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In 1975, George Kennedy starred in an unusual revenge thriller in which AI was used to catch the bad guys. A look back at The ‘Human’ Factor:

Revenge films and vigilantes were all over the place in the 1970s, whether it was Charles Bronson’s Paul Kersey gunning down crooks in Death Wish (1974) or Robert De Niro’s Travis Bickle going on a rampage in Taxi Driver (1976). One of the more unusual thrillers of its type from the era, though, was The ‘Human’ Factor from 1975. For one thing, there’s its high-tech premise, in which George Kennedy’s protagonist uses cutting-edge technology to track down his enemies.

Kennedy plays John Kinsdale, a middle-aged, American computer expert stationed in Naples. Each day, he says goodbye to his picture-perfect Nuclear family – wife, two sons, a daughter with an outsized clown doll – and drives to his workplace at a nearby NATO base. There,...

Humphrey Bogart was an iconic actor in Hollywood history who starred in several war movies. Some of his best war films include "Body and Soul," "Battle Circus," "Action in the North Atlantic," "Passage to Marseille," "Across the Pacific," "Sahara," "The Caine Mutiny," and "To Have and to Have Not." Bogart's performances in these war movies showcased his ability to embody a brooding, charismatic, and compelling leading men.

Humphrey Bogart was among the greatest actors who ever lived and starred in several fantastic war movies across his acclaimed career. Although Bogart made a name for himself in gangster movies, film noirs, and adventures, there were plenty of other times he took the battlefield, sailed the seven seas in the Navy, or commanded soldiers as a high-level official. These performances paired Bogart with legendary directors like John Huston, Howard Hawks, and Michael Curtiz and even included his very first movie with...

Amazon Prime Video is the place to go for movies this month, with a plethora of original films as well as new library additions for just about every movie fan. The Emma Roberts-led original Space Cadet hits the streaming service aptly on the Fourth of July, for anyone looking for a fish-out-of-water style comedy. My Spy the Eternal City, the newest film in the Dave Bautista-led family action series also drops on July 18.

Action film fans are also in for a treat with recent films The Beekeeper and Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning coming to Prime Video in July.

As far as TV shows go, the most notable addition this month is the adult animated series Sausage Party: Foodtopia, a continuation of the 2016 film Sausage Party.

Here’s everything coming to Prime Video and Freevee in July – Amazon originals are designated with an asterisk.

New on Amazon Prime Video...

Exclusive: Republic Pictures has snagged two more movies, taking global rights to Saoirse Ronan-starrer Bad Apples and international rights to horror rom-com Heart Eyes.

Paramount revived the historic label in 2023 with a remit to acquire third-party fare. Paramount’s Chief Content Licensing Officer, Dan Cohen, is also President of Republic Pictures. He shared the news of its latest acquisitions with Deadline and broke down the strategy at Republic ahead of his keynote at the Monte Carlo TV Festival.

Bad Apples is a satirical comedy with thriller elements. Republic Pictures acquired the Pulse Films-produced movie from HanWay Films. Saoirse Ronan stars as a teacher who accidentally locks the titular bad apple – a badly-behaved student – in her basement, with comedic and dramatic consequences. Based on Rasmus Lindgren’s novel De Oönskade, Jonatan Etzler directs from Jess O’Kane’s script.

“I really want films that I believe can have some theatrical life internationally,...

At the 27th Academy Awards, Oscar helped Edmond O’Brien win an Oscar.

O’Brien played sleazy show biz publicist Oscar Muldoon in 1954’s “The Barefoot Contessa,” which starred Humphrey Bogart and Ava Gardner. Bogart had been crowned Best Actor of 1951 for “The African Queen,” and had also contended for the same award for 1943’s Best Picture, “Casablanca.” Gardner was coming off of her first and only nomination, for Best Actress in 1953’s “Mogambo.” “The Barefoot Contessa” was written and directed by Academy favorite Joseph L. Mankiewicz, who had won back-to-back Best Director and Best Adapted Screenplay Oscars for 1949’s “A Letter to Three Wives” and 1950’s Best Picture, “All About Eve.”

”The Barefoot Contessa” didn’t fare quite as well at the Oscars as “Letter” or “Eve.” Neither Bogart or Gardner received nominations, though Bogart was cited for his role in that same year’s Best Picture entry “The Caine Mutiny.

Having trouble predicting what will win Best TV Movie at the upcoming Emmy Awards? Let’s consult Gold Derby’s 2024 Emmy Experts! These savvy pundits from major media outlets have chimed in with their predictions, and the majority of them believe the trophy will go to Peacock’s “Mr. Monk’s Last Case.” The other potential nominees, per our current racetrack odds, are Prime Video’s “Red, White & Royal Blue,” Hulu’s “Quiz Lady,” Showtime’s “The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial” and Netflix’s “Unfrosted.”

