Now entering its third week, Lord of the Rings: Return of the King has almost grossed enough money to pay for the entire trilogy. (The three films cost about $300 million and RTK has made about $233 million.) Until Fellowship of the Ring hit the cinemas, the lead stars were, for the most part, darlings [...]

If you attended the Hot Shops Film Festival in September, you might have caught a “super-duper-secret-sneak preview” of Dan Mirvish’s new film Open House. As a panel member, he also spoke about the film at 8 p.m. Sept. 26. If you missed all of that and are scratching your head, asking “Dan who?” read on.
Mirvish [...]

In one form or another, Dana Altman has been involved with the film, The Private Public, for about three years. Now that it

It was the worst of times

At 12:01 a.m. Wednesday, 2,000 of us crammed into six theaters at the Oak View 24 to watch Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King. It

I love Dennis Potter

Before he sold his soul to Hollywood and directed such tripe as The Edge, Along Came a Spider and Die Another Day, Lee Tamahori made a powerful film in his native New Zealand called Once Were Warriors. Adapted by Riwia Brown from Alan Duff’s novel, this film delivers a snapshot of Maori life that’s far [...]

Boys dressed as girls, and girls masquerading as boys – no matter what your proclivity, there are plenty of wonderfully delicious films that explore gender roles. In honor of SNAP! and Shelterbelt’s Christmas with the Crawfords, enjoy a list of some of my gender-bending favorites.
Hedwig and the Angry Inch tells the story of an East [...]

If I were still a 12-year-old, who chose movies based on which cute actors they contained, I would be over-the-moon with Timeline. But as I’m a cynical adult who has precious little time to waste on dross, I’m not.
In my youth I was enraptured with films like Ladyhawke, Krull and Dragonslayer.
And Timeline has a lot [...]

The Missing is a good exercise in how not to write a script.
Screenwriter Ken Kaufman seems an unlikely person to adapt Thomas Eidson’s novel, The Last Ride, primarily because his credits include such films as the Pauly Shore vehicle In the Army Now, Muppets From Space and Space Cowboys, which although it was predictable got [...]