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100 Best Movies of All Time

The list of the 100 greatest American movies of all time, the editors of cine101 represent 100 greatest movies of all time. We announced our own list of the 100 Best Movies of All Time. Of course, we didn’t bother with a prime-time TV special, and we didn’t feel the need to consult a “blue-ribbon panel of more than 1,500 leaders from across the American film community.” We trusted our instincts, and we still do. Check out our list below (limited to English language films made since the birth of the talkies) Read the rest of this entry »

Jack Hawkins

John Edward “Jack” Hawkins (14 September 1910 - 18 July 1973) was an English film actor of the 1950s, 1960s and early 1970s.

Crusty, craggy British leading man Jack Hawkins began as a child actor, studying at the Italia Court School of Acting. After his first film, 1930’s Birds of Prey, Hawkins languished for several years in secondary roles before achieving minor stardom by the end of the ’30s. Read the rest of this entry »

James Mason

James Neville Mason (15 May 1909 – 27 July 1984) was a British actor who attained stardom in both British and American films. Throughout his career, Mason remained a powerful figure in the industry and he is now regarded as one of the finest film actors of the 20th century. He was nominated for three [...]

Maureen O’Sullivan

Maureen Paula O’Sullivan (17 May 1911 – 23 June 1998) was an Irish actress who was considered Ireland’s first film star.
Early life
O’Sullivan was born in Boyle, County Roscommon, Ireland, the daughter of Mary Lovatt and Charles Joseph O’Sullivan, an officer in The Connaught Rangers who served in The Great War. She attended a convent [...]

Apocalypse Now

Drama War 1979
Francis Ford Coppola’s Vietnam war epic, loosely based on Joseph Conrad’s novella “Heart of Darkness,” shows the director at his most daring and megalomaniacal. The film, probably as noisily surreal (it won the Oscar for Best Sound), chaotic, and violent as the war itself, becomes a nightmare that grows in horror as Coppola [...]

Tina Turner

Physical strength in a woman–that’s what I am.
— Tina Turner.
IN case you haven’t read the book or seen the movie, here’s the Tina Turner story: a sharecropper’s daughter born with golden pipes, Tina met and started singing with Ike Turner, a well-established R&B band leader, while still in high school in St. Louis. She [...]

Alfre Woodard

Actors are one family over the entire world.
— Alfre Woodard
Occupation: Actress
Date of Birth: November 8, 1953
Place of Birth: Tulsa, Okla., USA
Sign: Sun in Scorpio, Moon in Sagittarius
Education: Boston University, School of Fine Arts
Fan Mail: C/O International Creative Management
8942 Wilshire Blvd.
Beverly Hills, CA 90211
USA
Alfre Woodard: Credits
MOVIES
Actor
Dinosaur — 2000
Love and Basketball — 2000
Mumford — 1999
Primal Fear — [...]

Rescued from Oblivion

IRS Releasing
Director–Tim Reid
Starring Al Freeman, Jr., Phylicia Rashad
Drama 113 min
Tim Reid’s wonderful film about life in the black neighborhood of Glen Allan, Mississippi, from the mid-’40s to the dawn of the civil rights movement, has long been discussed as a prime example of the way features about African-Americans that don’t concern guns, gangsters, and short [...]

Tiffani-Amber Thiessen

I have more zits now than I did as a teenager.Stress zits.
— Tiffani-Amber Thiessen
Occupation: Actress
Date of Birth: January 23, 1974
Place of Birth: Orange, Calif., USA
Sign: Sun in Aquarius, Moon in Aquarius
Relations: Brothers: Todd (professional cyclist) and Schyler (student); dogs: Bonnie and Clyde (Golden Retrievers); cats: Savannah and Sadie
Fan Mail: C/O Gold/Marshak/Liedtke Talent and Literary Agency
3500 [...]

Two Films in One

The best and weirdest thing about Clint Eastwood’s latest effort, Space Cowboys, is that, apparently unwittingly, the filmmaker has given us two films for the price of one. Unfortunately, the second film, a gripping thriller which occupies the last 45 minutes of Space Cowboys, is much better and more involving than [...]