Straw Dogs with Dustin Hoffman and Susan George: Infamous rape scene. Straw Dogs movie (1971) review: Sam Peckinpah drama is best remembered for its infamous rape scene. If there has…
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Bikini or no, Jennifer Aniston and Adam Sandler Last Day on Top while solid Justin Bieber documentary to face competition from Alex Pettyfer and Liam Neeson.
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Who Is Harry Kellerman and Why Is He Saying Those Terrible Things About Me? review: Oscar nominee Barbara Harris steals Dustin Hoffman film.
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Dustin Hoffman in The Graduate: Top classic movies at “Last Remaining Seats” series in Los Angeles. The L.A. Conservancy has announced a list of tentative titles for the 2010 edition…
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Midnight Cowboy with Jon Voight and Dustin Hoffman. John Schlesinger’s 1969 socio-psychological drama Midnight Cowboy, one of the better best picture Oscar winners, will be screened as part of the…
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Starring Harrison Ford, Ridley Scott’s 1982 dystopian thriller Blade Runner is a modern classic. But does it merit that label? Sean Young and Rutger Hauer costar.
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Last Chance Harvey with Emma Thompson and Dustin Hoffman. Screenwriter-director Joel Hopkins’ Anglo-American co-production Last Chance Harvey will open the 2009 Palm Springs Film Festival. The romantic comedy stars two-time…
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Sydney Pollack and Patrick Dempsey in Made of Honor. Sydney Pollack, the director of several critical and box office successes of the 1960s, 1970s, and 1980s, died earlier today in the…
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Reds with Jack Nicholson, Diane Keaton, and Warren Beatty. Warren Beatty’s Reds, the best of the five 1981 Academy Award nominees for best picture, will be screened as the next…
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Frank Sinatra in ‘The Man with the Golden Arm’: Groundbreaking drug addiction drama. Although hardly one of Otto Preminger’s better films, The Man with the Golden Arm is worth a…
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Anne Bancroft, Mrs. Robinson in The Graduate dead at 73 Anne Bancroft, Mrs. Robinson in The Graduate and the longtime wife of Mel Brooks, died of uterine cancer on July…
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What’s the highest grossing comedy ever? That depends on how you come up with the box office figures, how you interpret them, and how you define ‘comedy.’
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Hilary Swank Oscar triumph #2: The Million Dollar Baby actress is the 21st century’s first double winner in the Academy Awards’ acting categories.
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Johnny Depp is a lifeless, Disneyfied version of Peter Pan author J.M. Barrie in Marc Forster’s feel-good family tragedy Finding Neverland.
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Brad Silberling’s handsomely mounted fantasy adventure Lemony Snicket’s A Series of Unfortunate Events is a Jim Carrey mugfest. But Meryl Streep is wasted.
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A quartet of award-winning Meet the Fockers cast members waste their talent and prestige in this idiotized Ben Stiller comedy. Jay Roach directed.
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Valerie Perrine overshadows a badly miscast and painfully unfunny Dustin Hoffman in Bob Fosse’s problematic 1974 Lenny Bruce biopic Lenny.
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The all-star ‘existential’ David O. Russell satire I Heart Huckabees is all but unwatchable; its notable moments actually took place behind the scenes.
Lake Tahoe directed by Fernando Eimbcke. Fernando Eimbcke’s minimalist comedy Lake Tahoe presents a series of vignettes showing a small-town teenager (Diego Cataño) trying to cope with the death of…
Jane Fonda: Warren Beatty gay by association? Warren Beatty: AFI Life Achievement Award with Dyan Cannon & Diane Keaton + Jane Fonda Jane Fonda, Diane Keaton, Dyan Cannon, and Elaine…
‘The Lost City’: Andy Garcia makes it clear you should start the revolution without him Andy Garcia’s The Lost City is clearly a labor of love. Garcia fought for nearly…
J.M. Barrie and Peter Pan origins: Marc Forster’s Finding Neverland opts for crowd-pleasing myths instead of a depiction of a darker, more complex reality.
As a proudly evil Nazi, Laurence Olivier Is by far the best thing about the confusing and absurd 1976 political thriller Marathon Man. Dustin Hoffman stars.