In Joseph L. Mankiewicz’s ‘best bad movie,’ The Barefoot Contessa, Ava Gardner exudes a magnetic - and underrated - mix of glamour and charisma.
William Cameron Menzies Movies: Murderous Joan Fontaine, Howard Hughes’ Nazi Communists out to destroy American Way of Life.
Howard Hughes Movies: From Leonardo DiCaprio to (almost) Jim Carrey plus Hell’s Angels, Katharine Hepburn and wrecking RKO.
‘What Is the Tea Party?’ Morgan Freeman accuses far-right Republican group of racism: Dolphin Tale box office affected? Morgan Freeman, Best Supporting Actor Academy Award winner for Million Dollar Baby,…
Warren Beatty in Dick Tracy with Madonna. June 22 update: Warren Beatty used to be known as a Ladies’ Man. Before Annette Bening, there were stories about Natalie Wood, Leslie…
George Eastman House Movies: The Reckless Moment and Max Ophüls’ Howard Hughes film noir starring Robert Ryan in character based on bizarre billionaire.
Eugène Lourié homage: Adrienne Corri (Mrs. Alexander in A Clockwork Orange) in Jean Renoir’s 1951 drama The River. The Art Directors Guild (ADG) Film Society and the American Cinematheque (AC)…
Master and Commander movie: Russell Crowe in Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World. Peter Weir’s 2003 Best Picture nominee Master and Commander: The Far Side of the…
As weirdo billionaire Howard Hughes, Leonardo DiCaprio Is both fully convincing and badly miscast in Martin Scorsese’s overblown biopic The Aviator.
Howard Hughes: Billionaire spent a number of years in Hollywood. If all goes as planned, Warren Beatty will be the next big-screen Howard Hughes, following The Aviator‘s Leonardo DiCaprio. In…
As the title implies, BearManor Media’s The History of Independent Cinema covers the century-long development of – American – filmmaking outside the big-studio lots. Now, who were those independents? Well,…