‘The Black Dahlia’ 2006 with Scarlett Johansson and Josh Hartnett. ‘The Black Dahlia’ 2006 movie review: Film noir homage is The Big Snooze (image: ) Stylized without being stylish, intricate…
Anne Hathaway: Oscars’ host with James Franco. The Oscars’ host: Anne Hathaway & James Franco combo the worst ever? While on the Kodak stage on Feb. 27, this year’s Oscar…
Screen Actors Guild nominations: The King’s Speech received four SAG Award nods, including Best Supporting Actress for Helena Bonham Carter and Best Actor for Colin Firth. Although not a fool-proof…
John Malkovich, Morgan Freeman in Robert Schwentke’s Red. Nov. 4 Saw 3D topped the U.S. and Canada box office chart one more time on Wednesday, Nov. 3, scoring $1.26 million…
British street gangs top San Sebastian Film Festival: Neds directed by Peter Mullan. Peter Mullan’s Glasgow-set drama Neds, about a distraught teenager who joins a street gang in the early…
Pat Morita in ‘The Karate Kid’ 1984. Pat Morita: ‘The Karate Kid’ 1984 martial arts teacher dead at 73 Pat Morita a.k.a. Noriyuki ‘Pat’ Morita, best known for his Academy…
Euthanasia drama The Sea Inside with Javier Bardem. In Alejandro Amenábar’s euthanasia drama, Javier Bardem plays a tetraplegic Spaniard fighting for the right to end his life in a country…
Hilary Swank Oscar triumph: The star of Clint Eastwood’s sentimental boxing melodrama Million Dollar Baby has become the 21st century’s first two-time Best Actress Academy Award winner. Her previous victory,…
Director Clint Eastwood’s surrogate father-daughter boxing drama Million Dollar Baby earned SAG Awards for Best Actress Hilary Swank, who beat top competitor Annette Bening, and, more surprisingly, for Best Supporting…
The Aviator: Martin Scorsese’s Best Film - Drama Golden Globe winner stars Leonardo DiCaprio as Texan billionaire Howard Hughes, who made movies, dated Hollywood stars, got Hughes Aircraft off the…
Awards season news: In an ungodly turn of events, Jesus Christ and Jason Bourne lost out to Peter Parker, a.k.a. Spider-Man (“Spidey” among friends/crazy fans) at the Critics’ Choice Awards.…
The NSFC Awards’ surprisingly mainstream winner, Clint Eastwood’s maudlin boxing melodrama Million Dollar Baby is unlike most of the group’s recent Best Film selections – e.g., American Splendor, Mulholland Dr.,…
Million Dollar Baby movie: The most notable non-cliched element in Clint Eastwood’s boxing-world-set, surrogate father-daughter melodrama is that its invincible champ is a woman. As the title character, Hilary Swank…
Wine Country road movie Sideways: Life lessons, picturesque views of California’s Santa Ynez Valley Wine Country, and the (sexist) portrayal of adult men as overgrown babies are all found in…