Oscar winner Cliff Robertson may be best known to modern audiences as Uncle Ben in Sam Raimi’s Spider-Man Trilogy (2002-07). However, his crowning achievement came in 1968, when he won the Best Actor Oscar for playing the title role in…
Released in 1994, director Mike Newell’s Four Weddings and a Funeral became an international hit, earning an Oscar nomination for Best Picture and turning Hugh Grant (Florence Foster Jenkins) into a star. A hilarious look at love and friendship, it’s…
Aging, but holding on to the glamour girl image that had made her a star in the 1920’s, the mid-fifties were an odd time for Joan Crawford (Strait-Jacket) Not quite ready for William Castle, she starred in Female on the…
Originally released in theaters last November, those behind Disney’s The Nutcracker and the Four Realms clearly hoped to be destination viewing for the many of us who count a viewing of Tchaikovsky’s ballet as tradition. Based on the original short…
Linda Blair will probably always be best known for her starring in the 1973 horror classic The Exorcist, and rightfully so. However, in the years immediately following that success, the young star made a couple of television movies that dealt…
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In 1964, with the success of Whatever Happened to Baby Jane? the Grand Dame Guignol genre began. Director Robert Aldrich (Twilight’s Last Gleaming) had cast aging stars Joan Crawford and Bette Davis in leads, created a hit, and in the…
[amazon_link asins=’B07JVF7M7M’ template=’ProductAd’ store=’moviegazett03-20′ marketplace=’US’ link_id=’7834fec7-a8bb-4a6e-9d09-ecd7256263f7′]Directed and produced by Alfred Hitchcock, Notorious is not only one of the most stylish films ever made but is one of the greatest suspense yarns ever committed to celluloid. Buoyed by a great cast,…
[amazon_link asins=’B07KM16SG6′ template=’ProductAd’ store=’moviegazett03-20′ marketplace=’US’ link_id=’54d9aaaa-0ed3-11e9-aed6-1fde55ef42e9′]Opening on April 26, 1977 Studio 54 became an immediate sensation. Driven by the youthful exuberance of co-owners Steve Rubell and Ian Schrager, the Manhattan nightclub quickly became the place to be. Once home to…
[amazon_link asins=’B07G2CTJ25′ template=’ProductAd’ store=’moviegazett03-20′ marketplace=’US’ link_id=’289f3b4f-0a0c-11e9-8ff5-175cc05e27af’]Steve Martin (Steve Martin: The Television Stuff) made his major feature film debut in The Jerk as Navin R. Johnson, a role he was born to play. A co-writer of the screenplay with Carl Gottlieb…