“White Heat” (Raoul Walsh, 1949) at 7 a.m. on TCM. One of the peaks of film noir: James Cagney as the trigger-happy, mother-dominated gangster Cody Jarrett, a vicious heist man who slaps around his ...

AKIRA Kurosawa and Toshiro Mifune were arguably the greatest director-star team in the history of the movies. Between 1948 and 1965, they made 16 films that put Japanese cinema on the international ...

Welcome to The B-Side, from The Film Stage. Here we talk about movie stars and filmmakers and not the movies that made them famous or kept them famous, but the ones they made in between. This is the ...

When Seven Samurai was released in Japan on April 26, 1954, it changed cinematic storytelling forever. Arguably the most famous film by the legendary Akira Kurosawa, Seven Samurai created the template ...