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John Wayne was nominated for an Oscar three times across his 50-year career, but he only walked home with one. Wayne starred in around 80 Westerns, so his defining image in pop culture is as a macho, no-nonsense cowboy. This gives a limited view of his range because while he often played variations on the same character, he delivered some layered performances too. The Searchers is Wayne's best and darkest work, while he's genuinely charming in the romantic drama The Quiet Man. Still, Wayne rarely got much respect from the Academy Awards.

Many of the John Wayne/John Ford movie collaborations received great reviews, but somehow, none of the star's Oscar nods came from those films. Wayne also picked up several awards on behalf of other performers, including Gary Cooper for High Noon; this is a little bizarre in hindsight, as Wayne deeply hated High Noon and its moral message. The...

In the "Star Trek" episode "Court Martial", Captain Kirk (William Shatner) is brought on trial following the death of one of his officers, Lieutenant Commander Finney (Richard Webb). The U.S.S. Enterprise had encountered an ion storm and was being buffetted so badly it faced potential destruction. To flee the damage, Kirk had to eject a research vessel while Finney was still on board, sending his officer to his death. 

This was a difficult command decision, of course, but there was some debate as to whether or not Kirk ejected the vessel while the Enterprise was at red alert, or if Kirk panicked and ejected the vessel while the Enterprise was still at yellow alert. The latter would be seen as grounds for incompetence and Kirk would be ejected from Starfleet. There is a computer record of Kirk's reaction, including a video, showing he did indeed act hastily, but...

Lt. Kirk's rise to Commander in Snw could spark resentment among fellow officers like Lt. Sam Kirk and Benjamin Finney. Snw has the chance to explore Finney's grudge against Kirk, setting up his role in Kirk's future court-martial in Tos. Finney's revenge plot against Kirk due to a past incident could play out in Snw season 3, impacting Kirk's career.

Star Trek: Strange New Worlds season 3 has an opportunity to set up the court-martial of Captain James T. Kirk (William Shatner) in Star Trek: The Original Series. Lt. James T. Kirk (Paul Wesley) is just about to become Commander aboard the USS Farragut, as part of his meteoric rise to the USS Enterprise's center seat. While Kirk's ambition and determination may impress his superiors, it does also create some resentment among his fellow officers. Even Lt. Sam Kirk (Dan Jeannotte) clearly harbored some resentment toward his brother's rise, rooted in his...

Starfleet is a peacekeeping organization dedicated to maintaining peace and order in space, but its officers sometimes face court-martial when conflicting moralities arise. Captain James T. Kirk, despite his commitment to Starfleet, has faced court-martial multiple times due to moral conflicts and greater loyalties. Kirk's court-martials included charges of culpable negligence, perjury, murder, conspiracy, assault, theft, sabotage, and disobeying orders, but he ultimately clears his name and remains dedicated to preserving peace and serving Starfleet.

Captain James T. Kirk is known for taking risks in Star Trek, but his circumvention of Starfleet regulations has occasionally resulted in Kirk facing a court-martial. Described in Star Trek (2009) as "a peacekeeping and humanitarian armada," a force for good, Starfleet Officers are held to a high standard of duty and honor while maintaining a hierarchical authority. With multiple instances of Starfleet Officers - and even Captains - facing court-martial throughout Star Trek’s half-century history,...

A sequel to the British holiday film Your Christmas Or Mine? has been greenlit at Amazon, with stars Asa Butterfield (Sex Education) and Cora Kirk (Prey for the Devil) signed on to return.

Titled Your Christmas Or Mine 2, the pic will hit Prime Video in December 2023. American actress Jane Krakowski (30 Rock) has joined the cast. Cast also returning from the first edition are Alex Jennings (The Crown), Daniel Mays (Fisherman’s Friends), David Bradley (Harry Potter series), Angela Griffin (White Lines), and Natalie Gumede (Titans).

Synopsis reads: It’s the most wonderful time of the year, but will it be for James and Hayley? James’ father has invited the Taylors to spend Christmas in a luxury ski resort in the Austrian Alps so they can meet his new American girlfriend (played by Jane Krakowski). However, Hayley’s dad Geoff insisted on handling his family’s side of the booking, and something got lost in translation.

