Mad Max: Fury Road: National Board of Review 2015 winner. National Board of Review 2015 Awards: First indication of ‘Mad Max: Fury Road’ awards season potential Going over the December…
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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…
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Honorary Oscar recipient Angela Lansbury and Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award recipient Angelina Jolie at the 2013 Governors Awards. September 2014 Introduction: This three-part article on the Academy of Motion Picture…
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Peter Falk: Two-time Oscar nominee. Peter Falk, the two-time Oscar nominee best known for playing television police detective Columbo, died Thursday, June 23, at his Beverly Hills home. Falk, who…
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Meredith Baxter. Family and Family Ties actress Meredith Baxter (a.k.a. Meredith Baxter Birney) has come out as a lesbian after learning that tabloids were about to out her. The three-time…
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Judy Garland movies: Meet Me in St. Louis. Judy Garland vehicles are a Turner Classic Movies staple, so the “Summer Under the Stars” day – Thursday, Aug. 6 – dedicated…
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Bette Davis – young and older – is the subject of a Los Angeles County Museum of Art and Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences centennial tribute. Bette Davis…
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Bette Davis in Dangerous: First of two Best Actress Academy Awards. Although Bette Davis isn’t exactly one my favorite actresses, in my view several of her performances rank among the…
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‘Buddha’ quotes: Adolescent filmmaker Hana Makhmalbaf discusses ‘Buddha Collapsed Out of Shame’ at San Sebastian Film Festival “As an 18-year-old girl who lives in Iran today and who faces very…
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Jocelyn Brando, sister of Marlon Brando, and Linda Bennett in The Big Heat. Marlon Brando sister Jocelyn Brando dies: Car bomb victim in ‘The Big Heat’ Jocelyn Brando, the older…
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A Woman Under the Influence 1974 review: John Cassavetes’ indie – starring wife Gena Rowlands as a mad (?) housewife – is evidence that fiercely independent filmmaking doesn’t necessarily result…
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Faces movie review: About three years in the making, John Cassavetes’ 1968 dysfunctional marriage drama is both an American independent cinema landmark and an infuriatingly self-indulgent and long-winded exemplar of…