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Marlon Brando is often called one of the greatest actors in film history. Over six decades, he won many awards, including two Oscars, two Golden Globes, a Cannes Film Festival Award, three BAFTAs, and an Emmy. He helped bring the Stanislavski system and method acting into the spotlight, changing how acting was done in Hollywood.

Despite all his success, Brando admitted there was one role he deeply regretted. In his autobiography, he talked about his part in The Teahouse of the August Moon from 1956. He played Sakini, an interpreter on Okinawa, who spends most of the story facing off against Glenn Ford’s character, an American officer trying to introduce democracy and business to the island.

Brando admired the Broadway version of the play, especially David Wayne’s performance as Sakini.

He called it “a delicate, amusing comedy of manners set against the backdrop of a stormy clash of cultures.

Marlon Brando is often called one of the greatest actors in movie history. Over a career that lasted six decades, he won many big awards, including two Oscars and several Golden Globes. Brando is famous for bringing a new style of acting, called method acting, to a wide audience. But despite all his success, there was one role he deeply regretted taking.

In his autobiography, Brando talked about his role in the 1956 movie The Teahouse of the August Moon. He played Sakini, an interpreter on the island of Okinawa, who spends much of the film clashing with an American officer played by Glenn Ford.

Brando said, “In The Teahouse of the August Moon, I played an interpreter on Okinawa named Sakini, who spends most of the movie dueling with Glenn Ford, an American Army officer assigned to bring democracy and free enterprise to the island.”

He admired the original Broadway...

Stars: Arthur Hill, David Wayne, James Olsen, Kate Reid, Paula Kelly, George Mitchell, Ramon Bieri, Kermit Murdock, Richard O’Brien, Peter Hobbs, Eric Christmas, Mark Jenkins, Peter Helm, Joe Di Reda, Carl Reindel, Ken Swofford, Frances Reid, Richard Bull | Written by Nelson Gidding | Directed by Robert Wise

Michael Crichton was a prolific writer. His stories were thrilling, exciting pieces of literature. No wonder many were adapted into feature films. Most notably Jurassic Park, Westworld and The Andromeda Strain.

Six years ago, Arrow Video gave The Andromeda Strain a deluxe Blu-ray release. But as with all things, there are upgrades, and people are upgrading their favourite movies to Ultra HD; and so now comes the upgrade to the 70’s Sci-Fi cult classic The Andromeda Strain. Let’s take a look at this new 4K release from Arrow Video.

A government satellite crashes outside a small town in New Mexico – and within minutes,...

Robert Wise’s adaptation of The Andromeda Strain retains much of the Michael Crichton novel’s emphasis on the minutiae of efforts to contain a deadly extraterrestrial microorganism while blending in elements of a procedural thriller and a disaster film. As lensed by Richard H. Kline, the Panavision imagery conjures a sense of impending doom, as almost every resident in a small New Mexico town is found dead after a U.S. military satellite crashes nearby, but it’s Boris Leven’s art direction, especially within the laboratory where a group of scientists gather following news of the disaster, that gives the film its distinctively clinical look and feel.

Nelson Gidding’s script methodically moves toward a climax in which the disarming of a bomb inside the lab could prevent humanity’s extinction. Days prior, the U.S. military activates a covert operation involving a team of scientists, foremost among them Dr.

Before he created Westworld and Jurassic Park, Michael Crichton first blurred the line between science fiction and science fact with his 1969 breakout success, The Andromeda Strain.

The 1971 film adaptation of the novel will infect 4K Ultra HD on May 15 from Arrow Video.

Robert Wise directs the sci-fi thriller from a script by Nelson Gidding (The Haunting).

Arrow previously restored the film in 4K from the original camera negative with original uncompressed mono audio. It’s presented in Dolby Vision (HDR10 compatible).

Special Features:

Audio commentary by critic Bryan Reesman A New Strain of Science Fiction – Video appreciation by critic Kim Newman The Andromeda Strain: Making the Film – 2001 featurette featuring interviews with director Robert Wise and screenwriter Nelson Gidding A Portrait of Michael Crichton – 2001 interview with author Michael Crichton Cinescript Gallery – Highlights from the annotated and illustrated shooting script by Nelson Gidding Theatrical trailer TV spots Radio spots Image gallery Booklet...

The Twilight Zone is an American sci-fi anthology series that debuted in 1959. The wildly popular show has been praised for its allegorical storytelling and exploration of issues like xenophobia, war, religion, and technology. Its stand-alone episodes vary greatly in subject but are united by an overwhelming feeling of strangeness. One week, the episode may deliver a tale about magic, and the next teleplay might center on aliens. The Twilight Zone is also known for keeping its viewers on their toes with its trademark twist endings, sometimes driving home a tone of dread and occasionally reveling in hopefulness.

Thanks to its nature as an anthology series, The Twilight Zone has no set cast, featuring a new crop of actors every week. In many ways, acting in the series became a rite of passage in Hollywood, which is why the show is littered with famous faces. On the way to sitcom stardom,...

There are few better ways to spend a half hour than with an episode of "Alfred Hitchcock Presents." Funny, scary, mysterious, cynical, sinister, and sometimes even sexy, the anthology series created and presented (and sometimes directed) by the Master of Suspense is the complete package. The show was indelible when it first aired in the 1950s, and it remains so today, with storylines that feel surprisingly modern, twists designed to leave you gasping, and an unrelenting fixation on the darkest corners of the human heart.

