The writer-director of “The Golden Compass,” Chris Weitz, is peeved. The movie tanked so badly that the second and third installments are not going to be made (it did fairly well overseas,...
The numbers are coming in for “Cloverfield”: $16.8 million on its first night in theaters. A great number for Paramount if the film cost $30 million as reported (they certainly didn’t...
Two more great posters for the next Batman film “The Dark Knight” have just popped up and are being sold here. Since Christopher Nolan took over the franchise, it has done everything right....
New Line Cinema honchos Bob Shaye and Michael Lynne are about to be fired by Time Warner chief Jeff Bewkes. The last straw was “The Golden Compass,” a movie New Line claimed cost $180 million,...
My column on the death of Heath Ledger, from today’s Post: He Stood Out From the Start January 23, 2008 — In the spring of 1999, at the height of the WB-network sensibility that was flooding...
Today’s column on the Oscar nominations: “Dark films for dark times” appears to be Oscar’s mantra this year. How dark, you ask? Four of the five Best Picture nominees are about...
With George Clooney’s latest landing seven Oscar nominations, “Michael Clayton”‘s place in the anti-pantheon of overrated movies is now forever secure. Over at Commentary, I recently...
I like a meat-and-potatoes action movie, but “Rambo” was a letdown. It reminded me of those Golan & Globus mid-80s actioners, only those TBS staples at least offered up some corny one-liners...
My Post review of “Rambo” is here. UPDATE: Several readers have pointed out that the reason the Claymore mine in the movie exploded so colorfully was because it was strapped to an old piece...
Review: “How She Breathe” She Got Game 94 minutes. Rated PG-13 (drug references, profanity, suggestive dancing) 2.5 stars out of 4 Although I look forward to “The Quadratic Equation:...
Kyle Smith review of “4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days” 113 minutes/Not Rated (graphic abortion footage, profanity, sexual abuse) 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days is excruciating, ugly and...
Today’s Times has an interesting article about all the genre films that are sparing themselves the colossal prints and advertising expenses of going theatrical; instead, they go straight to DVD....
With “No Country for Old Men” winning both the Directors Guild award for Best Director and the Screen Actors’ Guild equivalent of Best Picture, the Oscar race is officially over. (Why...
Today Manhattan began to be blanketed/graced/infested with posters–already?–for the “Sex and the City” movie–which doesn’t come out until May 30. Four months’...
In what I hope to make a regular feature, here’s something from the e-mail inbox. ————– In light of the Ramboloney critique featured in the New York Post, the cheap...
I thought this was a headline from the Onion when I first saw it on my Google homepage, but soap operas are beginning to switch to handheld cameras to appear edgy. After several years of “Homicide”...
LONGORIA DAY’S JOURNEY INTO BLIGHT By KYLE SMITH 95 minutes. Rated PG-13 (sexual content, profanity) 1.5 stars out of 4 February 1, 2008 — ‘OVER Her Dead Body,” billed as...
Paramount has been talking up the idea of a “Cloverfield” sequel, but if you’ve seen the film you may be scratching your head. Given the ending, a “sequel” would essentially...
I slam Paris Hilton’s new comedy “The Hottie and the Nottie” here but another unfavorite of mine, Martin Lawrence, actually won me over with his broad but sunny comedy “Welcome...
The writer calling herself Neo-Neocon has an amusing review of “Juno.” Like me, she finds the movie painfully smug and hipper-than-thou. (My review is here.) At a party the other night, an...
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