Ah, the holidays – when the movie culture fondly turns its attention to year-end lists, award grabbery and the shameless retail huckstering of DVD reissues. It’s enough to make any cynical heart start vibrantly beating again with enough Christmas cheer to make old Ebenezer himself plotz right over into his yorkshire pudding.
But really, it’s important [...]

Hearing what we’re about to tell you may just shake your entire belief system to its core, but we feel that you’re mature and responsible enough to handle it, so here it goes:
Some things in Hollywood are not real. They’re, you know, fake.
Okay. Still with us? We apologize for throwing the harsh, bitter water of [...]

It should come as no surprise that the hype surrounding the first released pictures of Suri Cruise should happen to fall at the end of the summer when our memories of Tom’s Mission: Implausible franchise ho-hum have faded, but still before the holiday movie hype can begin. Because – aside from the ballyhooed baby pics [...]

The Hollywood threat “you’ll never work in this town again” is just a bit more antiquated than, say, Costner’s status as a viable leading man. In this day and age, the resilience of Tinseltown’s showbiz players is on daily display as they nobly shoulder the betrayals, outrages and routine backstabbings, and then simply return [...]

Got your wallets out, movie fans? Because Warner Bros. has dropped one big $260 million-and-that-doesn’t-include-marketing dime betting that you’re ready to take a baseball bat to the glass-enclosed box office ticket window of your choice because they’re just not opening fast enough for you to see Superman Returns before all of your friends do today.
So [...]

Survival in Hollywood is mostly dependent on three* things: a sense of tenaciousness that borders on the sociopathic; a willingness to completely jettison the morality and sound judgment that those parents back in your home state worked so hard to beat into you; and the ability to never, EVER stop looking over your shoulder.
This last [...]

We know that this one has probably slipped below your multiplex radar, but X-Men: The Last Stand is opening today. Should we unleash berserker rage at Brett Ratner’s Noble But Ill-Conceived Franchise Fumble® (see: Jonathan Mostow), or has the director successfully shape-shifted into a legitimate action director with dramatic (mutton)chops?
There’s a lot of Internet noise [...]