Dick Van Dyke famously almost played James Bond after Sean Connery. Here's how he responded to the offer decades ago.
As Dick Van Dyke celebrates his 97th birthday Mark Hamill, Suzanne Somers and more are posting about the actor.
Filmmaker Kirsten Johnson is a stunningly resilient person. As seen in her terrific 2016 visual memoir Cameraperson, Johnson has captured some of the bleakest settings humanity has to offer while also working through the personal difficulty of losing her mother to Alzheimer’s. She’s forced to face that same kind of loss again with her father Dick Johnson, but rather than succumb to despair or curse the fates, Johnson does what she does best: she picks up her camera and gets to the truth. Her new film Dick Johnson Is Dead is a beautiful movie about how we can …
The official trailer for Netflix's stirring (and attention-grabbing) documentary Dick Johnson Is Dead has arrived. This is the second documentary from director Kirsten Johnson, who continues to take a highly personal approach to the genre in the follow-up feature to her 2016 work Cameraperson. [caption id="attachment_928715" align="alignright" width="360"] Image via Netflix[/caption] It's clear from the jump that Dick Johnson Is Dead will make you laugh as much as it will make you cry. The trailer outlines this basic set-up: Johnson is dealing with the inevitable fact that her father, the titular …
Dick Wolf, the super-producer behind NBC's Law & Order and Chicago franchises, is taking his next project elsewhere due to its risqué elements. Wolf is teaming with longtime collaborator Tom Thayer, The Pacific creator Bruce C. McKenna and Pulitzer Prize winner Robert Schenkkan on American Babylon, an epic TV series about the bloody origins of Las Vegas. The period drama tells the story of how Las Vegas was built from the perspective of several different characters: Rising mobster Sammy Wise and his iron-willed wife, Esther, who help lead the mob's takeover of Sin City; Jefferson Delandro, …
When I was nine years old, I saw a movie called Cop and a Half starring Burt Reynolds as a cop who teams up with a young black boy (Norman D. Golden II) to solve a murder. It's a better movie than you probably remember, and one I liked quite a bit as a kid. Michael Dowse's new Netflix movie Coffee & Kareem is cut from the same crime comedy cloth, but its target audience is decidedly different. Cop and a Half was rated PG and aimed at families, whereas Coffee & Kareem is very much an R-…
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