The “Teflon Don,” John Gotti, jr., will get his story told on the big screen in the Fiore Film biopic “Gotti: Three Generations.” After months of rumor, John Travolta has officially signed on to play the infamous leader of the Gambino crime family. Producer Marc Fiore has scheduled an April 12 news conference in New [...]
Franklin D. Roosevelt, the president of the Great Depression, World War II and the New Deal, will be played by Bill Murray, actor of “Ghostbusters,” “Groundhog Day” and “Kingpin.” The Vulture reports that Murray has officially signed on to star as FDR in an adaptation of the British radio play “Hyde Park On the Hudson” [...]
Elizabeth Taylor, the sultry sex icon of the cinema, died Wednesday at age 79. The three-time Oscar-winning actress, whose turbulent personal life sometimes overshadowed her career, died of congestive heart failure at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, where she had been hospitalized for about six weeks. “All her children were with her,” publicist Sally Morrison said. Taylor [...]
The third annual Pan-Asia Film Festival took place in London this month (March 2nd-13th). The event is organised by Asia House, a cultural centre that hosts a variety of events throughout the year, designed to promote understanding and exchange between Europe and Asia. Although the Pan-Asia Film Festival presented just one film per day, with [...]
Earlier this year, when it was revealed that Anne Hathaway had been cast as Catwoman in Christopher Nolan’s hugely anticipated “The Dark Knight Rises,” fans were apprehensive. Had the announcement been made immediately after Hathaway’s career affirming turn in “Rachel Getting Married” (2008), folks might have been a little more accepting. But one over-eager Oscar [...]
Simon Pegg and Nick Frost, the cheeky Brits who brought us “Hot Fuzz” and “Shaun of the Dead,” put their heads together once again to give us their signature fanboy take on the alien encounter movie. “Paul” has enough “Star Wars” and “Star Trek” references to delight the geekiest of geeks, and more four-letter punchlines [...]
“Anna Karenina” is going Hollywood, and the Russian classic is bringing a few Brits with her. Aaron Johnson and Jude Law are in talks to join the Joe Wright-directed adaptation of the Leo Tolstoy classic for Working Title. Sources wouldn’t confirm what roles Law and Johnson would play. Keira Knightley is already attached to star [...]
After stunning cinephiles by taking on the next “Wolverine” flick, Darren Aronofsky, one of Hollywood’s hottest directors, has backed out of the superhero project. Shooting was set to begin this spring in Japan, but the “Black Swan” director said he didn’t want to be out of the country for as long as production would take. [...]
Do humans really have free will? It certainly seems like we do. But, given the right conditions, science can accurately predict the behavior of atoms. And aren’t our bodies just a giant cluster of billions of atoms? So, it should be possible, theoretically, to consistently predict human behavior, thus rendering our freedom to choose a [...]
Having experienced my first two festivals as a member of the press, I feel compelled to compare them, noting the areas where one festival outperformed the other. Although London and Berlin are quite different festivals, I think that it’s possible for them to learn from each other. The first, most notable difference is that in [...]
We’ll always have Casablanca
‘Carnage’ slaughters dialogue with theatrics
Loco: London’s 1st Comedy Film Festival
Orlando: Does Sex Matter?
A soothing demise: Lars von Trier’s ‘Melancholia’ considered
The Power of Limits in The Five Obstructions
Surviving ‘Surviving Life’
‘The Other’ at The 2nd London Iranian Film Festival
‘Leaving’: Made in Prague
A Step Forward: New African Film in Paris
