Background: For years, the legal rights to Ridley Scott's seminal 1982 science-fiction classic "Blade Runner" have been a contentious muddled mess, and that same legal morass currently has the film...
I wish I were more resistant to Stephen Daldry's movies.
He's given to the sort of grand gestures that can drive me nuts in some filmmakers who don't earn those moments, who work at the depth of a car commercial, b...
Linked in today's round-up is a piece from the LA Times' Steven Zeitchik asking what went wrong at the box office for "50/50." It's a shame, really, the instant analysis and diagnosis of films that...
Clooney directed the political drama, in which he also stars as Democratic presidential candidate Mike Morris. Ryan Gosling co-stars as Morris' idealistic staffer, who gets an inside look at dirty politics while on th...
In Marked for Death, Steven Seagal is told to "try to find the gentle person inside yourself." But he doesn't spend too much time looking, preferring instead to crack the spines of his victims. Seagal plays ...
"Stupid is as stupid does," says Forrest Gump (played by Tom Hanks in an Oscar-winning performance) as he discusses his relative level of intelligence with a stranger while waiting for a bus. Despite his sub...
Duncan Jones is a bright, unaffected guy who seems determined to make science-fiction movies he wants to see. I met him once, briefly, while he was working with the great Paul Hirsch to edit his new movie "...
