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Ever wish you could go to film school? The Olympia Film Society has a film series that could help you replicate the experience.
Filmmaker Chris Weitz said that he knew the "Twilight" phenomenon had gone off the rails when the female immigration officer at the Canadian border already knew who he was. And when paparazzi pictures of him and his family eating hot dogs showed up on the Internet. And when he faced the audience at July's Comic-Con convention in San Diego.
Trying to provide reasonable entertainment for your children can be tough at times, especially if you don't want to subject yourself to the 32nd viewing of some TV show with an annoyingly catchy theme song.
"Where the Wild Things Are" the book is just 339 words long. But in turning it into "Where the Wild Things Are" the movie, director Spike Jonze has expanded the basic story with a breathtaking visual scheme and stirring emotional impact.
How do you make a movie about the country's current economic crisis and actually get people to see it?
“The Philosopher Kings” is among the works featured in the Olympia Film Society’s Documentary Film Festival, which opens today. It explores the wisdom found at universities and colleges.
LOS ANGELES — If only Adam Sandler and Seth Rogen hadn’t gotten in the car.
Do you believe in super-natural shenanigans? Hollywood sure does. There might not be a more consistent genre over the years than the unexplained – be it ghosts, goblins or other things that go bump in the night.
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As big, dumb summer “entertainments” go, they don’t get much bigger or much dumber than “Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen.” The briefly amusing mash-up/crunch-up of a couple of summers back has been recycled into an epic two and a half hours of explosions, ponderous cartoon history, veiled racism and inept geography.
“My Sister’s Keeper” is a horror movie for parents and a righteous weeper that earns its tears. Directed with a sure, sensitive hand by Nick Cassavetes (“The Notebook”), it is an actors’ showcase built on a moral dilemma. But at its most basic, it’s just a good cry.
It takes a special kind of character to pull off a broad comedy – one who you can believe would be daffy/crazy/silly enough to get involved in the kind of off-the-wall situations in which they often find themselves.
The words “Eddie Murphy family comedy” are enough to send shivers down the spine of any self-respecting film lover.
“Up” is the movie in which Pixar makes it look easy. A feather-light farce with a delicious dose of the sentimental, it isn’t the animation company’s biggest, most complicated or even its best. It’s just a film in which most every oddball element of an odd yet familiar story works.
It’s been quite a year for Anne Hathaway. Starting with last summer’s “Get Smart,” the former Disney ingénue has become a force to be reckoned with on both an artistic and commercial level.