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British actress Shirley Anne Field, known for her roles in 1960s classic movies Saturday Night and Sunday Morning and Alfie, and her stint on the NBC soap Santa Barbara, passed away on Sunday, December 10. Her family confirmed her death was due to “natural causes” in a statement to the BBC. She was 87. “It is with great sadness that we are sharing the news that Shirley Anne Field passed away peacefully on Sunday… surrounded by her family and friends,” a spokesperson announced. “Shirley Anne will be greatly missed and remembered for her unbreakable spirit and her amazing legacy spanning more than five decades on stage and screen.” Field, born on June 27, 1936, in the Forest Gate district of East London, initially embarked on a career as a model in the early 1950s. By the mid-1950s, she transitioned to acting and appeared in films such as Loser Takes All and It’s A Wonderful World,...

British actor Shirley Anne Field, whose long career included memorable performances in such 1960s classic Angry Young Men genre dramas as Saturday Night and Sunday Morning and Alfie — as well as a pivotal, several-month stint on the NBC soap Santa Barbara — died Sunday, Dec. 10, of natural causes. She was 87.

Her family announced her passing In a statement to the BBC. “It is with great sadness that we are sharing the news that Shirley Anne Field passed away peacefully on Sunday… surrounded by her family and friends. Shirley Anne will be greatly missed and remembered for her unbreakable spirit and her amazing legacy spanning more than five decades on stage and screen.”

Shirley Anne Field, Albert Finney, ‘Saturday Night And Sunday Morning’ (1960)

Born June 27, 1936, in the Forest Gate district of East London, Field began working as a model in the early 1950, moving into acting by the middle of the decade with...

Denis O’Dell, the British film producer whose association with The Beatles earned him the rare honor of being mentioned, if obliquely, in one of the group’s songs, died of natural causes at his home in Spain last night. He was 98.

His death was announced to the Associated Press in Lisbon, Portugal, by son Arran O’Dell.

O’Dell had worked on a number of films, including It’s A Wonderful World, Tread Softly Stranger (both 1958) and The Playboy of the Western World (1962) when he signed on as associate producer of A Hard Day’s Night in 1964, beginning an association with The Beatles that would return to public attention with the 2021 Peter Jackson-directed Disney+ documentary series The Beatles: Get Back. (O’Dell is the one who loaned the group Twickenham Studios for their planned TV special.)

Following A Hard Day’s Night, O’Dell worked with John Lennon as an associate producer...

After Wednesday's group rounds, which decimated the field of Idol wannabes, the boys last night had one more chance to sing for their suppers and prove that they are live-show ready. While all the judges (except Nicki) slept through the proceedings, a few people did well, but no incredible standouts emerged.

In fact, the most interesting thing to happen last night was more of a subtle shift for Idol, which eliminated many of the contestants with interesting or tragic backstories. Those set adrift by the panel of judges last night...

It's a wonderful world that we live in, I tell ya! The Ring hits Blu-ray, The Loved Ones comes to the U.S., Cabin in the Woods and [Rec] 3: Genesis are having their premieres tonight at SXSW, and now more goodies have come in for Frankenstein's Army!

From the Press Release

Closing out its first week of principal photography in the ancient village of Karlovy Vary, Czech Republic, Mpi Media Group and Xyz Films proudly announce the central cast of Frankenstein’S Army, an international gathering with European talent hailing from The UK, Russia, and Czech Republic.

The hotly anticipated action/horror film, set toward the end of World War II, stars Alexander Mercury (The Golden Compass), Joshua Sasse (The Big I Am), Luke Newberry (The Heart of Me), Andrei Zayats (X-Men: First Class), Mark Stevenson (The Last Horror Movie), Hon Ping Tang (The Fifth Element), Cristina Catalina (Eastern Promises...

In support of the upcoming Journey 2: The Mysterious Island, Warner Bros. has created this little behind-the-scenes video of Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson recording his version of "It's A Wonderful World" for what looks to be a campfire scene in the film. Johnson not only sings a sweet tune, but he also plays his own ukulele while doing it, proving he can do more than be a badass. Journey 2: The Mysterious Island hits theaters February 10th. Synopsis: In this follow-up to the 2008 worldwide hit "Journey to the Center of the Earth," the new 3D family adventure "Journey 2: The Mysterious Island" begins when young Sean Anderson (Josh Hutcherson, reprising his role from the first film) receives a coded distress signal from a...

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The Yorkshire landscape steals the show in Andrea Arnold's stark, uneasy adaptation of Emily Brontë's tragic romance

In the version of Cole Porter's "Let's Do It" that he used in his Las Vegas nightclub act in the 1950s, Noël Coward included a celebrated couplet that threw doubts on the much vaunted sexual prowess of America's most macho author while extolling the adventurousness of a 19th-century English country vicar's three daughters. "The Brontës felt that they must do it, Ernest Hemingway could just do it," he sang, and indeed the range of social, psychological and sexual experience Emily, Charlotte and Anne explored in their novels is remarkable. So much so that only one of the several film versions of Emily's Wuthering Heights made over the past 90 years has attempted to encompass the book's 30-odd years of pain, misery and ecstasy and its three generations of man handing on...

