Scroll down too quickly YouTube’s movie list and you might miss hidden gems such as “Detour,” the 1945 Edgar G. Ulmer B-movie about a loser struggling to free himself, without much conviction, from the successive traps he falls into. About “Detour,” Roger Ebert had this insightful comment: “The difference between a crime film and a noir film is that the bad guys in crime movies know they're bad and want to be, while a noir hero thinks he's

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French directors Claude Lelouch, Costa-Gavras, Michel Hazanavicius, Cédric Klapisch and Coline Serreau have been the first signatories of a petition launched in France in favor of protecting the legendary Cinecitta film studios in Rome, which is being zeroed in on by real estate developers. After a petition drive was launched by French film trade associations, directors like Radu Mihaileanu, Jean-Jacques Beineix, Abderrahmane Sissako and

If the only artistic medium to truly immortalize people is cinema then Janis Joplin will finally get her day in the sun: the cosmic mama is the subject of an upcoming biopic slated for production. This new film, titled “Joplin,” will be produced by Peter Newman. Principal photography is set to begin in September 2013. Sean Durkin (“Martha, Marcy, May, Marlene”) has been attached to direct it. The budget for "Joplin" is estimated to be around

Less than two weeks after announcing their separation Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes have reached an agreement to settle their divorce amicably and seem determined to remain discreet about the role of Scientology, the church of which Cruise is the most visible member, in their breakup. "The matter is settled and an agreement was signed, "said Jonathan Wolfe, counsel for Katie Holmes, in a statement on Monday. "We

A new poster for "The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey" was unveiled on the Facebook page of Peter Jackson. He added this comment, "Hi everyone. Here's an exclusive Comic Con poster. Be sure to get your copy in San Diego and let me know what you think of it! Cheers, Peter J" On it you can see Gandalf, played by Ian McKellen, walking purposefully on a country road in the Shire, in a rustic sort of atmosphere. Well, almost