At a time when Hollywood considers DVD piracy the greatest menace posed by the People’s Republic of China, a remake of The Manchurian Candidate (1962) might seem something of a throwback to another ...

Henry Silva, a character actor known for playing bad guys and gangsters in movies like “The Manchurian Candidate” and “Ocean’s 11,” has died. Silva died Wednesday of natural causes at the Motion ...

THERE'S NEVER BEEN a movie remotely like the old version of The Manchurian Candidate, the 1962 film starring Frank Sinatra. It was, by turns, a paranoid thriller, a dysfunctional family melodrama with ...

In real life, conspiracy theories are usually baseless, often preposterous, and frequently pernicious in their effects. But in the movies they are always presented as entirely plausible: In Alan J.

This article was originally on a blog post platform and may be missing photos, graphics or links. See About archive blog posts. Those familiar with “The Manchurian Candidate” only from the 1962 and ...

Near the end of the Korean War, a platoon of U.S. soldiers is captured by communists and brainwashed. Following the war, the platoon is returned home, and Sergeant Raymond Shaw (Laurence Harvey) is ...

Near the end of the Korean War, a platoon of U.S. soldiers is captured by communists and brainwashed. Following the war, the platoon is returned home, and Sgt. Raymond Shaw (Laurence Harvey) is lauded ...