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…
Actor George Baker, best known for playing Tiberius in the British television series I, Claudius, and Inspector Wexford in The Ruth Rendell Mysteries, died on Oct. 7 according to The…
Weekend 2011 with Tom Cullen, Chris New Sept. 26 update: Writer-director Andrew Haigh’s gay love story Weekend brought in $27,245 – about 8 percent above Sunday estimates – at the…
Silvio Narizzano, best known for the Swinging London comedy-drama Georgy Girl, died July 26. Narizzano was 84. Based on Margaret Forster’s novel, and starring Lynn Redgrave, Alan Bates, James Mason,…
Lawrence of Arabia with Peter O’Toole and Omar Sharif. White men rule on TCM: ‘Lawrence of Arabia’ & ‘The Four Feathers’ + ‘Young Winston’ Turner Classic Movies’ “Race and Hollywood:…
Sylvia Syms, Dirk Bogarde in Basil Dearden’s Victim. 30 Rock‘s Tracy Morgan is in the news today because of viciously anti-gay remarks he made while performing a comedy routine in…
Jean Simmons in Great Expectations with Martita Hunt. Jean Simmons is Turner Classic Movies’ Star of the Month of June. Though never a major box office draw, Simmons either starred…
‘The War Game.’ For anyone who thinks that those 50-pack mega-DVD sets of public domain films put out by several different video companies are worthless, I would argue that the…
The Fallen Idol with Michèle Morgan and Ralph Richardson. The 1948 drama The Fallen Idol is the third film I’ve seen by British filmmaker Carol Reed. I’d previously watched the…
Colin Firth in The King’s Speech, with Helena Bonham Carter and Geoffrey Rush. ‘The King’s Speech’ tops Bafta Awards, Colin Firth Best Actor Tom Hooper’s The King’s Speech was the…
Alex de la Iglesia: Premios Goya ceremony. A Goya Awards ceremony to remember: Anti-piracy law controversy, party crasher Unlike the staid Bafta ceremony held in London earlier this evening, Feb.…
Brief Encounter with Celia Johnson and Trevor Howard. Brief Encounter one-line synopsis: A married doctor (Trevor Howard) and a housewife (Celia Johnson) have an adulterous (and platonic) affair. The Pros:…
Beryl Reid, Susannah York in Robert Aldrich’s The Killing of Sister George Susannah York, one of the best (and best-looking) performers of the 1960s and 1970s, died today of bone…
Miriam Seegar, one of the last surviving adult performers featured in silent films, died of “age-related causes” on Sunday, Jan. 2, at her home in Pasadena, northwest of downtown Los…
Mainstream – “at best, mainstreamish” – critics group picks: Lisa Cholodenko’s audience-friendly The Kids Are All Right topped three New York Film Critics Circle award categories, including Best Actress honors…