The Boomer Magazine

  Catching up with son ‘Mark’ of The Rifleman – BY AUDREY T. HINGLEY –    Johnny Crawford’s busy career began as one of the original Disney Mouseketeers. By the time he snagged the role of Chuck Connors’ son, Mark, on TV’s acclaimed The Rifleman at age 11, he’d already accumulated 60 television credits. Set in [...]

The new ’50 Greatest Films’ list mistakes confusion for profundity  – BY DANIEL NEMAN –      Vertigo? Seriously, Vertigo? The venerable Sight & Sound poll of the 50 best films of all time comes out just once every 10 years and represents the combined wisdom of hundreds of serious film scholars, critics and cinematic [...]

Film based on the ground-breaking book by award-winning journalist and Democracy Now! co-host Juan González. Featuring real life stories and rare archival footage, the film examines the political events, social conditions, and U.S. government actions that led millions of Latino families to leave their homelands in an unprecedented wave of migration over the past six [...]

Digital revolution frees filmmakers from the constraints of reality By Daniel Neman   Strictly speaking, some films aren’t even made with film anymore. The digital revolution has come to an industry so identified with analog technology that many people still refer to the business as a whole and the product that it makes by the [...]

Why settle for one vast, unthinkable fortune when you can have three or four? By Daniel Neman   In the world of the movies, May 25, 1977, was the day everything changed. That was the day that George Lucas’ Star Wars opened. The reaction to the film was so immediate, so immense, so profound that [...]

The New Cinema arrives in the ’60s and ’70s and, with it, gripping, honest films By Daniel Neman   The times, it has been noted, were a-changin’. The dull conformity of the post-war years began to wear thin on artists. They were ready to explore new methods of expression and reject the staid conventions of [...]

Blandness permeated the movies after World War II – with powerful exceptions By Daniel Neman   The generation of World War I reacted to the trauma of war and the tragedy of the deadly flu epidemic with a surge of life-affirming hedonism, experimentation and indulgence. Their children had a different reaction to the experience of [...]