Movies
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10 easy ways to become a quote whoreNov 22, 2007 10:00 pm - With so many new film critics hitting the Web these days, it's hard for beginners to get quoted in movie ads. So, as a public service, here are 10 easy ways to become an...
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Getting into the 'Mist' with directorNov 22, 2007 10:00 pm - I couldn't wait to tell director Frank Darabont what I thought of his new movie, "The Mist," based on Stephen King's novella. "I view this movie as a totally optimistic ...
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Animation purists wary of new hybrid movies
Nov 21, 2007 10:00 pm - The "Ratatouille" DVD features a good-natured jab at competitors, proclaiming that it was made with "100 percent genuine animation." The recently released "Beowulf," on ...
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Missing the markNov 20, 2007 10:00 pm - If you were a super-secret, international assassin being pursued by relentless agents from Interpol, would you: A) try to be as inconspicuous as possible and slip into s...
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Light humor makes 'Enchanted' a royal treatNov 20, 2007 10:00 pm - Disney princesses aren't, by nature, a very funny group of gals. Beautiful, yes. Kind, yes. But funny? No. In "Enchanted," Walt Disney Pictures manages to make an animat...
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Clooney takes on paparazzi in L.A.
Nov 20, 2007 10:00 pm - George Clooney says paparazzi should respect the rules of the road. The 46-year-old actor admonished photographers while riding his motorcycle in Los Angeles on Friday w...
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1950s horror merges with modern fears in cautionary taleNov 20, 2007 10:00 pm - Mutant bugs! Religious nut jobs! Face-ripping tentacles! Stupid humans! Man, have I been waiting a long time for this: a thriller combining a classic 1950s Armageddon cr...
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Flabby holiday family film needs trip to nearest gymNov 20, 2007 10:00 pm - Here's one holiday movie that needs to go on a diet before the holidays. "This Christmas" could very well be the flabbiest motion picture I've ever seen. Extra scenes ha...
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Inspection of Dylan's life disjointed, uninspiringNov 20, 2007 10:00 pm - No one knows Bob Dylan, not even his biographers, a point well made in "I'm Not There," a film inspired by Dylan's life that's noble enough not to be a strict biography....
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Here's one wedding you don't want to R.S.V.P to
Nov 20, 2007 10:00 pm - With 2005's "The Squid and the Whale," writer-director Noah Baumbach created characters who were smart, witty, sad, vulnerable and, above all else, laceratingly verbal. ...