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The Cannes Festival announced this morning that Marilyn Monroe would be gracing us with her presence this year--at least, virtually. The festival poster, which gets unveiled around this time of the year, will feature a Marilyn blowing on a birthday cake's single candle, marking this year as a landmark, this festival being the sixty-fifth. The festival's press release accompanying this poster states, "fifty years after her death, Marilyn is still a major figure

As reported by the Hollywood Reporter today, Francis Ford Coppola’s [...]

George Clooney wasn’t wrong: this 84th Oscars ceremony was Made in France. With the expected raiding of the top awards tier by the Jean Dujardin-Michel Hazanavicius (for Best Actor, and Best Director and Best Film respectively) dream-team, France figured highly on a lot of people’s minds, not least of all Academy voters. Martin Scorcese’s Hugo Cabret, in which a young boy crosses paths with George Méliès, the genial and inventive

Act of Valor begins with the sort of sappy voice-over letter that someone should regret. Preceding the storyline (and hence the letter) directors Mike McCoy and Scott Waugh appear on camera in what looks like a pre-emptive apologia. Speaking directly to the audience, the two men explain they cast real-life, non-actor Navy Seals and their families in hopes of celebrating the real people and capturing the experience raw. These real

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