As of this writing, 11 out of our 16 Emmy Experts predict a victory for “Mr. Monk’s Last Case”: Ben Travers (Indiewire), Christopher Rosen (Gold Derby), Jazz Tangcay (Variety), Joyce Eng (Gold Derby), Keith Simanton (IMDb), Kelly Lawler (USA Today), Matt Roush (TV Guide Magazine), Ray Richmond (Gold Derby), Susan King (Gold Derby), Thelma Adams (Gold Derby) and Wilson Morales (BlackFilmandTV). Tony Shalhoub reprises his three-time Emmy-winning...

The passing of William Friedkin last August put a cloud over what ended up being his final film, The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial. At the same time, it predsented an opportunity to celebrate the legendary director, whether it’s from his fans or those he has worked with. Now, the star of the film, Keifer Sutherland, remembers just how special it was for him to collaborate with Friedkin.

Speaking at a recent panel, Keifer Sutherland spoke highly of the late William Friedkin, saying that seeing 1971’s The French Connection on the big screen as a teen had a tremendous influence on his appreciation for cinema and the craft of acting. “William Freakin was responsible for me…I was working as a theater actor – I was only 15, 16 years old in Toronto, Canada. My mother was a great theater actor. It’s the community I grew up in and I was very dedicated to.

What do "Happy Days" and "M*A*S*H" have in common? Well, for one thing, they're both era-defining TV shows of the 1970s that took place in the 1950s. "M*A*S*H" was set during the Korean War (even if its satirical target was the more recent Vietnam War), which unfolded from 1950 to 1953. It's a well-known joke that thanks to its 11-season run (1972 to 1983), the series lasted longer than the war it was set in.

That's not the only historical incongruity in "M*A*S*H" — there's a small but telling one in season 4, episode 21, "The Novocaine Mutiny," as first noted in "TV's M*A*S*H: The Ultimate Guide Book" by Ed Solomonson and Mark O'Neill. In this episode, Major Frank Burns (Larry Linville) is left in command and predictably behaves like a tyrant. He begins searching officers' quarters for "stolen" (actually gambled) money. When he gets to Radar's (Gary Burghoff) office,...

Welcome to The B-Side, from The Film Stage. Here – today – we talk about movie Editors! Not the movies they edited that were legendary but the less legendary ones in between.

Today we speak with the great editor Darrin Navarro about the lauded editor Sam O’Steen, who worked on such masterpieces as The Graduate, Rosemary’s Baby, and Chinatown. The O’Steen-edited films we cover today are: The Day of the Dolphin, Straight Time, Nadine, and A Dry White Season.

Navarro talks about the editing process with William Friedkin (and how it changed a bit with The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial), how knowing when not to cut is as important as knowing when to cut when editing a film, O’Steen’s essential book Cut to the Chase: Forty-Five Years of Editing America’s Favourite Movies (written with his wife Bobbie O’Steen), and what a gem of a film Nadine is.

Highlights include...

Casey Kramer, the longtime actress and daughter of legendary director Stanley Kramer died on December 24, according to her sister Kat Kramer. She was 67.

Casey Kramer’s film and TV career spanned four decades, consisting of mostly smaller parts on shows like Falcon Crest, McBride, Criminal Minds, Dexter, Southland, The Young and the Restless, Transparent, Behind the Candelabra, Lethal Weapon and Baskets.

Her filmography begins with her father’s final film, The Runner Stumbles in 1979, which starred Dick Van Dyke and Kathleen Quinlan and featured sister Kat, as well. Her more recent films include Mississippi Requiem in 2018 and 2020’s Darkness in Tenement 45.

Her mother, Anne P. Kramer, was her father’s second wife. They were married from 1950 until their 1963, when they divorced.

During that time Stanley Kramer directed The Defiant Ones, On the Beach, Inherit the Wind, Judgement at Nuremberg and It’s a Mad, Mad, Mad Mad World. His other films include Ship Of Fools,...

Casey Kramer, an actress and the oldest daughter of late producer-director Stanley Kramer, died on Christmas Eve of natural causes at her home in Chicago, her sister Kat Kramer announced. She was 67.

A longtime member of The Actors Studio, Casey Kramer made her big-screen debut in the Dick Van Dyke-starring The Runner Stumbles (1979), directed by her dad.

She went on to appear on television on Falcon Crest, Criminal Minds, The Young and the Restless, Dexter, Southland, Behind the Candelabra, Transparent and Baskets and in the recent films Mississippi Requiem (2018) and Darkness in Tenement 45 (2020).

She also was active in Los Angeles theater as an actress and director.

Casey Lise Kramer was born in Los Angeles on Dec. 28, 1955. Her mother was the late Anne Pearce, a writer and film executive who was Stanley’s second wife. They were married from 1950 until their 1963 divorce.

Stanley Kramer, the nine-time Oscar nominee and Irving...

As we close the book on 2023 and take stock of the best that this year delivered in movies and TV, let's not forget the bad guys. Villains are paradoxical characters; we love them precisely for how bad they can be, and if a story invests you in its villain, you can be cheering in equal measure as they rise and then as they fall. And then, of course, there's the sons of b*tches you just really want to see go down.

