Roger Ebert says we should hate 3-D. He says so in a subtle essay slyly entitled Why I Hate 3-D. Ebert blames the process for everything from medical aliments to a disruption in the spatial/dimensional field of the universe (or was that in an episode...
You are a young, first-time filmmaker. By hook or by crook, you actually managed to finish your movie. It's in the can and ready to roll. And suddenly, you sound like Robert Redford at the end of The Candidate as you enter your very own...
Summer movies don't really exist any more. After all, the summer schedule actually started last November with the release of Avatar. So it's really summer all year round, with enough tent pole movies to supply the world's largest circus. Unfortunately, there are no tents, just...
F. Scott Fitzgerald said there was no second act in American life. He was wrong (just look at the political career of Richard Nixon). Likewise, Thomas Wolfe poetically warned us that we can't go home again. He was half right, but he never imagined the...
Back in the Bronze Age, when Windows 3.11 was the latest thing, I worked as an American reporter for a British magazine via the Internet. Yes, those were the magical days when virtually everything was in text, Usenet was around, and we all spent many...
In a race closer than the 2000 election, the two-dimensional Date Night has apparently unseated the latest exercise in 3D mythology. Or at least it had, until the slightly bizarre recount. But no matter how the figures are re-jiggled (barring a Supreme Court decision), the...
Maybe we need to change the name of this column. Something a little more upfront, like The Wall Street Journal. Since you will soon be able to bet on the weekly box office gross, you're going to need some solid advice on the betting spread...
Success has a thousand fathers, but failure has a movie named Motherhood. This ambitious but unsuccessful little film has scored the dubious honor of having the poorest opening weekend in British box office history. Its US opening last fall was pretty gawdawful as well, though...
The 3D revolution is supposed to be the salvation of the Hollywood commercial film industry. Or is it about to devour the industry? This is actually a pretty important question, because we have now been hit with the first two major punches (Avatar and Alice...
A few weeks ago, Boxoffice.com asked me what makes a film a "sleeper." I think I gave them a decent enough answer. In truth, how the heck would I know? If I had that sort of psychic power, I would right now be in Vegas...