El Chupacabra terrifies Big Pharma: How polemical filmmaker Michael Moore has become an urban legend within the American pharmaceutical industry.
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Pretty Western actress had promising Hollywood career derailed after a Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer musical flop, but was kept busy opposite several cowboy stars.
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Producer Samuel Goldwyn Jr has publicly derided the Academy Awards’ arcane Best Foreign Language Film rules that keep prestigious work out of the running.
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Sidney Lumet movies getting some belated Academy recognition: The Honorary Oscar will go to the Serpico and Dog Day Afternoon director.
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A few quotes as big-screen veterans Joan Collins and Lauren Bacall ponder: Best Actress Academy Award win or no, how much of a movie legend - if one at all - is Birth star Nicole Kidman?
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Robin Williams is the Golden Globes’ next recipient of the Cecil B. DeMille Award for lifetime achievement - despite less than 25 years in movies.
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Award-winning Iraq War-themed drama gets US distribution + veteran Oscar winner has been hospitalized + Antarctica is getting its very first movie theater.
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An animated Pixar hit, a costly motion-capture fantasy and an ‘end of the world’ disaster flick are among eligible entries for next year’s Academy Awards.
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A Muslim radical has killed contentious Dutch filmmaker Theo van Gogh - Vincent van Gogh’s great-grandnephew known for several polemical movies.
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A couple of Susan Sarandon quotes: The Oscar-winning actress discusses the need for liberal political activism in our troubled times and her appeal as a sexy older woman capable of seducing younger men.
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John Wayne DVD collection features a rare all-star and multiple Oscar-nominated ‘disaster’ blockbuster, in addition to Shakespearean and 3D Westerns.
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Two Pedro Almodóvar quotes: Bad Education filmmaker takes on the Catholic Church and its millenary anti-gay stance, while actor Gael García Bernal reveals his ‘inner transvestite.’
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Three quotes by U.S. filmmakers: Michael Moore and John Sayles denounce the Iraq War and its enablers, while Oliver Stone denounces Hollywood’s perennial warmongering.
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Four news DVDs focus on Oscar-winning director George Stevens: A tribute to British colonialism; an immigration family drama; and two documentaries, one of which features rare WWII color footage.
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French film stars Jeanne Moreau, Catherine Deneuve and Juliette Binoche among celebrities offering support for hostages being held in Iraq. Also: Iranian filmmaker hospitalized after arrest.
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Is The Aviator star Leonardo DiCaprio going to play a 1930s gangster or an FBI agent in Michael Mann’s planned crime drama based on the book Public Enemies?
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Toronto Film Festival controversies: Contentious topics include a documentary about the military service of U.S. presidential contender John Kerry and the horrific abuse of a cat.
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Beyond Paradise: The Life of Ramon Novarro: Biography of the tragic gay actor and MGM star (Ben-Hur) who was both devoutly Catholic and homosexual.
French film producer René Cleitman’s prestigious credits include Cyrano de Bergerac and several Prix César and Oscar-nominated titles.
The low-key documentary Calling Hedy Lamarr offers a glimpse into the phone habits of one of Hollywood’s most glamorous stars.
An Ed Wood film from 1971, the long-thought (partially) lost sexually explicit supernatural tale Necromania was an adult genre groundbreaker.
Bollywood superstar Aamir Khan asserts that his latest movie - the historical political/biographical drama Mangal Pandey: The Rising - is not anti-British propaganda. Ketan Mehta directed.
The new Claude Lelouch film The Parisians is a critical and box office bomb. The director is resorting to radical measures, but fellow veteran Philippe de Broca thinks that won’t work.