Richard Widmark

They don't make westerns like they used to; in fact they pretty much don't make them at all anymore. Which makes a pair of new DVD releases especially welcome to fans of the genre. Riding up from the distant past is "George O'Brien," a collection of...

Is it really a big surprise to discover that while America is enduring its worst economic downturn in 70 years and experiencing a paroxysm of partisan political infighting that the No. 1 movie last weekend was “Contagion,” which depicts a........

On Sunday, Hollywood celebrates itself and honors its own. All eyes (or most of them anyway) will be on the presentations of the Academy Awards. But do the Oscars always end up in the right hands? Opinions abound on this topic, and what follows is only...

The Robin Cook medical thriller, which became a Genevieve Bujold-Michael Douglas film, will now be a four-hour miniseries, set to arrive Memorial Day Weekend on A&E....

From The Aegis dated July 13, 1961: Much of the news on the front page wasn't good this week 50 years ago. Three people – a well-known farmer, a 2-year-old girl and an elderly woman – died in separate incidents. William Posey Choate, 53, who...

If you want to see a film that might be a tad more demanding than Will Ferrell's "The Other Guys" this weekend, head over to the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, which is showing a host of great films......

A director’s work, if the director is lucky, has a way of bubbling up in the popular culture decades after a film’s initial release. This week in Chicago we are experiencing, happily, a Jules Dassin bubble, containing two different and......