Christian movies: Starring Nicolas Cage, the widely panned 2014 apocalyptic thriller Left Behind was a box office bomb – unlike (relatively) recent popular “faith movies” such as Heaven Is for…
Cecil B. DeMille Award honoree George Clooney in The Monuments Men, with Matt Damon. Produced and written by Good Night, and Good Luck. collaborators George Clooney and Grant Heslov, and…
Act Like a Woman Think Like a Man: Michael Ealy and Taraji P. Henson, Think Like a Man ‘Think Like a Man’ sleeper hit April 23 update: Think Like a…
Ray Milland, John Wayne, and Paulette Goddard in Reap the Wild Wind Debonair Ray Milland is Turner Classic Movies’ Star of the Month in April 2011. This evening, beginning at…
Mary Pickford in Maurice Tourneur’s The Poor Little Rich Girl (top); Dustin Farnum in Cecil B. DeMille’s The Squaw Man (bottom). The Birth of Hollywood, part II of the seven-part…
Jeanette MacDonald in Naughty Marietta. Deborah Kerr, Burt Lancaster, Montgomery Clift, Gail Russell, John Wayne, Donna Reed, Jeanette MacDonald, Emil Jannings, Jacques Tati, Nelson Eddy, Anthony Quinn, John Wayne, and…
The site Film Snobbery has published a list of the 50 Most Important Religion Films of All Time, thus paying tribute to “the union of the sacred and cinematic” in…
The 1926 Cecil B. DeMille epic The Volga Boatman should be book-ended with DeMille’s 1929 drama The Godless Girl. Both tell compelling stories without a clear, definite point of view.…
Movies with gay characters: A fey Charles Laughton as Nero, plus Claudette Colbert and Fredric March in The Sign of the Cross. Inspired by Richard Barrios’ book Screened Out: Playing Gay…
Shooter movie: A graduate of the George W. Bush School of Peace and Democracy, Mark Wahlberg gives a demonstration of his skills as global peacemaker. When former marine corps scout sniper…
Chicago with Phyllis Haver. Image: A.M.P.A.S. A restored print of the little-seen 1928 silent film Chicago will be screened on August 16 at the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and…
“Glamorous actresses”: Carole Lombard and Fred MacMurray in True Confession. One of the highest-paid stars of the studio era, Carole Lombard was a top-notch light comedienne usually wasted in below-par…
Robin Williams is the Golden Globes’ next recipient of the Cecil B. DeMille Award for lifetime achievement - despite less than 25 years in movies.
Christmas films: Grease with John Travolta and Olivia Newton-John on TCM. Despite an array of mostly uninspired songs and dance numbers, the Randal Kleiser-directed, 1950s-set musical Grease was a gigantic…
The Godless Girl is one that took me totally by surprise. Cecil B. DeMille’s last silent movie (one version has added talking scenes), The Godless Girl, starts out as an…
“I hope you enjoyed your trip back to a more innocent time,” said presenter Randy Haberkamp to a packed house last night following the screening of the 1928 Chicago at…