Those of you hoping to ease back into "Sons of Anarchy" with the Season 4 premiere are A) probably disappointed and B) probably watching the wrong show.

Fourteen months have passed in "Soa" time since the end of last season, but there's next to no looking back in the jam-packed 90-minute premiere. By the end of the episode at least three major story lines are in play, and it feels as if we're in for a relentless season.

The season opens with Samcro being released from prison after just over a year and returning to a Charming that's starting to look a lot different than the one they left. Before they even reach town, the club passes a sign for a new, upscale subdivision, and when they do arrive, they discover that the county sheriff has taken over law enforcement in town, and the lieutenant in charge of patrolling Charming (Rockmond Dunbar...

Clark Gable, Claudette Colbert, It Happened One Night Claudette Colbert on TCM: Boom Town, Parrish, Midnight, Outpost In Malaya Schedule (Et) and synopses from the TCM website: 6:00 Am Boom Town (1940) Friends become rivals when they strike-it-rich in oil. Dir: Jack Conway. Cast: Clark Gable, Spencer Tracy, Claudette Colbert. Bw-119 mins. 8:00 Am The Secret Heart (1946) A recent widow tries to help her emotionally disturbed stepdaughter. Dir: Robert Z. Leonard. Cast: Claudette Colbert, Walter Pidgeon, June Allyson. Bw-97 mins. 10:00 Am The Secret Fury (1950) A mysterious figure tries to stop a woman's marriage by driving her mad. Dir: Mel Ferrer. Cast: Claudette Colbert, Robert Ryan, Jane Cowl. Bw-86 mins. 11:30 Am Three Came Home (1950) A woman fights to survive as a prisoner of the Japanese during World War II. Dir: Jean Negulesco. Cast: Claudette Colbert, Patric Knowles, Florence Desmond. Bw-105 mins. 1:30 Pm Parrish (1961) When his mother marries into the tobacco business,...

Mostly a Paramount star, Claudette Colbert hasn't been a frequent presence on Turner Classic Movies — that is, apart from reruns of her relatively few movies at MGM, Warner Bros., and Rko. Unfortunately, TCM's "Summer Under the Stars" day dedicated to Colbert — Friday, August 12 — won't rectify that glaring cinematic omission. [Claudette Colbert Movie Schedule.] Despite the fact that dozens of Claudette Colbert movies remain unavailable — thanks to Universal, owner of the old Paramount movie library — TCM is only presenting one Colbert premiere, Ken Annakin's British-made 1952 drama The Planter's Wife / Outpost in Malaya, co-starring Jack Hawkins. Of course, one rarely seen movie is better than none, but still… Think The Wiser Sex, The Lady Lies, Manslaughter, Young Man of Manhattan, The Phantom President (in case it's lying in some vault somewhere), The Man from Yesterday, Misleading Lady, His Woman, Zaza, Secrets of a Secretary, I Met Him in Paris, Texas Lady, Practically Yours, Skylark, Private Worlds,...

If you're a fan of Nicolas Cage's crazy antics, jaw-dropping violence, fast cars and other assorted forms of purely visceral entertainment, then you have to see "Drive Angry."

Cage stars in Patrick Lussier's hell-driven 3-D revenge flick as John Milton, a bleached-blonde badass with nothing but a focused goal and a bag of guns to his name. Milton is searching for Jonah King (Billy Burke), a dangerous Satan worshipper who murdered his daughter and kidnapped her baby with the intention of sacrificing her to the forces of Hell. Milton's relentless vengeance quest is assisted by the beautiful and tough-as-nails Piper (Amber Heard) and hindered by The Accountant (William Fichtner), one of the devil's closest advisors.

For adrenaline junkies and Cage enthusiasts, "Drive Angry" is a must-see. Period, end of discussion, no excuses. But if you need further convincing, click past the jump for five reasons you need to see this film.

Entertainment Weekly intern Vlada Gelman is covering the Paley Fest for The Ausiello Files. Here's her report from last night's sold-out Lost panel. Status Check: The Lost writers are in the process of breaking the series finale, which will be penned by Damon Lindelof and Carlton Cuse and directed by Jack Bender. The penultimate episode will be written by producer/writers (and fellow panelists) Elizabeth Sarnoff, Eddy Kitsis and Adam Horowitz. Meanwhile, on the island, Bender has just wrapped episode 14 and is currently shooting 15. It's like Top Chef: No, seriously. Lindelof, who said they're big fans of the Bravo reality series,...

Jaime Pressly never wanted to tie the knot. But a girl can change her mind. A mere four months after the Emmy winner, who plays trailer-queen Joy Turner on NBC's My Name is Earl, met entertainment lawyer Simran Singh, Pressly was sailing down the aisle, dressed in a Caroline Herrera embroidered tulle gown, aglow with diamonds and pearls. Witnessing the picture-postcard September wedding on a Malibu bluff overlooking the Pacific - where the bride danced with her father to Louis Armstong's "It's a Wonderful World" - were 200 guests. Now others may get a glimpse at the nuptials, in the winter 2010 issue of InStyle Weddings.