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When I caught Otto Preminger's The Moon is Blue l ast month on Youtube it was mainly for Maggie McNamara , who managed a Best Actress nomination in 1953 and who I really didn't know much about, having not seen her in anything else. She actually only did four films after The Moon is Blue ...
Movies
Moon
Maggie Gyllenhaal
Academy Awards
Sixty years since Adam's Rib, wouldn't you know? Sixty years since Spencer Tracy and Katharine Hepburn went to battle in the ultimate battle-of-the sexes. I slate Tracy a fair bit on this blog but I'll give him his due here, he's wonderful, and I've yet to see a better performance from 1949.
Celebrities
Tracy Morgan
Spencer Pratt
I didn't get around to reviewing Anvil! The Story of Anvil! after I caught it on DVD a couple of months ago. I knew very little about either Anvil themselves or the film, a story of a band's attempts to revive the limited success of their early career. The movie is very low-budget but ...
Movies
As the shamelessly commercial Twilight: New Moon hogs up to a third of cinema screens this weekend (and surely a lot more of the box-office) I find myself unable to see even the most mediocre, middle-of-the-road Oscar vehicles. Amelia has made a paltry amount this week (less than The White ...
Celebrities
New Moon
Good news for thesp equality -- the BBC have cast a deaf Actress to star in its latest thriller, The Silence , which looks rather like Wait Until Dark with an aural handicap rather than a visual one posing problems for its leading lady. Genevieve Barr is the woman in question, and the series ...
Movies
Marlee Matlin
Audrey Hepburn
I was reading The Guardian today and spotted this article on a guy who bought a random film reel on ebay for £3.20 which turned out to be an unseen short film by Charlie Chaplin. Surely something to put on the IMDB trivia page, when it eventually gets one. I guess one of the most famous ...
Movies
The Nominees Were: Charles Boyer in Algiers James Cagney in Angels With Dirty Faces Robert Donat in The Citadel Leslie Howard in Pygmalion Spencer Tracy in Boys Town And the Winner Was: Spencer Tracy in Boys Town (Spoiler Alert!) I find this the most baffling decision of the ...
Celebrities
Tracy Morgan
Spencer Pratt
'night Mother Directed by Tom Moore Starring: Anne Bancroft, Sissy Spacek Grade: C - Nine years after Anne Bancroft could still get away with wearing a cocktail dress in Herbert Ross's The Turning Point she was into pernickety old woman territory in 'night Mother , a film adapted by Marsha ...
