There must be some kind of human tendency to seek intellectual convergence that kicks in, I suspect, whenever movie critics (or ordinary citizens) start concocting year-end top-10 lists. Maybe pop-science genius Malcolm Gladwell has a name for this phenomenon, but it can be both as subtle and as hard to resist as the flowing current […]

For a few years, technology companies have been racing to find a way to get movies from the Internet to the living-room TV in a way that will get consumers excited.
The Vudu, a black $399 box from a California startup, is the best attempt yet. It’s easy to use and offers a large library of […]

 
A film with no name, no famous Hollywood stars and no million dollar marketing campaign has captivated bloggers, online forums and film fans in the latest triumph for viral advertising.
Known only as the Cloverfield project, the low-budget 2008 release is shrouded in secrecy. Its plot has been closely guarded, only one trailer has been screened […]

 
It’s only fitting that Paul Thomas Anderson’s breakthrough film, Boogie Nights, was the story of a triple-X superstar with a python in his pants. This is one director you could safely call a size freak—or, to put it more politely, a maximalist. The gushers of oil in his new film, There Will Be Blood, are […]

 
Who would have ever thought that the 1954 Class Clown of Manasquan High would turn into one of the most recognized Oscar winners in the world?
Few people know more about the craft of acting than Jack Nicholson. But he had to start somewhere and he chose to pass some insights along to the readers of […]

THE BUCKET LIST
 
Director: Rob Reiner
Stars: Jack Nicholson, Morgan Freeman
Studio: Warner Bros. Pictures
The Plot: Two terminally ill men (Nicholson and Freeman) escape from a cancer ward and head off on a road trip with a wish list of to-dos before they die.
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Director: Juan Antonio Bayona
Stars: Belén Rueda, Fernando Cayo, Roger […]

 
The movie release schedule for next year remains tentative and most of the films are unfinished. So picking the box-office hits of 2008, on a month-by-month basis, is more guesswork at this stage than projection, but here goes.
(Source: Los Angeles Times)

 
So there I was muttering, “Fraud, fraud,” while watching Enchanted April.
It’s a charming movie that sets very few viewers to grumbling. Oppressed women leave cold, rainy 1920s England and proceed to find happiness, peace, and sunshine in a rented castle on the Italian coast.
My complaint wasn’t about the story line but about the fact that […]

Apple Inc and Twentieth Century Fox are set to announce a deal that will allow consumers to rent Fox movies through Apple’s digital iTunes Store, according to media reports on Thursday.
The agreement will allow rentals of Fox’s latest DVD releases by downloading a copy from the online iTunes store for a limited time, the Financial […]

MoviesOnline sat down with Diane Kruger at the Los Angeles press day for her new movie, “National Treasure: Book of Secrets,” which opens in theaters this weekend. In this follow up to the box-office hit “National Treasure,” treasure hunter Ben Gates (Nicolas Cage) once again sets out on an exhilarating, action-packed new global quest to […]