In a famous entry in the "Bloom County" comic strip of the 1980s, Opus the Penguin recalls how millions of penguins would watch military jets fly over their heads, bending their necks backward until they fell over.
The embrace of "The Artist" by audiences and its bewildering success at the Oscars may produce one effect that eventually erases the rather unpleasant aftertaste of those critical accolades. A filmmaker inspired by those early days of Hollywood before dialogue was spoken and Tech …
Tom Poston's acting career spanned the years between 1950 and 2006. Poston got his start on a TV show about an actual space cadet and bid his farewell surrounded by Disney's nearly-twin space cadets Zack and Cody. That long career included a number of memorable performances o …
"The Hunger Games" may well just be the greatest thing to happen to your bank account since Pres. Bush flushed the economy down the toilet before he left office in disgrace. Well, consider "The Hunger Games" the opening salvo in a perfect storm of investment opportunities that wi …
Errol Morris making a documentary about one of the chief architects of the illegal, unnecessary and disastrous invasions of Iraq? Sounds about right. After all, Errol Morris is the documentarian who made an Oscar-winning movie about one of the chief architects of the illegal, …
Movies about Albert Einstein on his birthday....March 14...3.14...Pi Day...what are the odds?
When "The Hunger Games" makes the move from paper to screen, hopefully it will inspire stories of a similar nature to do the same. "The Hunger Games" belongs to that pantheon of juvenile novel series that transcends the genre to become a worldwide sensation. Blockbuster sales can …
February 22 is National Margarita Day. This country is already overrun with drunk drivers, smarmy lounge lizards, and sleazy gals slamming back the tequila-laced fruity concoction while listening to guys in cowboy hats trying vainly to outdo Hank Williams Sr.
The true, tragic and pathetic story of how Edward Teller's ambition and lack of a conscience destroyed J. Robert Oppenheimer.
A 1968 teleplay, The Year of the Sex Olympics, seems an unlikely choice to be nominated as the most prescient prediction of what society, and especially television, would look like 40 years in the future.
By some miracle, Art Spiegelman managed to avoid both sensationalizing and trivializing the Holocaust when he used it has fodder for two groundbreaking comic books.
The Lion King 1 1/2 has a lot in common with Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead. Both are examples of postmodernism and metafiction.
Jonathan Liebesman is slated to reboot "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles." Chances are you recognize the name of the property fairly well. The name of the reboot guy? Not so much.
Love can really make you animated. Love on TV often results in the most animated of episodes. This is never truer than on a cartoon.
When it comes to comedy, it may be too much to suggest that Alfred Hitchcock was the Danny McBride of his day-a guy in charge of putting a comic vision on the screen that is shockingly lacking in humor-but he most certainly made the correct choice is going with suspense over come …
It verges on cinematic treason to suggest that the "Star Wars" prequel trilogy is in any way superior to the original trilogy.
The trailer for "The Amazing Spider-Man" released to the public on February 7, 2012, raises more questions than it answers.
Can comedy films have the power to cure depression? They say that laughter in the best medicine, after all.
The only movie genre that thrived critically, artistically, and commercially as a result of production from Hollywood and England in the first decade of the 21st century is the animated feature film.
Pancreatic cancer took the life of Ben Gazzara on February 3, 2004. Over the course of the bulk of his 81 years, Gazzara proved himself one of the most dependable and versatile actors of his era.
"Work It" managed to become a sitcom that aired on the same network that was home to "Bosom Buddies" and that pretty much replicated the basic concept of that 1980s sitcom while avoiding everything about the earlier show that made it work.
Every year when the Academy Award nominations are announced, a handful of what are ungenerously referred to as snubs inevitably makes for as important a headline as the ones that managed to snag a nod.
February 5 is National Weatherperson's Day, in case you weren't aware.
Albert Brooks received a heartbreaking lesson the day the Academy Award nominations were released in 2012. Much of Hollywood hates him. Or, at least, it would seem that way.
Lost amid the snub hubbub surrounding Albert Brooks and Ryan Gosling of "Drive" is the single most startling fact about the 2012 Academy Award nominations. "Rise of the Planet of the Apes" received just one nomination.
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