The term “character actor” is one lined with pitfalls and potentially negative connotations. After all, aren’t all actors playing...
Read moreDuring the peak of his fame I wasn’t much of a fan of comedian Richard Lewis. That’s not because I...
Read moreWhile I would not want to simplify the film career of the mighty Carl Weathers down to one role, let’s...
Read more“I am Shiva, the God of Death!,” Tom Wilkinson bellowed as Arthur Edens in the modern noir classic Michael Clayton....
Read moreI will start at the start. Like many, my first contact with Andre Braugher was in 1989’s Glory, Edward Zwick’s...
Read moreIn the year 2023, it might be hard to grasp how big of a star Ryan O’Neal was from 1970...
Read moreIn the ‘70s, while movies were entering a golden age, on television, Norman Lear was a one-man golden age. The...
Read moreUpon learning of the passing of Richard Roundtree, I was stunned to find out that his iconic character John Shaft...
Read moreIt’s quite easy, and even understandable, to reduce the career of Burt Young down to his most famous role: Paulie...
Read moreThe arc of Piper Laurie’s acting career is an unusual one. She started out like so many - doing guest...
Read moreFew filmmakers (this side of Ingmar Bergman and Mike Leigh) operated with more proficiency in the area of profound sadness...
Read moreJust by happenstance, I recently rewatched Michael Mann’s brilliant, but ill-fated, 2012 HBO drama Luck, starring Dustin Hoffman as a...
Read moreTo attempt to grasp the full scope of the professional life of Robbie Robertson is to engage in an exercise...
Read moreWiliam Friedkin won Best Director and Best Picture for The French Connection, which is one of the best films ever...
Read moreI first encountered Mark Margolis in Scarface, a film, like Raging Bull, I saw at far too young an age....
Read moreYou had to admire the comic anarchy of Paul Reubens’ singular character Pee-wee Herman, even if you didn’t quite get...
Read moreKen Kesey hated the film version of his novel, One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest that he refused to see...
Read moreThere are those infrequent times in your life when you can remember exactly where you were when you heard a...
Read moreThe history of film is dotted with the occasional unique beauty who, and I’m going to tread lightly here, don't...
Read moreIn one of the more surreal things I've ever read in the Hollywood Reporter, Scott Roxborough's obit of Milan Kundera...
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