Renowned for playing villains as well as for his meticulous approach to filmmaking, von Stroheim had a prolific decades-spanning career, which is detailed in interviews and photographs. Most notably, the film presents movie clips of his most celebrated works and even some of his lesser-known ...
However, a knee injury dashed his dreams of playing in the NFL, leading him down an unexpected path into acting. It was in 1993 that Cain found stardom, landing the iconic role of Superman in the television series Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman. His portrayal of the "Man...
The original female killer—Lizzie Borden—got a Lifetime movie of her own in 2014, with actress Christina Ricci playing the title role. As thelegend goes, Borden took an axe and murdered her stepmother and father, possibly delivering up to 40 whacks—ifthe iconic poemis to be believed. ...
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s why a reclusive CEO, Nathan Bateman (Oscar Isaac), allows a lowly programmer named Caleb Smith (Domhnall Gleeson) to determine just how human Ava really is. It’s an interesting challenge, but Ava is playing her own game. And not even Nathan can predict the actions that she will ...
The logline ofField of Dreams, based on W . P. Kinsella's book, could’ve been a complete cornball of a movie in the wrong hands, but it's all handled with such delicacy. Not once does a viewer question the presence of ball-playing ghosts in Iowa; we’re too close to Kinsella ...
train attack in 2015, when a terrorist attempted to open fire on a crowded French train and was subdued by a number of people, chief among them three American nationals (two of whom were off-duty soldiers), Spencer Stone, Anthony Sadler and Alek Skarlatos — who will be ...
Set in fifties Ireland, if I'm correct this weepy romance has Alan Cumming playing a fairly slimy type who does the books for his father's company. Minnie Driver (former mathematician love interest from Good Will Hunting) plays a woman who's supposed to marry him. Love Affair (1995) Re...
Jess needs extra time. She is facing the most important decision of her life: live up to family expectations of university, career and marriage, or follow in the footsteps of her hero David Beckham. When the talented teenager is spotted playing football in Southall, a world of unexpected oppo...
Shakespeare records the problems of playing and of audiences in more detail inA Midsummer Night’s Dream. No players could be more hopeless than Nick Bottom, the weaver, and his amateur friends, who, in the hope of winning a small pension, perform the internal play,Pyramus and Thisbe, to ...