MSN News in Latin America is reporting that Johnny Depp has been signed to play the Mad Hatter in Tim Burton’s adaptation of ‘Alice in Wonderland.’ The movie will be shot in 3D. Australian actress Mia Wasikowska has alreay been signed to play Alice. For me, I’ll sit through anything Johnny Depp does. After his …
A new interview with George Lucas explains the tension behind-the-scenes of the recent ‘Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull.’ Lucas said that the tension came from the fact that on the new movies, he needed to agree with Steven Speilberg and Harrison Ford while on earlier films, everyone looked to him. He …
You know the routine. You’re watching a movie and a scene comes up and something seems familiar about it. It’s not the writing. It’s not the direction. It’s not the acting. Ah, there it is- it’s the soundtrack.
Film critics Roger Ebert and Richard Roeper have announced that they are parting ways with ‘At the Movies.’ The show had been in a state of flux the past few years, what with Ebert not appearing on the program since June of 2006 due to medical problems, and the removal of the ‘Thumbs Up/ Thumbs …
With the recent spate of comic book-based movies, we’re in a golden age. It is no longer just okay to throw characters onto the screen with poor dialogue and ludicrous scenarios. The bar has been raised every summer. And the bar is now sky high. Now comic book movies must face the dizzying heights achieved …
Musician Leslie Feist knows how to count. Well, to four at least. (You ever notice she skipped 7 & 8 in that song? Did she forget? Not like those numbers? No matter.) Feist appears in the new season of ‘Sesame Street.’ And just so you don’t have to watch the whole show to see her, …
How do you define a documentary? Is it a film that has interviews? Is it a film that tells a true story? These are the sorts of questions that you find yourself thinking watching Hiroshi Teshigahara’s movie ‘Antonio Gaudi.’
In 1953, writer Elmore Leonard published a short story in Dime Western Magazine. The story was made into a movie in 1957, starring Glenn Ford. In 2007, ‘Walk the Line’ director James Mangold tackled the story again.
Halfway through the large slate of movies released annually
In anticipation of their upcoming screening of the films of Stanley Kubrick, the BBC has produced an amazing commercial, giving viewers an idea of what it was like on a Kubrick set. In a 65-second tracking shot, the camera wanders through the set, with many of the film’s cast and crew represented as the camera, …