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…
According to his official website, Jody McCrea, the actor-son of Frances Dee and Joel McCrea, died in in Roswell, New Mexico, of cardiac arrest on April 4. He was 74.…
Charlton Heston movies: Ben-Hur 1959. It’s Charlton Heston Movies Day on Thursday, Aug. 28, on Turner Classic Movies. Charlton Heston was a graduate cum laude of the Paul Muni School…
Sam Peckinpah’s 1965 Western Major Dundee is a near-great film with a checkered history. The tale of its mangling by its studio, Columbia, which took it out of Peckinpah’s hands…
Affliction movie: In Paul Schrader’s polished but unconvincing 1998 psychological drama, Nick Nolte gives his all – and more, too much more – to his difficult role as a psychotic…