Weekend Forecast: Can Red Riding Hood Take a Bite Out of Battle: L.A.?
"What?" you ask. "Weekend Forecast? Is it Friday morning already?" Sorry, not quite. But why wait to have a glance at the week's new releases big and small, good and…
MPAA Whisperer Harvey Weinstein Gets PG-13 For Miral
Good news, kids: Less than 48 hours after Julian Schnabel's public dismay over the "R" rating for his new, youth-focused Middle East drama Miral, the MPAA has come…
'Save Your Money': So Much For the Firefly Charity Drive
Sad news this week from the geek-core rights-acquisition front lines: The grass-roots fund-raising campaign to help revive Joss Whedon's cult-favorite sci-fi series…
Julian Schnabel is Latest to Hate on MPAA
"I was shocked and saddened when the MPAA awarded Miral an 'R' or restricted rating. As a filmmaker, I took great pains to tailor Miral to the intended audience and…
Tourette's, Anorexia, OCD and 'Soul Sister' Collide in Harrowing New Trailer
You don't need to speak German to get the gist of Vincent Wants to Sea [sic], an odd-trio-psych-disorder-romcom-road movie that finally brings together some of the most…
Hollywood-Qaddafi Dream Team Almost Had It All
Even Hollywood's culture of megalomania, paranoia, ruthlessness, ego, greed and avarice has to draw the line somewhere. Apparently it's at genocide: A producer operating…
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Juliette Binoche on Certified Copy, Minimum French and Watching Godard Search
Juliette Binoche's latest film, Certified Copy, offers a bit of everything for the discriminating cinemagoer: the famously exact and entrancing mise en scene of Iranian…
Movie-Smoke Lobby Targets Rango For 'R' Rating
I shouldn't publicize them, but the zealots lobbying for the automatic 'R' rating of movies containing any depiction of tobacco usage are back and crazier than ever…
Where Were You When You Heard Stanley Kubrick Died?
Stanley Kubrick died 12 years ago today at the age of 70, leaving behind arguably the most influential filmmaking legacy of any director in the history of cinema. But…
VIDEO: Inevitable Charlie Sheen/Tom Cruise Mash-Up Just Dumb Enough to Work
It was just a matter of time before the erstwhile barometer of A-list Hollywood nutjobbery collided head-on with its reigning ambassador. The only real question was how…
Movieline's Week in Review: #Losing
It was a week of tiger blood, Adonis DNA, vice-choosing and winning. And that was just the Oscars. The rest was a blur I doubt we'll ever have a full grasp on, but we…
Super Trailer: Instant Classic Gets Wrenching Preview
Ha! [Cue honking gag horn] It'll all make sense after a look at the trailer for Super, James Gunn's outrageous (and outrageously violent) comedy featuring Rainn Wilson…
You're Hired: 7 Reasons Dionne Warwick Will Dominate Celebrity Apprentice
As the greatest female pop vocalist of the last half-century, Dionne Warwick doesn't need to go off and do a season of Celebrity Apprentice to retain her place in the…
Report From Yale: James Franco Still Likes Doing Things
According to a new report, the roundly chilly response to James Franco's Oscar hosting gig has hardly lessened his profile at Yale. In fact, the post-grad polymath -…
