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Our last Christmas matinee as a family was the perfect final movie with my dad — the one that launched his career

From the horse’s head in The Godfather to the smell of napalm in Apocalypse Now, no one does chilling menace like the 91-year-old Oscar-winner. With the release this month of his new film, we rate his greatest roles

LAS VEGAS — It shocked her, to see her father take a bullet on the big screen.

As the creator of the “Yellowstone” franchise, Taylor Sheridan’s notions of masculinity are not what you’d call expansive, but instead sit comfortably within the same mold that produced John Wayne and Clint Eastwood. A similar but distinctive brand of masculinity exists in stories about the mob. With “Tulsa King” on…

The actor ushered in an era in which the film industry increasingly used awards speeches to call out injustice

Alexander Skarsgård is the Icelandic prince out to avenge his father’s murder in Robert Eggers’ bloodthirsty tale, while John Boyega is caught up with racist cops in Kathryn Bigelow’s 1967 reenactment of the Algiers Motel incident

Sacheen Littlefeather, the actor and activist who declined Marlon Brando’s 1973 Academy Award for "The Godfather" on his behalf in an indelible protest of Hollywood's portrayal of Native Americans, has died. She was 75. Littlefeather's niece, Calina Lawrence, confirmed that she died peacefully Sunday, surrounded by loved ones at her…

LOS ANGELES — Sacheen Littlefeather, the Native American activist Marlon Brando sent to the 1973 Academy Awards to decline the lead actor Oscar he won for “The Godfather,” has died. She was 75.

Littlefeather was the first woman of colour to use the Academy Awards platform to make a political statement

J.R. Ewing, the scoundrel oil baron of the prime time melodrama “Dallas,” was known to often enjoy a neat order of bourbon and branch as his tipple of choice. John Wayne fancied Wild Turkey, another bourbon whiskey. For Ol’ Blue Eyes, Frank Sinatra, it was Jack Daniels. Mila Kunis likes…