Saturday, November 16, 2024

Movies

Movies: “Interstellar” Reviews Come Pouring In, and They are Very Mixed

Not a great morning for "Interstellar" or Paramount. The review embargo just lifted. This is not "Gravity." Reviews are mixed, even the good ones....

Stephen Hawking Joins Facebook Just in Time for Oscar Campaign

Pigs are flying. Stephen Hawking has joined Facebook just in time for the Oscar campaign for "The Theory of Everything." Didn't you hope Hawking...

Gotham Awards Nominate Boyhood, Birdman, CitizenFour, Foxcatcher Cast

The Gotham Awards are the first out of the box in December. The sort of Spirit Awards East gave the cast of Foxcatcher a...

Oscar Winner Ellen Burstyn: “I Don’t Recommend Abortion to Anybody”

Ellen Burstyn is one of our finest actresses. She's also a great lady who runs the Actors Studio in New York. Ellen stars in...

Exclusive: “70s Show” Star Topher Grace Producing, Starring in Low Budget Film Musical

Topher Grace is a puzzlement. Maybe he made a lot of money from "That 70s Show" on Fox; it was a long run. He...

Interstellar Draws Stellar Crowd at Brad Grey’s Secret Screening and Dinner

The "Interstellar" secret screening and dinner at the '21' Club drew a stellar crowd Sunday night, I am told by some of the invitees....

Freddie Mercury-Queen Unauthorized Short Film Project Asks Public for Money on Crowdfunding

A bunch of people who don't have music rights or anything else are trying to make a "Bowfinger" type short film about Freddie Mercury...

Hugh Grant’s Possibly Last Movie Has No US Distributor, Flops in the UK

Everything about "The Rewrite" sounds like it would work-- if it had been released in 1998. Hugh Grant plays  a failed screenwriter who takes...