A classic film noir adaptation of Raymond Chandler’s detective novel of the same name, The Big Sleep provides modern audiences with the verbose wit and intelligence that is the hallmark of an old film done right. Today, the sly banter and smart detective work of protagonist Philip Marlowe (Humphrey Bogart) […]

Melodrama can easily be simplistic as it can be entangled and complex. The Wings of a Dove (1997) plays on a trio of characters whom manipulate, love and betray one another. This sordid tale of temptation takes place in the early 1900s in an imbalanced London, where class and wealth […]

Alexandre Desplat is no stranger to scoring romance and fantasy films: his career is littered with such fantastic highlights as The Painted Veil and The Golden Compass. Now, for The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, a film which uniquely combines both of these genres, Desplat has provided a suitably complex […]