For me, the moment when “Mildred Pierce” really comes alive is when Mildred, after a shift as a waitress, takes stock of the kitchen. Changed back into her regular clothes, she surveys the pantry and ...

The Emmy winner talks about what's changed since her last HBO limited series, including getting hands-on as an executive producer. Kate Winslet, the seven-time Academy Award nominee and Commander of ...

Melodrama is a loaded word, conjuring silent-film villains tying pigtailed girls to railroad tracks. Or black-and-white "weepies" whose music crescendoes as Bette Davis or Greta Garbo face The Worst ...

scored a magnificent coup with his adaptation of James M. Cain’s "Mildred Pierce," a 1941 novel that was made into a noirish 1945 melodrama for which Joan Crawford won an Oscar. Haynes and his ...

August 29, 2024 - Mildred Pierce has built a California restaurant empire from scratch during the Great Depression. Lately, though, she's been more interested in financing her daughter's opera career ...

“With this money I can get away from you. From you and your chickens and your pies and your kitchens and everything that smells of grease. I can get away from this shack with its cheap furniture. And ...

Erick Massoto is a Brazilian writer who's always loved film and TV and loves finding connections between them. That's why he supports double features, especially if they are of a modern film paired ...