In 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...
Read moreOne of my two favorite Alan Arkin performances is from a film I don’t even like all that much. Even...
Read moreIt may seem like a silly way to start off a career retrospective by focusing upon your subject’s coif, but...
Read moreThe first word that comes to my mind when I think of Frederic Forrest is agita. That’s not to say...
Read moreGlenda Jackson effectively led at least two lives. One as an artist and one as an advocate. It may be...
Read moreI suppose talking about Treat Williams’ hair may be an odd way to begin an appreciation of his commendable career,...
Read moreIn the long history of women escaping abusive men, few stories are more well known than that of Tina Turner’s...
Read moreRegarding "Cinematic and Box Office Achievement"...obviously Barbie is going to win this. It would be nonsense if anything else did.…
The Killer is this year's Respect for Sasha.
Well, I personally rather enjoyed it (Of course 80s nostalgia was so strong and welcome). It was just a video…
The nomination is the win, and if you can't recognize the massive impact Swift has made this year on our…
I just realized it! Globes now has something AMPAS can NOT have: They have nominated Anatomy Of A Fall for…