The Film Canon: The Magnificent Ambersons (1942)

It is impossible to discuss Orson Welles’ Citizen Kane (1941) without examining the film’s two central figures: William Randolph Hearst, the American newspaper magnate that the film’s central megalomaniac was based on, and Welles himself, that sensational  wunderkind whose talents…

Women in Film Wednesday: All About Eve (1950)

Hello and welcome to Ally’s hastily slapped together version of Women in Film Wednesday. Why, might you ask, is it slapped together? Well, as it would happen, I forgot my days of the week and Wednesday came and went and…