Warning: This article contains Spoilers for Star Trek: Strange New Worlds Season 2, Episode 2, "Ad Astra per Aspera"Star Trek: Strange New Worlds season 2, episode 2, "Ad Astra per Aspera" joins the ranks of Star Trek's best courtroom dramas. There's a long tradition of the Starfleet courtroom drama that runs from Star Trek: The Original Series to Star Trek: Enterprise. Strange New Worlds resurrects the tradition for a stirring episode that puts Commander Una Chin-Riley (Rebecca Romijn) on trial for withholding information about her Illyrian heritage. It's also a powerful civil rights allegory, as Una's trial forces Starfleet to confront the lack of cultural nuance in the Federation's ban on genetic enhancements.

"Ad Astra per Aspera" is a courtroom drama in the vein of Star Trek: The Next Generation's undisputed classic of the form "The Measure of a Man", in which the sentience of Lt. Cmdr. Data (Brent Spiner) is called into question.

Star Trek: Strange New Worlds' Number One (Rebecca Romijn) begins season 2 facing a court-martial, something both Spock (Leonard Nimoy) and Captain James T. Kirk (William Shatner) faced in Star Trek: The Original Series season 1. As the two most famous Star Trek characters, Kirk and Spock have gone up against their fair share of difficulties. While they saved the galaxy multiple times over the course of Tos, they were not always in Starfleet's good graces. Spock would face a court-martial in Tos' two-part episode "The Menagerie," while Kirk would face one a few episodes later in "Court Martial."

Despite his reputation to the contrary, Captain Kirk mostly did what Starfleet asked him to do during Star Trek: The Original Series run. Spock, too, generally followed the rules. And yet, both characters face court-martials during their time serving on the USS Enterprise. In "The Menagerie," Spock does commit a court-martial offense, but...

Geordi La Forge (LeVar Burton) is the latest Star Trek character to be promoted to the role of Commodore, following in the footsteps of many Starfleet officers. The Commodore rank is one of many Naval terms adopted by Starfleet over the years, and Geordi is the first regular Trek character to be given the rank. A Commodore is placed between Captain and Rear Admiral in both the real-life Navy, and the fictional Starfleet, and is the most junior of the flag officer ranks.

In Naval terms, a Commodore is the officer in charge of more than one ship. As the officer in charge of the Athan Prime Fleet Museum, Geordi earned his Commodore rank because he's in charge of the various legendary starships housed in the museum's collection. While the Commodore rank is relatively rare in both the modern Navy, and the history of Starfleet, Geordi isn't the only character to hold the rank.

There have been five entries in the Jason Bourne franchise but which are the best Bourne movies of all? Adapted from the novels written by the late Robert Ludlum (and continued by Eric Van Lustbader), Jason Bourne is a deadly CIA assassin suffering from amnesia. Portrayed by Matt Damon in four feature films, Jason Bourne essentially gave audiences an American equivalent to James Bond and helped redefine action movies in the 21st century.

Director Doug Liman was tapped to helm the 2002 feature film adaptation of The Bourne Identity, with Damon as an unlikely choice to play the titular assassin. The movie's surprise success launched the franchise that saw Paul Greengrass take over for the next three movies with Damon starring while there was also a spinoff movie starring Jeremy Renner. Through its grounded take on the spy movie genre to its visceral action to the compelling new action hero the series introduces,...

The Jason Bourne movies only reveal Jason Bourne’s origin story in small details throughout the franchise, making this mysterious backstory tough to track down. The Jason Bourne series begins with 2002's The Bourne Identity, wherein Matt Damon plays the amnesiac spy Jason Bourne. At the beginning of the franchise, Bourne has no idea who he is or what happened to him in the past and his attempts to uncover the truth—and evade the CIA—make up the bulk of the action in The Bourne Identity and its sequels. By the third movie in the series, Bourne is finally starting to piece together his story, but viewers may need a refresher on the plot.

