Saturday, December 20, 2025

Movies

Venice Film Festival Announces Line Up Now that The Bezos Wedding Is Over: Bigelow, Baumbach, Safdie, Schnabel, van Sant

First Toronto, now Venice. Here's the line up. Lots of hype around everything. What will actually stick? We'll see. Opening night film is Paolo Sorrentino,...

Review: “Fantastic Four: First Steps” Like a Visit to the 1964 World’s Fair with An Old School Tribute to Motherhood and Family

What a surprise. Matt Shakman's first Marvel movie, "The Fantastic Four: First Steps," scores on every level. There are sharply drawn, witty characters and a...

Toronto Film Fest Includes Nuremberg Trials Film Starring Rami Malek By a Vanderbilt, Plus Del Toro’s “Frankenstein”

The 2025 Toronto International Film Festival selections are here. Particularly interesting is a film called "Nuremberg," about the famous trial of Nazis. It's directed by...

“Megaflopolis” No More: Francis Ford Coppola a la PT Barnum Sells Out Five Screenings of Labor of Love in Major City Theaters

We did call it "Mega-flopolis." A year ago, Francis Ford Coppola -- the legendary director of "The Godfather" movies and "Apocalypse Now" -- the object...

Box Office: “Superman” Flies to $200 Mil Today, “Eddington” is Deadington, “Smurfs” Gets Slow Start

The Friday box office is here! "Superman" picked up another $16 mil last night. Today it crosses the $200 mil mark and by tomorrow could...

Box Office: “Summer” Scares Up $2.2 Mil in Previews, “Eddington” Arrives DOA for A24 with Just $625K

Thursday night previews provided a mixed message for the box office. The reboot of "I Know What You Did Last Summer" took in $2.2...

New “Knives Out” Saga with Daniel Craig, Jeremy Renner, Glenn Close, Josh O’Connor World Premiere at Toronto Fest

The third "Knives Out" movie has set a world premiere. "Wake Up Dead Man" will bring an all star cast to the Toronto Film Festival...

Celebrating the 100th Birthday of DA Pennebaker, Greatest Documentary Filmmaker of All, Invented the Music Video

It's hard to believe, but DA Pennebaker would have celebrated his 100th birthday today. He left us six years ago, right after his 94th...