I Remember Mama (1948 movie): George Stevens’ nostalgic immigrant family drama provided veteran Irene Dunne with one of the best roles of her career. Barbara Bel Geddes costars.
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Playwright Arthur Miller vs. Red Scare paranoia: The Crucible and the Salem witch hunts demythologize the concept of ‘American exceptionalism.’
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Independence Day movies: Exuberant all-white all-Iowan marching band + lovely and talented Joan Leslie + racist British imperialism salute.
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4th of July Movies: From our dystopian present to John Paul Jones + Benedict Arnold and other complex American Revolutionary War figures.
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Ronald Colman: Turner Classic Movies’ Star of the Month in two major 1930s classics Updated: Turner Classic Movies’ July 2017 Star of the Month is Ronald Colman, one of the…
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The Great Wall (2016) movie review: Matt Damon and Zhang Yimou’s Sino-American monster thriller gives globalization a bad name.
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Die Nibelungen: Siegfried and Kriemhild’s Revenge (1924) movie review: Semi-historical Fritz Lang epic is a cinematic masterpiece.
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Jack Huston cast in Ben-Hur remake? Huston to follow in the hugely successful footsteps of Ramon Novarro and Charlton Heston.
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The Grand Budapest Hotel (2014) movie review: An excellent Ralph Fiennes shines in Wes Anderson’s visually and thematically expansive feast.
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Ben-Hur 1925: Fast & Furious epic to be screened at historic theater. Costliest production and biggest worldwide box-office hit til GWTW.
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The Great Gatsby (2013) movie review: Leonardo DiCaprio is excellent in Baz Luhrmann’s overly flashy transfer of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s novel.
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Les Misérables Reviews: Mixed views on maximalist Approach to Killer Pipes but Anne Hathaway singing sobbing Fantine total shoo-in Oscar contender.
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Daniel Day-Lewis as Abraham Lincoln. Lincoln: Daniel Day-Lewis for Oscar 2013? Ever since it was announced that Steven Spielberg was going to direct an Abraham Lincoln biopic, film pundits, bloggers,…
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The Loves of Pharaoh (1922) Movie Review: Emil Jannings Hams It Up in Uninspired Ernst Lubitsch Epic
The Loves of Pharaoh (1922) movie review: Future Best Actor Oscar winner Emil Jannings chews the scenery in this disappointing Ernst Lubitsch epic.
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Queen Christina (1933) movie review: Greta Garbo gives what may well be her most magnetic performance as the mannish Swedish queen in Rouben Mamoulian’s classic. John Gilbert costars.
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Bel Ami Trailer 2012: Robert Pattinson Realizes Sex Is the Most Effective Social-Climbing Gear with Uma Thurman + Kristin Scott Thomas in de Maupassant tale.
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Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides box office: Starring Johnny Depp and Penélope Cruz, latest franchise entry about to become one of the biggest box office hits in film history.
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Water for Elephants movie box office: Despite Robert Pattinson and its Oscar talent, Fox’s circus-set drama is a commercial disappointment. Reese Witherspoon and Christoph Waltz costar.
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3-D Sex and Zen: Extreme Ecstasy box office: Erotic Hong Kong hit has beaten the first-day gross of James Cameron’s international blockbuster Avatar.
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Your Highness movie box office: David Gordon Green’s spoof of various big-screen costume adventures is an unadulterated disaster. James Franco, Danny McBride and Natalie Portman star.
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A Tale of Two Cities movie. Although not as widely known as other Old Hollywood spectacles, David O. Selznick’s film production of Charles Dickens’ A Tale of Two Cities, set…
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Turner Classic Movies: Dysfunctional-Family Oriented Christmas Films likely to inspire gathered families + Katharine Hepburn 2x and Elizabeth Taylor 3x.
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Alice Terry and Ramon Novarro in Rex Ingram’s Scaramouche. Ramon Novarro is back for the fourth and last installment of Turner Classic Movies’ Sunday evening celebration of the 100 years…
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Robin Hood movie box office: Russell Crowe period actioner is on its way to becoming Universal Pictures’ latest mega-flop. Ridley Scott directed; Cate Blanchett costars.
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Robin Hood: Russell Crowe opens Cannes with a thud. Directed by Ridley Scott and written by Brian Helgeland (of Green Zone), Robin Hood stars Russell Crowe, Cate Blanchett (as Lady…
Detroit movie (2017) review: Kathryn Bigelow and Mark Boal’s skillfull and well-intentioned docudrama is unsatisfying as both cinema and history.
Ben-Hur 2016 Trailer: Jews for Jesus in Fast and Furious, CGI-filled version of religious epic with Jack Huston mimicking Christian Bale Batman voice.
The Great Gatsby characters: Leonardo DiCaprio is the latest incarnation of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s Jay Gatsby. The Great Gatsby characters still popular after all these years: Leonardo DiCaprio’s second-biggest opening…
Beautiful Disaster acquired by Warner Bros. The film rights to Jamie McGuire’s Beautiful Disaster, (initially) a self-published novel, has been acquired by Warner Bros. McGuire’s story has been described as…
Enid Bennett, Douglas Fairbanks, Robin Hood Long before Errol Flynn, Russell Crowe, and Kevin Costner – and their Men in Tights – there was Douglas Fairbanks and his Men in…
The Conspirator box office: Director Robert Redford’s tepidly received historical drama is a commercial flop in the U.S. and elsewhere. James McAvoy and Robin Wright star.
The King’s Speech movie box office: Starring Colin Firth and Geoffrey Rush, Tom Hooper’s real-life-based period drama is the biggest sleeper hit released in 2010. Helena Bonham Carter costars.