Zach Laws is a longtime entertainment journalist and movie features writer. He is also an independent filmmaker and member of the Screen Actors Guild based out of Los Angeles. Zach grew up watching ...

Long before high-speed CGI chases became a Hollywood staple, The French Connection proved that practical filmmaking could be just as thrilling. More than 50 years after its release, the Oscar-winning ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. It’s the dead of winter. As Santa Claus rings his bells on a pavement in Brooklyn, a hot dog vendor wanders into a bar. That’s ...

Fifty years ago this month, William Friedkin’s “The French Connection” set a new benchmark for crime thrillers. The production was budgeted initially at $2 million by Twentieth Century-Fox. This was ...

Gene Hackman has been out of the film game for almost twenty years now and ostensibly retired, but he was more than happy to take part in a chance to celebrate the 50th anniversary of The French ...

Gene Hackman, the two-time Oscar winning legend of the silver screen, was found dead in his New Mexico home at age 95, Variety reports. Hackman’s career as one of Hollywood’s most prominent actors ...

It's the dead of winter. As Santa Claus rings his bells on a pavement in Brooklyn, a hot dog vendor wanders into a bar. That's when the commotion begins. A drug dealer with a knife bursts out of the ...