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…
Jessica Alba in Little Fockers. Best known for her portrayal of Sue Storm in two Fantastic Four movies, Jessica Alba displays to advantage her face and figure in Paul Weitz’s…
Who Is Harry Kellerman and Why Is He Saying Those Terrible Things About Me? starring Dustin Hoffman. Long-titled movie Who Is Harry Kellerman and Why Is He Saying Those Terrible…
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…
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…
Does Ridley Scott’s 1982 dystopian thriller Blade Runner deserve its classic status? Harrison Ford, Sean Young, and Rutger Hauer star.
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…
Sydney Pollack, the director of several critical and box office successes of the 1960s, 1970s, and 1980s, died of cancer earlier today in the Los Angeles suburb of Pacific Palisades.…
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…
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…
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…
What’s the highest grossing comedy ever? That depends on how you come up with the box office figures and how you choose to interpret them.
Hilary Swank Oscar triumph #2: The actress has become the 21st century’s first double winner in the Academy Awards’ acting categories.
Johnny Depp delivers a lifeless performance as a Disneyfied J.M. Barrie in Marc Forster’s feel-good family tragedy Finding Neverland.
Brad Silberling’s handsomely mounted fantasy adventure Lemony Snicket’s A Series of Unfortunate Events is an all-out Jim Carrey mugfest.
Barbra Streisand, Dustin Hoffman, Robert De Niro, and Blythe Danner waste their talent + prestige in the idiotized Ben Stiller comedy Meet the Fockers.
Valerie Perrine overshadows a miscast Dustin Hoffman in Bob Fosse’s unfocused biopic Lenny (1974), about polemical standup comedian Lenny Bruce.
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: Marc Forster’s Finding Neverland opts for crowd-pleasing myths instead of the darker and more complex reality.
As a proudly evil Nazi, Laurence Olivier Is by far the best thing about John Schlesinger’s absurd + overlong political thriller Marathon Man.