"Best villains" sounds similarly oxymoronic. So, why are these villains the ones who deserve the highlight? These are the bad guys who are not just wholly formed and compelling in their own right, but who further the themes of the story surrounding them and best challenge both the hero's goals and the writer's point(s). Stories are a reflection of the world in which they are told, so...

Nominations for the 29th annual Critics Choice Awards were revealed Tuesday morning, and there were some surprises.

The Morning Show Season 3 towers above the competition with the most nominations, netting six total.

It is closely followed by Succession, which managed five.

Abbott Elementary (ABC), The Bear (FX), Beef (Netflix), Lessons In Chemistry (Apple TV+), Loki (Disney+), Reservation Dogs (FX), and A Small Light (National Geographic) scored four nods apiece.

All told, take a look at the complete list of nominations below.

Best Drama Series

The Crown (Netflix)

The Diplomat (Netflix)

The Last of Us (HBO | Max)

Loki (Disney+)

The Morning Show (Apple TV+)

Star Trek: Strange New Worlds (Paramount+)

Succession (HBO | Max)

Winning Time: The Rise of the Lakers Dynasty (HBO | Max)

Best Actor In A Drama Series

Kieran Culkin – Succession (HBO | Max)

Tom Hiddleston – Loki (Disney+)

Timothy Olyphant – Justified: City Primeval (FX)

Pedro Pascal – The Last of Us (HBO...

"The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial" is a new Showtime legal drama feature, directed by the late William Friedkin ("The Exorcist"), based on Herman Wouk's 1952 novel "The Caine Mutiny", starring Kiefer Sutherland, Jason Clarke, Jake Lacy, Monica Raymund and Lance Reddick, now streaming on Paramount+:

"...when a 'US Naval Captain' shows signs of mental instability that jeopardizes the safety of his ship, the first officer relieves him of command and faces court-martial for mutiny. 

"'Greenwald', a skeptic lawyer, reluctantly defends 'Maryk', an officer of the navy who took control of the vessel from its dominant 'Captain Queeg' while caught in a violent sea storm. 

"Greenwald becomes increasingly concerned as the court martial proceeds and questions if the 'Caine' was a true mutiny or simply the courageous acts of a group of sailors that could not trust their unstable leader..."

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The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial is a heartfelt homage and the final movie from director William Friedkin, who passed away in August 2023. Based on Herman Wouk's book and adapted from the play, this World War II drama explores the consequences of a mutiny in the Navy. The film is a must-see for fans of Friedkin and lovers of compelling stories about institutions, power, and responsibility.

The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial is a remake, an homage, and a farewell at the same time. Based on Herman Wouk's 1952 novel and 1953 play of the same name, the World War II drama explores the aftermath of a mutiny spurred on by the erratic actions of a Navy commander, in which the careers and lives of the sailors who performed the act are in question. It’s The Exorcist director William Friedkin’s final movie, as he passed away in August 2023, while also being a posthumous...

The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial is a legal war drama film written and directed by William Friedkin. The Showtime film is based on Herman Wouk‘s 1952 play named The Caine Mutiny, which was based on Wouk’s book of the same name. The film revolves around a trial against a naval officer who is accused of mutiny. The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial stars Kiefer Sutherland, Jason Clarke, and Jake Lacy. So, if you love the film here are some similar shows you could watch next.

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Synopsis: Tom Cruise, Jack Nicholson and Demi Moore star in Rob Reiner’s unanimously acclaimed drama about the dangerous difference between following orders and following one’s conscience. Cruise stars as a brash Navy lawyer who’s teamed with a gung-ho litigator (Moore) in a politically explosive murder case. Charged with defending two Marines accused of killing a fellow soldier,...

"The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial" is a new legal drama feature, directed by the late William Friedkin ("The Exorcist"), based on Herman Wouk's 1952 novel "The Caine Mutiny", starring Kiefer Sutherland, Jason Clarke, Jake Lacy, Monica Raymund and Lance Reddick, now streaming on Paramount+:

"...when a 'US Naval Captain' shows signs of mental instability that jeopardizes the safety of his ship, the first officer relieves him of command and faces court-martial for mutiny. 

"'Greenwald', a skeptic lawyer, reluctantly defends 'Maryk', an officer of the navy who took control of the vessel from its dominant 'Captain Queeg' while caught in a violent sea storm. 

"Greenwald becomes increasingly concerned as the court martial proceeds and questions if the 'Caine' was a true mutiny or simply the courageous acts of a group of sailors that could not trust their unstable leader..."