Jason Bourne’s backstory is revealed in full in Damon’s least favorite sequel, The Bourne Ultimatum. Even though the actor wasn’t a fan of this franchise outing, most critics and viewers agreed that...

With the release of Black Adam, fans have a great new movie in the Dcu to enjoy. Fans unfamiliar with the comic character were shocked by the plot twist towards the end of the movie regarding Black Adam and his past.

Plot twists are an important staple to movies, changing up what audiences know and hitting them with a surprise twist that no one saw coming. Generally speaking, plot twists tend to make a movie better. However, sometimes a plot twist just falls short of success and tends to make movies worse, and Redditors are more than happy to share their own personal worse plot twists.

The Superhero Killing Organization Glass

For many viewers, Glass was an underwhelming conclusion to the Unbreakable trilogy, partly due to the third act of the film and the plot twist it contained.

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Let’s shout our approval of this foursome of vintage noirs, all of which have been scarce since Eddie Muller was old enough to rob candy stores. Three Paramounts and one Universal give us four notable directors and a gallery of attractive stars, including a swoon-worthy array of actresses: Marta Toren, Loretta Young, Susan Hayward, Gail Russell, Frances Farmer and Marina Berti. The selection includes one of the key ‘just prior to the official style’ titles, a thriller with supernatural overtones, a ‘woman in jeopardy’ story and a gangster tale reportedly inspired by Lucky Luciano.

Kino Noir Times Four

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Among the Living, Night Has a Thousand Eyes, The Accused, Deported

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1941-1950 / B&W / 1:37 Academy / Street Date November 16, 2021 / available through Kino Lorber / Separate Purchases / 24.95 each

Starring: Albert Dekker, Susan Hayward; Edward G. Robinson, Gail Russell; Loretta Young, Robert Cummings, Wendell Corey; Jeff Chandler, Marta Toren.

Directed by Stuart Heisler,...

Hollywood acknowledges the existence of America’s proto- C.I.A. intelligence agency with this espionage tale of Yanks working with the resistance in occupied France. It’s basic cloak ‘n’ dagger action, with intrepid Alan Ladd and the daring Geraldine Fitzgerald risking life and limb to plant plastic explosive bombs. The details are fairly interesting: Ladd outwits the Gestapo by working with a turncoat inside their ranks. The outcome is grimly realistic, even if that old Paramount glamour is part of the package. The writer-producer is Richard Maibaum, who would later write almost thirty years’ worth of franchise James Bond 007 adventures.

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1946 / B&w / 1:37 Academy / 108 min. / Street Date August 10, 2021 / available through Kino Lorber / 24.95

Starring: Alan Ladd, Geraldine Fitzgerald, Patric Knowles, John Hoyt, Gloria Saunders, Richard Webb, Richard Benedict, Harold Vermilyea, Don Beddoe, Onslow Stevens, Gavin Muir, Egon Brecher, Joseph Crehan, Bobby Driscoll, Julia Dean,...

Exclusive: At today’s year-end virtual meeting, WME minted its largest partner class ever.

The agency named 25 new partners, spanning a variety of WME departments and offices. WME also announced internally that compensation is being fully restored, across the entirety of Endeavor, starting January 1. Pay reductions came into play in April, after the Covid pandemic shut down theaters, film and TV production and live events, placing financial strain on every agency’s cash flow.

The agency confirmed the news to Deadline.

“We are proud to recognize our new partners who come from many different groups throughout WME but each share the same common threads: They are passionate advocates for artists, take an entrepreneurial approach to their business and have distinguished themselves as leaders both within and outside the agency,” said Lloyd Braun, Endeavor Client Group President and Chairman of WME. “As our industry undergoes unprecedented changes, the different perspectives of...

Wme has hired two new agents in its digital department that will be exclusively focused on supercharging its gaming efforts. 

The new agents are Conor Beesemyer and Richard Webb, The Hollywood Reporter reports, both whom formerly worked at leading esports organization FaZe Clan. Beesemyer served as a talent manager -- and later partnerships manager -- at FaZe, while Webb formerly served as the VP of sales.

