American Beauty, while creating a strong reaction among moviegoers, has also successfully swept the 72nd annual Oscar Awards and the 57th annual Golden Globe Awards in the main categories. The Academy Awards bestowed American Beauty with Best Picture, Best...
During the late twenties and thirties, Greta Garbo was another reigning screen queen who was known as “the immortal one.” Because of her onscreen dynamics, her portrayals of adultery, seduction, lust, murder, and worship of eastern gods continuously captivated...
Following the box office success of The Craft, Hollywood was quick to produce Practical Magic, a movie extolling a family of witches. Practical Magic picked up the ball where The Craft left off, filling in the ideological gaps of witchcraft, all the while beckoning...
“[Grace Kelly] was a firm believer in astrology and regularly consulted her charts,” writes Biography magazine. As already noted with the cankerous beliefs of Marlene Dietrich, astrology is a faulty system that allows one to manipulate the stars to do what they want...
Tom Laughlin, the writer, director and actor of the film depicting shamanistic ritual, Billy Jack, lived first hand the Hollywood understanding: “The important thing is that the picture strikes a chord in the collective psyche…Movies are the bible of the people....
