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Sandra Seacat, the actress and influential acting coach who as a Lee Strasberg disciple taught the craft to the likes of Laura Dern, Mickey Rourke, Harvey Keitel, Common, Andrew Garfield, Michelle Williams and many others, has died. She was 86.

Seacat died Tuesday of natural causes in Santa Monica, family friend and publicist Stan Rosenfield announced.

Seacat’s students said her innovative techniques were able to extract out of them their most truthful, powerful and naturalistic performances.

“Sandra lived by seeing magic and possibility in everything,” Dern said in a statement. “She met the discovery of character and story with equal protectiveness, irreverence, humility and grace. She taught us the practice of investigating healing through acting.

“But more than that, she invited us to know ourselves as artists and humans in ways I could’ve never begun to explore without her. She’s been my teacher since age 17, and I had...

All those British crime films once deemed undesirable for the National Image are beginning to get the attention they deserve. This story of a single day in a working class section of London has plenty of criminal activity but blends it in with the everyday crimes of desperation and boredom. The Sandigate girls are flirting with trouble but Googie Withers’ Rose Sandigate has gone much further: she’s hiding an escaped fugitive who was once her lover in the vain hope of recapturing her lost youth. Director Robert Hamer examines a dozen distinctive characters on the edge of respectability, in one of the most original ‘Brit noirs’ we’ve seen to date.

It Always Rains on Sunday

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1947 / B&w / 1:37 Academy / 92 min. / Street Date November 5, 2019 / available through Kino Lorber / 24.95

Starring: Googie Withers, John McCallum, Jack Warner, Edward Chapman, Susan Shaw, Patricia Plunkett, Nigel Stock, David Lines, Sydney Tafler,...

The most striking thing about Parkinson’s Disease, as we learn in Jeremy Paxman’s Paxman: Putting up with Parkinson’s (ITV), is the way that it just creeps up and mugs people. In this rather touching and very candid account of his life since he was formally diagnosed with it 18 months ago, Paxman explains that he only knew he had the condition after he’d been admitted to hospital when he slipped over on some ice and suffered some cuts to his face.

“I was in a real mess in A&e, and the doctor said, ‘I think you’ve got Parkinson’s.’ And it turned out he’d been watching University Challenge and he’d noticed my face had acquired what’s known as the ‘Parkinson’s mask’. I wasn’t as effusive and ebullient as normal. I had no idea.”

And so the tests were done, and at 72 years of age,...

New to Netflix Streaming On Monday August 1st: The Dirty Dozen (Nr | 1967)

Flickchart Ranking: #392

Times Ranked: 20571

Win Percentage: 46%

How Many Top-20′s: 34 Users

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Directed By: Robert Aldrich

Starring: Charles Bronson • Jim Brown • John Cassavetes • Richard Jaeckel • Robert Ryan

Genres: Adventure • Ensemble Film • War • War Adventure

Studios/Franchises: AFI’s 100 Years…100 Thrills

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Lethal Weapon (R | 1987)

Flickchart Ranking: #477

Times Ranked: 187567

Win Percentage: 46%

How Many Top-20′s: 756 Users

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Directed By: Richard Donner

Starring: Gary Busey • Mel Gibson • Danny Glover

Genres: Action • Action Thriller • Police Detective Film • Odd Couple Film • Holiday Film

Studios/Franchises: Lethal Weapon

Lethal Weapon 2 is also available to stream.

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The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes (PG | 1970)

Flickchart Ranking: #4976

Times Ranked: 1337

Win Percentage: 54%

How Many Top-20′s: 0 Users

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Directed By: Billy Wilder

Starring: Robert Stephens • Colin Blakely • Tamara Toumanova • Christopher Lee • Geneviève Page

Genres: Detective Film • Mystery • Romance • Romantic Mystery

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Spaceballs (PG | 1987)

Flickchart Ranking: #493

Times Ranked: 233515

Win Percentage: 45%

How Many...

The Inheritance is an urban horror movie that follows five cousins, Karen (Golden Brooks), Henry (D.B. Woodside), Tyrone (Darrin Dewitt Henson), Lily (Rochelle Aytes), and Simpson (Shawn Michael Howard) on a “family reunion” type gathering to find out about their inheritance they will be receiving. Naturally it’s a horror movie so things start to go wrong for them after they arrive at the house, in the dead of winter and in the middle of nowhere. They find out things about their ancestors that they end up wishing would have just stayed a secret.

Their uncle Melvin (Keith David) plays host to the small group, there’s a party, people getting hammered and some begin to die. We see some crazy tribal shadows appear at times which are really creepy at times. Blood gets splattered and like I said before, more people die. Other relatives also show up and stories...

Dread hit the Los Angeles premiere of director Robert O’Hara’s Gothic horror-thriller The Inheritance this past Friday night at the Culver Plaza Theatre and brought back exclusive interviews with the film’s vivacious producer Effie T. Brown as well as with the feature’s star Keith David (John Carpenter’s The Thing).

Debuting as part of the Pan African Film Festival (the flick has scored awards at several film fests, including ‘Winner of Grand Jury Prize for Best Actor’ at 2010’s American Black Film Fest), The Inheritance bows to DVD and Blu-ray on April 12, 2011 from One Village Entertainment.

Speaking with Dread, producer Brown said of the sway (as indicated in the press notes) of The Shining and Rosemary’s Baby on her film (which revolves around five ambitious cousins who gather at their family’s homestead to claim an inheritance, only to find themselves thrust into a world of terrifying rituals,...

NBC "The Cape" star Keith David will be at the Pan-African Film Festival premiere of the Award-winning thriller, "The Inheritance." On Friday, February 18, 2011, the all-star screening will be held at the Culver Plaza Theatre, the Wells Fargo Screen (Theater 5) in Culver City, CA Actor Keith David, Shawn Michael Howard and Lanre Idewu, Producer Effie T. Brown and many more notables will be in attendance. The film features five ambitious cousins who gather at a family homestead to claim an inheritance. They are thrust into a terrifying world of rituals, trances and demonic possessions as they compete for their share of a mysterious family fortune in One Village Entertainment.s gothic thriller. In the tradition...