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Josh Brolin thought he was just being goofy when he launched into a Tommy Lee Jones impersonation on a night out with the Coen brothers and their pal Barry Sonnenfeld. Turns out, Brolin was on an audition of sorts. Complete Story...
Will Smith may not want to talk about what happened last week in Moscow, but Tommy Lee Jones sure does.
Just a month before its June release in the U.S., Paramount Pictures delayed the debut of "G.I. Joe: Retaliation" by nine months after another movie based on a Hasbro plaything was trounced at the box office by "The Avengers."
There's a moment early on in "Men in Black 3" when Will Smith's Agent J sits down next to his longtime partner, Tommy Lee Jones' Agent K, and bemoans the fact that he's too old for this sort of thing — for running around New York in matching dark suits, chasing down aliens and zapping them with their shiny metal weapony doo-hickeys.
The contradiction inherent to all Wes Anderson films — the juxtaposition of the meticulous artificiality of the settings and the passionately wistful emotions that are longing to burst free — is at its most effective in a while in "Moonrise Kingdom."
The American special effects company that brought the "Transformers" movies to life and recently wowed concertgoers with a performing hologram of late rapper Tupac Shakur is setting up a studio in oil-rich Abu Dhabi.
Everyone in Hollywood wants to be a multi-hyphenate, right? Everyone wants to show they can do it all. A key figure in that tradition is the model-turned-actor. Maybe they wanted to act but had to take modeling gigs first; maybe they modeled first but wanted to prove they were more than just a pretty face.
Cannes is not featuring any female directors this year but it does love women in film.
Hollywood is known for snatching up best-selling books and turning them into big-screen blockbusters: "Twilight," "Harry Potter," "The Hunger Games," "The Help" and countless others.
"Battleship" is big, dumb fun that knows it's big, dumb fun and enthusiastically embraces its big, dumb, fun nature.
Like the inventors of the vibrator it depicts, "Hysteria" really aims to please. And like an inattentive lover displaced by the sexual aid, the film never quite satisfies.
With "The Hunger Games" in the rear-view mirror, the ensemble comedy "What to Expect When You're Expecting" just ahead and a 14-month-old at home, Elizabeth Banks is tired.
In analyzing Sacha Baron Cohen and the array of offbeat characters he's created, it's clear that it's become a matter of diminishing returns.
"Dark Shadows" — Tim Burton and Johnny Depp are snuggled warmly in their comfort zone in this chilly horror-comedy, their eighth collaboration as director and star, respectively, and their weakest by far. You don't need to know a thing about the "Dark Shadows" TV series that provides the inspiration. Tonally, thematically, visually, you've seen this movie before, with its oddball characters, skies in varying shades of gray and a foreboding sense of gothic mystery. It's actually a wonder that Depp hasn't played a vampire before; still, his long-undead Barnabas Collins, who's been buried alive for nearly two centuries and suddenly finds himself back in his insular Maine hometown in 1972, fits squarely within his well-honed on-screen persona. He thinks he's quite the charmer, but he's actually a bit awkward, and that contradiction provides the main source of humor. Or at least, it's supposed to. The script from Seth Grahame-Smith ("Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunt
Tim Burton and Johnny Depp are snuggled warmly in their comfort zone in the chilly horror-comedy "Dark Shadows," their eighth collaboration as director and star, respectively, and their weakest by far.
The film academy is opening an outdoor theater in Hollywood and inviting tourists and locals to enjoy movies there this summer.
"Neighborhood Watch" will now be known as just "The Watch."
Scarlett Johansson is deep in Alfred Hitchcock's world now, playing Janet Leigh opposite Anthony Hopkins' Hitchcock in the late filmmaker's biopic, but she's ready to put on her Black Widow super suit should Marvel call again.
Erin Brockovich has long been a champion for clean water. Her efforts to sue Pacific Gas & Electric for polluting the water supply of a California town were adapted into a big-screen story, 2000's "Erin Brockovich," starring Julia Roberts in the Oscar-winning title-role.
There was a time when Tim Burton was considered an exciting filmmaker, when his aesthetic seemed daring, inventive and unmistakably his own. But that seems like a while ago after seeing "Dark Shadows," his eighth collaboration with Johnny Depp and their weakest yet.
Don't let Mark Ruffalo's serene demeanor fool you. He admits there's a bit of an Incredible Hulk temper lurking underneath.
In theory, seeing Judi Dench, Maggie Smith, Tom Wilkinson and Bill Nighy share the screen should be a delight.
Judicial Watch Obtains DOD and CIA Records Detailing Meetings with bin Laden Raid Filmmakers Judicial Watch, the organization that investigates and fights government corruption, announced today that it has obtained records from the U.S. Department of Defense (DOD) and the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) regarding meetings and communications between government agencie …
Oil\'dIn April 2010 a massive oil spill began in the Gulf. The entire country was glued to the news until the well was capped, and then we forgot about it.
The BabysitterWhat happens when an 18-year-old babysitter discovers she\'s babysitting for a 27-year-old slacker?
