I'm glad to see that Tom Hanks is up for another artistic go-round with Tom Tykwer, who was, of course, one of the co-directors of "Cloud Atlas," last year's hugely ambitious movie in which Hanks played seve...
MGM has had it's share of bad press recently as it struggles with cash-flow problems to its debtor before it releases a slew of new movies in 2010. Happily, a ray of sunshine hit the Century City based studio on Thurs...
Sam Mendes has built a solid, respectable, acclaimed career out of making films that I don't much like.
"American Beauty" may have suffered a profound backlash after winning the Oscar for Best Picture, but I still th...
To say "Where the Wild Things Are" has been a long time coming is an understatement. Director Spike Jonze began filming his adaptation of Maurice Sendak's classic children's novel in 2006, but encountere...
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We're finally into that season of the year where the big summer movies are starting to screen, and it's felt like summer this week in Los Angeles. I'm sitting here in my office, rac...
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This is not a political blog. I'm not going to change that any time soon. Even so, it feels trivial in some ways to come back to putting together a column of links withou...
Welcome to The Morning Read.
It's already Thursday? Really? Jesus, these weeks just slip away sometimes. I haven't made it to Amoeba yet this week, but I'm looking forward to making a trip down ther...
"Hangover" star Bradley Cooper may be going from angels to spies.
Prolific director Steven Soderbergh ("retiring" soon, after the release of "Haywire" and "Magic Mike") has l...
...they are both on our 10 Must-See Movies list for the fall.
The upcoming movie season has already been lambasted as seriously disappointing by some media pundits, but we think there are more than enough worthwhile ...
After 2010's "The Fighter" scored at the box office and earned Oscars for supporting performers Christian Bale and Melissa Leo, star-producer Mark Wahlberg immediately begin talking about a sequel. After a w...
