Watch all the Videos from the Oct. 2016 ACTION/CRIME Film Festival

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Highlights from the Thursday October 20, 2016 event. The October 2016 ACTION/CRIME Festival was a major success. The sold out crowd loved every single film. The theme of the festival was “Remember the Red Herring”. In these genres (action, crime, mystery) especially, the “red herring” element always appears, like they…

Happy Birthday: Ruby Dee (1922–2014)

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Ruby Dee (1922–2014) Born: October 27, 1922 in Cleveland, Ohio, USA Died: June 11, 2014 (age 91) in New Rochelle, New York, USA Married to: Ossie Davis (9 December 1948 – 4 February 2005) (his death) (3 children) I think you mustn’t tell your body, you mustn’t tell your soul,…

Happy Birthday: Roberto Benigni

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Roberto Benigni Born: October 27, 1952 in Manciano La Misericordia, Castiglion Fiorentino, Tuscany, Italy Married to: Nicoletta Braschi (26 December 1991 – present) [on winning the Best Actor Academy Award for Life Is Beautiful (1997) after already accepting the Best Foreign Language Film award as its director] “Thank you. This…

Happy Birthday: Ivan Reitman

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Ivan Reitman Born: October 27, 1946 in Komárno, Czechoslovakia [now Slovak Republic] Married to: Geneviève Robert (12 September 1976 – present) (3 children) [on current comedy, 2013] The world has become more abrasive, possibly because of social media. But people said that about us. The sexuality seems to have lessened.…

Happy Birthday: Robert Picardo

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Robert Picardo Born: October 27, 1953 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA His thoughts on Star Trek: I came to the Star Trek franchise a little late. I got into it, I married a woman who’s a big Star Trek fan, so, even though I was not into it when I was…

Happy Birthday: Peter Firth

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Peter Firth Born: October 27, 1953 in Bradford, Yorkshire, England, UK I didn’t really capitalise on that early success because I had high artistic ideals and they didn’t involve commercial cinema. That said, becoming an international film star takes its toll – there’s a price to be paid for being…

Happy Birthday: John Cleese

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John Cleese Born: October 27, 1939 in Weston-Super-Mare, Somerset, England, UK I think marriage should be like dog licences. I think you should have to renew marriage licences every five years, unless you have children. And I think before you have children you should have to go and pass various…

Happy Birthday: Patrick Fugit

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Patrick Fugit Born: October 27, 1982 in Salt Lake City, Utah, USA There are these girls who live in Maryland: they’re the Patrick Super Fan Club Association of America. They’ve sent me videotapes of themselves just eating and talking about Hanson, and a loaf of bread that was really moldy…

Happy Birthday: Troy Gentile

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Troy Gentile Born: October 27, 1993 [observation, 2014] I’m trying to establish myself as a young adult now. I’m no longer the chubby kid in the wheelchair [Bad News Bears (2005)] or the young Jack Black [Tenacious D in The Pick of Destiny (2006)]. I’ve seen how you can hit…