A wise man once said “It’s not just about seeing Star Wars two weeks before everyone else. You’ve gotta plow through crap like Marie Antoinette and Catwoman as well.� I have the fortune of being able to see all of the films that I want, and find out that they are only worth one viewing (or l...

Milk Sean Penn won an Academy Award for his portrayal of openly gay San Francisco politician Harvey Milk, and Dustin Lance Black won another for his script, which focused on Milk's activist years in the 1970s. "It's a minor miracle of sheer film making joy and determination," wrote James Rocchi, "an...

[Philip Seymour Hoffman and Charlie Kaufman. Image courtesy Sony Pictures] Synecdoche, New York is a masterpiece of filmmaking. In his ambitious debut as director, Charlie Kaufman—who made his name writing such groundbreaking films as Being John Malkovich and Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mindâ...

Here is a round up of stories that just didn’t make the /Film front page, or what we like to call…. Page 2! Lobster Johnson created this custom Heath Ledger-version Joker Munny. Patrick Read Johnson has found financing to complete post production on his autobiographical indie “ 77 ,...

As we established previously, little is happening movie- or industry-wise at the Cannes Film Festival; even Croisette-weary NY Times critic A.O. Scott is officially on the record now with his ambivalence about this year's crop. As such, we lead today's fest news round-up not with the general befuddl...

Where are the big spenders this year at Cannes? After a 2007 buying spree that topped out with Universal snagging We Own the Night for a whopping $11.5 million, only one distributor has made any......

Only a few days remain before Cannes ends and we can roll our bleary eyes from the backs of our heads. In the meantime, the rubbernecker in us can't help but take an interest in Spike Lee's latest......

Here is a round up of stories that just didn’t make the /Film front page, or what we like to call…. Page 2! TotalFilm has a batch of production photos from Pixar’s WALL-E . David Poland calls Sex and the City: The Movie “the Lord of the Rings of Chick Flicks… not that it’s anywhere n...