"Keep dreaming, kid." Maybe you didn't need David Elliott to tell you that J. Edgar was "a story already bound, shelved, and turning dusty at the Library of Congress," featuring a "dossier portrait" lead performance from Leo "Marty Who?" DiCaprio. …

Brett Ratner has resigned as director of the 2012 Oscars. And while you'll read various accounts of why and how Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences President Tom Sherak and his nonagenarian Board of Directors went from supporting an …

Starting tonight, KPBS Film Critic Beth Accomando and Reading Cinemas are joining forces to build buzz for director Alexander Payne's upcoming feature, The Descendants (starring George Clooney!) by hosting a four-night retrospective of Payne's previous films. The series kicks off …

The man is on fire. [Relevant section begins at around 9:50 mark of first video.] Related.

"I'm picturing a huge banner across the back of the stage, very stark, just black letters on a white background: 'Rehearsal is for fags.'"

Frankly, Ratner wins on economy of expression. The coffee bit just seems superfluous in comparison. Source [language alert!] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y-AXTx4PcKI

Before the Tower Heist director made his unfortunate statement and subsequent apology, he went through a similar experience on the set of X-Men: Last Stand. Related.

It's the curiously super-strong mint!

Okay, so this is totally gratuitous - Tim Burton is not even directing this production of Great Expectations - but I couldn't help myself.

John Rubio takes up the task this week, and doesn't hate The Rum Diary. "Much like Thompson’s writing, the film meanders aimlessly, achieving fleeting moments of majesty." He has much, much better things to say about the harrowing war doc …

Oh, Sarah Jessica Parker, your career continues to mystify Tea Leoni fans everywhere...

Well, let's take a look at what's going on in the world of publicity photos, shall we? Oooh, looky here - an image of Matthew Modine on the set of The Dark Knight Rises... Hm. Maybe we should look into …

The Powers That Be prefer that we keep The Big Screen's snark levels well below toxic, and trust us, we do our best. But then a publicist throws a piece like this over the transom, and it's just chum in …

[Full disclosure: As part of this story, I was given a fish taco (pictured), for tasting purposes. Also a soda, for drinking purposes. Scroll down to bottom for special bonus video of Ralph Rubio frying fish for said fish taco.] …

Martha Marcy May Marlene star Elizabeth Olsen spends a lot of time with her face filling the screen, emotions shadowing her otherwise numbed expression. It's a demanding move on the part of director Sean Durkin, and it requires a certain …

The indie psych drama Martha Marcy May Marlene opens in San Diego today (David Elliott's capsule review is here). The film tells the story of Martha, beginning with her re-entry into the everyday world after a stint with a crunchy …

I am the Whorax, I speak for the Seuss, This trailer is making my bowels go all loose! (I speak for the Seuss, for the Seuss is now dead And so he cannot knock some sense in your head.) And …

I think it may be fair to say that my esteemed co-blogger Mr. Marks has little taste for the middlebrow, preferring instead the high art of, say, The Three Stooges and the lowbrow joys of, say, Scorsese. Which goes a …

Shall I compare thee to a hummer, say? Odds Bodkin! Elliott is on fire! He lays into the cream-faced loons behind the Shakespeare-bashing Anonymous in this wise: "Anonymous comes from the reigning depositer of commercial mega-dung, Roland Emmerich (2012, The …

H&M can do the clothes, sure. But what really makes Lisbeth is above the neckline - the hair (or artful lack thereof) and the piercings. Style.com is all up ons: I'm also looking forward to tattoo parlors posting signs in …