Cry, the Beloved Country with Canada Lee and Sidney Poitier. Directed by Hungarian-born Zoltan Korda (The Four Feathers, Sahara) from a screenplay by an uncredited John Howard Lawson – one…
Clint Eastwood Western movies: The Good the Bad and the Ugly stars the former U.S. TV actor & B Hollywood flick performer as the silent, strong – and unfeeling, unwashed,…
Gregory Peck. Gregory Peck movies: Memorable miscasting in David O. Selznick’s Western Gregory Peck is Turner Classic Movies’ “Summer Under the Stars” star on Aug. 15. TCM is currently showing…
Ava Gardner movies: With Clark Gable and Broderick Crawford in Lone Star. Ava Gardner movies on Thursday, Aug. 21: Highlights on Turner Classic Movies. Sexy or sensual? In all honesty,…
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…
Venus with Peter O’Toole and Jodie Whittaker. There were numerous surprises at the 2006 British Independent Film Awards (Bifa) ceremony, which was held yesterday, Nov. 29, in West London. Out…
Michelangelo Antonioni movies at LACMA “Modernist Master: Michelangelo Antonioni,” is the Los Angeles County Museum of Art’s (website) retrospective honoring the Italian filmmaker, whose body of work includes revered classics…
Christopher Fry dead at 97: The Lady’s Not Burning playwright & Ben-Hur screenplay contributor British playwright and screenwriter Christopher Fry died on June 30 at a hospital in Chichester, in…
Yesterday movie (2004): Darrell Roodt’s AIDS drama boasts a superb performance by Leleti Khumalo as a poor, illiterate Zulu woman who discovers that she’s HIV-positive – and therefore has little…