Midwest Film Journal

Tag: 1950s

Class of, Commentary

Class of 1990: The Reflecting Skin

October 29, 2020November 3, 2020 Nick Rogers

Nick looks back at Philip Ridley's atmospheric chiller about 1950s America.

Movie Reviews

Cold War

January 29, 2019February 11, 2019 Nick Rogers

Eye-catching, but emotionally inaccessible, flotsam floating downstream.

Movie Reviews

Maria by Callas

November 28, 2018November 28, 2018 Nick Rogers

A niche documentary of a diva wrapped in an aria inside an enigma.

Movie Reviews

Hollywoodland

September 8, 2006January 18, 2018 Nick Rogers

A potboiler that ends with little more than a tepid simmer.