The pre-Code era of Hollywood filmmaking ran from 1930 to 1934. During these years, Hollywood films contained increasing ...

Jordan Todoruk is a writer from Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. He studied Screenwriting at the Toronto Film School. In 2019, He wrote and produced his first short film, The Mechanics Of A Nightmare. He ...

Elliot Lavine, programmer of pre-Code films at the Castro Theatre (every Wednesday through March 30), was raised in Detroit, moved to the Bay Area in the 1970s with the thought of becoming a filmmaker ...

“What you got ain’t nothin’ new,” drawls Ellis (Barry Corbin) to Sheriff Bell (Tommy Lee Jones) in the Coen brothers’ Oscar-winning neo-Western film “No Country for Old Men.” This notion of perpetual ...

John Wayne's first leading role came in 1930 with the pre-code Western The Big Trail, directed by Raoul Walsh, and it set the ...