The recommendations from the Great Movies – 100 Years of Film book for my screening of Oklahoma! gets underway with the 1936 adaptation of the Hammerstein stage musical, Show Boat. Directed by James Whale, who, one year previous, directed the iconic Bride of Frankenstein, the tale follows a young woman, Magnolia aka Nola (Irene Dunne)…
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The Brood (1979)
David Cronenberg appears on the list of 101 Horror Movies with this disturbing little film which he wrote and directed. There are a lot of familiar Cronenbery traits including the concept of body horror, and a score by talented Canadian composer Howard Shore (The Lord of the Rings). Art Hindle plays Frank Carveth, a father…
The Mind Reels 