European Film Awards 2025: Nominations Unveiled

Joachim Trier’s ‘Sentimental Value,’ Jafar Panahi’s ‘It Was Just an Accident,’ and Olivier Laxe’s ‘Sirat’ are among the nominees for Europe’s top film prize.

High Sierra (1941): Making of Crime Melodrma that Made Bogart a Star

Raoul Walsh tried to persuade George Raftto play the lead, but Raft did not want his character to die at the end of the film.

Actors: Calhoun, Rory–B-Level Star

Rory Calhoun (born Francis Timothy McCown, Aug 8, 1922–April 28, 1999), the American film and TV actor, starred in many Westerns in the 1950s and 1960s, and appeared in supporting roles in How to Marry a Millionaire (1953), River of No Return (1955), and Motel Hell (1980). Of Irish ancestry, Francis Timothy McCown was born […]

Oscar Actors: Cruise Accepts Honorary Oscar with Emotional Speech

Making Films Is Not What I Do, It Is Who I Am–Tom Cruise

Gladiator II: Ridley Scott’s Vigorously Violent but Emotionally Hollow Spectacle (Sequel to his 2001 Oscar Winner)

In the end, Gladiator II reaffirms Scott’s natural tendency toward grandiosity, but seldom justifies its very existence.