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 ...

Tony Lo Bianco, who played the key role of Sal Boca in Best Picture Oscar winner The French Connection and appeared in more than 100 films and TV shows during a 60-year screen career, died Tuesday of ...

William Friedkin’s 1971 thriller French Connection tells the story of bent cops ‘Popeye’ Doyle (Gene Hackman) and Buddy ‘Cloudy’ (Roy Scheider) as they attempt to foil a large narcotics smuggling ...

The Oscar winner "never played by the rules, often to my own detriment," he said. By Stephen Galloway William Friedkin, the Oscar winner behind The French Connection and The Exorcist who was one of ...

The death of Hollywood icon Gene Hackman saddened millions — and a legendary ex-NYPD detective who tutored him in his most famous screen role in “The French Connection” is feeling his loss more than ...

He made his name with two of the biggest box-office hits of the 1970s. But despite some later successes, he never regained his early acclaim. By William Grimes William Friedkin, a filmmaker whose ...