Hugo (movie)

Scorsese to present AFI Life Achievement Award to Mel Brooks

2013-05-20 06:00:00

Oscar-winning director Martin Scorsese ("The Departed," "Taxi Driver," "Raging Bull," "Hugo") will present the American Film Institute's 41st Life Achievement Award to comedy master Mel Brooks at the Dolby Theatre in Hollywood on June 6. Scorsese...

'I'll Eat You Last' chronicles Sue Mengers' old Hollywood

2013-04-24 05:30:00

A Hollywood striver in the 1970s would have learned oodles from Sue Mengers — how to woo a client, sass a studio exec, host a dinner party, smoke a joint. And, had she pulled up a seat in Mengers' Beverly Hills living room one particularly gloomy...

CinemaCon 2013: A peek at summer tentpoles and year-enders

2013-04-15 06:00:00

Movie theater owners will converge in Las Vegas this week for their annual convention, checking out new hybrids of popcorn, the latest iterations of stadium seats and clips from potential summer blockbusters including "Star Trek Into Darkness," "Man of...

New releases: 'Django Unchained' has exceptional performances

2013-04-14 08:30:00

Django Unchained Weinstein/Anchor Bay, $29.98; Blu-ray, $39.99 Available on VOD beginning Tuesday Typical of Quentin Tarantino, this Deep South "western" is strong stuff, telling the epic story of an escaped slave (played by Jamie Foxx) on a quest...

Oscar predictions 2013: Sounding off on sound

2013-02-20 11:19:00

Gold Standard writer Glenn Whipp is sweeping through all 24 Oscar categories this week, assessing the races, predicting the winners and helping you prevail in your Oscar pools. He tackled the troublesome shorts categories here. Now it's time to peek...

Oscar 8-Ball: Quentin Tarantino's 'Django Unchained'

2012-12-17 14:00:00

Can a movie that New York Post film critic Lou Lumenick called "basically a three-hour homage to 'Blazing Saddles'" manage to pull in a few Oscar nominations? Time to check in with the Oscar 8-Ball, that magical portal into the minds and hearts and, in...

'Zero Dark Thirty' named best 2012 film by National Board of Review

2012-12-05 11:55:00

"Zero Dark Thirty," Kathryn Bigelow's drama about the hunt for Osama bin Laden, was named the best film of the year Wednesday by the National Board of Review of Motion Pictures. The movie, set to open in limited release Dec. 19, took home two other...

Oscar 8-Ball: Ang Lee's 'Life of Pi'

2012-12-21 06:00:00

Is Ang Lee's "Life of Pi" poised to become this year's "Hugo," the CG-heavy movie that scores a host of crafts nominations on its way to a seat at the best picture table? Let's consult the Oscar 8-Ball, that magical portal into the minds and hearts and,...

Western Costume, closet to the stars, turns 100

2012-06-17 00:00:00

To the casual passerby, there's nothing remarkable about the 120,000-square-foot former printing plant fronting a sun-baked stretch of Vanowen Street in North Hollywood. There's nothing to indicate that, just beyond the double doors, gangsters are earning...

Keeping 007 relevant in a changed world

2012-11-04 04:00:00

NEW YORK — Early in "Skyfall," Judi Dench's M pulls aside our embattled hero, played once again with suave ennui by Daniel Craig, and wonders whether the world still needs either of their services. As Bond wraps his head around that idea, he looks...

'Jersey Boys' musical could get Jon Favreau as director

2012-06-06 07:15:00

Jon Favreau has emerged as the lead candidate to direct the planned movie version of the Tony Award-winning jukebox musical "Jersey Boys," according to a report this week in Variety. Favreau may seem like a strange choice for the job judging from his...

Movies: Dapper gents rule in 'J. Edgar,' 'The Artist' and other films

2011-12-18 00:00:00

Clothes and carefully cultivated facial hair are helping to make the man — and the movie — in a big way at the multiplex this season. Consider the tuxedo-wearing, thinly mustachioed men of 1920s' Hollywood in "The Artist"; the dapper denizens...

Griffiths played the dachshund-loving newsstand owner Monsieur Frick in the Academy Award-winning film "Hugo."

2013-03-29 00:00:00

ORIGINAL SCORE: One of these years, 48-time nominee John Williams will win another Oscar (he has five, the last coming for "Schindler's List"), but it likely won't be for the beautiful, Copland-esque touches he brought to "Lincoln.

2013-02-22 15:38:10

You may know him as Count Dooku in "Star Wars" episode 2 and 3, Monsieur Labisse in "Hugo," Scaramanga in "The Man with the Golden Gun" or Count Dracula in any number of Hammer horror films.

2012-12-05 20:19:12