When the directing gig for "The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn" became open a number of well known Hollywood filmmakers auditioned for the job including Sofia Coppola, Bill Condon and Gus Van Sant. After...
It can't get much worse for Lars von Trier, but somebody might need to let the mercurial director know the time for games are over. The film world is still rocking after the filmmaker's statements yester...
The rapturous sound of Wagner's "Tristan un Isolde" wraps around the audience as surreal images of the end of the world unfold in slow motion. Kirsten Dunst, gaunt and adult in a way we've never seen b...
Why he'll be at Cannes: His wife (what's her name? Angelina Jolie or something?) is voicing a character in "Kung Fu Panda 2," getting a lavish premiere at Cannes. AND Mr. Pitt's co-starring in the competitio...
The 64th Cannes Film Festival line up was announced this morning and 49 films in this year's selection with 33 countries represented. And as festival director Thierry Fremaux noted, of the 19 in competition four are b...
Earlier today, I was part of an e-mail chain about a possible get-together on Saturday night, and as is the case with many e-mail chains I'm part of, things devolved into pure silliness very quickly, leading one perso...
2011 is shaping up to be a great year at the movies. Hollywood is mixing a fair share of sequels with some truly original and out there potential blockbusters. And yet, as HitFix presents its 30 most antic...
Was "Spider-Man 4" falling apart the best thing that ever happened to Kirsten Dunst? It certainly didn't come up in our conversation a few weeks ago (repeat: she never said that), but in this writer's ...
At the beginning of 2010, Kirsten Dunst couldn't have believed her summer would be so open, but that was before Sam Raimi's "Spider-Man 4" fell apart. Now, Dunst is filling in the gaps with less commercial f...
