Dustin Hoffman doing a real Robert Evans impression in "Wag the Dog" (not at all like what Martin Landau did in "Entourage," which could never be mistaken for Evans). It's enormously frustrating and stressful trying to live in three places…
Here's a dazzling concept for a music clip: One shot, stationary camera, five guys. This performance of "Cold Irons Bound," from which Amazon.com is posting on their page for Bob Dylan's new album "Modern Times" (to be released Tuesday), lets…
Three eloquent and distinctly personal appreciations of the opening of Paul Thomas Anderson's "Punch-Drunk Love": From Nareg Torosian, ScreenPlay: The opening shot of one of my favorite films of recent years, Paul Thomas Anderson's "Punch-Drunk Love" (2002). As described on…
The Formal Mr. Poland, aboard the 2006 Floating Film Festival. (Photo by Kim Robeson) Happy "Birthday" to David Poland, whose Hot Blog, Hot Button column and Movie City News are favorite sources of information and commentary about The Biz around…
Does this kind of behavior reflect badly on Paramount? Does it reflect badly on Scientology? Is it good for the Jews? Didn't John Travolta do this very same thing back in 1977? You tell me. (No, I really don't care.)…
Bob Balaban (left) plays an Evil Film Critic in "Lady in the Water." "Reviews should be objective. Keep your opinions out of your reviews!" -- actual comments from alleged "readers," sent to Roger Ebert and just about every other critic…
Hissy fit over the South Pacific. Carlos from Venezuela raises some intriguing questions in his comments about "Snakes on a Plane" below. Some excerpts from what he wrote: This leads me to the big question, how in hell is ...…
A Los Angeles Times/Bloomberg poll found that only 3 percent of 18- 24-year-olds would have picked this still as their first choice to accompany this article, since it has nothing whatsoever to do with the contents of the article itself.…
FYI, I've still got lots and lots of Opening Shots stacked up to publish, including (off the top of my head): Truffaut's "Day for Night," Paul Schrader's "Cat People," Joe Dante's "the 'burbs," Bob Zemeckis's "Used Cars," Tarkovsky's "Andrei Rublev,"…
Bad snake! Bad, bad snake! I think I was in college before I ever became aware of, or paid the slightest bit of attention to, box office grosses. Until "Entertainment Tonight" came along in the early 1980s, you had to…
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