Beverly in Movieland

  I watched Wild at Heart in memory of the late Diane Ladd: it was one of three films for which she received a Supporting Actress Oscar nomi...

We’re fast approaching the time of year when the Library of Congress announces the new inductees for its National Film Registry, honoring mo...

  The deaths, alas, just keep on coming. (In today's news, it's the great Frank Gehry, an architect blessed with rare skill and imag...

   I don't normally re-post old Beverly in Movieland entries.   But I was so saddened to read about the death of ace stuntman (and very ...

I’ve always enjoyed movies about cooking. Given that we all have to eat, I guess it’s not remarkable that food preparation can be used in so...

I recently heard a sweet story involving a weather delay at a small airport somewhere in the northwest. For various complex reasons, the pas...

Greek filmmaker Yorgos Lanthimos is not one to play it safe. Neither, apparently, is Emma Stone. The Internet tells me that Lanthimos is a p...