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If you want to know the particulars of why the crew of the USS Caine minesweeper turned on its captain, Lt. Cmdr. Philip Francis Queeg, seek out the 1954 film version of The Caine Mutiny, starring Humphrey Bogart in one of his defining roles, the next time it shows up on Turner Classic Movies. For now, TV returns to Herman Wouk’s stage adaptation of his 1951 novel, a classic courtroom drama first shown live as part of Ford Star Jubilee in 1955, with an Emmy-winning Lloyd Nolan reprising his Broadway role as Queeg. Director Robert Altman filmed it for TV in 1988, with Brad Davis as Queeg, and Showtime‘s new version, The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial, is of special interest as the final film directed by Oscar winner William Friedkin. Though not particularly flashy, Friedkin’s camera glides with purposeful restraint, keeping the focus on the combatants in a story that has been...

News that William Friedkin’s final film, “The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial,” would be released on Showtime after premiering at the Venice Film Festival was met with widespread disappointment from cinephiles. After forging an unimpeachable Hollywood legacy that included “The Exorcist,” “The French Connection,” and “Sorcerer,” the consensus was that the late director had more than earned a theatrical release for his curtain call.

It was an understandable sentiment, as we’re all occasionally tempted to fantasize about a world where mid-budget adult dramas are a viable box office draw. But the one-two punch of a prestigious festival bow followed by Sunday night pay cable glory feels like the most authentic distribution model that this film could possibly merit. Because at its core, it’s a made-for-tv movie in every sense of the word.

Yes, “The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial” is the work of an auteur who expanded our perception of the...

Plot: A Naval officer (Jake Lacy) is on trial for mutiny. His court-appointed attorney (Jason Clarke) must prove that his captain (Kiefer Sutherland) was dangerously unbalanced and that mutiny was the only solution to protect the crew.

Review: The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial is an interesting final film for the late William Friedkin. While most know him for his seventies epics, having directed at least three or four of the greatest films ever made, many don’t know that he started his career with a couple of films based on stage plays: The Birthday Party and The Boys in the Band. His most recent work, Bug and Killer Joe, were also stage adaptations (of works by Tracy Letts), but The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial is more traditionally mounted than those. This is basically a stage play put to film, with no exteriors, no music and only two sets.

The play was written...

"The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial" is a new legal drama feature, directed by the late William Friedkin ("The Exorcist"), based on Herman Wouk's 1952 novel "The Caine Mutiny", starring Kiefer Sutherland, Jason Clarke, Jake Lacy, Monica Raymund and Lance Reddick, streaming October 6, 2023 on Paramount+:

"...when a 'US Naval Captain' shows signs of mental instability that jeopardizes the safety of his ship, the first officer relieves him of command and faces court-martial for mutiny. 

"'Greenwald', a skeptic lawyer, reluctantly defends 'Maryk', an officer of the navy who took control of the vessel from its dominant 'Captain Queeg' while caught in a violent sea storm. 

"Greenwald becomes increasingly concerned as the court martial proceeds and questions if the 'Caine' was a true mutiny or simply the courageous acts of a group of sailors that could not trust their unstable leader..."

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The modest aims of director William Friedkin’s final film, The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial, are evident from the start. The film is an adaptation of Herman Wouk’s 1954 two-act play of the same name, which the author adapted from his Pulitzer Prize-winning 1951 novel The Caine Mutiny. And both Wouk’s play and Friedkin’s film jettison the book’s maritime actions to focus solely on the military tribunal that results from it.

That means that nearly the entire film takes place within a small hearing room where military judges hear arguments for and against Lieutenant Stephen Maryk (Jake Lacy), who faces both discharge and imprisonment for usurping the command of Lt. Commander Phillip Queeg (Kiefer Sutherland) during a storm. Maryk and a handful shipmates argue that Queeg lost control of his senses and had to be displaced, but the burden of proof for upending the military’s fiercely maintained chain...

With Halloween right around the corner, viewers have plenty of seasonal titles to choose from in October. But there’s more than horror to look forward to in theaters and on your favorite streaming services this month, from Prime Video to Hulu. Loki and Our Flag Means Death both return for new seasons, as does, somehow, Frasier (though most of its cast will be nowhere to be seen).

Beyond that, we’ll be getting big new movies, including one of the year’s most-anticipated films from Martin Scorsese (Killers of the Flower Moon...

Dark Passage (1947) is the least impressive of the four Bacall-Bogart films, with some flaws in the film's overall execution that distract from the great performances. Key Largo (1948) is a sentimental film noir with themes of post-wwii disillusionment, featuring standout performances by Bacall, Bogart, and Edward G. Robinson. The Big Sleep (1946) is one of the best Bogart and Bacall films ever made, blending elements of film noir and gangster films with incredible chemistry between the iconic Hollywood pair.

The classic Hollywood duo of Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall resulted in four movies, ranked here from worst to best. Humphrey Bogart is one of the most famous actors in film history for his leading roles in Casablanca, The Caine Mutiny, and The Maltese Falcon. Bogart, known commonly as Bogie in Old Hollywood, had a celebrated acting career for 25 years between 1921 and 1956 and remains a landmark figure of 20th-century cinema. He began acting...