Practical Magic is a 1995 novel by Alice Hoffman. Yes, there is a 1998 American fantasy film based on it roughly the way fourth cousins are based on the same genome. Alice Hoffman is a pleasure to read. Sandra Bullock, Nicole Kidman, Stockard Channing, and Dianne Wiest are a ple …
Cannes 2012: Nicole Kidman reveals why she loved playing a 'hot, over-sexed Barbie' in The Paperboy Australian actress Nicole Kidman says she accepted her role in The Paperboy, alongside Zac Efron, because she was looking for something 'raw and more dangerous'.
The Dangers behind Cult Film 'Thrive' -- How the cult film 'Thrive' recycles some of the worst conservative canardsThrive, a two-hour documentary that has gone viral since its release on the web in November, sells itself as an optimistic vision of a utopian future marked by "free energy," freedom from oppression and spiritual awakening. But on its way to depicting a dream-world utopia, T …
Cannes Best-Actor Candidate in Prison, Reportedly for Double MurderHow is this for a Cannes plot twist? Aniello Arena, the Italian actor who is already being praised at the prestigious film festival for “a very winning central performance” in the competition entry Reality, is unable to promote his breakout film because he is servin …
'Think Like a Man' Banned in France Due to All-Black CastFrance just keeps building on its reputation of hypocritical racial intolerance. Right on the heels of the controversy surrounding the Miss Black France pageant in Paris, news has come out that Steve Harvey’s highly successful film “Think Like a Man” has been …
Digital blues: Critic Ann Hornaday confronts a future without celluloid - The Washington PostLike the threat to the publishing industry with the vanishing, ever-tangible newspaper and page-turning book, the film industry is beginning to lament the end of celluloid in movie making, which makes way for the digital movement to be king.
Band Who Picked Up Hitchhiking John Waters Talks About Their Six Hours With The DirectorHave you been deluged with media inquiries? Absolutely. In the beginning we were just sort of tickled with it. It's just such a cool story that you can't not share it. The fear is that you beat something to death but at this point I'm just still delighted with the mysticis …
Jackie Chan to retire from action moviesAt Cannes, Jackie Chan has announced his retirement as an action star, saying he is too old for stunts and the world is “too violent”.
Aaron Sorkin Signs On as Screenwriter for Steve Jobs BiographyAfter flirting with the project for months, Aaron Sorkin is finally on board as the screenwriter of a movie to be based on Walter Isaacson’s biography of Steve Jobs.
Fake Obama Narrates Birther Lite Conspiracy Film 'Dreams From My Real Father' “Birthers” are flipping their tinfoil hats over a new film that claims President Barack Obama’s father was not a Kenyan goat herder but rather a communist journalist nearly four decades older than his mother. The problem? It undermines a bedrock of birther lor …
With the release of Dark Shadows, I was going over some of my movies, and rediscovered this one, it's been one of my favorite Depp works.
DVD review: "Love's Everlasting Courage." Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment. 88 minutes. Not rated. Whoaaa. Did I just see what I saw? Let's check the title again. Yep. It's one of those stories from the "Frontier Woman" series by Janette Oke, made into 11 films for The H …
Ashton Kutcher tries on Steve Jobs' signature outfit for new filmAs you can see, Kutcher is dressed in Steve Jobs' famous black turtleneck and blue jeans combo, which the CEO wore in most public appearances starting in the 1990s.
What to Watch This Weekend: Jean Renoir's "Grand Illusion"[...] Renoir had had the experience of war; he had been wounded; he had seen the ruin caused by the First World War; and no one but a bloodthirsty madman or a jingoistic armchair general could have wished a reprise. But in his depiction of the noble yet prejudiced Rauffe …
Two Sassoons, Vidal and Siegfried The old Sephardic surname “Sassoon” was shared by two Englishmen who had little in common other than their good looks, their military valor, their love of sport, their glory in separate spheres, and their longevity. For me, however, they had a meaningful rela …
Joyce Redman, Actress Who Feasted on Roles, Dies at 96 Joyce Redman, a distinguished Irish-born actress widely acclaimed for her intelligent stage presence in Shakespearean drama and French comedy, though probably best known to American audiences for her silent improvisation with a lobster, an oyster, a pear and Albert Finney in …
Nicole Kidman And Clive Owen Star In HBO Films' 'Hemingway & Gellhorn', A Film By Philip Kaufman 1936: Ernest Hemingway [Clive Owen] falls under the spell of the beautiful novelist and assured magazine writer Martha Gellhorn [Nicole Kidman] when he first meets her in Sloppy Joe’s, a bar in Key West, Fla.
The Avengers: Why Pirates Failed To Prevent A Box Office RecordDespite the widespread availability of pirated releases, The Avengers just scored a record-breaking $200 million opening weekend at the box office. While some are baffled to see that piracy failed to crush the movie’s profits, it’s really not that surprising. Claimi …
Life is hard. We all know it and feel it through our work, our relationships and just figuring out what it is we want at the end of all of this. One thing that I know helps get me through the rough patches in life is music. The moment you play a song, that melody and those lyric …
Peter Jackson stands by new film format despite Hobbit preview doubtsThe Hobbit director will not abandon 48 frames per second despite criticisms that format looks like 'daytime television'.
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