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What’s Your Favorite Ned Beatty Performance?

06.15.21 | Jon Morgereth | Tags: Character Actors, Deliverance, Nashville, Ned Beatty, Network, Rudy, Superman, Toy Story 3 | no comments

Ned Beatty — the iconic everyman character actor — died of natural causes at the age of 83 on June 13th. A familiar face on the big and small screen, Beatty had unforgettable roles in pop culture touchstones ranging from…

Spotlight Shines as Best Picture, Follows Great Tradition of Journalism in the Movies

08.08.16 | Nathaniel Cerf | Tags: All the President's Men, Call Northside 777, Each Dawn I Die, Gentleman's Agreement, Good Night and Good Luck, journalism, Mark Ruffalo, Michael Keaton, Network, Rachel McAdams, Spotlight | 2 comments

Movies about scrappy journalists looking out for the people used to be a dime a dozen. Journalists were heroes and fighters for the masses. These days reporters and editors aren’t the fodder they once were for films. But newspaper movies…

Character Witness: Faye Dunaway: Diana Christensen vs. Joan Crawford

10.06.15 | Jason Marcewicz | Tags: Faye Dunaway, Mommie Dearest, Network | no comments

You’re the judge and jury in MovieFanFare’s Character Witness column. This time we compare Faye Dunaway as Diana Christensen in Network and Joan Crawford in Mommie Dearest. Read our arguments, then hand down your ruling in the comments.