The latest box office totals say that the backstage documentary “Michael jackson’s This is It” has reaped $23 million since opening. That’s not bad, but it’s doesn’t beat the American opening-weekend record for a performance movie, $31 million, set by “Hannah Montana/Miley…

The audience-choice award winner at this year’s Toronto International Film Festival, which concluded today, was “Precious.” Although the wrenching drama is about an obese, illiterate teen impregnated by her father, some see it as inspirational.  The movie also won the…

Last week, Paramount Pictures announced that it was delaying the release of Martin Scorsese’s new movie “Shutter Island” from Oct. 3 to Feb. 19. Although the gothic thriller starring Leonardo DiCaprio as a detective investigating the escape of a female mental…

About a dozen years ago, I crossed paths with documentarian Harrod Blank in the desert north of Reno, Nev., where he was making his second film about wildly decorated “art cars,” many of which convene there every September for the…

“Up in the Air,” the George Clooney comedy that was filmed in St. Louis earlier this year, is inching toward release. Some preliminary screenings have already stoked the Oscar buzz, and the movie will be formally unveiled at the Toronto…

At Union Station, it’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas. This Friday through Sunday, the historic trainyard will host a promotional caravan for the upcoming Disney flick “A Christmas Carol.” The event is free and open to the public.

Based…

The on- and off-camera talent from “Mystery Science Theater 3000″ continue to talk back to bad movies in two competing troupes, both of which have live events coming to St. Louis.

Mike Nelson, who hosted the series in the latter half…

Surely it’s good to be Robert Downey Jr., the clean-and-sober star who’s got the new movies “Sherlock Holmes” and Iron Man 2″ in the pipeline (and “The Soloist” coming out on DVD next week). But maybe it’s even better to…

This year’s Comic-Con, the annual sci-fi/fantasy/horror fest that attracts more than 100,000 sun-deprived geeks to San Diego, featured previews of such eagerly awaited movies as “Iron Man 2,”  “New Moon,” “Where the Wild Things Are” and Tim Burton’s “Alice in…

The Tivoli’s Reel Late series of midnight movies continues tonight and tomorrow with the horror flick “Dead Girl.” The Reel Late series is full of the kind of cult flicks that traditionally screen at midnight; but what’s unusual about “Dead…