To choose the best episodes of "Alfred Hitchcock Presents" is a bit of a fool's errand, the kind of task Hitch himself would probably scoff at in one of his campy, sarcastic episode introductions. This is, after all, a show that multiple generations watched solely via linear TV, catching stray episodes in syndication rather than binge-watching it in its entirety. It's also a series with...

Ridley Scott’s Alien is iconic in many ways. Not only was it a turning point for the action genre, but Sigourney Weaver became one of the first female actresses to classify as a major action hero. It set records straight and opened a new door of opportunities for the franchise itself. In the midst of this, sequels and spin-offs were made. While some were well received, others not so much.

Sigourney Weaver in Alien

The latest installment in the franchise, Alien: Romulus had a lot relying on it. To carry a legacy as big as that of Scott’s and appease the audience at the same time is no small feat. However, its attempt to honor the same may have also become its own bane.

There’s Only One Reason You Need to be Super Hyped up for ‘Alien: Romulus’ and it’s Not Ridley Scott

Everything that glitters is not always gold.

Paul Rudd's running joke about the E.T. knockoff Mac and Me almost became a meta-movie with Rudd starring and Conan O'Brien producing. Screenwriter Ben Mekler pitched the idea to MGM, with the intention of having Conan and Rudd involved in a sequel called "Mac and Me, Paul Rudd." McDonald's ownership of the rights to Mac and Me ultimately prevented the realization of the meta-movie, ending the crazy dream.

Paul Rudd’s iconic Conan Mac and Me joke almost became a wild meta-movie, details a screenwriter. The shameless and terrible E.T. knockoff Mac and Me should have disappeared without a trace after grossing just $6.4 million at the box office in 1988. But the movie got a bizarre second life when, years later, Ant-Man star Rudd made a running joke during appearances on Conan O’Brien’s various shows where he would pretend he was about to present a clip from his latest project,...

Longtime Metal Church drummer Kirk Arrington died Monday, May 22nd, at the age of 61.

The band shared the news of Arrington’s passing in a social media statement on Monday night, writing, “We just received the sad news, Kirk Arrington passed away this morning due to health issues. Rip in brother! See you on the other side….#Rip #legend #gonetoosoon #MetalChurch #drummer”.

In 2006, Arrington exited Metal Church due to health issues stemming from years of coping with diabetes. Since then, his post behind the kit has been assumed by Jeff Plate and Stet Howland (W.A.S.P.), who is the group’s current drummer.

Arrington joined Metal Church in the early 1980s prior to the band signing to Elektra and dropping its seminal self-titled album in 1984. Songs like “Beyond the Black” are early examples of the thrash/speed metal style, and the LP — which had future Pantera producer Terry Date behind the...

On April 2, 1978, CBS premiered its primetime soap opera Dallas, which would go on to run for fourteen seasons at the network. The Hollywood Reporter’s original review, which appeared as part of a TeleVisions column, is below:

Passing In Review: Melodrama emerges full blown with Dallas, a new CBS limited run series which debuted over the weekend, and with it TV has a new Peyton Place. As the title suggests, the series takes place in Texas — yes, Dallas, Texas — and revolves around the more sordid adventures, schemes and romances of the Ewing clan.

That’s short for Texas oil. The ads for the hour-drama read “A family ruthless in its quest for power and passion. Ready to destroy two people who dared their own blood for the right to love.” The two people, as it turns out, are Patrick Duffy of Man From Atlantis fame and Victoria Principal.

Duffy’s...

Diane McBain, whose quick rise to fame as a young Warner Bros. contract player in the early 1960s soon had her starring in the ABC series Surfside 6 and co-starring opposite Elvis Presley in 1966’s Spinout, died of liver cancer today at the Motion Picture & Television Country House and Hospital in Woodland Hills, California. She was 81.

Her death was announced by her friend Michael Gregg Michaud. McBain and Michaud co-authored her 2014 memoir Famous Enough.

“It is with great sadness that I report actress Diane McBain lost her battle with liver cancer and passed away on December 21, 2022,” Michaud wrote on social media.

Discovered by a talent scout while working as model, McBain signed a seven-year contract with Warner Brothers Studios on her 18th birthday in 1959, according to Michaud. That same year she made her TV debut in an episode of ABC’s Maverick starring James Garner.

The following year she appeared in...

Diane McBain, whose career playing spoiled rich girls included turns as the yacht owner Daphne Dutton on the ABC crime show Surfside 6 and an author stalking Elvis Presley in Spinout, has died. She was 81.

McBain died Wednesday morning at the Motion Picture & Television Country House and Hospital in Woodland Hills after a battle with liver cancer, her friend and writing partner, Michael Gregg Michaud, told The Hollywood Reporter.

McBain also guest-starred on four episodes of ABC’s Batman, first as a hat shop assistant who’s in cahoots with David Wayne’s Mad Hatter in 1966 and then as stamp company proprietor Pinky Pinkston — she wore only pink and had a pink dog — on the memorable 1967 installment that featured The Green Hornet (Van Williams) and Kato (Bruce Lee).

In her first film, McBain appeared with Richard Burton in Vincent Sherman’s Ice Storm (1960), then starred alongside Troy Donahue and Claudette Colbert...

