Whoa. This news isn't entirely fresh (it's been in development for some two years) but I can't shake it now that it's actually happening. Someone stop the doomsday clock. How is Dakota Fanning growing up so fast? She's a tiny adorable little kid. Sean Penn is her alien-battling father. Tom Cruise is...

  Generally after teaching a screenwriting class, I feel a sense of positive accomplishment, however meager.  Something's been learned, even if it's as trivial as the proper formatting of sound effects.  But after my last class, I felt like I was leaving a trail of fire and...

While Watchmen delivered a robust opening of about $55.7 million in North America, it came in lower than expectations--and much lower than Snyder's last film, the blockbuster 300--both domestically and overseas. Finally, Watchmen works best as the narratively complex, visually dazzling comics series...

Now that Kate Winslet is no longer poor Kate Winslet, five-time loser of the Academy Award, it's time to decide who deserves our pity next. Nathaniel Rogers got this new pity party started over at Film Experience, combining male and female performers and deciding that we should all be boo-hoo-hoo-in...

Movie Look - The Changeling When you watch a historical based true story like the Changeling it's hard to know for sure if the actors are channeling the spirits of those they are portraying. (or if their performace is bad)......

We've already said quite a bit about Slumdog Millionaire and how it opened up a can of whoop-ass at the Oscar's, possibly fed by the movie's appeal as 'poverty porn'. International Herald Tribune has a sweet, interesting article on how Best Picture winner Slumdog Millionaire may be irking some of In...

Just a quick wrap up on some of the film news from the past month. “Waltz With Bashir� won big in France and at the Golden Globes, and the film’s director, Ari Folman, fought off a thief in Paris who tried to steal his Cesar trophy. But “Waltz� failed to receive an Oscar [...]...

Kate Winslet finally won her Oscar, delighting the bulk of fans who have been rooting for her since she dreamt of Hollywood in '94 -- 'they're desperately keen to sign me up!' -- or nearly drowned in '97. She never let go. So, who is next? Or rather... who is most overdue? Contrary to popular belief...

I do not generally write about pop-culture, the media, current events, etc., yet as of late a menagerie of issues have orbited about my cranium and I hoped to make a few points. As I thought about the self-congratulatory fest known as The Oscars I wondered if all of those very well known and very in...

In what was surely an unexpected surprise for many, Sean Penn took the Oscar for Best Leading Actor from Mickey Rourke at the 2009 Academy Awards. Biopics are always a tricky beast to bring to the screen: they either ardently stick to the historical content and risk giving birth to a dull movie, or ...