Halloween season invariably means treats for collectors of horror on hard media, and this year’s proving no different as The Criterion Collection has readied an expectedly extras-laden double feature from the storied 1940s RKO shock output of producer Val Lewton,…
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Who’s Your Favorite Actor to Have Played the Joker?
With Joker: Folie à Deux opening in theaters, Joaquin Phoenix returns to the role that won him the Oscar as party clown turned vigilante Arthur Fleck, now institutionalized as he awaits trial for his crimes—and finding a soul mate in…
Read more →What’s Your Favorite Maggie Smith Performance?
On September 27th, Dame Maggie Smith passed away at age 89, leaving behind a long and enduring legacy of performances in movies and television, and on the London and New York stages, in a career spanning seven decades. Having obtained…
Read more →To Bardot on Her 90th
Few cinema sex goddesses can lay claim to the kind of transcendent global impact made by pert Parisienne Brigitte Bardot, whose unique brand of spontaneous sensuality made her one of film’s foremost fantasy objects from the late ’50s on. Born…
Read more →All About Alan Ladd
He stood 5’5″, and while every clichéd gag about a leading man who had to stand on a crate can be invariably traced back to him, the handsome, understated performer Alan Ladd bucked the odds and became a leading box-office…
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