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CinemaBlend Guardians of the Galaxy. But decades ago, there was no grander spectacle than a big budget musical like The Sound of Music. In fact, out of the 92 movies that have won the highest award at the Oscars, 10 of those movies were musicals that won Best Picture at the Academy Awards. However, that now seems like a bygone era, as films like La La Land are so few and far between that you would be forgiven for thinking that Hollywood now hates the musical. West Side Story, but like I just ...

How do you win an Academy Award? We’re sorry, this service is currently unavailable. Please try again later. Dismiss Normal text size Even after recent dramas – #OscarsSoWhite controversies and the fiasco when La La Land was wrongly named best picture – an Academy Award remains the ultimate prize in the movie industry. It’s a validation of excellence that comes with more than 90 years of history, celebrity and glamour – as emotional as winning an Olympic gold medal for everyone from ...

Adapted from Chapter One, “Wounds” For several decades Southern black folks carrying suitcases full of prized possessions fled poverty and threats of lynching to pursue the elusive dream of a better life in Northern cities like Boston. By the early 1960s, turbulence and race uprisings plagued much of the country yet bypassed Boston. The city had a self-congratulatory air because its predominantly African American community of Roxbury exercised restraint while other cities burned. Everything...

100 Best Sci-Fi Movies of All Time By Jacob Osborn, Stacker News On 4/11/21 at 8:00 AM EDT Like most movie genres, science fiction goes back almost as far as the medium itself, all the way to 1902 to be exact. That was when Georges Méliès—an innovative genius of many talents—unleashed his 14-minute masterwork: "Le voyage dans la lune," better known to American audiences as "A Trip to the Moon." Inspired by the written works of Jules Verne, among other things, and laced with satirical j...

Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World (2003) (Film4, 9pm) OLD-school thrills. Peter Weir’s swashbuckling adventure, adapted from Patrick O’Brian’s novels, is a proper swashbuckler . Captain “Lucky” Jack Aubrey (Russell Crowe) and the 197 crew of the HMS Surprise are ordered to intercept the French Privateer Acheron and “sink, burn or take her as a prize”. The first altercation between the two vessels leaves Aubrey’s ship badly damaged and many crew injured. Aubrey he...

Television’s 200-Episode Man: Paris Barclay Reflects on Decades-Long Career Lacey Rose Paris Barclay Frank Capra. Louis B. Mayer. Robert Wise. And now, Paris Barclay. The Harvard grad, who got his start making music videos for Janet Jackson, Bob Dylan and LL Cool J, among others, is the latest recipient of the DGA Honorary Life Member Award, in recognition of his leadership in the industry, his contribution to the Directors Guild and the nearly 200 episodes of TV he’s helme...

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Silence of the Lambs, West Side Story and Other Classics Are Returning to the Big Screen Silence of the Lambs, West Side Story and Other Classics Are Returning to the Big Screen A dozen cinematic masterworks will return to movie theaters nationwide with 2021s TCM Big Screen Classics Series. Film aficionados can enjoy a yearlong journey spanning nine decades of cinema history, through a dozen of some of the movie industrys greatest titles, as Fathom Events and Turner Classic Movies present the s...

"Steve McQueen Flies In," ran a South China Morning Post headline on March 23, 1966. The "versatile actor" had arrived the previous day "with a whole film company to carry out location shooting here for the 20th Century Fox film Sand Pebbles". The crew arrived from Taiwan, where they had spent several weeks shooting. At a press conference on March 23, McQueen admitted that he found Taiwan "very trying" because "the people there took advantage of...

Stardate: 50485.2 Station log: Sisko goes to Marva IV, a Maquis colony, to meet with a contact who has information about Eddington’s whereabouts. Instead, he’s confronted by Eddington. The Maquis learned of the informant and trapped him on a planet in the Badlands for his trouble. Eddington shows Sisko the refugees from a Federation colony ceded to the Cardassians. Sisko points out that they were offered resettlement, but Eddington says they don’t want that, they want to go home. Sisko po...