Some critics consider this movie to be the best of the Muppets pictures, due to its humor and high execution level by director Frank Oz, who also provides the voice for the pig. A charming spoof, the tale concerns Kermit, Miss Piggy and the rest of the gang trying to get backing for their Broadway […]

China has submitted The Nightingale (Ye Ying/Le promeneur d’oiseau), the second-ever official French-Chinese co-production, as the surprise candidate for best foreign language film at the 2015 Oscars French director Philippe Muyl adapst his 2002 film about the bond-building journey between an old man and a young girl to rural, southwestern China. “The movie was chosen shortly […]

This fact-inspired crime story, centers on syndicate boss Louis “Lepke” Buchalter (David J. Stewart) and killer Abe Reles (Peter Falk), who squeals on the Mob to earn immunity. The activities of Buchalter’s murder-for-hire operation are set in a fictional story about a nightclub singer (Stuart Whitman) and a dancer (May Britt). The rest of the […]

In this formulaic movie, Anne Shirley and Dennis Day star as a song-and-dance team, trying to make it big on Broadway. The cast includes Jane Darwell and the Charles Burnett Orchestra. Oscar Nominations: 1 Sound Recording: Stephen Dunn Oscar Awards: None Oscar Context: The Sound Oscar went to E. H. Hansen for the biopic Wilson. […]

In this minor movie, directed by Joseph Santley, Tony Martin plays a singer from a European country (unnamed), who faces deportation–unless he can get work. Sure enough, he gets a job–and with Rita Hayworth no less. This was the first musical of Hayworth, soon to become Columbia’s reigning star. Oscar Nominations: 1 Song: It’s a Blue […]