A small town in New Mexico is decimated by an alien organism in Robert Wise’s The Andromeda Strain, based on the first book by Michael Crichton (Westworld, Jurassic Park) to be brought to the screen. Though Wise’s film was advertised as a wall-to-wall nail-biter (“The suspense will last a lifetime!”) the movie is largely inert with a buttoned-down cast (including Arthur Hill and David Wayne) that only adds to the general lethargy. The comparatively mild scenes of violence and nudity caused some to question the film’s “G” rating in 1971.

The Andromeda Strain: 71 Split Diopter Shots on Vimeo

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David O. Selznick’s marvelous romantic fantasy ode to Jennifer Jones was almost wholly unappreciated back in 1948. It’s one of those peculiar pictures that either melts one’s heart or doesn’t. Backed by a music score adapted from Debussy, just one breathy “Oh Eben . . . “ will turn average romantics into mush.

Portrait of Jennie

Blu-ray

Kl Studio Classics

1948 / B&W w/ Color Insert / 1:37 flat Academy / 86 min. / Street Date October 24, 2017 / available through Kino Lorber / 29.95

Starring: Jennifer Jones, Joseph Cotten, Ethel Barrymore, Lillian Gish, Cecil Kellaway, David Wayne, Albert Sharpe.

Cinematography: Joseph H. August

Production Designers: J. MacMillan Johnson, Joseph B. Platt

Original Music: Dimitri Tiomkin, also adapting themes from Claude Debussy; Bernard Herrmann

Written by Leonardo Bercovici, Peter Berneis, Paul Osborn, from the novella by Robert Nathan

Produced by David O. Selznick

Directed by William Dieterle

Once upon a time David O. Selznick’s Portrait of Jennie was an...

Samuel Fuller sure knows how to turn up the geopolitical tension, especially in a rip-roaring provocative atom threat adventure, that might have caused problems if anybody cared what movies said back when the Cold War was hot. Richard Widmark skippers a leaky sub to the arctic and discovers that the Chinese communists are going to start WW3 — and blame it on Uncle Sam. It’s an insane comic-book adventure about very serious issues — and we love it.

Hell and High Water

Blu-ray

Twilight Time

1954 / Color / 2:55 widescreen / 103 min. / Street Date June 13, 2017 / Available from the Twilight Time Movies Store 29.95

Starring: Richard Widmark, Bella Darvi, Victor Francen, Richard Loo, Cameron Mitchell, Gene Evans, David Wayne.

Cinematography: Joseph MacDonald

Art Direction: Leland Fuller, Lyle R. Wheeler

Film Editor: James B. Clark

Original Music: Alfred Newman

Written by Samuel Fuller, Jesse L. Lasky Jr. story by David Hempstead

Produced by Raymond A. Klune

Directed...

Adam West, who was beloved for generations as the man under the crimefighting cowl in the 1960s Batman TV series, passed away yesterday at the age of 88. West had an acting career going back to the 1950s. Today, Cinelinx pays homage to a gentleman who loved his fans, as we say goodbye to Adam West

Adam West loved playing Batman. Beginning with the Batman Tv show (1966-1969), he continued being involved with DC Batman projects, including Batman: the Movie (1966), The Super Friends (or Super Powers Team), the New Adventures of Batman, Tarzan and the Super Seven, The Legends of the Super heroes, Batman: the Animated Series, the Batman: New Times video game, The 2004-2006 Batman cartoon, Batman: the Brave & the Bold, Robot Chicken, Batman: Return of the Caped Crusaders, and the upcoming Batman vs. Two-Face. Through all these projects, for over five decades, West voiced either the Batman or one of his supporting cast.

A lawsuit over Denzel Washington's portrayal of Melvin B. Tolson Sr. in The Great Debaters could chill the freedom filmmakers rely on when making features about historical figures, according to producers.

David Wayne Semien sued in March, claiming the 2007 film about a Texas collegiate debate team in the 1930s violated Tolson's right of publicity, which he now says he controls. (Tolson died in 1966.)

Now, Harpo Films, MGM and The Weinstein Co. are asking the court to toss the suit, arguing the filmmakers are protected by the First Amendment and Semien is nearly 10 years too late in...

Oprah Winfrey’s Harpo Films has been sued by the family of Melvin B.Tolson, who was portrayed by Denzel Washington in the 2007 film “The Great Debaters.” The suit was filed in federal court in Louisiana on Wednesday by David Wayne Semien, described as the succession representative and legal guardian of several of Tolson’s relatives. The Weinstein Company and Metro-Goldwyn Mayer Distribution are also named in the suit. “The defendants never requested, nor did Mr. Tolson’s heirs ever give the defendants consent to use or exploit Mr. Tolson’s name, image, likeness in making and distributing a film about his life without any.

As a musical it’s excellent — fine tunes and lyrics, great singing and dancing by the ever-youthful Fred Astaire, the glorious songbird Petula Clark, and the impishly weird Tommy Steele cast appropriately as a grimacing Leprechaun. The update of what was a politically acute Broadway hit in 1947 is awkward but the show is a melodious pleasure — great color, fine voices and peppy direction by Francis Ford Coppola on his first big studio feature.

