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Quiet Awards Season Has Hollywood Uneasy
The Academy Awards were created in 1929 to promote Hollywood’s achievements to the outside world. At its pinnacle, the telecast…
Sidney Poitier Was the Star We Desperately Needed Him to Be
Were anyone to ask me who’s the greatest American movie star, my answer would never change. And it will never…
Sidney Poitier, Who Paved the Way for Black Actors in Film, Dies at 94
Sidney Poitier, whose portrayal of resolute heroes in films like “To Sir With Love,” “In the Heat of the Night”…
Peter Bogdanovich, 82, Director Whose Career Was a Hollywood Drama, Dies
Peter Bogdanovich, who parlayed his ardor for Golden Age cinema into the direction of acclaimed films like “The Last Picture…
The Oscars Want Crowd-Pleasers, but Where Are the Crowds?
After last year’s Oscar ceremony honored a group of small, challenging movies and tanked in the ratings, you can bet…
These ‘Spider-Man’ Villains Return in ‘No Way Home’
They were very good at being bad.At the dawn of the “Spider-Man” film franchise in 2002, Willem Dafoe, the acclaimed…