What went nearly brilliantly for director Rob Marshall in his adaptation of the Broadway musical CHICAGO seven years ago somehow misses the mark, albeit with many familiar elements, in this season’s NINE. As with CHICAGO, Marshall again mines Broadway with NINE, presenting a similarly-staged musical with fantasy numbers interspersed throughout the relatively drab world of [...]
James Cameron’s long-awaited epic fantasy Avatar might not be Titanic, his last film, released twelve years ago, but it is definitely titanic in size and scope. “It’s got a big story – that’s where it starts,” said producer Jon Landau, who also produced Titanic and started as a unit production manager. “Jim created a story [...]
On a typical fall midweek day, the life of a television casting director can be hectic, and that might be a gross understatement. Consider the schedule of one such person in a single daytime span in her own words: “This morning, I have spent some time on the phone taking pitches and reading e-mails. [...]
Some movies provoke the mind and intellect as much or more so than the eyes and ears, and keep audiences thinking long after they have left the theater or turned off the TV or DVD player. Add The Road to that list. Based on the Pulitzer Prize-winning book by Cormac McCarthy, who also wrote the book [...]
In a nondescript warehouse section of Van Nuys, far north of the chaos of Ventura Boulevard ……
Director Zack Snyder provided visual dynamite in 300, though somewhat less so in Dawn of ……
Transcending merely the gay rights movement, San Francisco City Councilman Harvey Milk ……
When the dust settled on World War II, and and the great cities that had been proudly erected ……
“No holds barred” is how ex-President Richard M. Nixon approached his interviews with David Frost, that is, according to FROST/NIXON, Ron Howard’s new film about the 1977 landmark TV events. And we do get a series of unbridled interview sessions between young TV host and grizzled embittered ex-world leader, going toe-to-toe in increasingly tense [...]
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