Saturday, March 16, 2013
Here’s a safety tip: Next time you’re kidnapped from a mall, thrown into the trunk of a car, and driven off to who-knows-where, make sure you get Halle Berry’s desk when you call 911 on the cellphone you’ve got hidden in your back pocket. She will find you. …
Saturday, March 16, 2013
Beware the Ides of March, by which time expectations have been so lowered by mid-winter dreck that movie audiences can easily mistake mediocrity for genuine merit. On any other date, The Incredible Burt Wonderstone would be seen for …
Wednesday, March 13, 2013
Los Angeles — The eyebrows are dyed. The well-coiffed wig is in place. Even the chest hair has been shaved. It’s early March on the Warner Bros. lot, and Steve Carell is hard at work, channeling Burt Wonderstone, …
Wednesday, March 13, 2013
Soap fans have a new date to mark on their calendars, and for once it’s not a series finale. One Life to Live and All My Children will make their online debuts on April 29, according to Prospect Park’s The Online Network, which stepped in after both soaps …
Wednesday, March 13, 2013
Los Angeles — David Copperfield was supposed to visit the set of NBC’s Today show last week, but when his flight had to make an emergency landing in Illinois the network went to Plan B — an interview with the illusionist from a hangar in Peoria. Host Matt …
Wednesday, March 13, 2013
New York — What do you do after winning viewers’ hearts as The Bachelor? If you’re Sean Lowe, you put on your dancing shoes. ABC says Lowe is headed to Dancing With the Stars. He steps up fresh …
Saturday, March 9, 2013
With all that attention focused on the original Swedish Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, very little of it seemed to have spilled over onto the director. Was its success simply due to story and settings and Swedishness? Maybe. …
Friday, March 8, 2013
Romance movies come and go, but a crackerjack bank heist picture is a joy forever. Because of film’s unique power to manipulate time, the medi- um is ideally suited to tell stories in which a character races …
Friday, March 8, 2013
The unconventional work of Lyme bear researcher Ben Kilham is the subject of a new documentary film by Dartmouth students that will be screened tonight. Out of the Den: A Winter with Ben Kilham, which will be screened tonight in Loew Auditorium at Dartmouth’s Black Family Visual Arts …
Friday, March 8, 2013
In an age when the text and the tweet can destroy a movie an hour after it opens, Hollywood market research firms are scrambling to rethink the way they help movie studios promote their films. That has created new challenges for companies such as Capstone Global Marketing and …
By Don's Early Light
