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Michael Douglas: Michael Douglas on Cancer Recovery, Future Roles

Michael Douglas has announced that he will play the title role in Steve Soderbergh’s “Liberace,” and will soon learn if he is cancer free. Click here for more photos of Michael Douglas The 66-year-old...

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Top 11: The Best Movies of 2011

The Descendants George Clooney drops his macho persona for a sensitive and insecure one, in this richly rewarding  dysfunctional family story. Anyone who has confronted major grief in the passing of a...

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Emma Stone Interview: The Amazing Spider-Man

Emma Stone had quite a lot to say about the subject of being swept off her feet during this conversation, and she wasn’t exactly talking about sky diving, simulated or unsimulated, with her designated...

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Stephen Gyllenhaal Interview: Grassroots Movie Review

What would lead a Hollywood director like Stephen Gyllenhaal to go grassroots to make a do it yourself indie like, well, Grassroots? Apparently the problematic state of American politics today, as...

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Ruby Sparks Movie Review

RUBY SPARKS Fox Searchlight, Rated R 3 stars Not unlike the blockbuster reboot craze crowding movie theaters lately, Indiewood’s Ruby Sparks goes for that deja vu do-over—in this case, with a...

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Review: The Dark Knight Rises

The Dark Knight Rises [4/5 stars] If the “Dark Knight Trilogy” has one theme that captures each film both on and off the screen, it is most definitely escalation. With 2005’s Batman Begins and 2008’s...

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Review: Big Boys Gone Bananas!*

BIG BOYS GONE BANANAS!* WG Film, Unrated 3 stars One item at the top of the most endangered list in US society and the media appears to be truth, as the lines between fact, publicity and the commercial...

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Will Ferrell Interview: The Campaign

SEVEN QUESTIONS WITH THE CAMPAIGN’S WILL FERRELL The big challenge when interrogating a funny guy like Will Ferrell – whose strength lies in taking things lightly – is to get him to stop clowning...

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Seven Questions With Wake In Fright’s Ted Kotcheff – Director Exclusive

Almost as if coming back to haunt you, literally and figuratively, Ted Kotcheff’s 1971 violent Australian outback thriller Wake In Fright that caused quite a controversial stir back then, is hitting...

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Movie Reviews: We Are Legion, Alex Cross

WE ARE LEGION: THE STORY OF THE HACKTIVISTS Luminant Media Unrated, 3 stars Making a documentary about sophisticated hackers like Anonymous, who function underground and with a fluid and leaderless...

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Robert Plant Interview: Led Zeppelin’s Celebration Day

The Song Remains The Same so to speak, and then some, when the iconic Led Zeppelin took to the stage for a live concert reunion at London’s O2 Arena back in December 10th, 2007. And though the...

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Movie Reviews: The Other Son; The Prosecution of an American President

THE OTHER SON Cohen Media Rated PG-13, 3 stars It’s not uncommon for those who rightly resent being biologically categorized on government questionnaires, to defiantly write in ‘human’ when asked to...

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We Are Legion: The Story of the Hacktivists – Brian Knappenberger Interview

He’s not exactly the kind of person you’d expect to be able to infiltrate, or even be interested in infiltrating the underground world of Anonymous, but filmmaker Brian Knappenberger did just that,...

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Interview: Skyfall’s Daniel Craig Talks James Bond

To hear Daniel Craig mull his latest turn as James Bond in Skyfall, it wasn’t just about facing off against all those enemies of the super-spy. Craig had lots to say as well during this conversation,...

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7 Questions with Rise of the Guardians’ Alec Baldwin

Alec Baldwin may have come on board to voice the children’s movie, Peter Ramsey’s Rise Of The Guardians, but in the act of immersing himself in the character of an intimidating Santa known as North,...

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Movie Reviews: Hitchcock, Rust and Bone

Still taken from Hitchcock Fox Searchlight Pictures, Rated PG-13 Are directors possibly closet serial killers? This loaded question has already long been mulled at least jokingly, about surgeons. But...

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Movie Reviews: Parked, Addicted to Fame

PARKED Olive Films Unrated 2  1/2 stars While pulling one’s car off a road without departing the vehicle seems to have been more often than not associated with a lovers’ lane interlude in movies, that...

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7 Questions With Hitchock’s Anthony Hopkins

You would think that playing Alfred Hitchcock would be a piece of cake for fellow esteemed British icon Anthony Hopkins. But during this conversation about his turn as the jolly gent with a strange...

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7 Questions With The Guilt Trip’s Seth Rogen

To hear Seth Rogen describe his character Andy in Anne’s Fletcher’s The Guilt Trip, one of the big challenges was figuring out how to stifle his funny side. Seth communicated mostly in punch lines...

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Interview: Anne Hathaway Talks Les Miserables

In no way prepping herself as a happy hooker for Les Miserables, Anne Hathaway stopped by for some conversation about her melancholy turn in the famed Victor Hugo novel to stage and then screen Tom...

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