Finian’s Rainbow

Blu-ray

Warner Archive Collection

1968 / Color / 2:35 widescreen / 145 141 min. / Street Date March 7, 2017 / available through the WBshop / 21.99

Starring: Fred Astaire, Petula Clark, Tommy Steele, Don Francks, Keenan Wynn, Barbara Hancock, Al Freeman Jr., Ronald Colby, Dolph Sweet, Wright King, Louis Silas.

Cinematography: Philip Lathrop

Film Editor: Melvin Shapiro

Original Music: Ray Heindorf

Written by E.Y. Harburg, Fred Saidy

Produced by Joseph Landon

Directed by Francis Ford Coppola

Finian’s Rainbow is a unique musical with a strange history.

Fox and Wbtv have selected "The Walking Dead" actor Benedict Samuel to take on the iconic role of The Mad Hatter on the upcoming third season of the Batman prequel series "Gotham".

The character first debuted in 1948 and was previously played by David Wayne in the original 1960s Batman series and voiced by Roddy McDowall in the 1990s animated series. Here's how "Gotham" describes him:

"Jervis Tetch is a talented hypnotist teetering on the edge of madness. He arrives in Gotham with an unwavering desire to find his sister, Alice, a young woman who went missing in the city years ago. It is anyone's guess just how far down the rabbit hole he's willing to go in order to find her."

"Gotham" Season 3 will premiere on September 19th.

Source: TVLine...

On the centennial of the Easter Uprising and just a few days past St. Patrick's Day, Whv present's Neil Jordan's biopic epic of Ireland's most beloved patriotic hero -- a militant who stood up to the English occupiers. It's the role that should have cemented Liam Neeson's stardom. Michael Collins Blu-ray The Warner Archive Collection 1996 / Color / 1:78 widescreen / 132 min. / Street Date March 22, 2016 / available through the WBshop / 21.99 Starring Liam Neeson, Aidan Quinn, Julia Roberts, Alan Rickman, Stephen Rea, Brendan Gleeson, Charles Dance, Jonathan Rhys Myers, Ian McElhinney. Cinematography Chris Menges Film Editors J. Patrick Duffner, Tony Lawson Original Music Elliott Goldenthal Produced by Stephen Wooley Written and Directed by Neil Jordan

Reviewed by Glenn Erickson

Irish politics must be in ascendance, as this St. Patrick's Day Warner Bros. has bumped its Irish patriot biopic up to Blu-ray status. A DVD of it came out only a year before. It's...

This month marks the 50th anniversary of the Batman TV show (1966-68) starring Adam West and Burt Ward as Batman and his teen partner Robin the Boy Wonder. The show was a huge hit when first released and still has a loyal following today. The show was a clever satire, not only on super heroes but also on 1960s pop-culture in general. Cinelinx celebrates ABC’s Batman at 50.

In January of 1996, a mid-season replacement show debuted on ABC and became an unexpected hit. It was originally planned to be produced for the fall ’66 season but it was moved up to January. ABC’s Batman was part of its 1966 “second wave” programming, being one of 4 shows that debuted during the mid-season. (Along with The Double Life of Henry Phyfe, Blue Light and The Baron.) While the other three are mostly forgotten, Batman became the sensation of the season—airing twice each week,...

“Wealthy men are never old!”

How To Marry A Millionaire screens Saturday morning, November 21st, at 10:30am at The Hi-Pointe Theater (1005 McCausland Ave, St. Louis). This is a fundraiser for The Cottey College Scholarship Fund and admission is $10.

How To Marry A Millionaire is a 1953 romantic comedy based on the plays The Greeks Had a Word for It by Zoe Akins and Loco by Dale Eunson and Katherine Albert. The film stars Marilyn Monroe, St. Louis’ own Betty Grable and Lauren Bacall as three gold diggers along with William Powell, David Wayne, Rory Calhoun, Cameron Mitchell, Alex D’Arcy, and Fred Clark.It was directed by Jean Negulesco and produced and written by Nunnally Johnson.

In order to meet wealthy husbands, three beautiful women take an apartment in one of Manhattan’s most affluent areas, on the corner of East 55th St. and Sutton Place. Naive moocher Betty Grable...

Debbie Reynolds ca. early 1950s. Debbie Reynolds movies: Oscar nominee for 'The Unsinkable Molly Brown,' sweetness and light in phony 'The Singing Nun' Debbie Reynolds is Turner Classic Movies' “Summer Under the Stars” star today, Aug. 23, '15. An MGM contract player from 1950 to 1959, Reynolds' movies can be seen just about every week on TCM. The only premiere on Debbie Reynolds Day is Jerry Paris' lively marital comedy How Sweet It Is (1968), costarring James Garner. This evening, TCM is showing Divorce American Style, The Catered Affair, The Unsinkable Molly Brown, and The Singing Nun. 'Divorce American Style,' 'The Catered Affair' Directed by the recently deceased Bud Yorkin, Divorce American Style (1967) is notable for its cast – Reynolds, Dick Van Dyke, Jean Simmons, Jason Robards, Van Johnson, Lee Grant – and for the fact that it earned Norman Lear (screenplay) and Robert Kaufman (story) a Best Original Screenplay Academy Award nomination.

