With an Oscar nomination, a Golden Globes win, and Screen Actors Guild and BAFTA nods for her role as the wicked Lydia in director Todd Fields’ Tár, Cate Blanchett has succeeded in garnering the highest praise for portraying one of the most evil individuals in recent memory. As the composer-conductor who goes full bore to […]
Continue readingAfter two weeks of solid showings at the box office, excellent reviews and passionate fan responses, “The Woman King” has become one of the year’s standout hits, with plans to be competitive in the awards races for both major and artisan category attention.One of the film’s standout stars, Thuso Mbedu, who plays the young Nawi, […]
Continue reading(Welcome to Year of the Vampire, a series examining the greatest, strangest, and sometimes overlooked vampire movies of all time in honor of “Nosferatu,” which turns 100 this year.)”Interview with the Vampire” begins with a spellbinding orchestration of the Latin burial chant “Libera Me,” sung by the American Boy Choir. Toward the end of the movie we […]
Continue readingThe pay-tv giant has the chance to turn popular films into ‘universes’ of stories – and steal a march in the content-hungry streaming warsAmazon’s $8.5bn deal to buy MGM, the Hollywood studio behind James Bond, The Handmaid’s Tale and Gone With the Wind, has secured it the rights to a century’s worth of TV and […]
Continue readingAs of this morning, Amazon has officially purchased legendary Hollywood movie studio MGM in a deal worth $8.45 billion. That means the MGM library, which consists of over 17,000 hours of television shows and more than 4,000 movies, will help bolster the offerings on Amazon Prime Video – but a handful of major MGM classics […]
Continue readingBill Maher took aim at what he perceives to be the work of cancel culture during his usual Friday night “Real Time with Bill Maher” slot, sending up potentially problematic classic movies that could warrant a more contemporary content warning. Maher is riffing off Turner Classic Movies’ recent series “Reframed: Classic Films in the Rearview […]
Continue readingIn the March 29, 1972 issue of weekly Variety, Paramount ran a 10-page ad for “The Godfather.” This was two weeks after it opened at five Manhattan theaters (then unheard of for a top-tier release), and one week after adding around 290 more in nearly every state. The ad listed each theater, the gross to […]
Continue readingGone with the Wind and The Adventures of Robin Hood actress Olivia de Havilland was one of the few surviving stars from Hollywood’s Golden Age. But this weekend, the Oscar-winning legend left this world after spending over a century on it. Olivia de Havilland died peacefully in her sleep at home in Paris, France on […]
Continue readingTwo-time Academy Award-winning actress Olivia de Havilland passed away Sunday at the age of 104. Immortalized for her work in “Gone With the Wind” and “The Adventures of Robin Hood,” many might have actually missed the features that showcased de Havilland’s true range and talents. That’s where this list comes in. In honor of the […]
Continue readingTalent, awards, tempestuous relationship with sister Joan Fontaine, and legal wrangles with Warner Bros.Olivia de Havilland, the double Oscar winner and one of the last icons of Hollywood’s Golden Age who starred in Gone With The Wind, has died from natural causes at her home in Paris. She was 104.de Havilland lived in France for […]
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