There is, in Warren Beatty’s remarkable film Reds, a moment that defines journalist John Reed. While covering Pancho Villa in Mexico, he rises during a battle and chases a horse drawn wagon, reaching out to touch it, but does not quite do so. That was John Reed, forever chasing history, forever wanting to witness history, to be part of it….
John H. Foote
Often hailed as the greatest American actor throughout his seventy year career. The New York Times once hailed him as “the American Olivier” which would have angered Duvall. He candidly criticized Olivier, and the British acting system, he did not care for Olivier’s hammy work. Duvall felt realism and the quest for truth to be essential. The passing of acting…
The most famous incarnation of Victor Frankenstein’s creation was Boris Karloff’s towering creation in 1931, 1935 in the superior sequels The Bride of Frankenstein, and finally in Son of Frankenstein (1939). After Karloff a plethora of actors portrayed the creature but with none of the humanity Karloff brought to the part. Bela Lagosi, Lon Chaney Jr. and cowboy actor Glenn…
Icons, some of the cinema’s true greats slipped into eternity in 2025, yet are immortalized forever in their films or the movies they created as directors. Death came to a couple in truly tragic ways, including murder, while others passed after illnesses. No matter how famous, how wealthy, death finds each of us and comes without warning, striking us down…
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