There are too many films that incorporate gambling as their central theme or as part of their storyline to list. The range of options starts as early as the olden days of cinema that create a category of classics to modern-day releases that continue to riddle the entertainment business. We have sifted through the collection[…]
An appropriate end, or beginning, for a ghost that will live many, many more lives. 1981 The film begins on a darkened set, billowing with fog, echoing with a woman’s cry to the heavens. Her figure comes into view and she zigs and zags across the screen, her diaphanous white robe glittering with silver fringe.[…]
Culling impressions of the twentieth century from a vivid but imperfect source. In 1921, New Yorker Rosie Calinetti professed her intention “to be the greatest actress that the world has ever seen.” According to a bemused New York Herald reporter, Rosie was seven or eight years old, lived on Mulberry Street near Canal, and went to the[…]