Katharine Hepburn movies. Katharine Hepburn movies: Woman in drag, in love, in danger In case you're suffering from insomnia, you might want to spend your night and early morning watching Turner Classic Movies' "Summer Under the Stars" series. Four-time Best Actress Academy Award winner Katharine Hepburn is TCM's star today, Aug. 7, '15. (See TCM's Katharine Hepburn movie schedule further below.) Whether you find Hepburn's voice as melodious as a singing nightingale or as grating as nails on a chalkboard, you may want to check out the 1933 version of Little Women. Directed by George Cukor, this cozy – and more than a bit schmaltzy – version of Louisa May Alcott's novel was a major box office success, helping to solidify Hepburn's Hollywood stardom the year after her film debut opposite John Barrymore and David Manners in Cukor's A Bill of Divorcement. They don't make 'em like they used to Also, the 1933 Little Women...

Martha Stewart: Actress / Singer in Fox movies apparently not dead despite two-year-old reports to the contrary (Photo: Martha Stewart and Perry Como in 'Doll Face') According to various online reports, including Variety's, actress and singer Martha Stewart, a pretty blonde featured in supporting roles in a handful of 20th Century Fox movies of the '40s, died at age 89 of "natural causes" in Northeast Harbor, Maine, on February 25, 2012. Needless to say, that was not the same Martha Stewart hawking "delicious foods" and whatever else on American television. But quite possibly, the Martha Stewart who died in February 2012 -- if any -- was not the Martha Stewart of old Fox movies either. And that's why I'm republishing this (former) obit, originally posted more than two and a half years ago: March 11, 2012. Earlier today, a commenter wrote to Alt Film Guide, claiming that the Martha Stewart featured in Doll Face, I Wonder Who's Kissing Her Now,...

We are incorporating two elements here in the Caped Crusader’s universe: applying the Batman 60′s ABC-tv show (1966-1968/3 seasons) with the Batman film franchise (1989 and beyond). The link that we are looking for to connect Batman’s cheesy television past and its current and future filming state of mind is the conception of repackaging the Dynamic Duo’s cartoonish villains from the small screen and giving them new life on the big screen in the millennium. Let’s examine this line of reasoning, shall we?

As any Batman enthusiast (or casual observer) knows about the campy TV series back in the late 60′s is that the main off-kilter charm was the colorful and wacky regular guest star villains that populated the program many times through the three-year broadcast on the network. Household hooligans such as Catwoman, the Joker, the Penguin and the Riddler would return and become the routine...

Warner Bros. Home Entertainment will officially unveil the details of its highly-anticipated November 2014 release of "Batman: The Complete Television Series" at a Comic-Con International panel -- featuring special guests Adam West, Burt Ward and Julie Newmar -- on Thursday, July 24 from 6:00-7:00pm in Hall H. Starring Adam West, Burt Ward, Cesar Romero, Burgess Meredith, Frank Gorshin, John Astin, Julie Newmar, Eartha Kitt, Alan Napier, Neil Hamilton, Stafford Repp, Madge Blake and Yvonne Craig with special guest appearances by George Sanders, Otto Preminger, Victor Buono, David Wayne, Eli Wallach, Cliff Robertson, Carolyn Jones, Milton Berle and Vincent Price, 1960s series was known for its comic camp, upbeat theme music and overt moral lessons geared towards children. The actors...

By David S. Schow

Hall: “Where’s the library?”

Dutton: “No need for books — everything’s in the computer.”

One of the few regrets of my adult life is that I never got to meet Michael Crichton, who died too young, November 2008. Eminently emulatable, he had conquered publishing, film and television and remains a personal hero. I was hooked from the moment my father returned from his Arctic DEWLine duties bearing a paperback first printing of The Andromeda Strain, which I plowed through while in high school. Then immediately re-read, and re-read again.

I still have that paperback.

Subsequently I devoured everything Crichton wrote — the “John Lange” potboilers written to pay his way through medical school; the landmark A Case of Need (written as “Jeffrey Hudson;” a stingingly strong pro-choice novel done prior to the Roe v. Wade decision); even the dope fantasia Dealing, written with his brother as “Michael Douglas.

Today on Trailers from Hell, "Paranormal Activity" writer/director Oren Peli appraises Robert Wise's understated 1971 diseased panic film "The Andromeda Strain." A small town in New Mexico is decimated by an alien organism in Robert Wise's "The Andromeda Strain," based on the first book by Michael Crichton to be brought to the screen. Though Wise's film was advertised as a wall-to-wall nail-biter ("The suspense will last a lifetime!") the movie is largely inert with a buttoned-down cast (including Arthur Hill and David Wayne) that only adds to the general lethargy. The comparatively mild scenes of violence and nudity caused some to question the film's "G" rating in 1971.

A small town in New Mexico is decimated by an alien organism in Robert Wise's The Andromeda Strain, based on the first book by Michael Crichton (Westworld, Jurassic Park) to be brought to the screen. Though Wise's film was advertised as a wall-to-wall nail-biter ("The suspense will last a lifetime!") the movie is largely inert with a buttoned-down cast (including Arthur Hill and David Wayne) that only adds to the general lethargy. The comparatively mild scenes of violence and nudity caused some to question the film's "G" rating in 1971.

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Episode 26 of 52: In which Tracy and Hepburn's best comedy shows that love, life, and law are a circus.

