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August is coming up soon and for Turner Classic Movie fans, that only means one thing – it’s time for TCM’s annual Summer Under the Stars programming! Each day in August will feature a different classic movie star, from the very prominent (like Katharine...

When did queer cinema begin? What did it look like before the German New Wave breakthroughs of Rainer Werner Fassbinder and Ulrike Ottinger, before the flashpoint of William Friedkin’s Cruising, before its efflorescence in the ’90s? The popular understanding...

A few titles that didn’t make last week’s list: Across the Pacific (Warner Brothers, 1942) Not long after the release of The Maltese Falcon, John Huston reunited with Bogart, Mary Astor, and Sydney Greenstreet to make this war-era propaganda...

Kirk Douglas at 100: Tough Guys Never Die Before Bruce Campbell, before Jay Leno, Kirk Douglas wielded the most famous chin in show business. He can also safely boast the strongest, most rugged chin of them all – stern and divited. But a famous chin...

Captain Phillips newcomer and Oscar-buzzed Barkhad Abdi, who plays the lead Somalian pirate in the film, told me he thought the Governors Awards meant prizes actually handed out by the Governor and he seemed a bit overwhelmed by the whole occasion...