Both images above from the opening credits of John Huston's "Under the Volcano" (1984), newly released on Criterion DVD. Todo el trabajo y ningún juego hacen Jim un muchacho embotado. Todo el trabajo y ningún juego hacen Jim un muchacho…
Don't look now, little girl, but the children of rage (mummy's rage) are about to get you. Los Dias de los Muertos begin today, October 31 (aka "Halloween day") through November 2 (aka All Souls Day -- and Tara Mulan…
View image Unimaginable horror. Now this is how to make a list. Richard Corliss writes for Time magazine, a mainstream publication, but that doesn't prevent him from slipping in those inspired, idiosyncratic Corli-cues™ of his. (I just made up that…
View image Richard Harris as one version of Dumbledore, from "Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone." First, let's get the quote right. When asked if the "Harry Potter" series character, Prof. Albus Percival Wulfric Brian Dumbledore, a proponent of love…
From Joe Blevins, Arlington Heights, IL:
James Lipton, the host of the U.S. talk show, Inside the Actors' Studio, once worked as a pimp in Paris, France. — News Item
Jerry Seinfeld has been known to enjoy the odd bungee jump, but dressing up like a bee and throwing himself off the roof of the Carlton Hotel in Cannes was new for him. This was last May. The studio attached…
Q: If Cate Blanchett were to win the Oscar for her portrayal of Elizabeth I at next year's Oscars, would Helen Mirren as Elizabeth II give her the Oscar? And do you think the actual Queen Elizabeth will be watching…
View image Gloria Grahame in Fritz Lang's "The Big Heat." A film noir woodcut by Guy Budziak. "The term itself is vague. For German Expressionism was less a unified style than an attitude, a state of mind." -Horst Uhr, introduction,…
From Jordan Gray, Hays, KS:
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