BearManor Media News — film

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...

Judy Garland: The Movie Roles that Might Have Been – Q and A with Richard Irvin 1.    What inspired you to write this book?Many books have been written about the life of Judy Garland and the movies she made. Some of these books include lists of films for which Judy was considered, but no book ever delved into the subject of the movie roles Ms. Garland sought but never obtained or the roles for which movie studios thought of hiring her but for various reasons did not. 2.    What are some of the unproduced MGM musicals in which...