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  • Winslet's double Globes win raises questions

    2009-01-16 19:04

    I would never want to rain on Kate Winslet's parade, especially when she has given two such impressive performances as she did in "Revolutionary Road" and "The Reader."

  • "Bride Wars" an unfunny misfire

    2009-01-09 10:30

    June 6 is the anniversary of D-Day. Fox's comedy "Bride Wars," which opens on Friday, would have you believe two female best friends would go to war with a ferocity equal to the Normandy landing when their wedding dates both fall on June 6 at New York's Plaza Hotel.

  • What if Sundance isn't about the sales anymore?

    2009-01-08 18:23

    One of the most promising indie films this winter features several stars and already has buyers circling. It sounds like a top Sundance Film Festival hopeful, except for one thing -- it isn't going to Sundance.

  • Red-hot and on edge - again

    2009-01-08 07:49

    Director John Woo's Red Cliff grossed a record-breaking $103 million across Asia, and now the dynamo expects the film's sequel to hail a second round of box office bests.

  • Just say `I don't' to `Bride Wars'

    2009-01-08 08:58

    The cliched comedy "Bride Wars" tosses out stereotypes about female materialism and cattiness with all the giddy gusto of a newly married woman....

  • "Australia" another letdown for Nicole Kidman

    2008-12-31 09:24

    The movie has sold just $44.3 million worth of tickets at the U.S. and Canadian box office after five weekends, and is shaping up to be the latest in a line of disappointments for its star, Nicole Kidman.

  • Hollywood's happy, even without a record year

    2008-12-30 10:40

    Hollywood loves breaking box-office records, yet studio executives aren't griping that their 2008 lineup will fall a bit shy of the all-time high set a year earlier.

  • `Valkyrie' non-flop augurs well for Cruise, UA

    2008-12-30 10:33

    After the reasonably strong box office performance of "Valkyrie" over the weekend, skeptics were robbed of the chance to declare "Flop!"

  • `Doubt' only preaches moral ambiguity

    2008-12-11 09:09

    For a film about moral ambiguity, "Doubt" does an awful lot of hand-holding.

  • Blindness

    2008-11-25 07:59

    Directed by Fernando Meirelles, starring Julianne Moore, Mark Ruffalo, Alice Braga, Don McKellar

  • Bond's quantum leap

    2008-11-03 15:31

    Films about superheroes are a pleasant escape from a world in financial crisis and with perfect timing, James Bond's latest adventure, Quantum of Solace, hits Chinese mainland theaters on Nov 5, nine days ahead of its premiere in America.

  • High School Musical 3: Senior Year

    2008-10-28 09:26

    As ever, Zac Efron is teen cutester Troy Bolton, who totally rules the school basketball court, without his artfully contrived fringe ever becoming disordered.

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