(George Sanders, who didn’t exactly give the most gracious of acceptance speeches), Costume Design and Sound Recording. And you can make a considerable case that Davis should have taken home a seventh Oscar but was arguably denied Best Actress because...

Saturday Night cinema is The North Star, starring Anne Baxter, Dana Andrews, Walter Huston, and Walter Brennan. Released in 1943, it appears that this film was designed to boost support for America's alliance with Russia against Germany ........ The...

Pantheon director Jean Renoir’s first American film, an adaptation by Dudley Nichols ('Stagecoach,' 'The Informer') of Vereen Bell’s best-selling novel set against the mysterious backdrop of Georgia’s Okefenokee Swamp, weaves the tale of a young man...

Not by the special effects or torture to the Jews but by the bad over-acting. Charlton Heston and Yul Brynner in the same movie? Even Cinemascope couldn’t contain them. Both had me diving under the seat. And incredibly, they weren’t the worst offenders.

He went on to appear in “All My Sons” (1948), based on the Arthur Miller play, with Edward G. Robinson and Burt Lancaster; “The Big Clock” (1948), in which he played a silent, menacing bodyguard to Charles Laughton; “Yellow Sky” (1949), with Gregory...

This past Monday, I spent a large chunk of the day and night in the company of Charlize Theron, the strikingly beautiful South African who won the best actress Oscar eight years ago and is now in the running for it again for her work in Jason Reitman's Y