Tag: movies
Buffy, Firefly creator Joss Whedon takes time to make a more conventional movie
Joss Whedon's dad has been asking him for years when he'd do a grown-up movie. You know, without fanciful creatures. Never, he vowed. Au contraire. Whedon's latest picture, Much Ado About Nothing, in theaters now, is grown up, for sure....
Superman reboot, Hollywood movie on Hollywood make big screen debuts this weekend
Superman is getting a moodier, darker reboot in "Man of Steel" -- the new Hollywood adaptation of the super hero classic out in theaters this weekend. It'll match up against "This is the End," a story about Hollywood actors facing the end of the world...
Well-known Scottish actor Alan Cumming takes all roles in new Broadway showing of Macbeth
Alan Cumming has played all manner of characters over the length of his career. In his latest role, he plays a number of characters in one single performance, a new Broadway adaptation of Shakespeare's Macbeth....
Guerrilla film project changes boundaries of movie-going
What happens when movies just show up on the sides of buildings or on the side of a truck? A small team in San Diego with an old moving truck is taking films from around the world to the streets of San Diego....
Photographer captures images of movie sets preserved in African desert sands
Star Wars is set in North Africa. Not in the movie sense, of course, but the sets were filmed there. And, in many cases, once filming had wrapped, the sets stayed. And stayed. And they're still there. One photographer recently captured the well-preserved relics in North African deserts....
Fake accents, well-done, can make all the difference
When it comes to accents, they paint a picture in people's mind. And they can make or break the character. That's born out in real life and on the silver screen. Renée Zellweger was widely praised for her English accent in Bridget Jones’s Diary -- and Radovan Karadžić managed to evade authorities for years, in part through a fake accent....
Borgia's Jeremy Irons has perfected role of being bad
In movies and TV shows, you need a bad guy. Often, when directors and producers are looking for a bad guy, they look to Jeremy Irons, who's filled the bill in movies from Reversal of Fortune to the Lion King. His most recent endeavor, Showtime's The Borgias, returns on Sunday....
Tom Hanks says he aspires to appear in a completely silent movie
Tom Hanks, the movie actor known for his leading roles in Big, Forrest Gump and Saving Private Ryan, is staring on Broadway right now, in Lucky Guy, about a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist. But Hanks, who has played roles that don't have to say much to make a big impact, isn't done yet....
Online video streaming company Netflix works to revolutionize television
In the world of video streaming, Netflix is king. But as Amazon and Hulu amp up to be more competitive, TV critic Willa Paskin says, Netflix and its original programming are changing how people watch television and shaping what television becomes in the future....
Donald Trump loses land battle to Scottish wind farm
Donald Trump has been in a ferocious battle for years with the residents of one Scottish village, where his company has been building a golf resort. But his battle became more difficult this week with the Scottish government's approval of a wind farm nearby....
