There were a number of old-school Hollywood heavy hitters at the Palm Springs Film Festival. Donald Sutherland, Dustin Hoffman and Clint Eastwood represented for the silver-haired crowd. Clint, the grizzled old bastard, showed up to accept his Career Achievement Award. Good for him. I saw him once o...

"You won't have Nixon to kick around anymore ..." -- Richard Nixon, on his 1962 loss to Pat Brown for the Governorship of California That statement turned out, of course, not to be true; we would have Nixon to kick around for decades more. That statement also concealed a different truth, which is th...

Filed under: Drama, Universal, RumorMonger A dedicated contributor to the Ain't it Cool News machine got the chance to catch what they claimed was the final cut of Ron Howard's political drama, Frost/Nixon , and the good news is that it earned a resounding thumbs up (if you make it through the entir...