In “Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans,” Nicolas Cage portrays a cop of unwavering commitment: He never lets his duty to protect and serve stand in the way of a hard-core drug binge.
As a homicide detective policing the Big Easy’s toughest precincts in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, he snorts cocaine at crime scenes, [...]

As ABC finds itself up against the final, unimaginable wrap-up season of their hugely successful island tease-athon, Lost, it seems to have found a new Atlas on whom it can rest its global expectations.
The new show is FlashForward, another mysterious, sci-fi-ish thriller based on the 1999 novel by Robert J. Sawyer. Fundamentally, it entertains a scenario where [...]

SAW VI

Director: Kevin Greutert 
Stars: Tobin Bell, Costas Mandylor, Mark Rolston
Studio: Lionsgate
The Plot: Special Agent Strahm is dead, and Detective Hoffman has emerged as the unchallenged successor to Jigsaw’s legacy. However, when the FBI draws closer to Hoffman, he is forced to set a game into motion, and Jigsaw’s grand scheme is finally understood.
CIRQUE DU FREAK: THE VAMPIRE’S ASSISTANT

Director: Paul Weitz 
Stars: Chris Massoglia, John C. [...]

Back in the ’90s, F. Gary Gray was the go-to guy for some of the top rappers including Ice Cube, who brought him onboard to direct his early comedy Friday. Fourteen years later and Gray’s latest movie, his seventh, is Law Abiding Citizen, a two-handed psychological thriller starringGerard Butler and Jamie Foxx, that harks back to Gray’s earlier movie The Negotiator but shows [...]

Watch out, Matt Damon – Jim Carrey’s coming through.
The comedian has promised to gain 40-50 pounds for his role as Curly in “The Three Stooges” — more than the 30 Matt put on for “The Informant!” — and he showed off a chubbier figure on Thursday night at UCLA’s 
Weight wasn’t the only thing Jim’s added to his look [...]

Jonathan Houser had an idea.
The 30-something filmmaker was teaching production at the Seattle Film Institute. His students were having a difficult time with storyboarding, an element of filmmaking which Houser describes as a way to perceive how your film may look.” Or, to put it another way, “You sit down, you draw, you think and [...]

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ABC’s “Lost” and “Grey’s Anatomy” racked up big online auds in May. CW’s “Gossip Girl” had a big month too, according to online vid viewing stats for May just released by Nielsen VideoCensus.
Undoubtedly, season-finale fever drove auds to check out the cliffhanger cappers of the ABC dramas, as well as other shows that made the [...]

THE TAKING OF PELHAM 1 2 3

Director: Tony Scott 
Stars: Denzel Washington, John Travolta 
Studio: Columbia Pictures
The Plot: Armed men hijack a New York City subway train, holding the passengers hostage in return for a ransom, and turning an ordinary day’s work for dispatcher Walter Garbe (Washington) into a face-off with the mastermind behind the crime (Travolta).
IMAGINE THAT

Director: Karey Kirkpatrick 
Stars: Eddie Murphy, Thomas Haden Church 
Studio: Paramount [...]