Ratso’s hang-ups, Sumner’s ordeal, Braddock’s sexual desire: The Life and Characters of Dustin Hoffman
Everyone who interviews Dustin Hoffman leaves with the same thoughts on the man: warm, intelligent, and accommodating. His small physical stature – there’s only 5ft 6in of the man – is dismissed by a presence that fills the room. He is a complete part of the Hollywood furniture: iconic and recognisable in both looks and voice. He is Tinseltown gold and a legend of the film industry.
As a child – although I did not know it …

Caroline (‘Caz’) Ames, over at Lets Go To The Movies, has been busy thinking about one of her favourite actresses lately. Julia Roberts, Hollywood’s biggest female star, who Caz lovingly refers to as ‘Jules’, has consistently put out hit after hit in a career spanning over twenty years since her debut in 1987.
Caz says, ‘I have just always loved her loads. Still to this day I watch her movies over and over, while hoping she will keep making more.’
Caz clarifies her list as one decided on ‘how enjoyable the movie …

Clint Eastwood may be to many casual filmgoers the gun-toting authoritarian Harry Callahan from the “Dirty Harry” movies, or perhaps the man with no name from Sergio Leone’s spaghetti westerns, or more recently Frankie Dunn in “Million Dollar Baby. He’s an iconic Hollywood figure who has embodied some of the world’s most recognisable characters in many of the most prominent films of the last fifty years. But he’s also as accomplished behind the camera as he is in front of it, directing such classics as “Play Misty For Me”, “The …

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Steve Martin was ‘born standing up’: A Brief Introduction
Steve Martin was born in Texas, 1945. He quickly found a kinship with showmanship and entertainment by performing magic tricks, juggling, and playing the banjo to small audiences at Disneyland. Martin was, in his own words “born standing up”.
His first big break came in 1967. Girlfriend Nina Goldblatt, a dancer on “The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour”, submitted some of Martin’s work to head writer Mason Williams. Williams liked what he saw to such a …

ISABELLA ROSSELLINI’S TOP 10 FILMS
“Blue Velvet” actress and Lancome model Isabella Rossellini picks the films that have brought most joy into her heart. Listed here courtesy of Time Out, she explains each of her choices as she presents a diverse and eclectic mix of movies.
Incidentally, Isabella only lists her top 8 films, which appear below.

1. Some Like It Hot (Wilder, 1959)
She says: “I think Marilyn Monroe was never in sexier form than here in her third-last film playing the uber-zaftig Sugar Kane Kowalczyk. As wonderfully as Orry-Kelly made the gowns …

TIM ROBBINS’ TOP 10 FILMS
1. The Battle of Algiers (Pontecorvo, 1965)
2. The Clowns (Fellini, 1971)
3. Don’t Look Back (Pennebaker, 1967)
4. The Lower Depths (Kurosawa, 1957)
5. McCabe & Mrs Miller (Altman, 1971)
6. My Man Godfrey (La Cava, 1936)
7. Nashville (Altman, 1975)
8. Network (Lumet, 1976)
9. Underground (Kusturica, 1995)
10. Waiting for Guffman (Guest, 1996)

From 1984 to 1989 Tom Hanks solidified himself as one of the Hollywood elite. Aside from a couple of more restrained dramas in the middle of the period showing his diversity and pre-cursing his later work, predominantly the films of the middle to late eighties highlighted Hanks’ natural gift for comedy. His characters were always loveable yet flawed creations that pulled at the heart strings while playing relentlessly on the funny bone.
For many, Tom Hanks’ body of comedic work during the 1980s was the actor’s finest and most enduring. …

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