Like many around Hollywood, I’ve spent an embarrassing amount of time during the week trying to decide which actress would be best to play Sarah Palin in the story of her life. I know conventional wisdom says that Tina Fey is a lock for the part, but do you really think that the ” 30 Rock” [...]

Heath Ledger (pictured) was just votedthe summer’s best movie villain in a Moviefone poll, which immediately caught my attention, because I finally saw The Dark Knight last weekend and Ledger’s riveting performance was still fresh in my mind.
What took me so long to see it? (1) I refuse to camp out and wait for anything these days, and (2) [...]

“Los Angeles isn’t a real city,” people have said, “it just plays one on camera.” It was a clever line once upon a time, but all that has changed. Los Angeles is the most complicated community in America — make no mistake, it is a community — and over the last 25 years, it has [...]

With The Dark Knight now firmly set as the second largest grossing film of all-time with $489,179,000 I felt there was no time better than right now to take a look at the all-time greatest sequels in film history. Not an easy task and many factors must be considering when devising such a list.
(Rope of Silicon)

Ear-shattering explosions? Check. Gore splattered across the screen? No problem. Graphic sex scenes, or maybe a little torture porn? Bring it on. In Hollywood, anything goes these days — except cigarette smoking.
Rarely in the history of motion pictures have the forces of censorship been as successful as anti-smoking crusaders have been recently. Last year, after [...]

War, as the song goes, may be good for absolutely nothing but war movies are another matter entirely. In Ben Stiller’s frequently hilarious new comedy,Tropic Thunder, a group of spoilt Hollywood actors are pitched from the movie set of their Vietnam War epic into the jungle of the Golden Triangle, where they’re mistaken for American [...]

Not so long ago, funny guy Martin Lawrence was tipped to be The Next Big Thing. John Patterson wonders how he got to Has Been so quickly.
(The Guardian UK)

It won’t be long now before Oscar season picks up momentum and film critics across the country set about surveying the ambitions and aspirations behind the year’s most “serious” and “substantial” films. For many writers, the autumn rush is the light at the end of a long, dark tunnel — the promised sunrise after a [...]

Directors have far more autonomy these days than during Hollywood’s golden age - so how is it that a Ron Howard film has so little to distinguish itself from any other, wonders Ronald Bergan.
(The Guardian UK)

For every Batman, there’s a Matter-Eater Lad.  For every X-Men, there’s a Legion of Super-Pets.  There are comic book characters and groups who make it big, and there are those who never find a lasting audience.  Only now and then do the obscure characters get noticed, and even more rarely do they get the big-screen [...]