The idea of people doing whatever needs to be done in order to make money and provide for their families is a common trope in novels, television and movies. Usually, though, this takes the form of someone entering into prostitution, selling drugs or doing something else that’s illegal/unethica...

The problem with “unfilmmable” pieces of literature is that they usually wind up getting filmed anyway. Everyone, as late as 1999, said the Lord of the Rings trilogy was unfilmmable because of the fantastic characters that inhabited the story and, indeed, the scope of the story itself. E...

It’s always a problem when movies are made in one era and viewed in another certain aspects of the society and culture that are portrayed in the film wind up not ringing quite right with contemporary audiences. So the attitudes and behaviors of, say, the playboy culture portrayed in An Affair ...

Every year a handful of movies are released that were made years and years ago. Sometimes films wind up finishing production and then the studio that owns it doesn’t know what to do with it, or it winds up being part of a library that’s acquired by another studio or something like that. ...

Take your eyes off the crappy computer-generated product images for just a moment (I know it's hard, but try) and see if you can find any correlation between teeth whitening strips and a movie about women who don't know when they've been dumped....

Nothing like the third time to the well, right? The Punisher is a comic book character that has not had an easy time translating from the page to the screen. Originally portrayed by Dolph Lundgren in 1989, the movie was alright but didn’t do a great job at actually telling any sort of interest...

The it-borders-on-kiddie-porn photo of Miley Cyrus in the current issue of Vanity Fair magazine screams for comment from artists, photographers, parents, teens, and anybody else who wants to jump onto this controversy. Miley, who was photographed by Annie Leibovitz,  has issued a statement saying...

There’s yet another new poster for Sex and the City that’s been released by what’s left of New Line as the movie’s release nears next month. Like the one from last week, this alternate version takes the risky “Let’s just make it clear that Carrie is interested in ...

Remember those shiny free Xbox Live Diamond cards that promised to open you up to a whole new world of amazing discounts at shops and restaurants all over the world? Yeah, I've never touched mine either, so I am definitely not planning to renew the card, especially now that it comes with a $6.95 mon...