This nearly 70-year-old war film was in some sense an anti-war film.
Author: Beth Lisogorsky (Beth Lisogorsky)
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Cancer and American Films
Hollywood’s decades-long fascination with the 0the struggles of cancer patients may tell us more about the human condition than many people traumatized by the disease want to know.
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Agatha Christie’s Crime Canon Has Murder Mystery Staying Power
It seems unlikely that there will ever be another Agatha Christie. But it’s not from want of trying.
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At the Intersection of Love and Technology
No matter the advances in technology, filmgoers still long for the magic evoked by the plot device of an implausible lost love reunion depending more on fate than human initiative.
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Alternate Romantic Realities
In Past Lives, circumstances separate two love-struck tweens but a supernatural fate reunites them. The theme disturbs the western sensibility that favors alternatives and individual autonomy.