R.I.P. to Tom Noonan , one of the all-time great character actors, who sometimes played a gentle giant, but mostly a series of unspeakably...

 

Farewell to James Earl Jones , whose booming, iconic voice and endless acting chops made STAR WARS a staple of my childhood, brought gravit...

Farewell at 98 to a legend of genre cinema, B-Movie mogul Roger Corman. On this site, I have opined at length about films he directed, like...

Very sorry to hear that we lost Lou Gossett, Jr. , who I've loved in everything from A RAISIN IN THE SUN to WATCHMEN.    On this blog, I...

  I was saddened to learn of the death of perennial "irascible old man" character actor M. Emmet Walsh , maybe best known for BLOO...

 

One of the greats is gone. A two-time Oscar winner, the fire that fueled several of Ken Russell's greatest films (THE MUSIC LOVERS, WOME...

This one hurts . Clu first came to my attention as "Lee" in Don Siegel's THE KILLERS , where his vicious calm and truly inspir...

R.I.P. to David Warner: glorious Shakespeare actor, genre movie standby, and, for a VHS enthusiast, one of the most recognizable faces of al...

R.I.P. to Clarence Williams III . Best known to audiences for THE MOD SQUAD, he was a former paratrooper, brilliant stage performer, and cha...

R.I.P. to Tawny Kitaen , who was more than "a video vixen" or a " BACHELOR PARTY co-star," even if it was by lightly gy...

R.I.P. to the inimitable Yaphet Kotto , whose rogue's gallery of bold, funny, scary, lovable, and offbeat characters left an indelible m...

R.I.P. to one of the all-time greats, and an actress to whom I've always wanted to devote more time here at Junta Juleil. You can read m...

I'm sorry to report the passing of Daria Nicolodi , a true titan of Italian cinema and a true giallo Hall-of-Famer here at Junta Juleil...

I'm sorry to report the death of Chicago horror icon/auteur Stuart Gordon . Though he was best known for his major masterpiece, RE-ANI...