"The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial" is a new legal drama feature, directed by the late William Friedkin ("The Exorcist"), based on Herman Wouk's 1952 novel "The Caine Mutiny", starring Kiefer Sutherland, Jason Clarke, Jake Lacy, Monica Raymund and Lance Reddick, streaming October 6, 2023 on Paramount+:

"...when a 'US Naval Captain' shows signs of mental instability that jeopardizes the safety of his ship, the first officer relieves him of command and faces court-martial for mutiny. 

"'Greenwald', a skeptic lawyer, reluctantly defends 'Maryk', an officer of the navy who took control of the vessel from its dominant 'Captain Queeg' while caught in a violent sea storm. 

"Greenwald becomes increasingly concerned as the court martial proceeds and questions if the 'Caine' was a true mutiny or simply the courageous acts of a group of sailors that could not trust their unstable leader..."

Click the images to enlarge...

Oscar-winning filmmaker William Friedkin’s “The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial” dropped its official trailer today for a movie that will stream exclusively on the Paramount+ on Showtime plan beginning October 6 before making its linear debut two nights later over Showtime. The military drama is adapted from the classic Pulitzer Prize-winning novel “The Caine Mutiny” by Herman Wouk and was Friedkin’s final project. He died on August 7 after completing work on the Republic Pictures feature as its writer and director. Watch the trailer above.

“Caine Mutiny Court-Martial” stars Kiefer Sutherland as the story’s domineering captain, Lt. Philip Francis Queeg. In the film, Lt. Steve Maryk (Jake Lacy) – a first officer of the Navy who took control of the U.S.S. Caine from Queeg during a violent sea storm in unfriendly waters – is forced to stand trial after his captain showed signs of being unhinged and jeopardized the lives of his crew.

The filmmaking legend and one of the last standing titans of New Hollywood, William Friedkin, died last month. Tributes have poured out around the globe in the form of heartfelt open letters from collaborators, unearthed clips from the bombastic director's interviews and home video commentaries, and just about every repertory cinema in the country programming special Friedkin retrospectives. Now, we've gotten our first look at the best thing to remember Friedkin by: his last film.

"The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial" is by this point a classic U.S. text, adapted and re-adapted for the stage and screen numerous times since its original 1951 publication. It originated as a novel called "The Caine Mutiny" by Herman Wouk, and it won its year's Pulitzer Prize. Wouk then adapted the novel into a play in 1953, and it became another smash hit. Charles Laughton directed Peter Fonda in the lead role once it hit Broadway. It...

Somewhere, at any given moment, there’s a film director adapting a stage play to the big screen. Yet it’s rare, and fascinating, to see a filmmaker steeped to the gills in cinema as cinema who also has a grand obsession with the theater. Robert Altman was like that. His great films of the ’70s were so naturalistic they seemed to dissolve the edges of the movie frame, yet in the ’80s, starting with “Come Back to the Five & Dime Jimmy Dean, Jimmy Dean,” he adapted nine plays in a row, the last of which, in 1988, was a darkly solid made-for-tv version of “The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial.”

William Friedkin, the legendary director who passed away last month, just before his 88th birthday, represents another case like Altman’s. In the early ’70s, when Friedkin commandeered Hollywood and the world with the extraordinary one-two punch of “The French Connection” (1971) and...

Oscar-winning filmmaker William Friedkin’s “The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial,” fresh off of its well-reviewed world premiere over the weekend at the Venice Film Festival, will stream exclusively on the Paramount+ on Showtime plan beginning October 6 before making its linear debut two nights later over Showtime. The military drama is adapted from the classic Pulitzer Prize-winning novel “The Caine Mutiny” by Herman Wouk and was Friedkin’s final project. He died on August 7 after completing work on the Republic Pictures feature as its writer and director.

“Caine Mutiny Court-Martial” stars Kiefer Sutherland as the story’s domineering captain, Lt. Philip Francis Queeg. In the film, Lt. Steve Maryk (Jake Lacy) – a first officer of the Navy who took control of the U.S.S. Caine from Queeg during a violent sea storm in unfriendly waters – is forced to stand trial after his captain showed signs of being unhinged and jeopardized the lives of his crew.

Venice film festival: A courtroom drama based on events in Herman Wouk’s second world war novel The Caine Mutiny, Friedkin leaves us with a valuable last effort

The ghosts of film history can be seen all over Venice, the city where Dirk Bogarde sat down in a deck-chair and died and Donald Sutherland was bewitched by the sight of a red raincoat. One spies their faces on black-and-white stills inside the main festival site and adorning celebratory posters positioned around town. They occasionally crop up on the movie schedule as well.

The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial is the swansong film from director William Friedkin, completed just before his death last month and dedicated to the memory of its co-star, Lance Reddick, who died back in March. This is a forensic, exacting courtroom drama; stiffly tailored and a little unyielding; doggedly making a bonus of a claustrophobic single location. It’s not The Exorcist,...

