Woody Allen + Diane Keaton
The on- and offscreen sparks between Woody Allen and Diane Keaton are redolent of a connection Scarlett Johansson can only dream about.
Trailers are more than the reason you can come 15 minutes late to a movie. A good preview can get an audience buzzing about a film months before its release, and a bad one can ensure that no one shows up on opening day.
A female-dominated cast in a coming-of-age story rife with racial intolerance and the search for identity are the perfect recipe for a total cheesefest.
Although Rachel Getting Married is directed by Jonathan Demme (The Silence of the Lambs), the only gore here is the open wound of familial dysfunction.
Have you ever found yourself wishing that you were sightless and locked in an abandoned mental institution while post-apocalyptic chaos, dredged from the seediest underbelly of humanity itself, masticated and regurgitated the values that you held most dear?
Converting a novel into a film is a daunting task: the screenwriter must pare down the script, eliminate irrelevant subplots and commercialize the characters.
On Sept. 26, legendary actor Paul Newman passed away due to complications from cancer. A prolific actor who appeared in 65 films over 50 years, Newman won over audiences with his gracious charm, fierce magnetism and piercing blue eyes.
Kat Dennings is dancing in a Four Seasons hallway when we arrive for our interview. Clad in a white blouse and black suit, with porcelain skin and ocean blue eyes, Dennings is as striking in person as she is on-screen.
The teen movie is like the irksome little sister of the film industry. It's there and sometimes it can be entertaining, but for the most part, life would be a lot less annoying if it would stop talking so much and quit reading your diary.
As Spike Joneze's 2002 film Adaptation. taught us, adaptation is not an easy task. Unless, of course, you're adapting a book about assholes with incurable sex addictions - then the raw material is a dream come true for Hollywood screenwriters.
Leave it up to producer Steven Spielberg and director D.J. Caruso to concoct a science fiction tale set in the gray hallways of the National Security Agency (NSA). First, this isn't a date movie; it would be more appropriate for fans of shoot-em-ups and Discovery Military.
It's a timeless story. Boy meets girl. Boy marries girl to produce a male heir. When things don't work out in the Y-chromosome department, boy plays hide-the-mutton with various scullery maids.
Everyone likes a good road trip, right? Not so, if you're talking about the cross-country drive the characters take in the The Lucky Ones, a film about three soldiers on leave from Iraq.
The reasons for their trips home vary in levels of absurdity: Private Dunn (Rachel McAdams) is bringing her dead boyfriend's Elvis guitar back to his parents, Sergeant Poole (Michael Pe