The Wicker Man Articles

Lewis Fitz-Gerald, Bryan Brown, Edward Woodward, Jack Thompson in Breaker Morant Edward Woodward, the star of the 1980s television series The Equalizer and of the film classics The Wicker Man (1973) and Breaker Morant (1980), died on Monday in Truro, Cornwall, England. Woodward had been suffering from heart problems and other ailments; the cause of death was pneumonia. Born to working-class parents in Croydon, Surrey, [...]

  Oscar winners, horror movies, and silent shorts are all part of the Library of Congress Packard Campus for Audio Visual Conservation's fall film series in Culpeper, Va., starting Oct. 8. Among the Oscar winners is best actress Bette Davis in Jezebel (1938), William Wyler's classic romantic melodrama that was Warner Bros.' answer to Gone with the Wind. (The film was based on a flop [...]

Total Film magazine recently asked twenty-five British film critics to come up with their choices of the best British films ever made. The result is somewhat surprising, with the 1971 Mike Hodges-directed thriller Get Carter, starring Michael Caine and some scary-looking weaponry, was selected as Britain’s very best movie ever. Other top-ten surprises include Monty Python’s Life of Brian (1979), seen by many Christians as [...]