Humphrey Bogart's early career was filled with forgettable movies and villainous roles before he broke into the A-list and landed leading roles. Bogart's performances in "The Maltese Falcon" and "The Big Sleep" established him as the template for hard-boiled detectives in film noir. It was Bogart's role in "Casablanca" that cemented his legacy as one of Hollywood's finest actors and showcased a more sensitive side to his acting abilities.

Humphrey Bogart is now remembered as one of the most iconic stars in movie history – and rightly so – but it took the actor a long time to escape B-movie villain roles. The American Film Institute has named Bogart as the greatest male movie star of all time. Bogart created the template for hard-boiled detectives in the film noir genre with his performances as Sam Spade in The Maltese Falcon and Philip Marlowe in The Big Sleep. He also played...

Born in the final year of the 19th century, Humphrey Bogart rose to prominence with the best thrillers from the Golden Age of Hollywood as a leading man in many iconic romances, noirs, and epics. Known for his charismatic screen presence and timeless pairings with iconic heroines, Bogart was an actor par excellence who starred in cult classics like Casablanca and The Maltese Falcon. Bogart's brilliance lay in the intense psychological realism that he brought to his morally gray characters. Widely regarded as an American cultural icon, the American Film Institute even ranked him as the greatest male actor of classic Hollywood in 1999.

Even though he started out as a supporting actor with antagonistic side roles, Bogart cemented his legacy as a leading man with some of the earliest works of the noir genre and some of Hollywood's greatest romances. But his towering success didn't prevent him from taking on...

Sitting with William Friedkin a few years ago, I was suddenly caught by surprise. After taking out his iPad, the master filmmaker began to scroll through a series of photos, all taken inside a small room in Vatican City, where he’d been invited to attend a real-life exorcism.

That might not seem so odd to anyone who knows Friedkin’s credits, especially The Exorcist, the 1973 horror film that terrified much of the world. But this wasn’t Hollywood make-believe: there on a screen, in front of me, were images and video recording a living nightmare as furniture slid, objects flew and great gasps heaved from the subject of the exorcism, while an ancient priest chanted in Latin.

The footage — shot by Friedkin himself — became the basis of his 2017 documentary The Devil and Father Amorth, one of his final works (though by no means his last: The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial...

Apple TV+’s hit limited series “Hijack” starring Idris Elba is a nail-biting thrill ride set in real-time. Over the years, there have been many types of hijack films. Besides planes, there have been suspenseful takeovers of ships, trains, subways and even trucks.

“The Taking of the Pelham One Two Three,” from 1974 — avoid the two remakes — is a superb thriller about four men who take over a New York subway car and hold the passengers, conductor and an undercover policeman hostage unless they get $1 million (remember that was a lot of money 49 years ago). If their demands aren’t met, they will start killing hostages. Directed by Joseph Sargent and adapted by Peter Stone from the best-selling novel by John Godey, “Taking” boasts a stellar cast at the top of their game including Walter Matthau, Robert Shaw, Hector Elizondo and Martin Balsam. David Shire penned the influential score.

A year...

The director’s latest film is set to premiere at the Venice festival.

William Friedkin, the Oscar-winning American director of The French Connection and The Exorcist, has died aged 87.

According to the New York Times, Friedkin’s wife Sherry Lansing, the former head of Paramount Pictures, said the filmmaker died of heart failure and pneumonia at his home in Bel Air.

Born in Chicago in 1935, Friedkin moved to Hollywood in 1965 and began directing television shows, including an episode of The Alfred Hitchcock Hour.

His early features included The Night They Raided Minsky’s and The Boys In The Band, but Friedkin...

The director’s latest film is set to premiere at the Venice festival.

William Friedkin, the Oscar-winning American director of The French Connection and The Exorcist, has died aged 87.

According to the New York Times, Friedkin’s wife Sherry Lansing, the former head of Paramount Pictures, said the filmmaker died of heart failure and pneumonia at his home in Bel Air.

Born in Chicago in 1935, Friedkin moved to Hollywood in 1965 and began directing television shows, including an episode of The Alfred Hitchcock Hour.

His early features included The Night They Raided Minsky’s and The Boys In The Band, but Friedkin...

Earlier today, the world lost one of Hollywood’s most influential filmmakers, William Friedkin. As condolences and wishes for peace pour in from family, friends, co-workers, and fans, we’d like to remind everyone that Friedkin’s final work, The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial, is heading to this year’s Venice Film Festival.

The annual festival continues despite the ongoing WGA and SAG-AFTRA strikes, with films by Richard Linklater, Wes Anderson, and Bradley Cooper also hitting the scene. The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial arrives as part of the festival’s non-competition program. Inspired by Herman Wouk’s classic novel The Caine Mutiny, the story takes place during World War II. The tale follows a young man who joins the Navy and ends up on a minesweeper in the Pacific. When the commanding officer shows signs of becoming unhinged, the Xo takes command but is later court-martialed for mutiny.

