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12 New Year's Resolutions for 2012 Moviegoers
Filed under: Features, Movie News, Hot Topic As a year for moviegoing, 2011 certainly had its irritations. Now that the calendar has given us a clean slate, it's time to set our resolutions for making...
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Should the Oscars Leave the Kodak Theatre?
Filed under: Movie News, Hot Topic, Oscar News Hey, Oscar fans: Do any of you have a strong emotional attachment to the Kodak Theatre, the home of the Academy Awards ceremony for the last decade?...
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Why J. Hoberman, Fired Village Voice Movie Critic, Matters
Filed under: Features, Movie News, Hot TopicYesterday's news that the Village Voice had laid off its longtime chief film critic J. Hoberman sent shockwaves through the worlds of movie journalism and...
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25 Things You Didn't Know About Exorcism Movies
Filed under: Columns, Horror, This Week in Movies Like body-swiping demons, exorcism movies simply refuse to go away. The latest one to take possession of the multiplex is 'The Devil Inside,' which...
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Exorcism Movies: 25 Things You Didn't Know About the Horror Genre, From 'The...
Like body-swiping demons, exorcism movies simply refuse to go away. The latest one to take possession of the multiplex is 'The Devil Inside,' which premieres this Friday, and which is just one of...
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Why Does the Multiplex Charge the Same for Every Movie?
Filed under: Features, Hot Topic, Box Office Movies don't all cost the same to make. 'Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol' reportedly cost $145 million to make, plus tens of millions more for prints...
View ArticleAcademy Awards: New Documentary Rules Spark Outrage
When Steve James' "The Interrupters" failed to make the Academy's shortlist of eligible documentaries this year, fans of the acclaimed feature recalled the similar upset when James'...
View ArticleGolden Globes: 25 Things You Didn't Know About the Awards Ceremony
For a night known as Hollywood's most notorious open-bar gala, the Golden Globes ceremony remains shrouded in mystery. Most viewers probably don't even know who presents it (the Hollywood Foreign Press...
View ArticleConservative Movies: Are These Really the Top 10 From Last 50 Years?
Conservatives often complain that Hollywood is a hopeless miasma of liberalism, full of left-wingers who fill the screen with pinko propaganda, even though such content alienates half the audience and...
View ArticleWeekend Box Office: 'Contraband' Slips Past 3D 'Beauty' to Top Holiday Chart
In the Martin Luther King holiday weekend battle between a classic beauty and a daring smuggler, it was the thief who made off with the box office crown. Mark Wahlberg's thriller "Contraband" debuted...
View ArticleGolden Globes: What Do They Mean for the Oscar Race?
As Ricky Gervais joked on Sunday night, the Golden Globes are like the Oscars, only without all the esteem. The Oscars are chosen by 6,000 movie-industry professionals; the Globes by about 90 full- and...
View ArticleMuhammad Ali: Five Essential Movies
If Muhammad Ali hadn't existed, Hollywood might have tried to invent him. A handsome athlete who speaks like a poet and can back up his trash talk with his fists, a principled martyr who can take an...
View ArticleSOPA And PIPA: The Internet Strikes Back At Hollywood Over Web Piracy
If your favorite websites are blacked out today, blame Hollywood. At least, that's the line put out by those sites that chose to go dark in protest over the proposed Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) and...
View Article'Woman Of The Year': 25 Things You Didn't Know About The Katharine Hepburn...
Fans of classic movies know that "Woman of the Year" marks the beginning of the 25-year partnership, on- and off-screen, between one of film's most beloved and enduring couples: Katharine Hepburn and...
View ArticleToday In SOPA News: What You Need To Know And How It Might Affect You
It just got real. In the battle between Hollywood and Silicon Valley over the proposed new stringent anti-piracy laws known as SOPA (the Stop Online Piracy Act) and PIPA (the Proctect Intellectual...
View ArticleWeekend Box Office: 'Underworld' Outguns 'Red Tails,' 'Haywire'
Maybe George Lucas should have made sure 20th Century Fox released "Red Tails" last weekend. Not only would its true story of an early civil rights victory have suited the Martin Luther King holiday...
View ArticleBest Actresses: Was 2011 the Year of the Woman?
Another awards season, another round of complaints that there are few good roles for actresses, unless you're Meryl Streep. And yet, this year's awards-hopeful movies featured terrific performances by...
View ArticleBest Supporting Actor: It's Old-Timer's Day at the Oscar Nominations
To be cited for Best Supporting Actor among this morning's Oscar nominations, it helped to have not just a SAG card, but also an AARP card. The average age of the nominees in the category is 63, and...
View Article'The Artist': How Did a Dialogue-Free Movie Earn a Screenplay Oscar Nomination?
Hey, why shouldn't Michel Hazanavicius have earned a Best Original Screenplay Oscar nomination for "The Artist"? What could be more original, in 2011, than writing a movie that is silent and...
View ArticleOscar Films Box Office Results: What's A Nomination Worth In Ticket Sales?
The much vaunted Oscar bounce ain't what it used to be. Within the last decade, a movie nominated for Best Picture could expect to see its grosses rise as much as 50 or 60 percent at the domestic box...
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