Sixty years after winning the Best Supporting Actress Oscar for Anita in West Side Story, 90-year-old Rita Moreno has the chance to pull off a unique Oscars double in Steven Spielberg’s electrifying remake of the 1961 movie classic. With nominations for the Oscars due to be announced on 8 February 2022, Moreno is quoted at […]
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Film Review: Rita Moreno – Just a Girl Who Decided To Go For It
The Puerto Rican actress, singer and dancer Rita Moreno has had a career lasting over 70 years. For a long time in Hollywood she was stereotypically cast in roles she considered beneath her dignity, as native girls, maids, western molls and, generally speaking, women with no character, but just present as eye candy for the […]
Film Review: West Side Story
West Side Story opens nationwide on 10 December 2021. Star rating: five stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ Steven Spielberg’s much-anticipated – and, in some quarters, much dreaded – movie of West Side Story has finally reached cinemas. It’s the film I’ve been eagerly waiting for since about 1984: a full-blown musical by one of the […]
