War on Christmas Movies to remember: ‘Tis the season for cheery horror thrillers and widely reviled Kirk Cameron documentary.
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Scariest Movies Ever Made: Chicago Critics’ Top 100. Alfred Hitchcock’s Psycho, tops the list but a number of strange and spooky omissions.
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Marilyn Nash and Charles Chaplin in Monsieur Verdoux. Marilyn Nash, Charles Chaplin’s young leading lady in the critical and box office disappointment Monsieur Verdoux, has died. She was either 84…
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Paulette Goddard in Modern Times. Paulette Goddard wouldn’t have a special place in the Pantheon of movie stars if it hadn’t been for her close personal and professional association with…
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Riot movie with Jim Brown and Gene Hackman. “A protest, a riot, I don’t care what you call it,” says Red (Gene Hackman), the mastermind of an audacious plan to…
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Lloyd Bridges, Robert Stack, Airplane! Robert Stack is one of those actors I know but at the same time I don’t. I’ve watched many of his movies, but despite his…
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Alfred Hitchcock’s 1960 horror thriller Psycho caused a sensation when it opened in June about fifty years ago. There were a number of reasons for that, one of them being…
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William Castle and the Rosemary’s Baby ‘curse.’ William Castle was a director of B movie thrillers such as those in two popular franchises of the 1940s starring faded stars 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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Gimmick master William Castle’s Psycho-ish 1964 horror cult classic Strait-Jacket works as a larger-than-life Joan Crawford showcase.
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Ariel Awards: Irene Azuela in Quemar las naves. Mennonite beliefs: Carlos Reygadas psychological drama tops Mexican Cinema’s Oscars 2008 Ariel nominations: Feb. 21. Ariel winners: Palacio de Bellas Artes in…
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“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,…
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Marcel Marceau: World-renowned mime artist dead at 84 Mime artist Marcel Marceau died in Cahors, France, on Saturday, Sept. 22, 2007. The cause of death was not immediately known. Marceau…
Directed by schlock-master William Castle (House on Haunted Hill, The Tingler), Shanks is a little-known curiosity piece, telling the story (written by Ranald Graham) of Malcolm Shanks, a deaf-mute puppeteer who leaves his abusive…
Ann Savage: Detour film noir actress who became a cult celebrity thanks to her memorably unglamorous psychopathic villainess dead at age 89.
Robert Evans with Rosemary’s Baby producer William Castle and lead actress Mia Farrow on the set of Roman Polanski’s classic 1968 horror thriller. “An Academy Salute to Robert Evans” will…