How are we already halfway through this series? How are we already halfway through this year? 2014 is going by faster than KHep’s dialog in Morning Glory. (See what I did there?) We’ve already covered one debut, an Oscar win, a masterpiece, a massive failure, an equally massive comeback, cinema chemistry history, racist history, communist history, and some odd miscellany, and we haven’t even gotten to the bulk of Kate’s Oscar nominations yet. Plus, in yet another moment of perfect symmetry, the 26th film is the pinnacle Tracy/Hepburn collaboration and a major milestone in Kate's career: Adam's Rib.

A woebegone wife attempts to shoot her husband when she finds him in the arms of his mistress. It’s the stuff that Law & Order episodes are made of.

Joan Lorring, 1945 Best Supporting Actress Oscar nominee, dead at 88: One of the earliest surviving Academy Award nominees in the acting categories, Lorring was best known for holding her own against Bette Davis in ‘The Corn Is Green’ (photo: Joan Lorring in ‘Three Strangers’) Best Supporting Actress Academy Award nominee Joan Lorring, who stole the 1945 film version of The Corn Is Green from none other than Warner Bros. reigning queen Bette Davis, died Friday, May 30, 2014, in the New York City suburb of Sleepy Hollow. So far, online obits haven’t mentioned the cause of death. Lorring, one of the earliest surviving Oscar nominees in the acting categories, was 88. Directed by Irving Rapper, who had also handled one of Bette Davis’ biggest hits, the 1942 sudsy soap opera Now, Voyager, Warners’ The Corn Is Green was a decent if uninspired film version of Emlyn Williams’ semi-autobiographical 1938 hit play about an English schoolteacher,...

David Wayne's goofy, playful filmmaking approach was first successful with "Hot American Summer," but despite solid work on television ("Childrens Hospital"), he hasn’t made a film that hits that sweet spot of mirthful humor since "Role Models." Fortunately, he more or less returns to form with "They Came Together," a takedown of romantic comedy traditions of chaotic, irreverent proportions. Reuniting with "Wet Hot American Summer" alums Amy Poehler and Paul Rudd along with co-writer Michael Showalter, Wain has shot a comedy that hits the ceiling of silliness and bursts through the plaster for a view of the upper floor. Every romantic comedy trope is roasted here, mocked and emulated with a wink; the only thing they’re missing to complete this maniacal medley is Kate Hudson. Poehler and Rudd star as Molly and Joel, a seemingly blissful couple regaling an equally blissful married couple (Bill Hader and Ellie...

It's always an incredible night to see stars honor their fellow performers at the Screen Actors Guild Awards, and tonight was no exception (January 18).

The 20th Annual event was full of wonderful moments as many talented actors and ensembles took home the coveted statues awarded to them for their tremendous roles on the big and small screens.

The biggest award of the night went home to the cast of "American Hustle," taking home the Actor for Best Ensemble in a Motion Picture.

Other notable trophies went home to Cate Blanchett for Best Actress for her role in "Blue Jasmine," and Matthew McConaughey for Best Actor for his work in "Dallas Buyers Club."

Check out the full list of 2014 SAG Award nominees below:

Theatrical Motion Pictures

Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Leading Role

Bruce Dern / Woody Grant – “Nebraska” (Paramount Pictures)

Chiwetel Ejiofor / Solomon Northup – “12 Years A Slave” (Fox Searchlight Pictures)

Tom Hanks / Capt.

It's always an incredible night to see stars award their fellow performers at the 20th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards, and tonight was no exception (January 18).

The evening was full of wonderful moments as many talented actors and ensembles took home the coveted statues awarded to them for their tremendous roles on the big and small screens.

The biggest award of the night went home to the cast of "American Hustle," taking home the Actor for Best Picture.

Other notable trophies went home to Cate Blanchett for Best Actress for her role in "Blue Jasmine," and Matthew McConaughey for Best Actor for his work in "Dallas Buyers Club."

Check out the full list of 2014 SAG Award nominees below:

Theatrical Motion Pictures

Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Leading Role

Bruce Dern / Woody Grant – “Nebraska” (Paramount Pictures)

Chiwetel Ejiofor / Solomon Northup – “12 Years A Slave” (Fox Searchlight Pictures)

Tom Hanks / Capt.

Nominees for the 20th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards® for outstanding performances in 2013 in five film and eight television categories as well as the SAG Awards honors for outstanding action performances by film and television stunt ensembles were announced this morning in Los Angeles at the Pacific Design Center’s SilverScreen Theater in West Hollywood.

The big omissions of the day – Robert Redford in All Is Lost and Leonardo DiCaprio in The Wolf Of Wall Street from the Best Actor category. Fox Searchlight’s 12 Years A Slave saw the most nominations in the Best Actor, Best Supporting Actor, Best Supporting Actress and Outstanding Performance by a Cast categories.

20th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards Nominations

Theatrical Motion Pictures

Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Leading Role

Bruce Dern / Woody Grant – “Nebraska” (Paramount Pictures)

Chiwetel Ejiofor / Solomon Northup – “12 Years A Slave” (Fox Searchlight Pictures)

Tom Hanks / Capt. Richard Phillips...

The award season is now in full swing. This morning, SAG-aftra announced the nominees for the 20th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards. Nominations and wins at these awards often add to one’s Oscar hopes, so it’s always interesting to see which projects are getting the most attention.

One neat personal note here is that, since I’ve been a card-carrying member of the Screen Actors Guild for 7 years, I get to cast my votes on all of these. Looking forward to that.

