Oscar Actors: Chastain, Jessica–Acting Style, Versatility

Acting Style Describing Chastain’s off-screen persona, Roy Porter of InStyle magazine wrote in 2015 that “she’s an adult, which isn’t always a given in Hollywood. Unconsciously candid with her answers, she retains a sense of perspective uncommon among her peers, and she has real opinions.” Porter also credited her for being the rare actress who […]

Oscar Directors: Bergman, Ingmar–Auteur, Vision

No instinctive affinity to the film medium–he is not a natural filmmaker–but he remains obsessed with technique for its own sake.

Oscar Directors: Nomadland–Photo of Director Chloe Zhao

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Movie Stars: Male–Boyish Look (Cruise, DiCaprio, Bloom, Gyllenhaal,

Some of Hollywood actors had never become stars because of their boyish 9childish) looks. DiCaprio finally mature into a more masculine male stars. Orlando Bloom (doesn’t have the built, or voice, or banter and gravitas to become a leading hunk. Tobey Maguire Jake Gyllenhaal Tom Cruise, for first decade of his car, uberkid, also cursed […]

Movie Stars: McCrea, Joel–Life in Pics

Joel McCrea McCrea in 1948 McCrea with Fay Wray in The Most Dangerous Game McCrea in Hitchcock’s Foreign Correspondence (1940)   McCrea with Veronica Lake in Sturges’ Sullivan Travels (1941) Share this: