SEX AND THE CITY
 
Director: Michael Patrick King
Stars: Sarah Jessica Parker, Kim Cattrall, Cynthia Nixon
Studio: New Line Cinema
The Plot: Set four years after we last saw the ladies, Carrie (Parker), Samantha (Cattrall), Miranda (Nixon), and Charlotte (Davis) negotiate their friendships, romances, and careers in New York City. At the center of it all is Carrie’s pending […]

 
It’s not clear that Mena Suvari is even remotely interested in being a glamorous actress. Now 29, she entered the national consciousness in a forceful and disturbingly sexual way almost 10 years ago in “American Beauty.” Her character, Angela Hayes, rapidly became a shorthand reference for precocious teen libidinousness and the effect it can have on […]

A person familiar with efforts to restart talks between the Screen Actors Guild and Hollywood studios says negotiations will resume within two weeks.
The person, who was not authorized to speak publicly, said Thursday that the talks will resume by May 28.
The two sides parted ways last week after 18 days of talks over a contract […]

 
New York filmmaker Christopher Zalla just made his striking debut with the new film Sangre de Mi Sangre — a harrowing, elemental story of two illegal Mexican immigrants who try to find their feet in Brooklyn. The riveting film (which made big waves at Sundance under the title Padre Nuestro) plays at the IFC Center […]

 
Most people are happy to watch one television screen when the cricket is on. Mark Lynch sits and stares at 78 of them.
Mind you, Lynch is not just any old viewer. As the director of Sky TV’s Test coverage, Lynch has the privilege of watching the action from every conceivable angle from 31 cameras complemented […]

 
Josh Catone over at ReadWriteWeb has an interesting suggestion for Warner Bros. to get folks interested in the upcoming superhero feature, Watchmen: Take a page from Trent Reznor’s book. The Nine Inch Nails front man has been experimenting with innovative distribution and marketing schemes ever since his band said farewell to Universal Music, giving away […]

Jennifer Kate Hudson was born in Chicago on September 12, 1981 to Darnell Hudson and Samuel Simpson.
At the age of seven, she started singing in her Baptist church’s gospel choir where she honed her vocal skills with the help of her late maternal grandmother, Julia.
After graduating from Dunbar Vocational Career Academy in 1999, the 5′9″ […]

One of the Museum of Modern Art’s latest film acquisitions isn’t an art-house experiment by Andy Warhol or Michelangelo Antonioni. It’s the spy-action blockbuster “The Bourne Identity” and its sequels.
This week the museum is screening the films and hosting a panel discussion with “Bourne” director/producer Doug Liman and a noted neuroscientist to talk about memory, […]

Michelle Williams does her best, but she cannot prevent “Wendy and Lucy,” a weak tale about being broke and on the road in rural America, from dwindling into boredom. Prospects for boxoffice or even television and DVD success appear slim.
Wendy (Williams) is a young woman travelling from Indiana to Alaska in search of work who […]

Digital downloads were a core theme at investor events held Wednesday by movie rental giants Blockbuster and Netflix.
In his inaugural shareholder meeting at the helm, Blockbuster chairman and CEO James Keyes said the firm will launch in the coming month a test of in-store kiosks that will allow consumers to download movies onto portable devices […]