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 […]
Yeah, I’ll admit it. I hate westerns. Oh, there are a small handful I truly enjoy, classics like John Ford’s The Searchers or revisionist Westerns like Unforgiven, but in general it’s hard for me to get enthused about dusty plains, cowboy hats and country music. But what if we consider the Western genre as one […]
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 […]
For whatever reason, be it a deep-seated desire to act, a lack of a casting budget, or just “if you want something done right, do it yourself”, many directors at some point in their careers have stepped out from behind the camera to act. This is typically in a smaller, cameo role, and often with […]