Ingrid Bergman and Humphrey Bogart in Casablanca. Bogart and Claude Rains were nominated for their performances in the Michael Curtiz-directed Best Picture Oscar winner. Bergman was nominated for Sam Wood’s…
-
Charlie St. Cloud movie box office: Reuniting the star (Zac Efron) and director (Burr Steers) of 17 Again, Universal’s supernatural weepy is the studio’s latest bomb.
-
June 17 update: Zac Efron Shining Star Award. Actor Zac Efron, among whose credits are the musical Hairspray and the well-received box office disappointment Me and Orson Welles, was honored…
-
Field of Dreams Movie: Kevin Costner + Baseball, Ghosts and Corn in Sentimental Iowa Fantasy that would have been too sunny even for Frank Capra.
-
Colin Firth and Nicholas Hoult: Gay drama was Venice Film Festival Queer Lion winner also with Matthew Goode, Tom Ford at premiere.
-
Woody Allen film to open Tribeca Film Festival: Whatever Works. The most recent Woody Allen film, Whatever Works, will open the 2009 Tribeca Film Festival on April 22. Whatever Works…
-
“Yellow face” in Hollywood movies: Paul Muni is a Jewish-Austrian-Hungarian Chinese in The Good Earth. Today it’d have been simpler. Muni would have been merely a Jewish-Ukrainian Chinese. Hollywood Chinese,…
-
Slow Burn (movie 2007) review: Starring Ray Liotta, Wayne Beach’s confusing and utterly forgettable thriller is a poor copy of Bryan Singer’s classic The Usual Suspects.
-
Wild Hogs (movie 2007) review: Starring John Travolta and Tim Allen, Walt Becker’s road movie is both a cinematic atrocity and an affront to audiences’ intelligence. Do they care?
Horror sound effects: Forbidden Planet lobby card (top); Lon Chaney in the 1925 version of Phantom of the Opera (middle); Heather Donahue in The Blair Witch Project (bottom) “The Sound…
Tom Hulce and F. Murray Abraham were both shortlisted for the 1984 Best Actor Academy Award for their work in Milos Forman’s Amadeus. Abraham was the eventual winner. Milos Forman’s…