Posted by Mike Finnegan on May 5th 2017
A familiar screen face for 50 years, Michael Murphy, who celebrates his 79th birthday today, takes his various screen personas in stride. As he told Filmmaker Magazine interviewer Vadim Rizov two y
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Posted by Mike Finnegan on Feb 29th 2016
Congratulations are in order for the recipients of and fellow nominees vying for the 88th Annual Academy Awards® bestowed last night. As with any movie industry laurels, there are partisans and det
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Posted by Mike Finnegan on Feb 26th 2016
In Spotlight, one of the eight films vying for the Best Picture Academy Award® Sunday evening, dedicated journalists buck the odds to bring into the light the details of a great injustice, stemming
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Posted by Mike Finnegan on Sep 9th 2015
Vampires have been done to death on the screen, even as late as 1997, when action-horrormeister John Carpenter turned his attention to the realm of the undead. Unlike today’s metrosexual, dreamily h
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