The Moving Picture Blog

Given the way folks carelessly toss about the term "classic" -- using the word to describe everything from ugly muscle cars to ...

While trolling the obituaries in Variety yesterday – don’t ask why, you don’t want to know – I was surprised to find a piece on Canadian-...

On Monday, Aug. 22, I turn 59. Which means that, if there's anything I want to accomplish while I'm still in my 50s -- I have only ...

According to Sharon Waxman of The Wrap : "Twentieth Century Fox has made a deal with writer-producer Peter Mehlman for a new comedy pil...

Michael Biehn shamelessly exploits his wife -- the muy caliente  Jennifer Blanc -- in a shameless exploitation film. And she's a very w...

For more of the same, check here . (Hat-tip to Joanne Harrison, who obviously has friends in all the right places.)

Maybe more folks should take a look at Incendiary: The Willingham Case , a fascinating documentary I reviewed at SXSW last spring. It...

What's this? Another Austin Powers movie is in development ? Why? Didn't Mike Myers get all that out of his system in the last seq...

Both Mike Fleming and The Hollywood Reporter wonder: Did Disney pull the plug on The Lone Ranger because Cowboys & Aliens under-per...

At a dinner party I attended several years ago, it was my great misfortune to be seated near a woman who wanted to know -- no, make that dem...

Constrained by a formula as restrictive as the elements that define haiku or iambic pentameter, scriptwriter Eric Heisserer and first-time f...

An improbably effective and affecting mix of raw emotions and exciting smackdowns, Warrior shapes up as a strong contender for critical kud...

For over four decades, Kris Kristofferson has loomed large in the pop culture firmament as both a renowned singer-songwriter and an acclai...

When Steven Spielberg hailed Akira Kurosawa as “the visual Shakespeare of our time,” the American admirer likely was thinking of the Japan...

Marc Malkin of E! reports that at today's Hollywood Foreign Press luncheon in Beverly Hills, Mark Wahlberg warned Leonardo DiCaprio tha...

Four years after my shocking blog post ... another tale of a feline that resembles Der Führer .

A bandit subdues a nobleman in a secluded woodland and forces himself on his captive’s wife. The nobleman dies, the wife flees, the bandit ...

"The box office fate of Sarah Palin's bio-documentary The Undefeated has uncannily mimicked the political fortunes of its subject...

Who says you can't get something for nothing? To celebrate their 20-year run of funding independent filmmakers, the folks at The Indep...

The good news: The Wrap reports there is going to be another Harry Potter movie. The bad news: It's going to be a remake of this . Yik...