When Swede Warner Oland was hired to play Asian characters Charlie Chan and Dr. Fu Manchu in the 1930’s, it was because at the time Hollywood was reluctant to hire authentic Asians as leads. You’d think in the years since, casting agents would leap at the chance to prove how much progress we’ve made. You’d [...]

We apologize for the recent dearth of entries on Cineleet, but Cineleet staff has been busy recently with our “real” jobs. Updates are coming soon, however, so stick around, it’s gonna be a fun summer. In the meantime, I’d like to point some traffic towards my personal favorite film podcast, Filmspotting, featuring Adam Kempenaar and [...]

Legendary actor Charlton Heston passed away April 5th, 2008 at the age of 84. He will be remembered fondly by many for portraying scores of epic, larger-than-life characters ranging from Judah Ben-Hur to Michaelangelo to John the Baptist to Moses, as well as countless nameless (and often shirtless) stoic paragons of heroism.
However, I’ll always have [...]