The latest pictorial from Berlin (Javier Bardem, Madds Mikkelsen and festival director Dieter Kosslick) ... more >
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NPR interviews George Clooney
Comment and analysis
The radio was on this morning, my train of thought lazily moseying along a conversation between George Clooney and National Public Radio’s Robert Siegel. I’ve always been ambivalent about Clooney, who recently appeared in the Alexander Payne-directed The Descendants. As much as the off-screen Clooney is exceedingly likeable, the characters he plays leave me indifferent. He’s ... more >
Bridesmaids surfs on wave of record profits
Best line from the movie: it's called civil rights. This is the 90s.
Bridesmaids, in which girls go bachelorette party-wild, has entered the history books for best-selling video-on-demand receipts. Studio Universal Pictures took the unusual step of actually releasing the record-breaking numbers via a press release; the Oscar-nominated comedy has accumulated 4.8 million rentals in four months, according to Rentrak (via the Universal Pictures press release), which ... more >
Stallone and Schwarzenegger to team up again
You've heard it right, Sly and Schwartzy (as the French inexplicably call him) will team up for a new jailbreak movie. As reported by Deadline, the two weight-room aficionados will appear in a new movie called The Tomb. Stallone will play a man who builds a prison that can’t be escaped from, gets sent to said prison after being set up and then has to get out of the prison he created. There's ... more >
NEW SERIES: America’s art house theaters
L.A.'s New Beverly
A glance at the entertainment news cycle should quickly tell you that we’re in the middle of a paradigm shift as far as how movies are consumed; Facebook, soon to be a publicly-traded company, could in the next few years become the main player in online movie streaming. But aren't more people going to the movies? Or less? It's hard to say--the middle-of-the-week at your local cineplex looks like ... more >
OBIT-Ben Gazzara
I don't think they make actors like Ben anymore--Peter Bogdanovich
New York City mourns the death of a beloved actor: Ben Gazzara died over the weekend. Gazzara grew up on New York’s Lower East Side and later attended Stuyvesant High, City College, and the dramatic workshop at the New School—you don't get any more New Yorkey than this. Did you know that Gazzara was in line for the lead role in Elia Kazan’s Cat on a Hot Tin Roof? He had, after all, ... more >
On Acting Good at the Movies
Misbehaving at the cineplex, 21st century style
Ann Hornaday, the film critic at the Washington Post, wrote about what she perceives as strange phenomena taking place in movie theatres (read the article here http://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/movies/essay-of-manners-movies-and-the-sorry-state-of-spectatorship/2012/01/30/gIQALMc3mQ_story.html). She talks about some moviegoers’ lack of civility in texting during a movie or better ... more >
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