Coleen Gray: Actress and film noir good girl went from Stanley Kubrick’s ‘The Killing’ to ‘The Leech Woman.’ Coleen Gray: Actress in early Stanley Kubrick film noir, destroyer of men…
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Joan Taylor. Joan Taylor dead at 82: Actress featured in ’20 Million Miles to Earth,’ ‘Earth vs. the Flying Saucers’ Actress Joan Taylor, best remembered for two sci-fi/horror B movies…
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The Beast with a Million Eyes: Hardly truth in advertising as Roger Corman’s micro-budget sci-fi thriller is no “monster movie.” ‘The Beast with a Million Eyes’: Alien invasion movie predates…
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Big Bad Mama with Angie Dickinson. The life of screenwriter William W. Norton, who died of a heart aneurysm on Oct. 2 in Santa Barbara at the age of 85,…
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Lauren Bacall in How to Marry a Millionaire, with Marilyn Monroe and Betty Grable. Lauren Bacall, Roger Corman, and Gordon Willis have been chosen by the Board of Governors of…
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The 12th edition of the Fantasia Film Festival, North America’s premier genre film festival, began on July 3 and continues until July 23 in Montreal. This year, the Fantasia Film…
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In the unsettling thriller Targets, Peter Bogdanovich points out that life and art are irrevocably intertwined. A superb Boris Karloff stars.
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Curtis Harrington, best known as the director of numerous stylized horror films, died on Sunday evening, May 6, at his Hollywood Hills home. Harrington had never fully recovered from a…
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Is the iconic 1960 nouvelle vague movie Breathless vastly overrated? Jean-Paul Belmondo + Jean Seberg star in Jean-Luc Godard’s influential noir homage.
Gordon Willis, Roger Corman, and Lauren Bacall: Honorary Oscars. Gordon Willis, the cinematographer of classics such as The Godfather: Part II, All the President’s Men, and The Purple Rose of…
Hazel Court, the leading lady of numerous B-horror movies of the 1950s and 1960s, died at age 82 on April 15 at her home near Lake Tahoe, California. Roger Corman used…