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Since concluding its seven-season run on May 23, 1994, "Star Trek: The Next Generation" has held up remarkably well. It took a season or two for the series to truly find its footing, but once it did the show not only matched but expanded on the Original Series' intellectually acute exploration of humankind at its very best and absolute worst. "Tng" was especially vital in the late '80s and early '90s as we witnessed the demolition of the Berlin Wall and the fall of the Soviet Union. There wasn't a show on television at the time that wrestled with our rapidly changing post-Cold War world more thoughtfully or bravely.

One element "Tng" shared in common with Og "Star Trek" was its adherence to an unfussy visual house style that left editors plenty of options as they tore through a 26-episode season order. This was television, where, very rare exceptions, the writers and actors were king.

When Twitter users “discovered” on Tuesday that Jamie Foxx isn’t the actor’s real name, freak-outs ensued. But many other celebrities and noteworthy people have opted for clever stage names – whether to simplify a birth name (Nina Dobrev) or to forge a new identity (Portia de Rossi). Here are 11 stars whose real names may surprise you.

Halsey (Ashley Frangipane)

Halsey’s stage name is an anagram of her real name, Ashley. The “New Americana” electro-pop singer’s name is also a reference to a street in Brooklyn where she “spent a lot of time as a teenager.”

John Legend (John Roger Stephens)

The name “Legend” was gifted to the R&b singer by a friend who was impressed by his old-school sound. As Legend explained in a 2005 interview with Independent, “I knew it sounded a little presumptuous, but I figured it would grab people’s attention.”

Marilyn Manson (Brian Hugh Warner...

Following the news that Lance Reddick died at age 60 on March 17, Hollywood is remembering the actor who starred in favorites including “The Wire,” “John Wick,” “Bosch” and many more.

Keanu Reeves and Chad Stahelski released a statement to Variety mourning the loss of their “John Wick” cast member, writing, “We are deeply saddened and heartbroken at the loss of our beloved friend and colleague Lance Reddick. He was the consummate professional and a joy to work with. Our love and prayers are with his wife Stephanie, his children, family and friends. We dedicate the film to his loving memory. We will miss him dearly.”

“The Wire” creator David Simon said in a statement that Reddick was “a consummate professional, a devoted collaborator, a lovely soul and a friend. This is just gutting and way, way, way too soon for any of us who knew and loved him to contemplate.”

“John Wick...

Lee Marvin, Vera Miles and Bradford Dillman shine a military courtroom drama, a TV movie released as a theatrical feature five years later. It’s small-scale but effective, with strong performances and a reasonably credible storyline. Marvin’s Ryker is on trial for his life, with the entire U.S. Army convinced that he’s a traitor. Attorney Bradford Dillman stumbles in his defense — other officers catch him consorting with Ryker’s wife. It’s a treat for Lee Marvin fans, provided they don’t expect the action epic depicted on the posters.

Sergeant Ryker

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Kl Studio Classics

1968 / Color / 1:85 widescreen / 85 min. / Street Date January 10, 2022 / available through Kino Lorber / 24.95

Starring: Lee Marvin, Bradford Dillman, Peter Graves, Vera Miles, Lloyd Nolan, Murray Hamilton, Norman Fell, Walter Brooke, Charles Aidman.

Cinematography: Walter Strenge

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Art Director: John J. Lloyd

Film Editor: Robert B. Warwick

Original Music: John Williams

Written by Seelef Lester,...

By the time of Humphrey Bogart's final film performance, in 1956's "The Harder They Fall," the movie star had fallen gravely ill. His years of smoking and drinking climaxed with what would become fatal esophageal cancer, which cast an unmissable pall on his performance. And yet, he still brings his star-making qualities: the toughness and bitterness, the anger and wry sarcasm.

Because "The Harder They Fall" is just one of many noir-era movies about the boxing underworld, it gets less respect than Bogart's many classics. He hadn't even wanted to be in the movie, focusing his remaining energy in vain on another movie with his wife Lauren Bacall, according to Stefan Kanfer's Bogart biography "Tough Without a Gun." He had many reasons for not being interested in the movie, but the cast was a big one.

"The Harder They Fall" is unromantic and cynical, with Bogart, reduced...

“The Exorcist” and “The French Connection” auteur William Friedkin is gearing up to direct his first film in five years, an adaptation of the play “The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial,” and “24” star Kiefer Sutherland is in talks to star in the film, an individual with knowledge of the project told TheWrap.

Sutherland would play Lt. Commander Queeg in the film, which is an adaptation of the two-act play by Herman Wouk, itself based on Wouk’s own Pulitzer Prize-winning novel from 1951 “The Caine Mutiny.” And the screenplay for Friedkin’s film is in fact from Wouk himself, a 50-year-old draft based on the original source material, with Friedkin making revisions.

“The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial” in particular only shows the court martial scene from the larger story, and it puts the audience in the position of the jury as we only know what’s said in the trial, none of the events that led to the mutiny.