And the nominees are…

20th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards Nominations

Theatrical Motion Pictures

Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Leading Role

Bruce Dern / Woody Grant – “Nebraska” (Paramount Pictures)

Chiwetel Ejiofor / Solomon Northup – “12 Years A Slave” (Fox Searchlight Pictures)

Tom Hanks / Capt. Richard Phillips – “Captain Phillips” (Columbia Pictures)

Matthew McConaughey / Ron Woodroof – “Dallas Buyers Club” (Focus Features)

Forest Whitaker / Cecil Gaines – “Lee Daniels’ The Butler...

The Screen Actors Guild has released their 2014 nominations honoring their colleagues in film and television. Although the winners won't be announced until January 18, the SAG noms are definitely of interest to Oscar prognosticators.

"12 Years a Slave" led the pack with four nominations, which includes best actor and best supporting actor, best female performance, and best cast. "August: Osage County" did very well, as did "The Butler" and "Dallas Buyers Club."

Check out the full list below, and start making your Oscar predictions!

Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Leading Role

Bruce Dern / Woody Grant - "Nebraska" (Paramount Pictures)

Chiwetel Ejiofor / Solomon Northup - "12 Years A Slave" (Fox Searchlight Pictures)

Tom Hanks / Capt. Richard Phillips - "Captain Phillips" (Columbia Pictures)

Matthew McConaughey / Ron Woodroof - "Dallas Buyers Club" (Focus Features)

Forest Whitaker / Cecil Gaines - "Lee Daniels' The Butler" (The Weinstein Company)

Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in...

With the exit from Iraq and the draw-down of troops in Afghanistan, the numbers of Americans killed continues to drop. Still, loved ones are mourning 311 lost, and as of Dec. 17, the wars' toll since 2001 now stands at 6,656. Edward Joseph Acosta, 21 Trevor Brandon Adkins, 21 Ahmed Kousay al-Taie, 46 Erica Paige Alecksen, 21 Tobias Christoph Alexander, 30 Joseph James Altmann, 27 Mabry James Anders, 21 Joshua Ryan Ashley, 23 Bradley Wayne Atwell, 27 Daniel Benjamin Bartle, 27 Jon-Luke Bateman, 22 Jonathan Batista, 22 Rayvon Battle Jr., 25 Taylor John Baune, 21 Jordan Logan Bear, 25 Clayton Ross Beauchamp, 21 Genaro Bedoy, 20 Bryan Richard Bell, 23 Russell Ryan Bell, 37 Jose Oscar Belmontes, 28 Kenneth Wade Bennett, 26 Keith David Benson,...

What the hell happened with Matthew McConaughy and Jared Leto? Don’t worry guys, they’re just busy working on their new project titled The Dallas Buyer’s Club. In case you’ve missed our previous reports, this is your perfect chance to find more details about an upcoming indie project which comes from director Jean-Marc Vallee and to see more photos in the rest of this report!

The most important thing is that this project will actually tell us the true story of Ron Woodroof, a tough Texas electrician who was diagnosed with AIDS in 1986 and given six months to live. It’s not hard to guess that McConaughy plays that guy, right?

Described as a frustrated with the lack of available medical options and unwilling to accept a death sentence (can you blame him?), Woodroof found a lifeline using alternative drugs and created a lucrative smuggling business that...

By now, the paparazzi have eclipsed their duty in circulating the razor-thin frame of Matthew McConaughey across the web, first snapped while on set for his role in Martin Scorsese's “The Wolf of Wall Street,” and now leading into his role as an AIDS patient with the indie drama “Dallas Buyers Club.” However, a formidable supporting lineup has also quietly signed on to the project and two more have joined the film, which is sourced from real-life events. Directed by Jean-Marc Vallée ("The Young Victoria"), the '80s period film features McConaughey as Ron Woodruff, a man battling AIDS and diagnosed with six months to live, who then teams with a doctor to find alternative treatments for the disease. Also joining him in the search, reports Variety, will be Steve Zahn and “The Grey” star Dallas Roberts, the latter of whom will play Woodruff's defense attorney, David Wayne, fighting for the legalization of certain.

The Grey's Dallas Roberts has joined Matthew McConaughey in Jean-Marc Vallee's The Dallas Buyers Club, reports Variety. Vallee helms from the script by Mirror Mirror and Meet Bill scribe Melisa Wallace and newcomer Craig Borten and Melisa Wallack. The indie drama based on a true story, stars McConaughey as Ron Woodruff, a man infected with AIDS who joins with a female doctor played by Garner to investigate, and find alternative treatments. After being given a mere six months to live when diagnosed in 1986 with AIDS, Woodruff lived for a six years by illegally smuggling medicine onto U.S. soil. Roberts has been cast as Woodruff's defense attorney David Wayne who represents him in his battle to force the Fda to allow patients to receive medications like Fluconazole and Peptide T. Also joining the cast recently as a fellow AIDS patient who meets Woodruff in the hospital is Jared Leto.

