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Fayette Pinkney of the Philly soul girl-group The Three Degrees died this weekend.

Film noir used to be what the Internet is nowadays: something to blame for why the world is going south in a sidecar.

Technology gets a bad rap in the old media. In books and films, it is often the machinery used by governments to crush individuality.

Wondering why movies seem to star the same people over and over? One reason is that there are plenty of Oscar winners and Hollywood heavyweights who've either retired or just made so much money that they don't care anymore about having a career.

If you watch the original 1974 film, The Taking Of Pelham One Two Three , one of the things you'll notice is how Robert Shaw, as the train-hijacking villain, plays everything with the energy down, not up and out.

Buying gifts your dad will actually use is usually rather difficult because dads have a way of liking weird things that moms and kids can't understand.

Genre: Period Drama Directed by: Jan Troell Starring: Maria Heiskanen, Mikael Persbrandt, Jesper Christensen, Emil Jensen, Ghita Norby It's hard to remember now, but there was a time in the early 1970s - an era a little more open to foreign-language and "artsy" films in the mainstream - when Swedish filmmaker Jan Troell was considered almost in the ...

For the second time this year, Sears, Roebuck and Co.'s fashion sensibility is a punch line in a major motion picture.

The Seattle International Film Festival, which started this weekend, will be showcasing the latest film by legendary Francis Ford "Godfather" Coppola.

I will buy several. They'll make great gifts. Published: May 19, 2009 9:48 AM Ron Okay, at first I was skeptical about the Rothbard flask, but the fact that it says "Enemy Of The State" has won me over.

When can I finally put this gun down and take a nap? Only two more hours to go. As good as 24 has been this season, all those improbable plot twists, fierce gun battles and squealing car chases wear you down after four months.

As it happened, the movie Under Fire a ' starring Nick Nolte and Gene Hackman as journalists caught up in the dirty politics of Nicaragua's civil war a ' was playing on a television behind the bar.

Every movie John Cazale appeared in was nominated for an Oscar for Best Picture, and three of them -- "The Godfather," "The Godfather: Part II" and "The Deer Hunter" -- won the top prize.

Chase movies such as The French Connection, starring Gene Hackman, have long outlasted Quebec-born director Mack Sennett, a pioneer of the trope from the silent era.

The great Gene Hackman has been very choosy about his acting roles lately, so what better time than now to revisit some of his best performances.

Collectively, his five films earned 40 Academy Award nominations. Images View Larger Images He was the best supporting actor any star could ask for, whether playing Al Pacino's ineffectual older brother Fredo in the first two "Godfather" movies, Pacino's jittery accomplice in a botched bank robbery in "Dog Day Afternoon," assistant to Gene ...

Plans are nearly complete for the second annual Knightstown Community Fair and Neighborhood Crime Watch campaign.

Puerto Rican actor Miguelangel Suarez, whose career included minor roles in last year's epic "Che" and Wood Allen's "Bananas," died on Wednesday.

The Quick and the Dead : Sunday, 20:00, Sony Entertainment Sharon Stone stars as gunslinger Ellen who arrives in the town of Redemption looking for John Herod , bent on revenge.

" last season with her raunchy antics in and out of the ballroom, and now she's set to go one further with a tell-all autobiography.