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After the End: ‘Panic in Year Zero!’ (1962)

April 2, 2024 By retromoviebuff Leave a Comment

The primary cast of 'Panic in Year Zero!'

In January, the Doomsday Clock remained set at 90 seconds to midnight, the closest it has ever come to tolling the hour of the apocalypse. From climate change to global conflict, unregulated AI and predictions of the next pandemic, the world is teetering on the brink. A film like Panic in Year Zero!, which imagines […]

Filed Under: Reviews Tagged With: Classic Hollywood, Drama, Ray Milland, Science Fiction

Light and Shadow: Ray Milland

September 20, 2017 By retromoviebuff 4 Comments

When I was eight or nine, I wandered into the living room and found my mother watching a film I didn’t recognize. Grace Kelly was pleading with a man not to reveal their affair to her once distant, now much-reformed husband. Then, ‘Mr. Kelly’ arrived. He was charming, witty, impeccably dressed and secretly plotting to […]

Filed Under: Actors and Acting Tagged With: Alfred Hitchcock, Billy Wilder, Classic Hollywood, Comedy, Criterion Collection, Film Noir, Horror, Ray Milland

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