Hannibal the Cannibal is back on the big screen, busily ravaging Florence. Here are the places where his alter ego, Sir Hopkins, unwinds."I need to come out of retirement and come to public life," Hannibal Lecter forewarns in...
Since winning an Academy Award in 2005, Jamie Foxx has seen his films fall flat. Will his risky performance in this month’s The Soloist be enough to put him back in audiences’ — and the Academy’s — good graces? Or will he be the next victim of the Oscar curse?
Thousands tried out for the role of Road Warrior, but only five stars emerged to engage in a savvy battle of wits and determination. In true Hollywood fashion, the fi nal outcome was in doubt until the end.
The first thing that visitors to the courtyard of the new School of Cinematic Arts complex at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles are greeted by is the swashbuckling bronze likeness of Douglas Fairbanks Sr. -- but not because he was so dazzling in The Mark of Zorro (or in any of his other legendary roles). It was Fairbanks, a titan of the silent-film era as well as one of the founders of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, who, around 1927, first suggested to his fencing partner, USC president Rufus B. von KleinSmid, that establishing a film class at the university might be a boffo idea (see time-line entry number one).
Early in his life, legendary playwright and screenwriter Horton Foote was given this advice: "Write what you know." He did as he was told and ended up earning himself two Oscars, an Emmy, a Pulitzer, and a National Medal of the Arts in the process. ...
KILLER FLICKS If you think love is the only thing in the air this month, check out these thrilling releases. The highly anticipated follow-up to 1991’s The Silence of the Lambs, HANNIBAL is the newest installment in the series (remem...
While you may have tired of “all that jazz” surrounding the Academy Award-winning film CHICAGO when it was on the award campaign trail last year, you should still be the first in line for the DVD on August 19. After all, as exhausting as the hype wa...