the most infuriating parts of that era. That's the setting of Valley of the Dolls, starring Barbara Parkins, Patty Duke, Sharon Tate and Susan Hayward. Guest columnist Kathy Shaidle...
In this week's Mark at the Movies, guest columnist Kathy Shaidle explores the gritty, alcohol-saturated and "God-haunted" noir film Nightmare Alley, based on the novel by William Lindsay Gresham, who ultimately...
In this week's Mark at the Movies, we explore a wartime film misinterpreted in its day as being unpatriotic despite the opposite being true. Guest columnist Kathy Shaidle on The Life and Death of Colonel...
From intergalactic film reviews and real-world dystopian justice to shawarma babies and the Democratic primary, here's what the last week had in store for SteynOnline readers
Mark at the Movies guest columnist Kathy Shaidle takes an intergalactic look at an underrated parody film from 1999, Galaxy Quest starring Tim Allen, Alan Rickman, Sigourney Weaver and Tony Shalhoub
As a teen, I read an old movie review by Pauline Kael, in which she complained that some contemporaneous satirical film was inferior to a similar one made back in 1950, called Champagne for Caesar. That...
Guest columnist Kathy Shaidle hates westerns, yet still has a bit of a soft spot for this 1951 film, she writes in this week's Mark at the Movies
Mark at the Movies guest columnist Kathy Shaidle is back, this time with her take on the 1955 Bengali classic, Pather Panchali
When we "discover" a great old film, we often regret not having watched it sooner. But when I saw Dodsworth that night, I was grateful that its creaky title and unpromising plot had prevented me from bothering...
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