Obits

“I am Shiva, the God of Death!,” Tom Wilkinson bellowed as Arthur Edens in the modern noir classic Michael Clayton....

I will start at the start.  Like many, my first contact with Andre Braugher was in 1989’s Glory, Edward Zwick’s...

In the year 2023, it might be hard to grasp how big of a star Ryan O’Neal was from 1970...

In the ‘70s, while movies were entering a golden age, on television, Norman Lear was a one-man golden age. The...

Upon learning of the passing of Richard Roundtree, I was stunned to find out that his iconic character John Shaft...

It’s quite easy, and even understandable, to reduce the career of Burt Young down to his most famous role: Paulie...

The arc of Piper Laurie’s acting career is an unusual one. She started out like so many - doing guest...

Few filmmakers (this side of Ingmar Bergman and Mike Leigh) operated with more proficiency in the area of profound sadness...

Just by happenstance, I recently rewatched Michael Mann’s brilliant, but ill-fated, 2012 HBO drama Luck, starring Dustin Hoffman as a...

To attempt to grasp the full scope of the professional life of Robbie Robertson is to engage in an exercise...

Wiliam Friedkin won Best Director and Best Picture for The French Connection, which is one of the best films ever...

I first encountered Mark Margolis in Scarface, a film, like Raging Bull, I saw at far too young an age....

You had to admire the comic anarchy of Paul Reubens’ singular character Pee-wee Herman, even if you didn’t quite get...

Ken Kesey hated the film version of his novel, One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest that he refused to see...

There are those infrequent times in your life when you can remember exactly where you were when you heard a...

The history of film is dotted with the occasional unique beauty who, and I’m going to tread lightly here, don't...

In one of the more surreal things I've ever read in the Hollywood Reporter, Scott Roxborough's obit of Milan Kundera...

One of my two favorite Alan Arkin performances is from a film I don’t even like all that much. Even...

It may seem like a silly way to start off a career retrospective by focusing upon your subject’s coif, but...

The first word that comes to my mind when I think of Frederic Forrest is agita. That’s not to say...