TCM presents the life story of (a not gay) John Nash, starring Russell Crowe: In the phony 'A Beautiful Mind,' director Ron Howard and screenwriter Akiva Goldsman wash the gay away. '31 Days of Oscar' on TCM: From fake biopic & passionate bromance to the deadly clash of civilizations Turner […]

The Insider movie: Al Pacino and Russell Crowe in Michael Mann's corporate greed drama. 'The Insider' movie review: CBS News exposé barks but doesn't bite Michael Mann's 1999 movie The Insider quote exchange: “It's old news. … We'll be ok,” says Don Hewitt (Philip Baker Hall), the creator of the […]

The Hobbit with the Gollum a.k.a. Andy Serkis. Starring Martin Freeman as the young Bilbo Baggins, Peter Jackson's The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey – the first installment in the cinematic trilogy based on J.R.R. Tolkien's (not all that long) 1937 novel The Hobbit – is both a domestic blockbuster and […]

Les Misérables with Eddie Redmayne and Amanda Seyfried. In Tom Hooper's film version of the international stage musical hit based on Victor Hugo's early-19th-century-set classic novel about the long & demented arm of the Law, Amanda Seyfried, of Mamma Mia! and Dear John fame, plays the ill-fated factory worker-turned-sex worker Fantine's out-of-wedlock daughter […]

Les Misérables trailer is out. (Please scroll down.) You can hear Anne Hathaway's miserable Fantine singing “I dreamed that love would never die … I had a dream my life would be so different from this hell I'm living.” All the while, dialogue-less bits from the film are shown featuring […]