THEIR FAVOURITE PERFORMANCES? We often hear critics and movie ‘experts’ wax lyrical about the best performance by such and such an actor or actress, but I wonder what the stars themselves think is their best ever performance; which of their films rates as their personal favourite? At the risk […]
I am mildly surprised every so often to discover that such and such an actor or actress was not born where I had always assumed he or she had originated. With that in mind I did some checking and came up with quite a few surprises. Some of these […]
THE LONER (1965-6) 26 EPISODES By all accounts this short-lived series was of the highest quality. It never made it to Australia so I have never seen an episode, but it is nonetheless surprising that a series devised and written by Rod Serling, creator of the classic series The […]
‘THE RED SCARE’ 1947-54 Much has been written about the paranoia that evolved in America, due to the excesses of the House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC) in the forties and fifties, and their impact on the movie industry in that country. I thought it might be time to post […]
QUIZ #5 Q1 IN WHICH 1925 SILENT CLASSIC DOES CHARLIE CHAPLIN COOK AND EAT HIS BOOT? Q2 MIA WASIKOWSKA PLAYED THE TITLE ROLE IN JANE EYRE (2011). WHAT IS HER NATIONALITY? Q3 WHO PORTRAYED JEREMY THORPE IN THE MINI-SERIES A VERY ENGLISH SCANDAL (2018)? Q4 […]
JANE MARCH (1973 – ) [Referring to rumours about her making The Lover (1992)]: ‘The suggestion that I slept with Tony Ka Fai Leung on set was a disgusting allegation. Jean-Jacques Annaud had a lot to do with that – he was trying to promote the film. Now, I […]
Wesley Snipes If you ever wondered why the movie career of Wesley Snipes got derailed, the answer is simple enough. In 2010 he was sentenced to three years in the Federal Correctional Institution McKean for failure […]
THE ADVENTURES OF TOM SAWYER (1938) I recently purchased a copy of this charming 1938 film and was surprised to find it had been shot in colour. Having only seen it once before (on television in 1960), I had expected it to be in black and white. In 1960 […]
ANNA MAY WONG (1905-61) Anna May Wong, the first Chinese-American movie star, was born Wong Liu Tsong in Los Angeles in 1905. She managed to have a relatively successful screen career (mostly in silent features), in an era that was deeply racist. It was a time when the taboo against […]
MOVIE QUIZ #4 Q1 BY WHICH ONE-WORD TITLE WAS THE HIT 1980 COMEDY FLYING HIGH KNOWN IN THE USA? Q2 WHO HAD THE MALE LEAD IN THE 1988 ROMANCE WORKING GIRL? […]
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