The Women remake: Critics derided + moviegoers were indifferent to writer-director Diane English’s defanged + declawed all-star all-female feminist comedy.
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Ann-Margret Movies: From Elvis Presley leading lady to Oscar nominations for provocative Tommy and Carnal Knowledge.
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Robert Redford Movies: Two of the Biggest Blockbusters Ever and War Hero or Serial Killer? The future Hollywood icon in an early subversive war movie.
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Female directors at the forefront: Nadine Labaki in Where Do We Go Now?, which she also directed. The Musical was the Toronto Film Festival’s surprise People’s Choice Award winner. Lebanese…
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Ben Johnson isn’t exactly what one would call a movie icon; Johnson isn’t even a Western icon, despite his presence in numerous Old (and not-so-Old) West movies during his 50+-year…
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Paul Leni’s The Man Who Laughs, starring Conrad Veidt and Mary Philbin. Cary Grant, Irene Dunne, Alida Valli, Pierre Brasseur, Angela Lansbury, Conrad Veidt, Sean Connery, John Wayne, Gene Wilder,…
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Mel Brooks and Anne Bancroft in To Be or Not to Be (top); Mel Brooks at the 1969 Oscar ceremony (bottom). The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences will…
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Meryl Streep is an ‘inspirational’ presence in Wes Craven’s unusually sentimental and gore-free real-life-based drama Music of the Heart. Angela Bassett costars.
Mary Tyler Moore .Mary Tyler Moore has been named the recipient of the 2012 Screen Actors Guild Life Achievement Award, given annually to an actor who fosters the “finest ideals…
Adam Sandler surprises while Cloris Leachman steals the show in James L. Brooks’ patronizing bicultural romcom Spanglish. Téa Leoni costars.