Truth movie: Cate Blanchett “flawless” as 60 Minutes’ Mary Mapes. Truth movie: Gripping and well-acted drama can’t hide 60 Minutes producer Mary Mapes’ role in the ‘devolution of TV journalism’…
Young Robert Redford as Bob McKay in ‘The Candidate.’ Robert Redford and politics: ‘The Candidate,’ ‘All the President’s Men’ A young Robert Redford can be seen in The Candidate, All…
Robert Redford in The Great Gatsby movie version directed by Jack Clayton and co-starring Mia Farrow, Bruce Dern, and Karen Black. Robert Redford: The Great Gatsby 1974 misfire & box…
Robert Redford in ‘Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid.’ Robert Redford movies: ‘Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid,’ ‘The Sting’ and honorable war hero or psycho serial killer? They don’t…
The Other Woman cast: Cameron Diaz, Kate Upton and Leslie Mann. ‘The Other Woman’ 2014 box office: Cameron Diaz and Leslie Mann comedy to top North American box office chart…
Captain America: The Winter Soldier with Chris Evans. Captain America: The Winter Soldier: Marvel films’ second best release With each new Marvel superhero film that bullies its way into multiplexes,…
Amy Adams’ Oscar nominations: Best Actress win for American Hustle? Adams is seen here with Christian Bale. Oscar predictions Below are our last-minute Oscar 2014 predictions. The 86th Academy Award…
Jennifer Lawrence: Hot and unbalanced con artist’s wife Rosalyn Rosenfeld in American Hustle. Best known as the fearless Katniss Everdeen in The Hunger Games and its sequels, Jennifer Lawrence, unlike…
Dame Judi Dench. Dame Judi Dench & Scarlett Johansson among British Independent Film Award nominees Since the likes of Judi Dench, Scarlett Johansson, James McAvoy, and Tom Hardy are in…
All the President’s Men revisited: Robert Redford with Carl Bernstein, Ben Bradlee, Bob Woodward. ‘All the President’s Men’ revisited: Robert Redford & Ben Bradlee + Carl Bernstein & Bob Woodward…
Daniel Radcliffe hot after “Oscar snub.” Daniel Radcliffe: Harry Potter vs. the Academy Awards Among recent revelations and assertions ranging from the highly personal to the highly political, Daniel Radcliffe…
Playwright-screenwriter Arthur Laurents died in his sleep on May 5 in New York City. He was 93. Best known for writing the book for the Broadway smashes West Side Story…
Grant Bowler, Taylor Schilling, Atlas Shrugged: Part I. May 8 update: The first installment of a planned trilogy based on Ayn Rand’s 1957 novel, Atlas Shrugged: Part I had one…
Turner Classic Movies: Dysfunctional-Family-Oriented Christmas Films + Katharine Hepburn Double Dose
Turner Classic Movies presents Katharine Hepburn in Little Women 1933: Up to the Christmas Day viewer to decide whether George Cukor’s Best Picture Academy Award nominee is immensely moving or…
Starring Robin Wright as Mary Surratt, the only woman charged as a co-conspirator in the assassination trial of Abraham Lincoln, and James McAvoy as Surratt’s lawyer, Robert Redford’s courtroom drama…
Lake Tahoe directed by Fernando Eimbcke. Fernando Eimbcke’s minimalist comedy Lake Tahoe presents a series of vignettes showing a small-town teenager (Diego Cataño) trying to cope with the death of…
Marie Glory in L’Enfant de l’amour with Jaque Catelain. Actress Marie Glory (a.k.a. Arlette Genny in the mid-1920s) died at age 103 her house in Cannes on Jan. 24. Though…
Sydney Pollack and Patrick Dempsey in Made of Honor. Sydney Pollack, the director of several critical and box office successes of the 1960s, 1970s, and 1980s, died earlier today in the…
Paul Scofield in A Delicate Balance with Katharine Hepburn. Benedict Nightingale’s “Paul Scofield: an overlooked acting great” in The [London] Times: “Why didn’t most theatregoers think of Paul Scofield in…
“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,…
Tom Cruise and Meryl Streep in the Robert Redford-directed Lions for Lambs. The 2007 AFI Los Angeles International Film Festival – in press releases referred to as “AFI FEST 2007 presented…
Frank Sinatra in ‘The Man with the Golden Arm’: Groundbreaking drug addiction drama. Although hardly one of Otto Preminger’s better films, The Man with the Golden Arm is worth a…
La Haine with Vincent Cassel: Cinematic Paris riots prophecy. With the Paris riots spreading to other French cities, Mathieu Kassovitz’s 1995 César-winning socially conscious drama La Haine / Hate comes…
Sex and violence in Brazil’s military dictatorship: ‘Damned Brazilian Movies!’ Every Thursday, the Casa França-Brasil in downtown Rio de Janeiro has been presenting the movie series “Malditos Filmes Brasileiros!” (Damned…
What are the Academy Awards? 1 famous Oscar winner doesn’t seem to hold them in high regard, while a film publication lists the 10 Worst Best Pictures ever.
Ben Bradlee: ‘The Washington Post’ executive editor played by Jason Robards in All the President’s Men. Ben Bradlee: From ‘All the President’s Men’ to ‘Ghosts of Grey Gardens’ Former Washington…
Judgment at Nuremberg with Maximilian Schell. Stanley Kramer’s most effective “message movie,” the 1961 courtroom/political drama Judgment at Nuremberg is a fictionalized restaging of the post-World War II Judges’ Trial…
Marvin Hamlisch and Barbra Streisand. Best known for the Oscar-winning theme song from the 1973 Barbra Streisand-Robert Redford tearjerker The Way We Were, composer and conductor Marvin Hamlisch died Monday,…
Limitless with Robert De Niro and Bradley Cooper: $100 million worldwide? April 18, ’11, update: Despite yesterday’s estimates, Carlos Saldanha’s animated 3D feature Rio failed to reach the $40 million…
Writer, director, actor, and producer Carl Reiner, among whose feature-film credits are the George Burns hit Oh God! (1977) and several Steve Martin vehicles, is the subject of a mini-retrospective…
Cinematographer David Watkin, best known for his work on Hugh Hudson’s Chariots of Fire and Sydney Pollack’s Out of Africa, the 1985 Best Picture Academy Award winner starring Meryl Streep…
Doctor Zhivago Theme: Lara & Russian Revolution + Robert Redford-Jane Fonda & Queen Elizabeth Taylor
Doctor Zhivago theme: Lara & the Russian Revolution When bigger isn’t exactly better: Doctor Zhivago – despite its classic music theme – is no masterpiece. Bloated and overlong, it fails…