Fellow Filmmakers Call For Polanski Release

A group of filmmakers are calling for the release of Roman Polanski.  Woody Allen, Martin Scorsese and David Lynch are among the directors who signed a petition asking for the release of director Roman Polanski.  Polanski was arrested this past weekend in Switzerland in connection with the 1977 rape charge that led to his fleeing …

DVD Review: Mama Mia!

Islands in drama have always been mystical, mysterious places.  From the islands in Shakespeare’s “Tempest,” to Robert Louis Stevenson’s “Treasure Island,” every island seems to be rife with a lot of things that might not be found on the mainland.  Add to the list director Phyllida Lloyd’s film version of the hit stage musical, “Mama …

Cast Announced for Polanski’s ‘Ghost’

Roman Polanski has cast Nicholas Cage, Tilda Swinton, and Pierce Brosnan, for his next film “The Ghost,” an adaptation of a political thriller by Robert Harris. The film is about a ghostwriter (Nicholas Cage) hired to finish the memoirs of a former British prime minister (Pierce Brosnan), after the first writer turned up dead. The …