Annette Funicello, who first gained fame as a 12-year-old Mouseketeer on Disney’s “The Mickey Mouse Club” in the 1950s and then starred opposite Frankie Avalon in a series of musical beach party films in the 1960s, has died. She was 70.

April 7, 2013–Spanish film director Juan Jose Bigas Luna, a bold chronicler of sexual and social mores, died Friday, April 5, after a long battle with cancer. He was 67.

Ruth Prawer Jhabvala, award-winning screenwriter, who collaborated for five decades with the team of James Ivory and Ismail Merchant and won Oscars for “A Room With a View” in 1986 and “Howard’s End” in 1992, died of a pulmonary disorder Wednesday in New York. She was 85.

Viva Romero! I have always been partial to Romero’s films for a personal reason. In l969, while an undergraduate student, I visited Paris for the first time. A classmate, obsessed with film as I was, took me to a midnight screening of what he described as a schlock film: Night of the Living Dead. The […]

Despite having a talent for making tough, urban crime thrillers like “Training Day” (2001), director Antoine Fuqua tried throughout his career not to be pigeonholed; instead steering his career towards other genres not usually open to other African-American directors.