Author Rob Nixon

Judging by films produced in Hollywood’s Classic period, from roughly the early 1930s to the late 1950s, there was a time when, on just about any remote tropical island or port of call, particularly in the Sout...

How do you approach a Classic Hollywood character like Petey Brown? She solves everyone’s problems, slaps men around and disarms them – physically and emotionally – and dominates narrative trajectory and point ...