At Wme, both agents will seek to identify new gaming talent -- including content creators and digitally-focused companies -- with whom Wme can partner. Beesemyer and Webb will report to Wme digital co-heads Chris Jacquemin and Jad Dayeh. Prior to joining FaZe Clan, Beesemyer had worked in business development at ad company Kiosked, while Webb spent a decade at Major League Gaming.

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“Truth Seekers,” starring Nick Frost and Simon Pegg as paranormal investigators, will bow on Amazon Prime Video, which has landed international rights to the comedy-horror series and will launch it as an original. The project is the first series from its stars’ Sony-backed production company, Stolen Picture.

Frost and Pegg’s characters, Gus and Dave, team up to uncover and film paranormal sightings across the U.K. in the series. They stake out haunted churches, underground bunkers, and abandoned hospitals using an array of homemade ghost-detecting gizmos and share their adventures on an online channel. Their supernatural experiences grow more frequent, terrifying, and even deadly as the pair begin to uncover a conspiracy that could threaten the entire human race.

Frost, Pegg, and Miles Ketley formed London-based shingle in 2017 and set “Truth Seekers” as an early television project. “Simon, Miles and I, and everyone at Stolen Picture, are incredibly...

All hail Olivia de Havilland, America’s longest living movie star. The more de Havilland pictures we see, the more we admire her taste and judgment in roles… or is that better expressed as, the more we admire her ability to guide a near-perfect career, going so far as to defy the studios in court. This 1941 drama has director Mitchell Leisen in fine form, a smart script by Brackett & Wilder, and a central topic that’s currently quite hot: illegal immigration.

Hold Back the Dawn

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1941 / B&w / 1:37 Academy / 116 min. / Street Date July 16, 2019 / 39.95

Starring: Charles Boyer, Olivia de Havilland, Paulette Goddard, Victor Francen, Walter Abel, Curt Bois, Rosemary DeCamp, Nestor Paiva, Eva Puig, Micheline Cheirel, Madeleine Lebeau, Mikhail Rasumny, Charles Arnt, Mitchell Leisen, Brian Donlevy, Kitty Kelly, Veronica Lake, Carlos Villarías, Richard Webb.

Cinematography: Leo Tover

Film Editor: Doane Harrison

Original Music: Victor Young

Written by Charles Brackett,...

Happy Monday "Grey's Anatomy" fans. We've got a couple of very interesting season 15, storyline spoiler scoops for you guys in this new report. Apparently, the folks over at Entertainment Tonight got to chat with a couple of the main stars from Grey's Anatomy: Kim Raver aka Teddy Altman, Kelly McCreary aka Maggie Pierce, Kevin McKidd aka Owen Hunt, Camilla Luddington aka Jo Wilson and James Pickens Jr.aka Richard Webb. They all dished out some pretty major scoops for their respective characters in the upcoming season 15. First up, was Kim Raver who plays character Teddy Altman on the show. She revealed that her love triangle with Owen and Amelia is definitely going to complicated. However, there will also be some funny thrown into the mix. She stated, "Season fifteen! There's some big news. I think everyone saw the finale and knows that Teddy is pregnant! That leads to a really kind of amazing,...

Years after Steve McQueen’s character helped stop the Blob from absorbing an entire small town, the gelatinous terror returned to ooze eerily in Beware! The Blob (aka Son of Blob) Earlier this year, Kino Lorber announced that they were releasing the 1972 sequel on Blu-ray and DVD, and now they have revealed the debut date, cover art, and special features for the home media release.

From Kino Lorber: “Coming September 20th on Blu-ray and DVD!

Brand New 2016 HD Master!

Beware! The Blob (1972) aka Son of Blob!

Special Features:

Audio Commentary by Film Historian Richard Harland Smith Alternate Title Sequence Trailers”

Beware! The Blob stars Robert Walker Jr., Gwynne Gilford, Godfrey Cambridge, Carol Lynley, Larry Hagman, Dick Van Patten, Shelley Berman, Gerrit Graham, Richard Stahl, Richard Webb, Sig Haig, and Burgess Meredith. The sequel was directed by Larry Hagman from a screenplay by Anthony Harris and Jack Woods. For those unfamiliar with the film,...

