This past week marks the twentieth anniversary of the release of Steven Spielberg's blockbuster hit Saving Private Ryan. Let's take a look back at what Mark had to say about it in 1998: When Saving Private...
As Christmas Day approaches, it gets harder and harder to find a seasonal movie I haven't said everything I want to say about in my Christmas column of 2005, 1994, 1957... White Christmas, Holiday Inn,...
For our Saturday movie date this week, a muted centennial: Orson Welles was born one hundred years last Wednesday - May 6th 1915, in Kenosha, Wisconsin - and I thought the anniversary would have been a...
For whatever reason, it feels a fairly muted Independence Day this Fourth of July. So I thought for our Saturday movie date a tale of American daring and ingenuity triumphing against the odds. This was...
My grandmother was a Bette Davis impersonator. Not professionally, and barely amateurly, either: She only entered, and won, a single look-alike contest, well before my time. But previously, and forever...
It's a double feature this week, as Kathy Shaidle explores two films whose stars died in 2019 – Eyes Without a Face starring Edith Scob, and The Brain That Wouldn't Die with Virginia Leith
On the eve of All About Eve's 70th anniversary, Kathy Shaidle writes of Joseph Mankiewicz's timeless film starring Bette Davis and Celeste Holm
Tina Brown on her former business partner Harvey Weinstein: I often used to wonder if the physical dissonance between his personal grossness and his artistic sensibility — which was genuine — made...
In this contemptibly evasive film, Forman and Harrelson transform Flynt into a free-speech crusader... - The Spectator EDIT Read...
Fantastically English Mark Steyn Im writing this at three in the morning. The nearest movie theatre prepared even to concede the possibility of an unsold ticket told me my best shot at getting a seat...
Mark Steyn Spider-Man 2 PG, selected cinemas Cpider-Man 2 is the spinning, squirting, swinging antidote to the stunted paranoia of Fahrenheit 9111 . Its theme, of course, comes from the words of Peter...
Frank Sinatra died twenty years ago - May 14th 1998. We'll pick out a few musical moments later tonight, but first, as a curtain-raiser and as a Mark at the Movies Sunday bonus, here's a look at Sinatra's...
There's an oft-quoted story about [Bob] Hope appearing once in England and telling a joke where the punchline was something like, "They went to a motel." The audience howled even though at the time the...
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...
Schindler's List (15', selected cinemas) The film's the thing . . . Mark Steyn With Steven Spielberg, the film is the star — such a sensible rule, you wonder why he's the only producer who gets it....
I liked Christopher Nolan's Interstellar because the bad guy was a fraudulent climate scientist called Dr Mann. So I was hoping Dunkirk might feature a sadistic Gestapo officer called ObergruppenklimatfĂĽhrer...
Mike Nichols is one of that select group who won the showbiz Grand Slam - Tony, Oscar, Grammy, Emmy. But I liked him as a stage director rather than a film director - with the exception of his last Broadway...
It's pre-Oscar night at SteynOnline. I've reviewed three of this year's big contenders - Dunkirk, Darkest Hour, and Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri. But from the Sunday Telegraph corner of the...
There are an absurd number of Best Picture nominees at the Oscars these days: It's almost as if anything that isn't a superhero franchise or animated merchandising exploitation is assured of a nomination....
P D James died on Thursday, the undisputed heir to Agatha Christie and Dorothy L Sayers as the "Queen of Crime", although she did not care for either comparison ("Such a bad writer," she sniffed of Dame...
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