Crime Novel classic remembered: Everywoman heroine with typical bourgeois values but an unusual black housekeeper ally + straight and gay movie versions.
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Tom Laughlin in Billy Jack. Tom Laughlin: ‘Billy Jack’ actor-filmmaker who died last week helped to revolutionize film distribution patterns in North America Tom Laughlin, best known for the Billy …
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Jamie Dornan shirtless. Jamie Dornan shirtless postponed: Pecs to become available on Valentine’s Day Valentine’s Day 2015 will get a lot kinkier than Valentine’s Days of years past – well …
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Kirk Douglas: Hollywood star of the 1950s and 1960s. Kirk Douglas movies: Theatrical, larger than life performances Kirk Douglas, a three-time Best Actor Academy Award nominee and one of the …
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Behind the Candelabra with Michael Douglas as Liberace and Matt Damon as Scott Thorson. ‘Behind the Candelabra’ HBO Hit: Liberace movie starring Michael Douglas and Matt Damon nearly breaks record …
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All the President’s Men revisited: Robert Redford with Carl Bernstein, Ben Bradlee, Bob Woodward. All the President’s Men revisited: Robert Redford & Ben Bradlee + Carl Bernstein & Bob Woodward …
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Deep Throat porn star Harry Reems became a free-speech cause célèbre in the mid-1970s Harry Reems, star of the landmark 1972 porn movie Deep Throat and a free-speech cause célèbre …
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Atlas Shrugged Part 2 with Samantha Mathis as Dagny Taggart. Atlas Shrugged: Part II box office: Censorship-induced box office bomb? Four weekends ago, Atlas Shrugged Part 2 had one of …
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July 20: The Dark Knight Rises Denver shooting. (Image: Catwoman poster.) A masked man reportedly shot dead ten people and wounded approximately 40 others at a movie theater showing The …
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Male impersonator Kitty Doner: Vaudeville Theatre History. Vaudeville theatre history: ‘The Encyclopedia of Vaudeville’ Vaudeville history in Anthony Slide’s The Encyclopedia of Vaudeville. Vaudeville is now extinct – at least …
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Anna Magnani in Luchino Visconti’s Bellissima (1951). At the end of Giuseppe Tornatore’s Best Foreign Language Film Oscar winner Cinema Paradiso, small-town projectionist Philippe Noiret has died and the Nuovo …
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Oliver Reed, Vanessa Redgrave, The Devils Ken Russell, the director of Women in Love, The Boy Friend, and Altered States, died Sunday, Nov. 27, at the age of 84. Coincidentally, …
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Justin Bieber Justin Bieber going to jail? Not so fast Justin Bieber, pop icon and the star of the documentary Justin Bieber: Never Say Never (right), has come out against …
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Torture porn: The Bunny Game with Jeff Renfro and Rodleen Getsic. Adam Rehmeier’s The Bunny Game, a mix of explicit sex and physical and psychological abuse, has been banned by …
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Joe Dallesandro and Jane Birkin in Serge Gainsbourg’s Je t’aime moi non plus / I Love You, No I Don’t. According to the “censor watchgroup” site melonfarmers.com, Tom Six’s The …
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The Passion of the Christ with Jim Caviezel as Jesus Christ and Luca Lionello as Judas. Caviezel followed in the footsteps of, among others, H.B. Warner (The King of Kings, …
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Swedish actress Lena Nyman, who starred in the controversial, sexually charged Swedish drama I Am Curious (Yellow), died today following “a long illness.” She was 66. Curiously, Nyman’s death took …
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Filippo Timi and Giovanna Mezzogiorno in Marco Bellocchio’s Vincere. The Social Network, director David Fincher and screenwriter Aaron Sorkin’s retelling of the founding of Facebook, was voted the Best Film …
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Jennylyn Mercado in Rosario: Period feminist drama has been a box office disappointment at this year’s Metro Manila Film Festival. Metro Manila Film Festival: Jennylyn Mercado Best Actress snub + …
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“Gay zombie porn”: Bruce La Bruce’s L.A. Zombie, in which gay porn star François Sagat is a Los Angeles zombie (or a schizophrenic homeless man?) who uses (really kinky?) sex …
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Top Gun movie remake or sequel? Tom Cruise as Maverick in Tony Scott’s 1986 blockbuster. Is there going to be a big-screen Top Gun remake? Or is it going to be …
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Ingrid Bergman, Gary Cooper in Sam Wood’s For Whom the Bell Tolls. The censors at the Motion Picture Association of America and their precursors at the Production Code Office have …
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Ann Sheridan: “The Oomph Girl” Ann Sheridan, the determined, humorous, sensual 1940s Warner Bros. star, is one of my favorite movie toughies. Sheridan was also a first-rate comedienne (I Was …
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Kristen Stewart, Robert Pattinson Twilight Stephenie Meyer’s Twilight book series has a number of elements in common with J.K. Rowlings’ Harry Potter novels: both book franchises involve teens, mysteries, otherworldly …
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In James Cameron’s Avatar, a white human is turned into a blue Na’vi, the inhabitants of a far-off moon. He eventually turns against the human invaders, becoming the leader of …
World War Z with Brad Pitt as a zombie-fighter. Unenthusiastic reviews. ‘World War Z’ reviews Several World War Z reviews are in, and for the most part they have been …
James Franco “gay sex movie” Interior. Leather Bar. will replace the sexually explicit “gay sex movie” I Want Your Love, featuring Jesse Metzger and Brenden Gregory. James Franco ‘gay sex …
Jean Dujardin Les infidèles / The Players World Trade Center 9/11 Joke Censored due to Best Actor Oscar concerns claims report.
Shame with Carey Mulligan and Michael Fassbender. Oscar chances? There have been precious few Oscar-winning “sex movies.” Now that Steve McQueen’s psychological drama Shame has received an NC-17 rating from …
Colin Firth, Helena Bonham Carter, The King’s Speech: Censored, “family-friendly” version of Tom Hooper’s Oscar winner is a box office dud. PG-rated version of Oscar winner The King’s Speech flops …
WikiLeaks Cables bring out Michael Moore Revelations plus Oscar-Winning Star Wars Talent Dies and hairy-chested Adam Sandler Death Hoax.
Michelle Yeoh Martial Arts Fighting, Zack Snyder directing Superman Reboot with Batman director Christopher Nolan as executive producer.
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