Movie Station - Ultimate Movie Guide
The Toronto International Film Festival got going with a face-smashing, belly-laughing gangster caper from a director best known as Madonna’s husband.
Directed by the Pang brothers (Danny and Oxide), “Bangkok Dangerous” is a halfhearted remake of their 1999 picture of the same name.
“August Evening” explores the strained family ties among illegal immigrants from Mexico and their children living in various parts of Texas.
“Mister Foe” is infused with enough macabre and comical touches to prevent it from sliding into clinical sensationalism.
Claude Miller’s haunting new movie is called “A Secret.” But the gist of this story of repression and family tragedy is that secrets are rarely singular.
The Academy Award the director Frank Capra received for his film “Prelude to War” has been given to the Army, The Associated Press reported.
The Toronto International Film Festival, which opened on Thursday, includes 312 films from 64 countries, 116 of them world premieres.
How atrocious is the comedy “Everybody Wants to Be Italian”? Let me count the ways.
“Ping Pong Playa” mines hip-hop comedy gold from the least gangsta context imaginable: the assimilated Chinese-Americans of suburban California.
Never quite shaking off its aura of second-rate made-for-TV movie, this gay conversion melodrama has a lot of heart but little nerve and no surprise.
Had Jorge Ameer, the writer and director of “The House of Adam,” aimed for high-flying camp instead of low-rent earnestness, his movie might have stood a chance.
Mr. LaFontaine brought his melodramatic baritone to so many movie trailers, commercials and television promos that he became known in the industry as “the voice of God.”
Mr. Reed was a popular country singer and movie actor whose larger-than-life storytelling and flashy guitar work vividly evoked Southern life.
Abu Dhabi Media, flush with oil cash, is adding to the $1 billion deal it announced with Warner Brothers last year, and is putting another billion in a new movie business.
“The Pool” takes a look at the lives of the haves and the someday might haves in Goa.
Marc Eliot’s book is predicated on the idea that Ronald Reagan is best understood as “a serial populist” and that his career in government had its roots in his long acting career.
At the festival, new movies pay homage to a New York that somehow got away.
Don LaFontaine popularized the catch phrase “In a world where...” and lent his voice to thousands of movie trailers.
Fewer people went to the movies this summer than last, but higher ticket prices and a Batman sequel delivered near-record revenue to the major studios.
The Fox Film Noir collection includes Archie Mayo’s “Moontide” (1942), Elia Kazan’s “Boomerang!” (1947) and Jean Negulesco’s “Road House” (1948).
A film version of Noel Streatfeild’s “Ballet Shoes,” about three adopted sisters who attend a stage school in Bloomsbury, will be released on DVD in the United States on Tuesday.
The actress Natalie Portman was honored at the Venice Film Festival on Sunday.
In an unusual move, Fox Searchlight Pictures and Warner Brothers Pictures Group are coming together to release the next movie from Danny Boyle.
The summer movie season came to an end with another big week for “Tropic Thunder.”
The Slamdance Film Festival will celebrate its 15th anniversary with a series of events.
The French actress Emmanuelle Béart and Fabrice Du Welz, the director of her latest film, “Vinyan,” a thriller centered on the 2004 Asian tsunami, defended it from critics.
Anthology Film Archives in the East Village has rescued and preserved some of the director Robert Downey’s riotous and endangered early works.
Critics and moviegoers will decide how the new version of “The Women” stacks up against its 69-year-old inspiration, but we can tell you now: It is different.
The Paris Theater, one of the city’s most venerable art houses, is what people of a certain age once referred to as “a classy joint.” In many respects, it still is.
With “Burn After Reading,” the Coen brothers return to their specialty: the morbid and the comic.
Sixty years ago next week marks the anniversary of “The Red Shoes,” the standard story about a woman’s choice between career success or married love, just now shifted to ballet.
Hanging out with Elisabeth Shue, who tries to explain her new film “Hamlet 2.”
Pity today’s teenage audience. Their latest cinematic temptation is yet another tiresome fraternities-are-wild offering.
“Disaster Movie,” the latest disposable parody of disposable Hollywood movies, has a shelf life of about five minutes, tops.
