The rumor was quashed before it got started: No, Ricky Gervais has not been tapped to host the next Academy Awards ceremony. That was the word from Larry Mark and Bill Condon, who were named as co-producers of the telecast this…
If, like Mrs. Williams, you can’t get enough of Johnny Depp, here’s good news: On Wednesday, the heady heart-throb announced his participation in three new Disney projects. Depp will play the mushroom munching Mad Hatter in “Alice in Wonderland” for frequent…
Those of you who toiled as extras in the Tim Robbins flick that rented Lambert Field last year will get to see the results on Friday. Now titled “The Lucky Ones,” the soldiers’ homecoming comedy also co-stars Michael Pena (”World…
The creative programmers at the Webster University Film Series (i.e., Mike Steinberg and James Harrison) have found another niche to fill. This week, the three-day Accessibility Film Series is devoted to documentaries about the physically challenged.
According to my sundial, it’s still outdoor-movie season, and tonight there’s a dandy of a double feature at Laumeier Park. And it’s free.
To stoke anticipation for an exhibit of John Waters’ photos next month, the sculpture park is screening two…
Jeffrey Katzenberg, the leg of the Dreamworks triumvirate who is not Steven Spielberg or David Geffen, says that 3-D technology is about to take over our lives. And not just in movie theaters. The Hollywood mogul predicted on Sunday in…
I recently blogged that I had seen seven movies in one day at the Toronto film festival. I miscounted. It was actually eight. I forgot I saw half an hour of an Italian potboiler called “A Perfect Day.”
Perfect indeed.
At a…
“Tropic Thunder” is like a comedic cousin to “Apocalypse Now.” And just as the calamitous production of Francis Ford Coppola’s Vietnam epic was documented in “Hearts of Darkness,”the Ben Stiller movie has a companion film. It’s called “Rain of Madness”…
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