The Ghost Writer is Roman Polanski's slick new political thriller, although it's a bit too slick for its own good. It has a premise and feel to it that is rightfully intriguing and, to the film's credit, it answers all of our questions by the end, but it is told in such a cold and distant way that the characters simply seem like Polanski's puppets rather than actual human beings....
This year Meryl Streep is up for her 16th Oscar nomination for her work in Julie and Julia. If you read my previous article on Streep you would know I don’t support this nomination or a win. Streep has been much better before and if she truly wants a 3rd Oscar she is going to need to be much riskier in her acting choices. [...]...
Few have done it blatantly (kudos to Gus Van Sant for trying, remakes of Rear Window and The Lodger are eternally forgettable), but many have paid enough homa...
Director Lasse Hallström will be putting the real life couple Johnny Depp and Vanessa Paradis together for the first time on screen in his new film My American Lover. ...
Comedian Simon Pegg recently announced via Twitter that his next film, Paul, will be delayed. The actor did not specify when the sci-fi comedy would be released just that more extensive CGI work is needed. ...
The feature-length documentary American Grindhouse explores the hidden history of the American Exploitation Film. The movie digs deep into this often overlooked category of U.S. cinema and unearths the shameless and occasionally shocking origins of this popular entertainment....