Following the debut of Irvin Yeaworth Jr.'s The Blob in 1958, filmgoers were safe from its absorbent wrath until Beware! The Blob (aka Son of Blob) invaded the big screen in 1972. Now Kino Lorber is looking to bring the oozing menace into living rooms with their newly announced Blu-ray and DVD release of The Blob sequel.

Kino Lorber revealed today that they will release Beware! The Blob on Blu-ray and DVD sometime in 2016. The enhanced release will benefit from a new HD master. No special features are known at this time, but we'll keep Daily Dead readers updated on further announcements.

Beware! The Blob stars Robert Walker Jr., Gwynne Gilford, Godfrey Cambridge, Carol Lynley, Larry Hagman, Dick Van Patten, Shelley Berman, Gerrit Graham, Richard Stahl, Richard Webb, Sig Haig, and Burgess Meredith. The sequel was directed by Larry Hagman from a screenplay by Anthony Harris and Jack Woods. For those unfamiliar with the film,...

Welcome to the weird, irresistible world of Republic Serials, an art form with rules of content and conduct that have no resemblance to other movies, or any reality we know. "The Phantom Ruler" has plans for world conquest, so get ready for a punch-out every five minutes and a terrific Lydecker miniature special effect in almost every episode. Richard Webb and Aline Towne star, but we love the bad guys, because they try so hard and fail so consistently. The Invisible Monster Blu-ray Olive Films 1950 / B&W / 1:37 flat Academy / 167 min. / Street Date September 22, 2015 / available through the Olive Films website / 29.95 Starring Richard Webb, Aline Towne, Lane Bradford, Stanley Price, John Crawford, George Meeker. Cinematography Ellis W. Carter Film Editor Cliff Hanger, Justin Thyme (as Cliff Bell & Sam Star) Original Music Stanley Wilson Written by Ronald Davidson Produced by Franklin Adreon Directed by Fred C. Bannon  

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Pioneering woman director Lois Weber socially conscious drama 'Shoes' among Library of Congress' Packard Theater movies (photo: Mary MacLaren in 'Shoes') In February 2015, National Film Registry titles will be showcased at the Library of Congress' Packard Campus Theater – aka the Packard Campus for Audio Visual Conservation – in Culpeper, Virginia. These range from pioneering woman director Lois Weber's socially conscious 1916 drama Shoes to Robert Zemeckis' 1985 blockbuster Back to the Future. Another Packard Theater highlight next month is Sam Peckinpah's ultra-violent Western The Wild Bunch (1969), starring William Holden and Ernest Borgnine. Also, Howard Hawks' "anti-High Noon" Western Rio Bravo (1959), toplining John Wayne and Dean Martin. And George Cukor's costly remake of A Star Is Born (1954), featuring Academy Award nominees Judy Garland and James Mason in the old Janet Gaynor and Fredric March roles. There's more: Jeff Bridges delivers a colorful performance in...

Blu-ray & DVD Release Date: Nov. 11, 2014

Price: DVD $24.95, Blu-ray $29.95

Studio: Olive Films

John Agar (l.) and John Wayne star in Sands of Iwo Jima

John Wayne (True Grit, Red River) did a bunch of war movies, but he garnered a 1949 Best Actor Academy Award nomination for his iconic role as the battle-hardened leader of a squad of recruits in Allan Dwan’s classic war film Sands of Iwo Jima, which makes its Blu-ray debut from Olive Films.

Haunted by his personal demons, Marine Sgt. John Stryker (Wayne) is both hated and feared by his men, who see him as a cold-hearted sadist. But when their boots hit the beaches, they begin to understand the reason for Stryker’s rigid form of discipline, as he leads them into one of the most treacherous battles in the Pacific.

Co-starring John Agar, Forrrest Tucker, Richard Webb and Richard Jaeckel, Sands of Iwo Jima remains...