The legal brawl continues between lawyers for Warner Brothers and lawyers for 20th Century Fox over the rights to “Watchmen.”
The only explicable thing about “Babylon A.D.” is that it was not screened in advance for critics.
Aaron Sorkin is writing a movie about the online social networking site Facebook, Variety reported.
There is hardly a moment in this film in which you are not aware that its absurdist view of the human condition was shaped by traumatic 20th-century events.
“Sukiyaki Western Django” is a loving and lurid pastiche of the spaghetti westerns that were themselves lurid pastiches of classic Hollywood cowboy pictures.
Among this weeks film series are a four-pack of John Carpenter, “Mondo Hollywood” and a retrospective of the filmmaker Chris Smith at MoMA.
“Year of the Fish” updates an ancient Chinese version of the “Cinderella” story with imagination, charm and just the right amount of sweetness.
There’s nothing generic about “Another Gay Sequel: Gays Gone Wild!” This wretched gaysploitation number is, in fact, the worst gay sequel ever.
The music documentaries “Youssou N’Dour: Return to Gorée” and “Maria Bethânia: Music Is Perfume” are mellow as buttermilk and twice as nutritious.
What raises this uninhibited hybrid above C level is a director, Alejandro Springall, with a flair for the surreal and a cast that knows its way around a stereotype.
A number of documentaries open this week in Manhattan with no fanfare to meet an Oscar deadline.
In the past the Toronto International Film Festival helped to set up Hollywood’s awards season. This year it may be more about solving the industry’s problems.
Disney has put together a marketing campaign using Pinocchio and Snow White to accelerate consumer adoption of next-generation DVD technology and boost sales.
“Traitor,” a somber, absorbing and only moderately preposterous new thriller written and directed by Jeffrey Nachmanoff, manages an impressive feat of economy.
Competitors from all over the world and a star-studded Coen brothers premiere make up this year’s Venice International Film Festival.
Mr. Crane was one of Scarlett O’Hara’s twin beaus and spoke the opening line in “Gone With the Wind.”
Errol Flynn, Hollywood’s unruly swashbuckler, is also a forgotten hero of the western.
Terrence Howard turns to the drama of his music, where he can express himself freely without the strictures of a director or writer.
A new documentary and a Web site offer compassion and practical information for war widows.
The controversial comedy “Tropic Thunder” held onto first place at the box office for the second weekend.
As LinkedIn struggles to remain relevant in an ever more socially networked world, the Internet company has found a constituency that might need its help.
The film industry has been buzzing over 20th Century Fox’s claims that it has the rights to the graphic novel on which Warner Brothers is basing “Watchmen,” its giant superhero movie.
Mr. Serran was a leading figure in the Brazilian movement Cinema Novo, and worked with the directors Carlos Diegues and Bruno Barreto.
Hollywood, Schmollywood. The Red Bucket Films crew will take Manhattan.
Four college-age Americans are brought to Morocco to join four Moroccans of similar age for a weeklong tour of their country.
“Momma’s Man” is a touchingly true film, part weepie, part comedy, about the agonies of navigating that slippery slope called adulthood.
Kimberly Roberts, the dynamo at the center of the documentary “Trouble the Water,” didn’t wait out the storm from her home in the Lower Ninth Ward; she chased it.
A look at 10 of the best art films this summer, several of which portray an unjust world in which ordinary people are at the mercy of the rich and powerful.
“Hamlet 2” belongs to the school of free-for-all satiric farce whose creators ball up wads of ideas, apply chewing gum and hurl them against the wall to see what sticks.
“Death Race” is a supercharged junkyard apocalypse powered by an unabashed relish for brutal comeuppance and a flair for delirious vehicular mayhem.
Patrick Creadon’s resolutely nonpartisan film tracks America’s “fiscal cancer” through centuries of budgetary highs and lows.
In the civil rights documentary “Dare Not Walk Alone,” director Jeremy Dean makes a valiant attempt to juxtapose past and present, but his execution is so muddled it’s almost unwatchable.
