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Owen Marsh The son of an MGM cinematographer, he also worked on Love Me Tender, The Greatest Story Ever Told, The Towering Inferno and The Brady Bunch. Owen Marsh, who served as a camera operator for such classic films as  Ben-Hur, The Greatest Story Ever Told and for television shows from The Brady Bunch to Murder, She Wrote, has died. He was 90. Marsh died Sunday of natural causes at his home in Portland, Oregon, his daughter, Cher Levendosky, told The Hollywood Reporter. Marsh was among...

A dozen recent releases shows the range of great music being made in Connecticut during the pandemic.

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Last modified on Wed 23 Dec 2020 06.59 EST There is a yearly argument – online if nowhere else – as to whether Die Hard, the Bruce-Willis-versus-European-baddies action flick from 1988, is a Christmas movie. It’s set during a holiday party, after all. But every year, people argue that it can’t be a Christmas film, for no other reason I think than the fact that it spills more blood than eggnog. And yet I’d say that Christmas and crime are not such strange bedfellows. For one thing, Chr...

FILM CRITIC Bob Rafelsons two best movies are "Five Easy Pieces" (1970) and "The Postman Always Rings Twice" (1981), and his new film "No Good Deed" is like a mingling of their themes. From "Postman" comes hard-boiled American crime fiction, and from "Five Easy Pieces" and its musical family comes the cop played by Samuel L. Jackson, a diabetic who plays the cello. He is, in fact, looking forward to a week at a "fantasy camp" where he can play with Yo-Yo Ma, when fate intervenes. Jacksons chara...

Naturally, as with everything else, many have a Florida connection.  We’ve told you about Papa Hemingway punching out a poet in Key West. But think Dashiell Hammett and you think San Francisco. After all, the former Pinkerton detective made that city a character in his noir classic, "The Maltese Falcon." But what about Burdines? In Nathan Wards book "The Lost Detective," about Hammetts early life, he writes that in February 1934, just after Knopf published Hammetts iconic "The Thin Man," the...

NEWS FLASH! The Tillamook County Libraries are open again for Library Express…brief, 15-minute visits so you can browse the stacks. Or, if you prefer, you can still utilize curbside pickup by calling your library. Curbside or inside…YOU decide! What film do you JUST HAVE to watch to get into the holiday spirit? Are you the type who only wants to laugh at the crazy slapstick antics of Will Ferrell in Elf? Or are you looking to watch a heart-warming movie like It...

8 Movies to Watch if You Like Clue If youre a fan of this whodunnit ensemble comedy, you need to have these other films on your watchlist. Welcome to  Movie DNA, a column that recognizes the direct and indirect cinematic roots of both new and classic movies. Learn some film history, become a more well-rounded viewer, and enjoy like-minded works of the past. This entry recommends movies to watch after Jonathan Lynn’s Clue. We’ve all been there. You google “movies like Clue” and you’r...