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'Schindler's List': 25 Things You Didn't Know About the Landmark Holocaust Drama
"Schindler's List" already looked like an instant classic the moment it was released 20 years ago this week (on December 15, 1993). Shot in timeless black-and-white, Steven Spielberg's based-in-fact...
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Box Office: Has Madea Lost Her Mojo?
Turns out there are no exceptions to screenwriter WIlliam Goldman's famous adage about Hollywood: "Nobody knows anything." Even the supposed Madea exception -- that any Tyler Perry movie in which he...
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'You've Got Mail': 25 Things You Didn't Know About the Nora Ephron Comedy
Kids, you may not believe this, but some of us are old enough to remember when you used to have to connect to the Internet via 56k dial-up modems. Or that AOL was once the most popular Internet...
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Oscars 2014: It's Almost a Real Race
Some of this year's biggest Oscar hopefuls (notably, "The Wolf of Wall Street" and "August: Osage County") still have yet to open, and yet, what may be the most exciting part of the Oscar race is...
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'Working Girl' Cast: Where Are They Now? (PHOTOS)
These days, Melanie Griffith may be better known as future "Fifty Shades of Grey" star Dakota Johnson's mother than for her own celebrated acting career. Which is fitting, perhaps (since the pre-fame...
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Box Office: Why Couldn't 'Anchorman 2' Beat 'The Hobbit 2'?
Ron Burgundy may be kind of a big deal, but not as big a deal as Bilbo Baggins. Going into this weekend's box office battle, pundits thought it might be a close one, with returning champion "The...
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'Beaches' and 29 More Movies Guaranteed to Make You Cry
When "Beaches" opened 25 years ago around this time (December 21, 1988), the Bette Midler-Barbara Hershey drama was instantly dubbed one of the top tearjerkers of all time. A quarter-century later,...
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'The Exorcist': 25 Things You Didn't Know About the Terrifying Horror Classic
"The Exorcist," released 40 years ago this week (on December 26, 1973), is widely regarded as the scariest movie ever made, but after four decades, two sequels, two prequels, and countless spoofs, is...
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James Franco: 21 Reasons Why You Couldn't Avoid Him in 2013
It seems James Franco is now the hardest-working man in show-business -- if you look back at his 2013, that is. Franco's multi-tasking started to seem like a Joaquin Phoenix-style put-on a couple...
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Box Office: 8 Important Lessons We Learned From the Five-Way Christmas Melee
At your house, Christmas may be a time of peace on Earth and good will toward men, but at the multiplex, this Christmas was the site of a bruising brawl, with five new, wide-release movies taking on...
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Box Office: Is the 'Paranormal Activity' Spell Broken?
For a long time, the "Paranormal Activity" franchise has seemed as unstoppable at the box office as those malevolent spirits that keep dragging those poor folks around in front of conveniently placed...
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Golden Globes 2014: The 13 Things You're Most Likely to See at This Year's...
Admit it, if you're watching the 71st Annual Golden Globe Awards ceremony this Sunday on NBC, you're watching it for the entertainment value. After all, the predictive value of the Globes, both on the...
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Box Office: How Did 'Lone Survivor' Become the First Surprise Hit of 2014?
When "Lone Survivor" expanded from limited release to 2,875 theaters this weekend, box office experts didn't expect much. "Zero Dark Thirty" aside, movies about the fighting in Afghanistan haven't...
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Golden Globes 2014 Recap: The 14 Best and Worst Moments
In the end, you're not going to remember who won and lost, but who made you laugh or cringe or mist up. Here, then, were the most memorable moments of Sunday night's 71st Annual Golden Globe Awards...
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Oscars 2014: The Nominations Are Just the Beginning
If Punxsutawney Phil were predicting the Oscars, there's one thing the famous groundhog forecaster could say for sure: he'd see his shadow and note that there'll be six more long and chilly weeks of...
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Box Office: How Much Money Is an Oscar Nomination Worth?
It's more than an honor just to be nominated. It could be worth millions of dollars. Several of the movies nominated for Oscars on Thursday -- bolstered, in many cases, by last week's three televised...
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Box Office: January's Winners and Losers
January is generally regarded as a wasteland for new, wide-release movies, a dumping ground for pictures that studios can't figure out how to market, even while Oscar-bait films expand from...
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'Sleeping Beauty': 25 Things You Didn't Know About the Disney Classic
With anticipation building for Angelina Jolie's "Maleficent," due May 30, it's worth noting that the source of her live-action remake, Disney's animated "Sleeping Beauty," marks its 55th anniversary...
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'Dr. Strangelove' at 50: Why Stanley Kubrick's Nuclear Satire Still Matters
The ultimate punchline to the nuclear satire of "Dr. Strangelove"? As absurd as Stanley Kubrick's imaginative black comedy about World War III seemed when it opened 50 years ago this week (on January...
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Oscars 2014: After the 'Alone Yet Not Alone' Shocker, Anything Could Happen
Well, we knew the Oscar campaigning would be brutal. We just didn't know there'd be a real casualty, so soon, and in the Best Song category. And if it can happen there, what guarantees of safety are...
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