Collins stars in the film as the title character in director Tarsem Singh's reimagining of the classic fairytale. The dwarfs are: Mark Povinelli ("Half-Pint"), Jordan Prentice ("Napoleon"), Da...
Movie fans and media types always groan about the never ending string of "floating head" movie posters, but there's a reason Hollywood keeps churning them out: they work. Your latest example? &nbs...
Things just ain't the same. At least, that's the mantra for studios attempting to play the best picture game this year. After two years of expanded play following the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sci...
Novelist Don Winslow is one of the latest authors to have piqued Hollywood's interest, with a film version of his crime novel "Savages" completing production last week with Oliver Stone at the helm and now n...
As if I hadn't just had an exhausting but amazing month-long orgy of film, as if I wasn't sitting here in the airport, ready to fly home, spent and worn out by how great it's all been, there just had to be one story b...
Kevin Costner has quite possibly made one of the worst decisions of his long career by dropping out of writer/director Quentin Tarantino's "Django Unchained", in which he was slated to star in a support...
This year's Best Actor race is an odd bird indeed. There are so many wonderful performances out there, but so few seem to fit into the (unfortunate) Oscar paradigm. Hopefully that will mean studios will recognize some...
In 1932, Paul Muni played an Al Capone-esque Italian-American gangster terrorizing prohibition-era Chicago. In 1983, Al Pacino hammed it up as a Cuban immigrant mobster terrorizing coke-addled Miami. Now, with Univers...
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Linked in today's round-up is a story from The Guardian newspaper in London in which Ryan Gibey bemoans the loss of microbudget American independent cinema. Of course, there isn't really a loss there, as shoe-string b...
