
To earn an Academy Award nomination for your film debut is no small accomplishment, but that’s just what happened to Terence Stamp following his title turn in 1962’s maritime drama Billy Budd. The famed British actor, who was born in…
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To earn an Academy Award nomination for your film debut is no small accomplishment, but that’s just what happened to Terence Stamp following his title turn in 1962’s maritime drama Billy Budd. The famed British actor, who was born in…
Read more →This week marks the 119th anniversary of the birth of Academy Award-winning director, screenwriter, and actor John Huston. Born in the small town of Nevada, Missouri on August 5, 1906, John was the son of vaudeville performer/film actor Walter Huston….
Read more →This week Liam Neeson makes the jump from action star to funnyman, playing the trigger-happy namesake son of Leslie Nielsen’s Lt. Frank Drebin in the big-screen updating of 1988’s The Naked Gun. Over the last couple of years such popular…
Read more →Sure, to mark the release of the new Superman movie we could run a poll asking you to select your favorite Man of Steel. But, as the saying goes, a hero is only as good as the villains he…
Read more →As evidenced by this month’s release of Jurassic World: Rebirth, movie audiences still can’t enough of dinosaurs. The film franchise based on Michael Crichton’s novel is now 32 years old. Prehistoric creatures, however, have been showing up on the silver…
Read more →He was a memorable movie heavy who seemed to go from laconic to psychotic at the flip of a switch. And in a four-decade-plus acting career that included over 100 motion picture appearances Michael Madsen, who passed away last week…
Read more →Well, two weeks ago we asked for your pick for favorite Errol Flynn movie, so it’s only fair that this time we turn the spotlight on his frequent leading lady, Olivia de Havilland. It’s even more fitting since this…
Read more →With his bulging eyes, distinctive voice, and quietly chilling demeanor, Peter Lorre wasn’t Hollywood’s idea of a leading man, but he found steady work as a supporting player and became one of the cinema’s favorite bad guys. Born László…
Read more →This Friday marks the 116th birthday of one of the most popular screen swashbucklers of all time, Errol Flynn. Born on the Australian island of Tasmania in 1909, Flynn’s first film role was as Fletcher Christian in the Aussie…
Read more →It was 40 years ago this week that New York magazine writer David Blum’s article tagged a group of popular twentysomething actors and actresses with the nickname “Hollywood’s Brat Pack.” The group–whose membership has always been rather liquid–were featured…
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