After a decades-spanning career, Gene Hackman retired from acting in 2004. During his illustrious run, the actor won two Academy Awards for his roles in The French Connection and Unforgiven. Speaking ...

William Friedkin's 1971 action thriller features a famous chase scene that has gone down as one of the best in cinema, but filming the scene was quite risky. Friedkin's The French Connection opened to ...

Classic film fans are up in arms this week over the apparent censorship of the acclaimed 1971 crime thriller, The French Connection, on digital platforms—including the version of the film currently ...

Reid Goldberg is a features writer for Collider. Having grown up in the Midwest, he attended the University of Wisconsin in Milwaukee. While he's begrudingly accepted that a FIlm Studies degree wasn't ...

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 ...

LOS ANGELES -- William Friedkin, the filmmaker behind 1973's adaptation of novelist William Peter Blatty's horror novel "The Exorcist," has died at age 87. Stephen Galloway, dean of Dodge College of ...