To most modern movie stars, putting out 75 films in only 37 years would be quite a remarkable task. For Spencer Tracy, whose acting career lasted from 1930 to 1967, it wasn't. Read more...
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Spencer Tracy (right) in “The Power and the Glory” (1933). The film has been restored by the UCLA Film & Television Archive, which is presenting a film series on Tracy titled “Spencer Tracy: That Natural Thing.”
In a scene from the 1924 silent film "Kino-Eye," a slice of beef from the marketplace flies back into the cow. The audience sees the cow's skin come back on the bone and a knife cut across the cow's throat in reverse, bringing the cow back to life, back to the stockyard and then finally to the countryside from where it came. Read more...
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NBC made a wise decision to premiere the sophomore season of its breakout reality hit show "The Voice" after Sunday's Super Bowl, as more than 37 million people stuck around to watch judges Christina Aguilera, Cee Lo Green, Blake Shelton and Adam Levine audition hopeful singers. Read more...
Liza Johnson's "Return" is a brilliant take on a familiar story. A soldier's return to civilian life has been the subject of countless films, though too often rehashed narratives undermine the complexity of what U.S. servicemen and servicewomen experience upon returning home. Read more...
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The question of what lies in the future is one with which many college students grapple. In Sarju Patel's upcoming feature film "Life Tracker," a group of documentary filmmakers comes face to face with this question as they follow a company that has discovered a way to predict one's future based on DNA sampling. Read more...
The most memorable moment of Sunday's Super Bowl wasn't Ahmad Bradshaw's awkward flop into the end zone for the Giants' game-winning touchdown. It was the three-minute musical commercial for the game's host network, NBC, before the game began. Read more...
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30 ROCK — “Idiots Are People Two” Episode 602 — Pictured: (l-r) Alec Baldwin as Jack Donaghy, Tina Fey as Liz Lemon — Photo by: Ali Goldstein/NBC
In the modern film world of sequels, prequels and reboots, it's nice to see a film like "Big Miracle" that dares to put something fresh and new on the screen. It's just a shame that "Big Miracle" isn't any good. Read more...
