Writing Archive

Setting the tone for adaptations to follow, The Adventures of Robin Hood is packed with swashbucklin ...

Striking a unique (and often imitated) balance of farce, parody and general insanity first explored ...

I’m almost embarrassed to say that The Bank Dick is the first W.C. Fields film I’ve watched from sta ...

While ostensibly a simple morality tale about greed, B. Traven’s novel is faithfully translated with ...

Still staggeringly beautiful after all these years, The Wizard of Oz captures a feeling of near limi ...

With a number of notable exceptions, the plots of many of the kung-fu films being churned out in the ...