This weekend's release of Sparkle will mark the final film for the recently deceased Whitney Houston. Posthumous film releases aren't too common, but there have been some fantastic films that hit theaters after a star's tragic death. Here are the Top 6:

The Deer Hunter (John Cazale) Cazale was in six films and all of them were nominated for Academy Awards for Best Picture. He was dying from terminal lung cancer during The Deer Hunter, but his girlfriend Meryl Streep and director Michael Cimino threatened to walk away from the film if the studio fired Cazale. Robert De Niro used his own m...

Remember a time when audio was reel to reel and surveillance done the old fashioned way? If not you need to check out the classic Francis Ford Coppola 1974 thriller "The Conversation" out this week from Lionsgate Home Entertainment starring the great Gene Hackman. The tapped info below!

Title: "The Conversation"

Grade: 4

Cast: Gene Hackman, John Cazale, Harrison Ford

Director: Francis Ford Coppola

Rating: PG

Runtime: 113 minutes

Release Company: Lionsgate

Website: www.lionsgatebluray.com

The Flick: While obviously dated in its old school form of technology, "The Con...

Sidney Lumet: 1924-2011: The movies have lost one of their magical masters. Dramatic wunderkind Director Sidney Lumet, who sadly died on Saturday April 9, 2011 at the age of 86 after suffering from lymphoma, was a classic old school filmmaker. Making interesting stories and the characters within his focus, Lumet was the maestro behind such work as "Network," "The Verdict" and "Dog Day Afternoon," with his films tallying an impressive thirty-six nominations and whopping thirty-three wins. And even though he never won an Oscar for his amazing directing (he got the 'Honorary Award' in 2005)...

Memorial Day commemorates members of the armed forces who died in war or any military action. Americans often celebrate Memorial Day by watching the Indy 500, going shopping, or having family picnics. Why not spend this Memorial Day thinking about the soldiers who gave their lives to the United States by watching a war film?

The staff here at Starpulse.com got together and came up with a list of some of our favorite war movies. Here they are in no particular order:

Band of Brothers (2001) - Yes, we know it's technically a mini-series, but it's so good we had to include it. The ...

Jake Gyllenhaal and Heath Ledger's gay kiss in Brokeback Mountain has been voted the best screen kiss of all-time. The controversial embrace beat other famous clinches from romantic classics including Gone With The Wind and Dirty Dancing to top the online poll conducted by a DVD rental company. Top 10 Below!

Fliss White, marketing manager for Lovefilm.com, said: "When we asked our members to share their favorite movie kiss, we never expected the results to be so varied. Our top 10 has covered everything from sexy passionate embraces to more sinister, threatening kisses."

Top 10 be...