Even though he finally won his Academy Award a few years ago for his role in Crazy Heart, playing Bad Blake, a down-and-out country singer-songwriter trying to make a comeback in his career, Jeff Bridges keeps rolling on. Following his…
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Ciaran Hinds, Conor McPherson & The Eclipse
You know you’ve made it when you are an actor of British origin and you’ve been cast in a Harry Potter movie. So even though Ciaran Hinds has been acting regularly for over 20 years, the 57-year-old actor smiled when…
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Question: Fans of Ken Russell’s The Devils are well aware the film is not being released on DVD or Blu-ray. But what we do not know is the reason. Is it possible you can enlighten us Devils fans why the…
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As an actor, Andy Garcia is best-known for either his cool, what-the-hell demeanor in films like The Untouchables and Black Rain or his brooding intensity in movies such as The Godfather, Part III, Internal Affairs and the Ocean’s films. In…
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Movie Irv designated writer/director Noah Baumbach’s The Squid and the Whale one of his favorite movies of the decade. Now, the Brooklyn-born Baumbach has another film on the moviest critic’s radar–Greenberg, starring comic superstar Ben Stiller, Greta Gerwig (of many a…
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These days, when a director strings a few good movies together, people say they are on a roll. But how many filmmakers can honestly had an entire career that was one big roll—a career in which he’s never made a…
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All Jeff Kinney wanted to be was a cartoonist. While attending college at the University of Maryland, Kinney created a comic strip called Igdoof that ran in the campus newspaper. His dream was to graduate from school and draw a…
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What famous director was originally asked to direct the silent chiller classic The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari? Which symphony of horror received its lavish premiere at a zoo? Can you guess the name of the legendary actor who was so dedicated he brought his…
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Soapy Sales A favorite for its 1981-1990 run on CBS, Falcon Crest was a nighttime sudser bubbling with colorful characters, duplicitous behavior and big-time movie and TV stars. Jane Wyman is the nasty owner of a Northern California winery and…
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He raised comic fans’ hackles by casting Michael Keaton as Batman; tinkered with cinematic legend by revisiting the Planet of the Apes; and split audiences and critics by daring to reinvent Roald Dahl’s beloved book Charlie and the Chocolate Factory…
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