The Grey's Dallas Roberts has joined Matthew McConaughey in Jean-Marc Vallee's The Dallas Buyers Club, reports Variety. Vallee helms from the script by Mirror Mirror and Meet Bill scribe Melisa Wallace and newcomer Craig Borten and Melisa Wallack. The indie drama based on a true story, stars McConaughey as Ron Woodruff, a man infected with AIDS who joins with a female doctor played by Garner to investigate, and find alternative treatments. After being given a mere six months to live when diagnosed in 1986 with AIDS, Woodruff lived for a six years by illegally smuggling medicine onto U.S. soil. Roberts has been cast as Woodruff's defense attorney David Wayne who represents him in his battle to force the Fda to allow patients to receive medications like Fluconazole and Peptide T. Also joining the cast recently as a fellow AIDS patient who meets Woodruff in the hospital is Jared Leto.

"Frankenstein" (1931): Since it involves a scientist's (Colin Clive) creation of a synthetic man (Boris Karloff), this most legendary movie version of Mary Shelley's story has to be considered one of the classic examples of this genre.

"The Satan Bug" (1965): An ex-government agent's (George Maharis) pursuit of two missing vials of a deadly virus fuels this gripping adaptation of an Alistair MacLean novel.

"The Andromeda Strain" (1971): In giving life (or, in the cases of some characters, death) to Michael Crichton's novel, director Robert Wise wisely uses a cast of frequent supporting players -- including Arthur Hill, David Wayne and Kate Reid -- as scientists fighting a lethal germ from a high-tech underground lab.

"Coma" (1978): Remade this week as an A&E Network miniseries, Robin Cook's best-seller -- first brought to the screen by the aforementioned Crichton -- casts Genevieve Bujold as a headstrong Boston...

Jean Hagen, Debbie Reynolds, Singin' in the Rain Debbie Reynolds on TCM: The Unsinkable Molly Brown, The Singing Nun Schedule (Et) and synopses from the TCM website: 6:00 Am The Affairs Of Dobie Gillis (1953) A lovesick teenager searches for romance at college. Dir: Don Weis. Cast: Debbie Reynolds, Bobby Van, Barbara Ruick. Bw-73 mins. 7:15 Am I Love Melvin (1953) A photographer's assistant promises to turn a chorus girl into a cover girl. Dir: Don Weis. Cast: Donald O'Connor, Debbie Reynolds, Una Merkel. C-77 mins. 8:45 Am The Tender Trap (1955) A swinging bachelor finds love when he meets a girl immune to his line. Dir: Charles Walters. Cast: Frank Sinatra, Debbie Reynolds, David Wayne. C-111 mins, Letterbox Format. 10:45 Am Bundle Of Joy (1956) A shop girl is mistaken for the mother of a foundling. Dir: Norman Taurog. Cast: Eddie Fisher, Debbie Reynolds, Adolphe Menjou. C-98 mins. 12:30 Pm Tammy And The Bachelor...

Novelist, screenwriter and biographer whose subjects included his father, Groucho

Arthur Marx, who has died aged 89, grew up in the shadow of his father, Groucho, and was steeped in the controlled chaos of the Marx Brothers. Torn between trying to distance himself from a demanding father, yet also prove worthy of his genius, he enjoyed a long career as a writer of screen and stage comedies, novels and biographies. Not surprisingly, however, his most successful work capitalised on the public's interest in his father and his uncles, Chico, Harpo, Gummo and Zeppo.

Marx wrote several works about Groucho, the first of which, Life With Groucho (1954), published at the height of his father's television popularity, was a warts-and-all portrait punctuated by Groucho's own annotations. (Marx wrote that he would like to correct the impression that his father was a miser; Groucho's footnote read: "You'd better or I'll cut you off without a nickle.

Netflix has revolutionized the home movie experience for fans of film with its instant streaming technology. Netflix Nuggets is my way of spreading the word about independent, classic and foreign films made available by Netflix for instant streaming.

This Week’s New Instant Releases… Title: Black Heaven (2010)

Streaming Available: 04/12/2011

Cast: Grégoire Leprince-Ringuet, Louise Bourgoin, Melvil Poupaud, Pauline Etienne, Pierre Niney, Ali Marhyar, Patrick Descamps, Pierre Vittet, Swann Arlaud, Francesco Merenda

Director: Gilles Marchand

Synopsis: While searching for the owner of a missing mobile phone with his girlfriend, Marion (Pauline Etienne), Gaspard (Grégoire Leprince-Ringuet) falls for the mysterious Sam (Louise Bourgoin), who draws him into a dangerous virtual-reality video game, where she provokes unsuspecting victims into killing themselves. Directed by Gilles Marchand, this intense French drama alternates between real-life events and those within the simulated computer world. Title: Heartless (2009)

Streaming Available: 04/12/2011

Cast: Jim Sturgess, Clémence Poésy , Noel Clarke, Luke Treadaway, Justin Salinger,...

After writing three straight comedies - Sex Drive, Hot Tub Time Machine, and She's Out of My League - one thing that has managed to elude writing duo Sean Anders and John Morris has been box office success. So how do you break that streak? Make a movie with the king of $100 million domestic grosses - Adam Sandler. Variety reports that Anders and Morris are now in talks to direct I Hate You, Dad. The film stars Adam Sandler and Andy Samberg as a father and son who begin fighting when Sandler begins butting heads with Samberg's bride-to-be. While Anders directed Sex Drive, the movie, should they officially sign on, will be Morris' directorial debut. The original script was written by David Caspe before being turned over to David Wayne and Ken Marino for rewrites. Though I personally enjoyed Hot Tub Time Machine quite a bit, one of the reasons...