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Barbara Stanwyck’s genre-defining performance in Billy Wilder’s Double Indemnity (1944) is still powerful after 80 years Fred MacMurray and Barbara Stanwyck in Double Indemnity ©Paramount Pictures The femme fatale character type is as old as the tale about the first man and woman, Adam and Eve, wherein Adam ate the forbidden fruit Eve served, thereby […]

Kubrick’s satirical masterpiece turns nuclear war into a darkly comic nightmare. Peter Sellers delivers an iconic comedic performance. In the thick of the Cold War, Stanley Kubrick created a work of art to reflect the state of human society in arguably the most absorbable form; a satire. As the great Sun Tzu said, all wars