Dear Hollywood: Stop Embarrassing Us. Love, Sacramento.
Back when I was growing up in Sacramento, California, it was always a big deal when a Hollywood production would come to town. Clint Eastwood, John Travolta, whoever…
Celebrate Summer's Most Reviled Film with All About Steve Wallpaper!
After yesterday's critical lambasting, Fox needs all the help it can get powering All About Steve off its Labor Day launching pad and into the hearts and minds of…
Is Bad Lieutenant Werner Herzog's Own Private Ghost Rider?
While I wouldn't call myself a fan of the unsightly, derivative new poster for Nicolas Cage and Werner Herzog's Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans, let's hand it…
Russell Crowe Challenge Ends Poorly For Aussie Gossip
A Sydney gossip columnist who dared to call Russell Crowe out for his smoking and diet habits wound up challenged recently to a grueling bicycle trek with the angry…
Warner Bros. Wins Second Term as Kings of Summer
· Warner Bros. didn't need a Dark Knight to help repeat last year's summer box-office championship -- but it did need an unlikely Hangover. Along with boosts from Harry…
Hollywood Puts the 'Labor' in Labor Day
Welcome back to Movieline Attractions, your regular guide to everything new, noteworthy and potentially unfit for human consumption at the movies. This week, consider…
The 9 Most Scathing Critical Responses to All About Steve
This is why studios don't screen some movies for critics. After a summer during which Bradley Cooper and Sandra Bullock hits combined for $350 million at the box office…
Is the Tomorrow Series Australia's Answer to Twilight?
It doesn't have vampires, it doesn't have wolfcake, and it doesn't have its own touring fan conventions. (Yet.) But as of today, Australia's bestselling Tomorrow series…
Jay Leno Will Have a Desk After All
Or so writes Time correspondent James Poniewozik in an exhaustive new preview of The Jay Leno Show, reporting that the host will "need one for seated-comedy bits."…
'Two More Movies -- That's Enough': Is John Waters Retiring?
We all knew John Waters is something of a fine-art obsessive -- but obsessive enough to give up filmmaking for a late career change? Sequestered at the end of a lengthy…
Jerkin': The Movie Capitalizes on Most Popular Dance of the Next 5 Minutes
America is nothing without a biannual dance craze, and Hollywood is nothing without the imperative to commit that fad to film for all time (and hopefully a low- to…
There Are No Words: Fox Developing Big Momma's House 3
· It had to happen eventually: Fox plans to revive its $300 million-generating franchise masterpiece Big Momma's House, recruiting writer Randi Mayem Singer to work out…
In Theaters: Extract
When it comes to contemplating the misfortune of Mike Judge's Extract, part of me wants to just refer you over to Beavis and Butthead's own review and be done with it…
Cate Blanchett, Survivor
Cate Blanchett is just fine after getting clocked in the head last night with a prop radio during a performance of A Streetcar Named Desire. After using what reports…
Does Dark Horse Trucker Stumble En Route to Awards Season?
Ready or not, here Oscar season comes. Or maybe, as for so many films this time of year, the operative phrase is "worthy or not." That's the judgment facing Trucker, the…
