Many movie musicals have become enduring fixtures of Western pop culture. Masterpieces like Singin’ in the Rain (1952) and The Sound of Music (1965) have been lauded not only as triumphs of musical storytelling, but as pieces of cinema able…
The Film Canon: Black Narcissus (1947)
High above the world nestled on an impossible cliff, madness comes to Mopu. Once a harem, this decayed palace of pleasures and perversities bears witness to new masters: a group of Anglican nuns who seek to establish a school and…
The Film Canon: Frankenstein (1931)
Dracula was a demon, the Invisible Man a maniac, and Gill-man a literal monster. The Mummy killed to possess, the Wolf Man for lack of control. But Frankenstein’s Monster killed for the simple reason than he didn’t know any better.…
