Shekhar Kapur, director of Badit Queen, Elizabeth and Four Feathers, explains to Marc Lee why he could never have made Elizabeth had it not been for Trainspotting.
(The Telegraph UK)
 

‘Vantage Point’, now on DVD, got us thinking about other, better films focused on derring-do in affairs of state — like ”All the President’s Men,” ”JFK,” and ”Munich.” Vote for your own favorites!
(EW)

About the best thing that “Hancock” has going for it is the idea of a superhero who’s not a good guy; Will Smith’s titular titan is petulant, rude, alcoholic, destructive and generally peevish. And he’s the hero.
Hollywood has a history of giving us characters who manage to simultaneously drive us crazy and win us over. […]

Critics given a peek of the summer blockbuster at the weekend have given rave reviews about Ledger’s performance as The Joker.
The Australian star completed work on the film shortly before his death from an accidental drugs overdose in January, aged 28.
He was nominated for an Oscar once during his career - for Brokeback Mountain in […]

Judd Apatow had a problem. The test screenings for his movie The 40-Year-Old Virgin were killing. But the jokes that were really landing were the ones featuring pot. Sophomoric, Cheech-and-Chong-y cheap yuks about weed. But funny ones. He called his old friend Garry Shandling to ask whether he should leave them in. They went with […]

From a casual viewing of the marketing material for “Hancock,” Sony’s upcoming Will Smith comic thriller, I hardly knew that Charlize Theron was even in the movie. Our crack reporter Chris Lee turned up at an early screening and offers this assessment:
“At an early screening of ‘Hancock’ at the Grove last week, Will Smith’s performance […]

Something that can only (and perhaps inexplicably) be described as “movie magic” began on Feb. 9, 1979. That’s when a silly, cartoonish but strangely compelling film - about a street gang trying to go from one end of New York City to another while being chased by rival gangs - hit theater screens. Somehow, it […]

George Carlin, who died on Sunday from heart failure at the age of 71, was one of the funniest and most influential American comics of the 20th century, with a wealth of wise and witty things to say about the world we live in and the way we live today, yet he’ll probably be best […]

Maybe so! We’ve already learned to expect overall awesomeness from Pixar, even when a movie’s concept seems a little off-putting. (As in: “A sewer rat cooking food in a French restaurant.”) So we were prepared to believe that even a dystopian science-fiction movie about the last robot on earth — a robot who looks suspiciously […]

Gay pride season seems to be extending well beyond its official month of June. Gay marriage is now legal in California, stars are coming out of the closet (and woodwork) as never before, and NewFest — the New York Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender Film Festival — has kicked off the summer cycle of gay […]