BearManor Media News — film

Q&A with Henry Nicolella, author of You Have to Run Fast - The Feature Films of Edward L. Cahn   1. What drew you to Edward L. Cahn and his work?   Years ago I saw his 1932 film “Afraid to Talk”. It was a stylish kind of proto-noir and startling in its cynicism about civic corruption.  They did change the play it was based on to allow the hapless hero to survive and a couple of the villains to get their just desserts but in the end the bad guys are still in charge with no indication anything will...

Q&A with David Da Silva, Author of Martial Arts in Cinema Volume 2: The Golden Era (1988-1997) 1. What made you decide to focus specifically on the 1988-1997 period for this second volume? That decade represents the absolute explosion of martial arts into mainstream Hollywood. After the groundwork laid by Bruce Lee in the 1970s and the Hong Kong wave, you suddenly had Steven Seagal and Jean-Claude Van Damme becoming genuine box office titans. But more importantly, this era saw martial arts infiltrate every action film: whether it was Sylvester Stallone in Rambo III, Mel Gibson in Lethal Weapon, or...

  Q&A with Joseph Malham, author of Holy Celluloid! The Vatican List of Great Films & Why They Still Matter 1.    Q: The first question many people will ask is “if the list was compiled in 1995, why are you writing about it thirty years later?” A:  A valid question and one that I asked myself many times. First, I was amazed to discover that while there were many articles and online discussions, there wasn’t a surfeit of books examining the list since it was comprised by the Vatican for the centenary of the birth of cinema. Second, these...

  NEW REVIEW! "The appropriately titled 'We Must Shoot!:' The Life and Art of Gary Graver shines a long-overdue spotlight on Graver's life and career, from working with cinema greats like the aforementioned Welles, John Cassavetes, and Steven Spielberg, B-Movie directors such as Al Adamson and Ed Wood, to his own directorial oeuvre of porn films."- Cineaste Magazine (Contains amazon affiliate link)

WHY BRING BACK “HURRICANE BILLY”? By NAT SEGALOFFSpecial to BearManor Media ©2026 Nat Segaloff     Lunching at the Algonquin round table in the 1920s, critic Alexander Woollcott, who had just  published a book, wistfully mused, “What is so rare as an Alexander Woollcott first edition?” Tired of his bravado, columnist Franklin Pierce Adams shot back, “An Alexander Woollcott second edition.”   (Amazon affiliate link above)              In the publishing world, a second edition differs from a second printing in that the latter is merely an additional press run dictated by sales, whereas the former offers the author the chance...