Neatorama (Free subscription) | 12/31/2008
Children of the ’70s might remember this Saturday morning show on ABC; apparently Nickelodeon also aired reruns of it in the ’80s. That’s my demographic, but I don’t remember it. Anyway, it’s a bunch of chimps (with dubbed human voices) running around solving mysteries and fighting crime. It’s strangely riveting. Lance [...]
The Earth Times Online Newspaper (Free subscription) | 12/22/2008
Los Angeles - Robert Mulligan, the director of the movie classic To Kill a Mockingbird which brought the issue of entrenched racism in the US South to the screen,has died aged 83. Mulligan died Friday of heart disease at his Connecticut home, accordi...
Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Free subscription) | 12/22/2008
Though not a household name, Mulligan was considered one of the premier filmmakers of his era, directing five actors to Oscar nominations: Gregory Peck and Mary Badham (To Kill a Mockingbird), Natalie Wood (Love with the Proper Stranger), Ruth Gordon (Inside Daisy Clover) and Ellen Burstyn (Same Time, Next Year). Only Peck won for his turn as Atticus Finch.
Best Movies 2008 (Free subscription) | 12/22/2008
Movies have a role to play in our culture. However, as many people often point out.. “it’s just a movie”. Movies more often than not are just an escape. A simple form of entertainment. We need escapes and entertainment, but we also know well enough not to over emphasize their importance [...]
Reuters UK (Free subscription) | 12/22/2008
LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - Robert Mulligan, who received an Oscar nomination for directing "To Kill a Mockingbird," died Friday of heart disease at his Connecticut home. He was 83.
Rotten Tomatoes (Free subscription) | 12/22/2008
Robert Mulligan, the Oscar-nominated director behind such films as "To Kill a Mockingbird" and "Summer of '42," has passed away at the age of 83.
The Daily Beast - Blogs and Stories (Free subscription) | 11/29/2008
The Sound of Music star's rich new memoir, and the author's encounter with him through a peephole many years ago. The best way to introduce Christopher Plummer's memoir, In Spite of Myself, is with a theatrical story: many years...
Was Watching (Free subscription) | 11/25/2008
My parents turned me on to this one when I was about 17-years old (or thereabouts). It’s a classic. Ruth Gordon rocks it.
The Independent (Free subscription) | 11/14/2008
After a stage and film career of distinction on both sides of the Atlantic (including the screen role of Gertrude in Olivier's Hamlet), Eileen Herlie achieved the peak of her stardom in America as the redoubtably enduring dowager, Myrtle Fargate, heading the long-running daytime soap opera All My Children from 1976.
MilkandCookies.com (Free subscription) | 11/06/2008
"What have you done to it? What have you done to its eyes?" Directed by Roman Polanski (1968) and starring Mia Farrow, John Cassavetes, Ruth Gordon, and others.
Denver Post (Free subscription) | 10/31/2008
You frightened kittens know who you are. You're open to the idea of a chilling outing, really you are. You appreciate the adrenaline rush a good horror movie can elicit, really you do. But it doesn't take much to rattle you.
The Daily Vidette (Free subscription) | 10/31/2008
An adorably young Mia Farrow (whose cute, boyish hairdo and A-line mini dresses could have her mistaken for a Twiggy impersonator) makes "Rosemary's Baby" a film worth seeing. A twisted cult classic, beautifully and intelligently directed by Roman Polanski, features Farrow in her acting prime.
Material Interest (Free subscription) | 10/30/2008
Five things worth knowing today - Start your Halloween a day early with the traditional Mexican festivities for Dia de los Muertos in New York, where celebrants will dance from Union Square to the Bowery. (Noncelebrants, consider this your warning...
Seattle Weekly (Free subscription) | 10/29/2008
No. They cannot be doing a remake of Roman Polanski's 1968 Rosemary's Baby . But it's true, and it gets worse: Michael Bay, he of Transformers and The Rock , is attached. So before that 2010 movie causes every cinema in the United States to spontaneously explode, be...
GreenCine Daily (Free subscription) | 10/27/2008
Robert Horton on Rosemary's Baby: "The weird denizens of the Bramford and the unforgettable Dr Sapirstein are all played by Hollywood characters whose heyday was the 1930s and 40s: Elisha Cook, Jr, Sydney Blackmer, Ruth Gordon, Patsy Kelly and...
