When not making tons of money collaborating with James Stewart, Anthony Mann directed some really grim westerns. This mini-epic spells out the ugly real-life Code of The West: seizing land and ...
Paul Greengrass’ western drama “New of the World” starring Tom Hanks and Helena Zengel is gaining traction during this pandemic awards season despite the fact that sagebrush sagas often get short ...
“Don’t worry. Some of the best movies are made by people working together who hate each other’s guts.” Lana Turner and Kirk Douglas in The Bad And The Beautiful (1952) is available on Blu-ray from ...
One of Vincente Minnelli’s best is this glamorous ‘Hollywood Looks At Hollywood’ exposé of sin and conniving among the actors, directors and producers that make Quality Entertainment for us ...
One of a number of Paramount noirs seemingly forever Mia on disc, Hal Wallis’ show reunites Burt Lancaster and Lizabeth Scott with promising newcomers Kirk Douglas and Wendell Corey. It’s light on ...
A quick Jet-set ride takes us to Rome of 1962, which for a couple of years was the movie capital of the world. Washed-up actor Kirk Douglas reinvents himself amid the vipers of his past — an abusive ...
Don’t look to this noir for hardboiled cynicism – for his first feature Nicholas Ray instead gives us a dose of fatalist romance. Transposed from the previous decade, a pair of fugitives takes what ...
"Funny how different you feel," cattleman Nadine Groot (Walter Brennan) relates near the end of "Red River," "when you know you're going somewheres." He's right, but his is a sojourner's satisfaction, ...
Red River Written by Borden Chase and Charles Schnee Directed by Howard Hawks USA, 1948 Howard Hawks’ Red River is supposedly the film that convinced John Ford of John Wayne’s talent (apparently ...
I can't remember the first time I saw Howard Hawks' Red River, but I feel like it was on Turner Classic Movies about five years ago or more. What I do remember, however, was it didn't exactly look ...
(Howard Hawks, 1948; Eureka!, U) The first of Howard Hawks's five westerns, Red River is the epic story of a post-civil war cattle drive up the Chisholm trail. It's alandmark filmthat brought a new ...
ABC Family's The Fosters has cast the biological son of the lesbian couple with David Lambert, and the troubled teen they take in will be played by Maia Mitchell. It looks like Bryan Fuller's ...
In the early 1950s, as the big studio system breathed its last, Hollywood produced a succession of classic Tinseltown fables: Sunset Boulevard, In a Lonely Place, Singin' in the Rain, The Barefoot ...
A Vincente Minnelli season opens at BFI Southbank in London today and it is no small thing. When The Complete Vincente Minnelli ran at the BAMcinématek in New York last September, I opened a roundup ...
Side Street Directed by Anthony Mann Screenplay by Charles Schnee U.S.A., 1950 There is a favourite saying used among film reviewers when espousing the virtues of a film that uses the story’s ...
They Live by Night Directed by Nicholas Ray Screenplay by Charles Schnee U.S.A., 1949 Young love is a powerful thing, even dangerously so when it blinds people from reality. When the hearts of two ...
Supermodel Gisele Bundchen surprised a group of young cancer patients at the Jimmy Fund Clinic at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute in Boston during the weekend by giving them a special modeling class. ...
Gisele Bundchen helped give a group of young female cancer patients a supermodel-style makeover at the weekend (05-06Nov11) as part of a charity initiative. The Brazilian beauty was on hand to give ...
Team 17 has said that it will "never say never" on reviving old franchises. The Worms developer, who rebooted Alien Breed for consoles and PC last year, said that it is always difficult to develop new ...
Worms Crazy Golf has been announced for the PS3, PC and iOS. The Worms spinoff is described as a "brazenly bonkers mixture of classic 2D Worms and hilarious 18-hole high-jinks". The game is set across ...