By John H. Foote At the end of every calendar year, usually by Christmas, every film of importance has been released in L.A. and N.Y. in order to qualify for Academy Award consideration. Through the years some films have even missed those all important critics and guild awards because they remained unseen, The Wolf of…
By John H. Foote Sir Sean Connery passed this morning, the first James Bond is gone. Connery was a huge movie star for 40 years, inactive the last two decades but incredibly busy from 1960 to 2000. Considered the greatest of the actors to play 007, it was often forgotten just what a truly fine…
By John H. Foote Oscar winner Jennifer Hudson, who blew audiences and critics minds with her towering performance as Effie, the pivotal role in Dreamgirls (2006), was handpicked by the great Aretha Franklin to portray the iconic singer in the film biography of her life. That film – Respect – has been getting Oscar buzz…
By John H. Foote The seventies cinema stands out as perhaps the finest in the history of cinema, an era dominated by urgent films, and movies that explored with welcome freedoms about what was happening in the world. Suddenly nudity was commonplace, sex was explored with honesty, language was equally honest as vulgarity became commonplace…
By Alan Hurst She was the last link to the Hollywood’s golden age, an actress who rose to prominence in the 1930’s and continued working until the late 1980’s. She starred in dozens of classic films throughout her career, won two Academy Awards, was one half of one of the most storied rivalries in Hollywood…
By Nick Maylor It’s the announcement many fans have been longing to hear. The #ReleaseTheSnyderCut crowd rejoiced today when it was announced that the streaming service HBO Max would be the official platform to release the director’s cut of Justice League (2017). The 2017 film was in post-production when a personal tragedy moved director Zack…