Is Raging Bull 2 getting cast? Raging Bull 2? First of all, let me clarify that this isn’t an April’s Fools joke. At least not on my part. And let…
Michelle Bonev ca. 2000s. Bulgarian actress-turned-filmmaker Michelle Bonev has become embroiled in an ugly controversy involving the notorious Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi; the Venice Film Festival; an award for…
Top Gun movie remake or sequel? Tom Cruise as Maverick in Tony Scott’s 1986 blockbuster. Paramount Pictures, the studio that brought you (or your parents, grandparents, or great-grandparents) Cecil B.…
Silvio Berlusconi corruption. “Spring had just begun along the beautiful peninsula and they were after Berlusconi. It was a shitty day like so many others …” the narrator explains in…
Jared Leto, Sarah Polley, Diane Kruger, Linh Dan Pham and director Jaco van Dormael: The curious case of ‘Mr. Nobody’ talent. ‘Mr Nobody’ director Jaco van Dormael and actors Jared…
Oscar Best Picture Nominees Major Rules Change: Lionel Barrymore, James Stewart, Jean Arthur, Edward Arnold in Frank Capra’s You Can’t Take It with You, the Best Picture winner of 1938.…
Brokeback Mountain with Heath Ledger and Jake Gyllenhaal as gay cowboy lovers kept apart by fear and bigotry. Directed by Ang Lee (Sense and Sensibility, Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon), the…
Submission: Part 1 controversies continue: Clip from Theo van Gogh and Ayaan Hirsi Ali’s anti-Islam short film to be broadcast on Italian television.
Emilie de Ravin, Robert Pattinson, Remember Me April 29: Singer Lady Gaga, actor Robert Pattinson, artist Banksy, Apple entrepreneur Steve Jobs, Indian prime minister Manmohan Singh, talk-show hostess Oprah Winfrey,…
Silvio Berlusconi attack: The Caiman with Silvio Orlando. The Caiman / Il Caimano, described by the Roman daily La Repubblica as a “dark portrait of Berlusconian Italy,” won four of the…