Enjoying its world premiere earlier this week at the Cannes Film Festival, KILLING THEM SOFTLY is a stylishly rendered vision of what’s wrong with this country (and the capitalist system) masquerading as a gangster movie. Based on GEORGE V. HIGGINS’ pulpy 1974 novel COGAN’S TRADE, the film is directed by ANDREW DOMINIK (who co-wrote the [...]

Actor CLIVE OWEN recently met with entertainment press to talk about upcoming projects, not the least of which is HEMINGWAY AND GELLHORN, an HBO film about the romance, marriage and divorce of author ERNEST HEMINGWAY and celebrated Spanish Civil War correspondent MARTHA GELLHORN. Directed by PHILIP KAUFMAN from a script by JERRY STAHL and BARBARA [...]

Opening in theaters next month, G.I. JOE: RETALIATION is the sequel to 2009’s G.I. JOE: RISE OF THE COBRA and features some personnel additions in the form of DWAYNE JOHNSON and BRUCE WILLIS. This time around, the G.I. Joes continue to be pitted against their mortal enemy COBRA while, at the same time, contend with [...]

In theaters this week, MEN IN BLACK 3 is a time travel adventure that has special agent J backtracking to the 1960s to keep his pal, special agent K, from being assassinated and changing the course of history. The film reunites WILL SMITH, TOMMY LEE JONES and director BARRY SONNENFELD as well as introducing JOSH [...]

Available today on DVD and Blu-ray, THIS MEANS WAR is a pretty standard issue romantic comedy centered on two best pal CIA agents who both fall for the same girl. Naturally, given their government positions, sabotage and subterfuge take the place of candy and flowers in the search for true romance. Directed by McG from [...]

Currently in theaters (but proving to be a pretty hard sell), THE DICTATOR is a wacky comedy starring SACHA BARON COHEN (who co-wrote the script with ALEC BERG, DAVID MANDEL and JEFF SCHAFFER) in dual roles as a foreign despot dedicated to keeping democracy far away from the country he lovingly oppresses and the poor [...]

Making its premiere at the Cannes Film Festival a few days ago, MOONRISE KINGDOM is a delightful coming-of-age story set in a 1960’s New England town where a young boy and girl attempt to run away together and spark a community-wide mobilization to track them down. Co-written (with ROMAN COPPOLA) and directed by WES ANDERSON, [...]

Currently in theaters and doing well internationally, BATTLESHIP is an apocalyptic tale of space aliens trying to destroy the Earth. Somehow inspired by the Milton-Bradley board game from the ’30s, the film exists primarily to blow stuff up on an epic scale.
Directed by PETER BERG from a script by brothers ERICH and JON HOEBER, the [...]

Opening in theaters next month, MADAGASCAR 3: EUROPE’S MOST WANTED is the third installment of the popular animated franchise focusing on a rag-tag group of Manhattan zoo animals stranded away from home. This time around, they connive their way into a traveling European circus in the hope that it will provide transport back to the [...]

Not due to hit theaters until the end of summer, LAWLESS got an early push last weekend at the Cannes Film Festival with advance screenings and a star studded press conference. A period piece set in Depression-era rural Virginia, the film focuses on three brothers trying to steer clear of the law while working to [...]