Dollar for dollar (if not lb for lb) Vince Vaughan is the biggest star in Hollywood. For every dollar invested in a Vaughan film he returns fourteen making him a…
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...or so he seemed, both as an actor and as a goodwill ambassador for show business in general and Tinseltown in particular. Van Johnson, seen above in 1949's In The Good…
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Harry Carey and Elmer Booth, The Musketeers of Pig Alley, directed by D.W. Griffith, shot by G.W. "Billy" Bitzer, 1912The above image never ceases to startle me. I mean, just…
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Zasu Pitts in Lazybones, Borzage, 1925Watch a sufficient number of silent films—particularly in a block—and you do get a renewed sense of how silent cinema represents an art form that's…
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The good news is that there's finally now an official DVD of Antonioni's Zabriskie Point, and as the screen grab above attests, it's taken from a very nice print. But…
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Heartfelt congratulations to Sunny Amey who, at last night's Chapman Tripp Theatre Awards, was presented with "The Mayor's Award for Significant Contribution to Theatre". Often on these occasions people will…
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