That Racist Old John Wayne Interview Is No Fresh Discovery

Posted on February 20th, 2019 by Adam-Troy Castro

The most ludicrous thing about all the social media outrage at the recently rediscovered John Wayne interview is the assumption promoted by rhetoric that this is some buried obscurity that only recently came to light. Folks, that interview was notorious THEN. The Playboy Interviews had a huge footprint in general. They didn’t just profile show-business […]

Tags: Howard Hawks, John Ford, John Wayne, Kirk Douglas, Race

The Single Dumbest Thing Yet Written In Tribute to Alan Rickman

Posted on January 15th, 2016 by Adam-Troy Castro

Look. I am second to no one on my love for the  screen work of the late Alan Rickman. I saw Die Hard in preview, before anybody knew it would become a classic of its kind and a model for many inferior films, including its own sequels, that came after it. I knew he was a star the second […]

Tags: Alan Rickman, Alfred Hitchcock, Bad Day At Black Rock, Buster Keaton, Claude Rains, Cultural Amnesia, Die Hard, Edward G. Robinson, Harold Lloyd, Henry Fonda, Howard Hawks, Humphrey Bogart, James Mason, John Ford, Joseph Cotten, Key Largo, Laurence Olivier, Marathon Man, North by Northwest, Notorious, Once Upon A Time In the West, Orson Welles, Robert Ryan, Sam Peckinpah, Shadow Of A Doubt, Spartacus, The Third Man

Counting the Chips at Casino Royale

Posted on February 16th, 2011 by Adam-Troy Castro

An author’s intent, an actor’s fragile ego, a genial shambles and cruelty to testicles  * Commentary by Adam-Troy Castro Casino Royale (1967). Directed by Val Guest, Ken Hughes, John Huston, Joseph McGrath, Robert Parrish, and Richard Talmadge. Screenplay by Wolf Mankowitz, John Law, and Michael Sayers, from the novel by Ian Fleming. Additional screenplay contributions […]

Tags: Action, Austin Powers, Ben Hecht, Billy Wilder, Bruce Willis, Cary Grant, Casino Royale, Comedy, Daniel Craig, Daniel Craig, Daniel Craig, David Niven, James Bond, David Neven, Die Hard, Dr. Evil, Fargo, George Raft, Howard Hawks, Ian Fleming, James Bond, James Bond, James Cameron, Jason Bourne, Joseph Heller, Joseph McGrath, Judi Dench, Ken Hughes, Martin Campbell, Matt Damon, Monty Python, Monty Python and the Holy Grail, Moonraker, on Her Majesty's Secret Service, Orson Welles, Orson Welles, Paul Haggis, Peter Lorre, Peter O'Toole, peter Sellers, Robert Parrish, Roger Moore, Sean Connery, Spy, Spy Who Loved me, Terry Southern, The World Is Not Enough, Ursula Andress, Val Guest, Vin Diesel, Woody Allen, XXX