David Strathairn suffers a midlife crisis and oppressively mannered filmmaking in this tale of small town tragedy and whimsy run amok.
Fred Durst of Limp Bizkit fame directs what may be the most formulaic football movie ever made.
Anna Faris proves herself a faux-bimbo par excellence in this breezy, ditzy comedy about a Playboy bunny who goes back to school.
The filmmaking Pang twins can always be counted on for a few searing images, like in their latest movie, “Bangkok Dangerous.”
In Bollywood the motion picture industry remains resolutely star struck, even as special effects have helped to reduce Hollywood’s dependence on big-name actors.
Woody Allen on how to film a love quadrangle when everyone in the cast clearly idolizes the director.
Karen McCullah Lutz and Kirsten Smith are that rarest of Hollywood commodities: a successful female writing team. Their latest film is “The House Bunny.”
Mr. Farber was a painter whose spiky, impassioned film criticism waged war against sacred cows like Orson Welles.
Watching Rainn Wilson gyrate in “The Rocker,” you can’t help wondering if Mr. Wilson is inhabiting a role that was originally turned down by Jack Black.
Operating at the intersection of art and industrial engineering, Richard Serra is an informative if unanimated guide through “Thinking on Your Feet.”
The racing erotic pulse of “Vicky Cristina Barcelona” is a development that has seldom been seen in Woody Allen’s work.
Actresses, Scientologists, musicians, politicians and Memphis residents paid tribute to singer Isaac Hayes.
The dark heroes of Warner Brothers’ “Watchmen,” set for release next March, have a new problem on their hands: A federal judge has ruled that they may belong to 20th Century Fox.
Two harsh but hauntingly beautiful fables — “Wings,” released in 1966, and “The Ascent,” from 1977 — are the best-known films of the director Larisa Shepitko.
The dark heroes of Warner Brothers’ “Watchmen,” set for release next March, have a new problem on their hands: A federal judge here has ruled that they may belong to 20th Century Fox.
The popularity of the AMC series “Mad Men” is renewing interest in efforts to portray the advertising business on TV and in film.
“Tropic Thunder,” took in an estimated $26 million at the weekend box office, knocking “The Dark Knight” out of the No. 1 spot after an extraordinary monthlong run on top.
Despite appearances in many movies, Steve Coogan, the star of the indie comedy “Hamlet 2,” is scarcely known in the United States.
An ick is a yuk is a buck, and today’s taboo is tomorrow’s box-office bonanza.
Hanging out with Rainn Wilson while he promotes “The Rocker,” his first lead role in a movie, which opens in theaters next week.
“Bachna Ae Haseeno” grows more serious and interesting as it contemplates the various permutations of romance in a culture with rapidly changing sexual mores.
A possessed nun, an alcoholic ex-cop and a mess of shattered glass drive “Mirrors,” a minor chiller and major downer from the talented Alexandre Aja.
Mr. Minsky was a Hollywood talent agent and the producer of the movie “Love Story.”
A former White House operative filed a federal lawsuit over the movie “Swing Vote,” which he claims is based on a screenplay of his own.
Reviews of “Mirrors” and “Bachna Ae Haseeno.”
A series of films explore the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina and its impact on communities.
Let’s go ahead and get this out of the way because I’m sure you’re dying to know: no, you shouldn’t see “Blitzkrieg: Escape From Stalag 69.”
The head of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios says he wants Tom Cruise to remain closely involved with United Artists after the departure of Paula Wagner, a friend of Mr. Cruise.
Gustavo Santaolalla, known for composing the scores for “Brokeback Mountain” and “Babel,” returns to his Argentine musical roots.
Malcolm McDowell is thoroughly engaging in “Never Apologize: A Personal Visit With Lindsay Anderson.”
Warner Brothers said on Thursday that it would not release “Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince” on Nov. 21 as planned, shifting the opening to July 17.
“A Girl Cut in Two” is a rich, textured divertissement from Claude Chabrol, a sinister master of the art.
The portrait of Anita O’Day that emerges in this documentary is of a woman who always lived by her own rules.
“Vicky Cristina Barcelona” is a rueful comedy about two young American women who savor many Continental delicacies.