Action and character unite in Casino Royale Part II. One could draw a parallel between the current revitalization of the James Bond franchise and Quentin Tarantino's Kill Bill saga. Quantum of Solace essentially completes the story that began in Casino Royale, giving them a similar relationship to each other as Tarantino's pair of films. In the Tarantino pair, the first film (as great as it... ...

Guy Ritchie's latest is an exhausting and impenetrable caper. I hate to think that RocknRolla is Guy Ritchie's way of telling fans that he's a two-trick pony. With their quirky characters and visual trickery, Snatch and Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels easily rank amongst the finest modern crime pictures. But you wouldn't know it from the looks of RocknRolla, which knows the words that go ...

The Supreme Court will hear an appeal from a conservative group that wanted to promote and air its anti-Hillary Clinton movie without complying with a landmark campaign finance law.

Abhishek Bachchan, John Abraham and Priyanka Chopra star in a Bollywood comedy jampacked with fun. There's also a slightly rebellious nod to gay life.

Role Models” is the kind of movie you don’t see every day, a comedy that is funny. The kind of comedy where funny people say funny things in funny situations, not the kind of comedy that whacks you with manic shocks to force an audible Pavlovian response.

These poor animals. First, they’re hauled away from the comforts of the Central Park Zoo to be stranded on Madagascar. Then they find a crashed Cargo Cult airplane from WWII, tape the plane together and try to fly it back home. Why would they rather be in New York? Can’t get a cab in Madagascar?

OK, I’ll say it. Never again. Don’t ever let this happen again to James Bond. “Quantum of Solace” is his 22nd film, and he will survive it, but for the 23rd it is necessary to go back to the drawing board and redesign from the ground up. Please understand: James Bond is not an action hero!

On the heels of his lover's killers, 007 sets his sights on the next tier of the mysterious Quantum organization. Daniel Craig returns as England’s toughest spy in Quantum of Solace, and he’s taking no prisoners. In fact, M even tells him at one point that they might find out more information if he didn’t insist on “killing every lead we have.”I grew up on Sean Connery as James Bond, and I ...

Oliver! Oliver! , the Oscar-winning Best Picture of 1968, is unusual among movie musicals. It manages to take its audience on a wild rollercoaster ride of emotional highs and lows without ever feeling manipulative or even worse, corny.

Some filmmakers say Utah's Motion Picture Advisory Committee is unfairly denying financial incentives for movies that have content the committee objects to. Vans Stevenson, the Motion Picture Association of America Inc.'s senior vice president of state government affairs, say state requirements to submit scripts before awarding financial incentives may be unconstitutional. He says states that ...

Some filmmakers say Utah's Motion Picture Advisory Committee is unfairly denying financial incentives for movies that have content the committee objects to.

Although the latest Bond installment doesn't live up to its prequel, it's still worth seeing. When a person sits down to watch the latest James Bond installment, there is a certain checklist that must be considered. Are there at least two hot Bond babes for James to seduce? Are there plenty of blood-pumping, adrenaline inducing chase/fight scenes? What new, state-of-the-art gadgets and gizmos ...

The bonus features are often as entertaining as the movie and make this a must-own DVD. Written by General JabboThe idea of a movie about actors whose life ends up imitating their art is not new — Three Amigos comes to mind as one of the more famous ones. Tropic Thunder is the latest in such a line of films and it delivers on all levels.The movie tells the story of a group of actors filming a ...

It always comes as a breath of fresh air when a film and it’s filmmakers don’t just give us what they think we want to see, or what they think we deserve; instead, they give us the truth. There are many different genres, styles, techniques and schools of thought that surround the entertainment industry as a whole, and more than a few of those will push for beauty and strength and morality ...

"Twilight," the movie based on Stephenie Meyer's best-selling vampire books, aims to catch the fancy of young, female moviegoers — the same demographic that helped "Titanic" break box-office records.

The literary version of having a movie-critic friend intent on convincing you that there's a movie of which you've never heard but must see, The B List offers mostly irresistible essays by the National Society of Film Critics about their favorite guilty pleasures.

Role Models” is the kind of movie you don’t see every day, a comedy that is funny. The kind of comedy where funny people say funny things in funny situations, not the kind of comedy that whacks you with manic shocks to force an audible Pavlovian response.

Equal parts mystical rumination, personal history, city chronicle, and deranged fantasy. "What if...what if I film my way out of here?"I am the last person who would have anything good to say about an "art film", but My Winnipeg has succeed where a plethora of other movies have failed: I stayed interested and awake throughout the whole 80 minutes. This movie was filmed almost entirely in black ...

The Supreme Court yesterday accepted the latest challenge to the landmark McCain-Feingold campaign finance law, agreeing to consider whether the makers of a movie critical of Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-N.Y.) have to disclose who donated to the project and whether the government can ban the fi...

Role Models” is the kind of movie you don’t see every day, a comedy that is funny. The kind of comedy where funny people say funny things in funny situations, not the kind of comedy that whacks you with manic shocks to force an audible Pavlovian response.