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Critic?s Choice: New DVDs: Mitchell Leisen and ?The Big Trail?
This week?s DVDs include two films from the director Mitchell Leisen and Raoul Walsh?s 1930 epic western, ?The Big Trail.?
Film: Mike Tyson Film Takes a Swing at His Old Image
Mike Tyson, his days as heavyweight champion long behind him, finds himself on an unlikely path forward as a new documentary about his life makes its premiere at Cannes.
Film: Special Effects From the Real World
Tarsem, the director of ?The Fall,? didn?t need computergenerated dazzle. Just ask the swimming elephant.
Cinematic Life in Oslo (Where Else?)
?Reprise? shows some parallels between its characters and the two men behind the movie.
Film: 50 Years of Dizzy, Courtesy of Hitchcock
When ?Vertigo? hit screens a half-century ago, it was not at all what audiences had come to expect from the master of suspense.
Arts, Briefly: ?Iron Man? Shows Muscle
?Iron Man? extended its run as the No. 1 box-office attraction by pulling in $50.5 million over the weekend at movie theaters in North America.
Production of a Movie Stops Over Funds to Pay Its Stars
Production was halted after producers of the film failed to keep sufficient funds to pay actors in a union-mandated account.
Indiana Jones Is Battling the Long Knives of the Internet
An online review of a coming Indiana Jones movie by Steven Spielberg has breached the film?s tight security.
Return Laps for the First Voice of Speed Racer
Peter Fernandez, who voiced the role of the hero in the original animated ?Speed Racer? series, makes a cameo appearance in the big-screen, live-action adaptation of the show.
Disney?s Newly Crowned Prince, Plucked From a London Stage
A movie franchise returns with a newly crowned hero: Ben Barnes as Prince Caspian.
A Casting Call for Sexy Cars (Hybrids Need Not Apply)
Vehicles, both hot and not, have been enjoying an on-screen heyday. But Toyota?s Prius has remained something of a novelty act on the big screen.
To Reduce Costs, Warner Brothers Closing 2 Film Divisions
The company said closing Picturehouse and Warner Independent Pictures was a cost-cutting move rooted in the changing economics of the specialty film business.
Advertising: Your Chance to Finish a Movie Microsoft Started
Microsoft Corporation is underwriting an online movie-making contest to stimulate sales and burnish the reputation of its Windows Vista operating system.
Stalker's Mother Recalls His Early Days of Promise
The mother of the man convicted of stalking the actress Uma Thurman recalls her son?s better days.
Movie Review | 'Battle for Haditha': The Killing of Innocents Faces a Dry-Eye...
In ?Battle for Haditha,? the British filmmaker Nick Broomfield revisits a wretched chapter of the war in Iraq.
Questions for Jay Roach: Ballot Box Office
The director talks about his HBO docudrama on the Florida recount, how you know you?re funny and the difficulties of running for office.
Movie Review | 'Speed Racer': Gentlemen, Start Your Hot-Hued Engines
?Speed Racer? sets out to honor and refresh a youthful enthusiasm from the past and winds up smothering the fun in self-conscious grandiosity.
Movie Review | 'Surfwise': A Family That Surfs to a Beat: Its Own
?Surfwise? has a bohemian vibe and a cool sheen, but it?s an eager-to-please, pleasing commercial enterprise with a reassuring narrative arc.
Movie Review | 'Before the Rains': After Them the Monsoon: Two Worlds Collide...
The ingredients of the Indian director Santosh Sivan?s period piece ?Before the Rains? may be awfully familiar, but the film lends them the force of tragedy.
Movie Review | 'What Happens in Vegas': Morning Hangover, Spouse and Jackpot
?What Happens in Vegas,? one of those junky time-wasters that routinely pop up in movie theaters, won?t make you laugh much or at all.
Movie Review | 'The Tracey Fragments': Average Teenage Girl, Assembling a Lif...
Viewed as the sum of its sad incidents, ?The Tracey Fragments? seems like the kind of adolescent melodrama that has become a staple of young-adult literature.
Movie Review | 'Turn the River': When Life Gives Lemons, Pick Up a Pool Stick
?Turn the River? is a finely observed portrait of a desperate working-class woman who refuses to play by ordinary rules.
Movie Review | 'Frontier(s)': After Making It Out of Paris, Finding There?s N...
The real surprise of ?Frontier(s)? is that this creepy, bloody contemporary gross-out also has some ideas, visual and otherwise, wedged among its sanguineous drips.
Movie Review | 'OSS 117: Cairo, Nest of Spies': A Dashing Agent in Egypt
The hero of ?OSS 117: Cairo, Nest of Spies? might be described as a French equivalent of James Bond.
Movie Review | 'Noise': Aural Examination
?Noise,? the second part of a projected ?fanatic trilogy,? is shallow and loud.
Movie Review | 'The Fall': Broken Spirits on the Mend
Shot piecemeal over the course of four years on locations in 18 countries, ?The Fall? is a genuine labor of love ? and a real bore.
Movie Review | 'The Memory Thief': The Filling of an Empty Soul
In ?The Memory Thief,? a strange and melancholy journey to the heart of madness, a rootless young man finds meaning in the horrors of a stolen past.
Movie Review | 'Poultrygeist: Night of the Chicken Dead': Going for the Finge...
?Poultrygeist: Night of the Chicken Dead? is just about as perfect as a film predicated on the joys of projectile vomiting and explosive diarrhea can be.
Movie Review | 'The Babysitters': From High School Student to Ruthless Madam
Until it crosses a shadowy line dividing serious comedy from distasteful exploitation, ?The Babysitters? has the makings of an incisive satire of greed and lust in suburbia.
Movie Review | 'Meet Bill': Finding Your Bliss? Losing Your Mind
Male midlife crisis presents as pathological self-loathing in ?Meet Bill,? an imperative to which the only sane response is: No thanks.
