Walter Chaw
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A Tribute To Donald Sutherland: The Quintessential Actor Of The '70s, American Cinema's Greatest Decade
By Walter Chaw •This awkward, gawky kid from Canada somehow became the decade's least likely sex symbol, as well as an icon of the sensitive everyman. -
Throwback
Dabney Coleman Was A Miserable, Irascible Keeper of Antiquated Attitudes In Movies Like '9 To 5' and 'On Golden Pond'
By Walter Chaw •A real a-hole's a-hole, Dabney Coleman's death reminds us of a long ago time when we used to be able to love people we vehemently disagreed with. -
Throwback
Roger Corman Proved There's Nothing Schlocky About Being One Of Hollywood's Most Influential Mentors
By Walter Chaw •Without Corman, there's a good chance there's no John Sayles, Martin Scorsese, Gale Ann Hurd, Pam Grier, Peter Bogdanovich, Peter Fonda, or James Cameron. -
M. Emmet Walsh Was The Rare "Character Actor" Who Also Happened To Be The Best Part Of Every Movie He Appeared In
By Walter Chaw •We call people “character actors” in “supporting roles” without really taking time with the words and what they’re supposed to describe. -
Carl Weathers Imbued Apollo Creed — The Embodiment of the American Dream —With Power, Confidence, and Intelligence
By Walter Chaw •“This is the land of opportunity, right?” -
Throwback
Norman Jewison's 'Moonstruck' Remains An Incandescent Miracle That's Positively Bursting With Life
By Walter Chaw •Jewison’s directorial touch here is so light it’s the movie equivalent of a Fred Astaire number. -
Tom Wilkinson Was One Of Those Increasingly Rare Character Actors That Never Failed To Imbue Each Role With Real Stakes
By Walter Chaw •Wilkinson died on December 30, 2023 at the age of 75 surrounded by his family in the North London home where he lived. -
Jingle Binge
Ryan O'Neal Was The Great Gatsby Of '70s Cinema: Impossibly Handsome, Entirely Untrustworthy
By Walter Chaw •Ryan O’Neal was the great American cypher: good-looking, facile, capable in blue-collar pursuits, and largely interchangeable in the dreamlife of this country. -
Stream and Scream
Francis Ford Coppola’s ‘Bram Stoker’s Dracula’ Is a Staggering, Horny, Delirious Achievement
By Walter Chaw • 177 SharesWhat an incredibly modern film for this time, for our fractured and shattered time. -
Throwback
Piper Laurie Was A Volcano In Sheep's Clothing, In Everything From 'Carrie' To 'The Hustler' To 'Twin Peaks'
By Walter Chaw •Wherever she showed up, she brought with her that inimitable raging-in-place, the threat in every expression of a castrating phrase or a piercing, emasculating gaze. -
Stream and Scream
'Creepshow' Season 4 Episode 6 Recap: "George Romero in 3D" + "Baby Teeth"
By Walter Chaw •Even the best anthology series are uneven. -
Stream and Scream
'Creepshow' Season 4 Episode 5 Recap: "Something Burrowed, Something Blue" + "Doodles"
By Walter Chaw •Apocalyptic centipedes and an aspiring cartoonist, oh my! -
Stream and Scream
'Creepshow' Season 4 Episode 4 Recap: "Meet The Belaskos" + "Cheat Code"
By Walter Chaw •The problem with a premise lacking legible rules, though, is that there’s no suspense when rules are violated. -
Stream and Scream
'Creepshow' Season 4 Episode 3 Recap: "Parent Death Trap" + "To Grandmother's House We Go"
By Walter Chaw •If you only watch one episode of this Creepshow Season 4, it should be this one. -
Stream and Scream
'Creepshow' Season 4 Episode 2 Recap: "The Hat" + "Grieving Process"
By Walter Chaw •We have always loved the idea of finding a thing that eases the labor of writing. -
Stream and Scream
'Creepshow' Season 4 Episode 1 Recap: "Twenty Minutes With Cassandra" + "Smile"
By Walter Chaw •"Twenty Minutes with Cassandra" is brilliant. -
Throwback
A Tribute To Pee-Wee Herman, The Manifestation of Our Remembered Adolescent Joy
By Walter Chaw •For a generation of kids, Paul Reubens’ alter ego Pee-Wee Herman offered fellowship for the outcasts and the misfits; he invested in our growth, he believed in us. -
Sinead O'Connor's Refusal To Be Shamed For What She Believed In Made Her The Ideal Avatar For Neil Jordan's Uniquely Irish Worldview
By Walter Chaw • 160 SharesJordan uniquely understood that the profundity of O'Connor's sadness was married to the enormous power of her righteousness — and cast her as the Virgin Mary in The Butcher Boy. -
The Remarkable Power of Wes Anderson's 'Asteroid City' Lies In the Intimidating Weight of Grief
By Walter Chaw •“Just keep telling the story.” Asteroid City hit Walter Chaw at exactly the right place in his life, one year after his mom died on Mother's Day, following a long ... -
Julian Sands Had Movie Star Looks, But The Body of Work He Leaves Behind Defiantly Resists The Classification Of Stardom
By Walter Chaw • 731 SharesHis life and career are a monument to the glory of what is impermissible.