Thelma Ritter received six Academy Award nominations over a 13-year period but never took home the golden statue. For the Oscar Snubs Blogathon, we compare the beloved character actress’s performances with the ones that beat her out.
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Ex-vaudevillian George Burns finds a surprise inside his car’s trunk–teenage runaway Brooke Shields–in 1979’s Just You and Me, Kid. Guest writer Todd Liebenow isn’t kidding when he says the comedy just makes the grade as a vehicle for its disparate stars.
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With this week’s release of The Good Dinosaur in mind, we’d like to present a photo gallery of some of the best–and worst–examples of prehistoric fauna to roam their way across the screen, from 1925’s The Lost World to 2015’s Jurassic World.
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Well, this Sunday is the big night for film fans: the 88th Annual Academy Awards. Which of the eight nominees for Best Picture do you think will take home the evening’s top prize? Vote in this week’s poll and let us know why in the comments.
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Clark Gable and Claudette Colbert hit the road in Frank Capra’s hit comedy It Happened One Night, which debuted 82 years ago this week and, one year later, won all four major Academy awards. More movie trivia tidbits are waiting to happen inside.
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Edward G. Robinson starred as the 19th-century German researcher who fought stigma and skeptics as he sought a cure for syphilis in Dr. Ehrlich’s Magic Bullet. For the Movie Scientist Blogathon, we review the 1940 Warner Bros. biodrama.
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George Clooney plays a ’50s film star who’s kidnapped in the new movie Hail, Caesar!, but in 1925 crooks plotted to abduct silent screen heroine Mary Pickford and hold her for ransom. Guest writer Patrick Downey shares the remarkable true-crime story.
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The big screen’s second Robin the Boy Wonder; the sexy love interest of The Last Dragon; and Police Academy Commandant Lassard: We remember Johnny Duncan, Vanity and George Gaynes.
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Some old films had great casts who wound up outshone by other elements. In this classic post, Movies Unlimited founder Jerry Frebowitz talks about how the setting was the star of Man on the Eiffel Tower, Broadway Limited and other vintage pictures.
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This year’s Academy Awards Best Picture nominee list features eight pictures, but several worthy films didn’t make the cut. We’d like to which know which neglected movie–Carol, Creed, Inside Out and Trumbo, to name a few–you would have been included.
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