With The French Connection, The Exorcist, Sorcerer, and more, William Friedkin has directed some of the finest movies out there. The director has been more selective with the projects he takes on in recent decades, but Deadline reports that William Friedkin will direct Kiefer Sutherland in an adaptation of Herman Wouk’s The Caine Mutiny.

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Set during World War II, The Caine Mutiny follows a young man who joins the Navy and ends up on a minesweeper in the Pacific. When the commanding officer shows signs of becoming unhinged, the Xo takes command and is then court-martialed for mutiny. It’s been over a decade since William Friedkin released his last narrative movie (Killer Joe), but the director is very excited about his latest project.

I’ve looked at a lot of scripts in the last 10 years, and I haven...

"The Exorcist" and "The French Connection" filmmaker William Friedkin will be returning to feature filmmaking for the first time in over a decade, according to Deadline. The acclaimed director, who is considered a pioneer of the New Hollywood movement, hasn't made a narrative feature since 2011's "Killer Joe."

The new movie will reportedly be an adaptation of "The Caine Mutiny Court Martial," which was both a Pulitzer-winning novel and a play by Herman Wouk in the 1950s. The story follows a naval officer and his colleagues through the process of being court martialed for a mutiny that took place aboard a potentially unstable ship. While the novel takes place during World War II, Friedkin's update to the story reenvisions it in a modern setting, set around the Strait of Hormuz near Iran. "24" actor Kiefer Sutherland is set to star.

Friedkin told Deadline that he's looked at several scripts over the past decade,...

From "The Treasure of the Sierra Madre" to "Casablanca," the great Humphrey Bogart graced the silver screen with an array of performances that often see a hardened man unfurl by means of his inner demons. His Oscar-nominated turn in "The Caine Mutiny" is no different. The 1954 WWII naval drama, adapted from Herman Wouk's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, sees Bogart as Lt. Cmdr. Philip Francis Queeg, the newly appointed Captain aboard the Navy slack ship known as the Caine, whose petty narcissism and obstinate leadership cause tension among the crew. Bogart does career-best work here, especially in his closing scene, which most...

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May Wynn, the 1950s starlet who had a supporting role in the acclaimed Humphrey Bogart military legal thriller The Caine Mutiny, where she adopted her character’s name for her stage name, has died. She was 93.

Wynn died March 22 in Newport Beach, California, Grace Wickersham, a spokesperson for Our Lady Queen of Angels church in Newport Beach, told The Hollywood Reporter. Wynn had served as a school aide at the church for 28 years beginning in 1989.

Wynn wed actor Jack Kelly in 1956 after they appeared together in They Rode West (1954) and The Violent Men (1955), and the couple co-starred ...

May Wynn, the 1950s starlet who had a supporting role in the acclaimed Humphrey Bogart military legal thriller The Caine Mutiny, where she adopted her character’s name for her stage name, has died. She was 93.

Wynn died March 22 in Newport Beach, California, Grace Wickersham, a spokesperson for Our Lady Queen of Angels church in Newport Beach, told The Hollywood Reporter. Wynn had served as a school aide at the church for 28 years beginning in 1989.

Wynn wed actor Jack Kelly in 1956 after they appeared together in They Rode West (1954) and The Violent Men (1955), and the couple co-starred ...

He was super agent Phil Gersh’s signature client from the start of his acting career through his death in 1957, all through his heyday in the 1940s and 1950s in The Maltese Falcon, Casablanca, The African Queen, Key Largo, Treasure of the Sierra Madre and The Caine Mutiny. Now, Humphrey Bogart is back with the Gersh Agency, which has signed the Humphrey Bogart Estate.

While estate business signings are usually mundane, this was an excuse for a trip down Hollywood’s memory lane for Bob and David Gersh, who took over the agency from their father. As boys, they grew up around Bogart, and the other stars from dad’s stable that included William Holden, David Niven, Kirk Douglas, Lee J. Cobb, and Fredric March. David Gersh recalled the dialogue between his storied agent father and the legendary Bogart, and it’s not what you might think. “Every time Bogey saw my father,...

Training Day’s “King Kong” monologue stands tall among the great speeches of cinema. Denzel Washington elevates the iambic pentameter of Iago, the villain of William Shakespeare’s Othello, to syncopated street rhythms. It is on par with Marlon Brando’s reflections on the horrors of war as Col. Kurtz in Apocalypse Now, it is the inverse of Gregory Peck’s monologues as Atticus Finch in To Kill A Mockingbird, and it ranks with Joe Pesci’s “Do you think I’m funny?” scene in Goodfellas or Groucho Marx’s breakdown in the middle of reconciliation in Duck Soup. But the single line of dialogue which hits it home wasn’t in David Ayer’s screenplay. It was pure Denzel.

“King Kong ain’t got shit on me,” LAPD Det. Sgt. Alonzo Harris declares in the most memorable scene in Training Day. Washington improvised the line in the heat of the moment.