Tom Cruise plays Charlie Babbitt, a car salesman whose business isn’t doing so good. Then he hears his rich father has died but he’s left a...
‘When it comes to portraying the lives of real people on the screen,’ wrote Lorezno Carceterra, ‘the movies have never been accurate…if the end result is...
It’s rare indeed for one film to see two leads nominated for the same Oscar, but both Voight, a relative newcomer to the screen, and Hoffman,...
Agatha Christie, one of the world’s most popular writers of detective fiction, utterly disappeared for 11 days in 1926. She was later discovered at Hydro Harrowgate,...
All the President’s Men is a well-made thriller based on the unrelenting efforts of Washington Post reporters Woodward and Bernstein to uncover the Watergate scandal that...
This limited series tells the story of the Medici family of Florence, their ascent from simple merchants to power brokers sparking an economic and cultural revolution....
LUCK is a behind-the-track look at the world of horse racing and gambling’s denizens – owners, trainers, jockeys and gamblers. Michael Mann assembled a brilliant cast...
Hollywood has had a longtime fixation with depicting the life and times of geniuses in film. And often, these characters aren’t as we’d expect groundbreakers and...
As many an aging actress knows, Hollywood can be an unfriendly place for no-longer-young leading ladies and sex symbols. And yet, the dark-haired, sensuous Anne Bancroft...
In Esio Trot Mr Hoppy lives a quiet retiree’s life, tending to his balcony garden, pottering to the shops and back and secretly being passionately, hopelessly...
Gene Hackman was born to be an actor. But it took him 30 years to realize it. Born on January 30,1930 in San Bernadino, CA, he...
Original date of publication: 27 Jan 2012 Dustin Hoffman headlines in the superb new HBO series Luck which begins on Sunday January 29, 2012, it’s a...