In the Fade with Diane Kruger: Fatih Akin’s Avenging Woman drama may give its German-speaking star the chance to become next awards season’s Isabelle Huppert. Diane Kruger: 2017–18 awards season’s…
Cannes Film Festival winners: The Square with Claes Bang. “Gobsmackingly weird” Cannes Film Festival favorite may have a tough time landing a Best Foreign Language Film Academy Award nomination. As…
‘Ben-Hur’ 2016 trailer with Jack Huston: Deadly chariot race in religious epic for the CGI-loving crowd. ‘Ben-Hur’ 2016 trailer: ‘Gladiator’ meets ‘Fast Seven’ meets ‘Star Wars’ meets… Paramount Pictures and…
Ben-Hur movie: Ramon Novarro starred in the silent version, at the time the most expensive film production and the biggest worldwide blockbuster in history. ‘Ben-Hur’ movie: Semi-biblical epic starring Ramon…
Chi-Raq movie with Teyonah Parris: Spike Lee has set Lysistrata amidst Chicago’s urban warfare. Chiraq (one word) stands for the Chicago-Iraq combo. Chi-Raq movie review: Ancient Greek comedy in 21st-century…
Stormtroopers deal with ‘Boycott Star Wars: Episode VII’ Twitter ‘controversy.’ The “Boycott ‘Star Wars: Episode VII’” media idiocy The “Boycott Stars Wars: Episode VII - The Force Awakens” hashtag, concisely…
Coleen Gray: Actress and film noir good girl went from Stanley Kubrick’s ‘The Killing’ to ‘The Leech Woman.’ Coleen Gray: Actress in early Stanley Kubrick film noir, destroyer of men…
Yvonne Craig: Batgirl a.k.a. Barbara Gordon in cult TV series. Batgirl Yvonne Craig dead at 78: Also featured in ‘Star Trek’ episode & Elvis Presley movies Yvonne Craig, best known…
The Man From U.N.C.L.E. with Henry Cavill and Armie Hammer. ‘The Man from U.N.C.L.E.’ box office: Bigger domestic flop than expected? Before I address the box office debacle of Warner…
Robert Mitchum ca. late 1940s. Robert Mitchum movies ‘The Yakuza’ & ‘Ryan’s Daughter’ on TCM On Aug. 12, Turner Classic Movies’ “Summer Under the Stars” series is highlighting the career…
Fantastic Four 2015: Miles Teller as Reed Richards a.k.a. Mister Fantastic in 20th Century Fox’s box office bomb-in-the-making. Box office: ‘Fantastic Four’ 2015 bombs, ‘Mission: Impossible - Rogue Nation’ to…
Spy movie with Melissa McCarthy. ‘Spy’ movie review: ‘Transgressive’ feminist statement There’s been a lot of talk around the ol’ virtual water cooler about the feminist messaging embedded in Mad…
Mad Max: Fury Road poster with The Dark Knight Rises’ Tom Hardy as Max Rockatansky. ‘Mad Max: Fury Road’ review: ‘A good movie on its own terms’ Mad Max, the first…
Sean Penn in 21 Grams. In Hollywood since 1981 (Taps), Penn has been seen in more than 30 films, both comedies and dramas, hits and bombs, ranging from Fast Times…
Cary Grant movies: The new and improved Archibald Leach. Cary Grant movies: ‘An Affair to Remember’ does sentimental justice to its title Cary Grant excelled at playing Cary Grant. On…
Maureen O’Hara: Honorary Oscar recipient. Maureen O’Hara: Honorary Oscar to ‘How Green Was My Valley,’ ‘The Quiet Man’ actress Veteran actress Maureen O’Hara attended the Academy of Motion Picture Arts…
Best Documentary Short Film: White Earth is a potential Oscar contender. Best Documentary Short Films Oscar: Illness & death are top subjects Eight films – most of them featuring illness and/or…
Marie Dubois: Actress in the mammoth blockbuster La Grande Vadrouille. Marie Dubois, actress in French New Wave films, dead at 77 Actress Marie Dubois, a popular French New Wave personality…
Christopher Reeve in ‘Superman’ 1978: First superhero blockbuster. Christopher Reeve: ‘Superman’ and his movies Christopher Reeve, Superman in four movies from 1978 to 1987, died ten years ago today, Oct.…
Polly Bergen became the “first U.S. woman president” in the 1964 comedy Kisses for My President. Polly Bergen movies: ‘First woman U.S. president’ dead at 84 Emmy Award-winning actress Polly…
Kristen Stewart in Camp X-Ray. ‘Camp X-Ray’ trailer: Kristen Stewart & Payman Maadi in Guantanamo’s ‘war zone’ The official Camp X-Ray trailer is out. “Make no mistake about it. This…
Batman v Superman movie: Ben Affleck in Batsuit. Batsuit & Batmobile revealed – Will the world ever be the same again? Batman v Superman director Zack Snyder has used his…
Dawn of the Planet of the Apes trailer with Andy Serkis as Caesar. In Matt Reeves’ dystopian thriller Dawn of the Planet of the Apes, the relatively few human survivors…
Nymphomaniac character poster featuring Shia LaBeouf. According to some – since then discredited – reports, Frozen audience members were inadvertently shown the “sexually explicit” red band Nymphomaniac trailer. (Reality seems…
Paul Walker. Fast & Furious 6 star who died at age 40 in a car crash is remembered “In Loving Memory” in a Universal Pictures video homage. In show business…
SAG Awards’ surprise double nominee Helen Mirren as Hollywood gossip columnist Hedda Hopper in ‘Trumbo.’ 2016 SAG Awards’ nominations: Sylvester Stallone, Matt Damon ‘snubbed’ while Helen Mirren among surprising inclusions…
Debbie Reynolds: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer singing and dancing star. Debbie Reynolds movies: Oscar nominee for ‘The Unsinkable Molly Brown,’ sweetness and light in phony ‘The Singing Nun’ Debbie Reynolds is Turner Classic…
Rex Ingram in The Thief of Bagdad 1940 with tiny Sabu. An Alexander Korda production. Actor Rex Ingram movies: Early black Hollywood performer It’s somewhat unusual for two well-known film…
‘Mission: Impossible - Rogue Nation’ with Tom Cruise as Ethan Hunt. ‘Mission: Impossible - Rogue Nation’ trailer: Movie stunt combo “Desperate times. Desperate measures,” says Tom Cruise a.k.a. Ethan Hunt…
Interstellar: Space movie with Anne Hathaway. ‘Interstellar’: Space movie is ‘ravishing’ & ‘overextended’ There are many intriguing questions raised in director Christopher Nolan’s ravishing, overextended mind-bender Interstellar. One of the…
Polly Bergen publicity shot ca. 1960s. Polly Bergen: Actress on Richard Nixon’s ‘enemies list’ (See previous post: “Polly Bergen: ‘First American Woman President.’”) As discussed in the previous post, despite…
Golden Globes’ hosts Tina Fey and Amy Poehler (photo © HFPA). Tina Fey and Amy Poehler funny & daring enough at the 2014 Golden Globes telecast? Acting as a lighter…