John Hughes, who captured the zeitgeist of 1980s teen life as writer-director of “The Breakfast Club” and “Sixteen Candles” and produced and scripted family hits such as “Home Alone,” died Thursday of a heart attack in Manhattan while taking a walk. He was 59. After an...

La Dolce Vita, The Searchers, Schindler’s List … some movies are so universally acclaimed, you just can’t slag them off. Or can you? I’d like to begin, not with the customary introduction, but by asking forgiveness – because given the passion that cineastes nurture for the films they...

Charlize Theron and Sam Worthington finally got their passports. The Oscar-winning actress and the much-in-demand Aussie star, who is taking over for Tom Cruise, have signed to star in Spyglass Entertainment’s thriller remake “The Tourist.” Theron, who has long been attached to the project,...

My Answer Man received a question asking if crime expert Jay Robert Nash still holds the theory that John Dillinger was not killed by the FBI in front of the Biograph Theater on July 24, 1934. He does. Nash informs me he stands behind his two books on the subject, and may have met the real Dillinger many...

A zombie movie made using a camcorder for less then the price of a DVD box set is set to be distributed in cinemas across the UK “Colin,” made by budding British director, Marc Price, will now get its own DVD as well as hitting the big screen in time for Halloween alongside Hollywood blockbusters...

District 9,” filmed in a quasi-documentary style, the $30-million special-effects-heavy film from newcomer Neill Blomkamp, produced by genre-master Peter Jackson, follows the social and geo-political repercussions of aliens crash-landing in Johannesburg where they are sequestered in an apartheid-style...

Crazy how life imitates art sometimes. In the first days of the swine flu outbreak, when the first victims passed away and governments and doctors alike asked us not to panic, didn’t you also get a strange sense of déjà vu? Didn’t newspaper headlines and TV bulletins seem to repeat scenes from...

I am as much a film geek as a tech geek. In a previous life, I reviewed music and movies, and had lots more fun with the latter. If someone offered me a film-review job that paid my mortgage, I’d take it in a second, but I have a feeling that will remain a part of my past rather than become my...

We’re all expecting G.I. Joe to be one of the worst movies of all time — but we were actually overestimating it. Judging from the novelization, G.I. Joe will be a masterpiece of badness, Showgirls meets Plan 9. Spoilers ahead… We were lucky enough to get a copy of Max Allan Collins’...

Let me preface this by saying that I didn’t mind the first Twilight movie. It wasn’t art, didn’t have much to say, but it was dumb fun aimed at getting little girls’ body temperatures all warm, and I thought it was pretty amusing. Girls in the same row as me quoted lines that they knew would be...

Star Wars actress cast as Jane Foster in Marvel movie. July 13, 2009 – Marvel Studios announced today that Academy Award nominated actress Natalie Portman has been cast to star as Jane Foster in the studio’s highly anticipated movie Thor. In the early Thor comics, Jane Foster was a nurse who...