Movies
Philippine director Brillante Mendoza says he hopes his new movie about two grandmothers will resonate with a broader audience than his dark Cannes-winning crime thriller "Kinatay."
Alice remains the queen of the box office.
Jennifer Aniston and Jude Law were roughed up at the box office this weekend by a middle schooler.
Chinese actress Tang Wei returned to the red carpet on Sunday, promoting her first movie since the 2007 Ang Lee spy thriller "Lust, Caution," a politically sensitive production that reportedly prompted officials to ban her in her home country.
BUENOS AIRES, Argentina - It was well past midnight here, but spontaneous celebration broke out when word came from Hollywood that Argentina's Oscar entry, "The Secret in Their Eyes," had snared the award for best foreign language film of 2009.
Like most people who receive lifetime-achievement awards, Jerry Bruckheimer wants everyone to know he's not finished yet.
LOS ANGELES - Animated movies can take forever to make - three or four years is well within the ordinary. "How to Train Your Dragon," which tells the story of a scrawny kid destined to prove his hecklers wrong through an unusual relationship with a dragon, moved at a radically different pace: The two filmmakers behind March 26's 3-D adventure had just 12 months to make their film, inheriting a project needing a top-to-bottom overhaul.
With its radiantly ugly visuals, mean-spirited worldview and gut-wrenching levels of gore, "Repo Men" is about as entertaining as a burst appendix.
HOT TUBE TIME MACHINE (R): Four guys (John Cusack, Rob Corddry, Craig Robins and Clark Duke) vacationing in a ski resort are magically teleported back in time to 1986 ... the era of hair-metal bands, clunky Sony Walkmans and raunchy teen-sex comedies. Those were the days!
Actresses Demi Moore and Nia Vardalos were linked to an online chain of Twitter posts that ultimately led to Florida authorities intervening Friday when an 18-year-old man threatened to commit suicide.
Sandra Bullock reached the pinnacle of her profession on March 7, when she won an Academy Award. Her husband, Jesse James, was by her side. He even teared up when she went on stage to accept the Oscar.
Activist shareholder Carl Icahn raised the stakes in his yearlong dispute with Lions Gate Entertainment Corp. on Friday, launching an all-out bid to take over the movie studio following disagreements over its spending.
The devil has all the best lines in "The Runaways." The film gives us a whiff of sulfurous mid-'70s show-biz sleaze as it charts the rapid rise and swift implosion of L.A.'s first all-girl rock 'n' roll band. The Runaways weren't chart-toppers, but they foreshadowed the riot grrrl movement and launched a couple of certifiable female rock stars, guitarists Joan Jett and Lita Ford.
PHILADELPHIA - "I was thrilled to be able to play a guy of few words who says a lot, and who figures out a lot," says William Hurt. "And who at the same time has an authentic moment-to-moment, scene-to-scene series of discoveries that are given to him by an unlikely source."
The most honored British film of 2010 is Andrea Arnold's "Fish Tank," and rightly so. The Cannes Jury Prize winner is an intimate look at teen alienation and first love in an English tenement.
Feminist heroine or hypocrisy in black leather? There's an interesting debate regarding "the girl" at the center of "The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo," the film version of the internationally popular novel - the first of three published, posthumously, after the death of journalist and crime novelist Stieg Larsson - which was destined for the screen, since nothing speaks the universal language of money more clearly than serial killings.
