Norma Rae (movie)

Golden Globes 2013: Tina Fey, Amy Poehler raise the bar

2013-01-14 06:00:00

Poor Seth MacFarlane. Until Sunday night, hosting the Oscars must have seemed so easy. What did he have to do, really, to shine? Avoid inexplicable cross-dressing and increasingly slurred words � la James Franco, try not to pull a Ricky Gervais and openly...

How Sally Field fought for Spielberg's first lady in 'Lincoln'

2012-12-20 06:00:00

When Steven Spielberg asked Sally Field to play Mary Todd Lincoln in 2005, deep down, the two-time Oscar-winning actress knew the road to playing the contentious first lady wasn't going to be easy. Writers on the film project came and went, as...

Animated 'Hotel Transylvania' to scare off 'Looper'

2012-09-27 12:40:00

"Hotel Transylvania" will suck the life out of its rivals at the box office this weekend, as the animated monster flick is set to dominate ticket sales.� The 3-D film should easily claim the No. 1 position with a solid debut of around $35 million,...

Classic Hollywood: The movies at work

2012-09-02 17:15:00

As far back as Louis Lumi�re's 1895 "Workers Leaving the Lumiere Factory in Lyon" 46-second short, work has been a central theme in motion pictures.�There have been stark dramas about officer workers as drones (King Vidor's 1928 "The Crowd"), satires...

'Artist' win is a tribute to Harvey Weinstein's tenacity, vision

2012-02-27 13:48:00

"The Artist" has won the Oscar for best picture and I'm speechless. It's not lack of passion for the film that has robbed me of the power of words; it's that I felt so strongly that my thoughts were geared to how I would react should the worst happen,...

'Won't Back Down' gets a D+ for a public school polemic ★ 1/2

2012-09-27 00:00:00

Bored and visibly sneering as she fiddles with her cellphone while sitting at her desk, the grade school teacher barely takes notice of the sweet young girl challenged by learning disabilities. The student stands nervously before the blackboard,...

PG; 2:01 running time It's an interesting time to encounter such a film, especially in Chicago, where we have just come through a teachers' strike and where many editorial writers and columnists (and at least one mayor) will likely find themselves nodding in agreement with the movie's message,

2012-09-27 00:00:00