“The Promotion” is not a great or memorable comedy, but it’s a brave one. Brave in that it doesn’t give you what you expect from a comedy about Sean William Scott and John C. Reilly vying for the same promotion in a supermarket chain. The expectation is physical humor, gross-out shenanigans and general mayhem. What […]

After two years of pre-production and no set start date, Guillermo Del Toro has stepped down as director of The Hobbit. The fantasy director/producer extraordinaire broke the news to Lord of the Rings fan site theonering.net, stating that he simply did not have the extra time due to conflicting schedules, that the film needed.

The Holocaust has been revisited in film so many times that I imagine the first thing German-born film actors ask themselves upon meeting is “which film(s) were you a Nazi in?” The crimes of the Nazi Party and the German soldiers carrying out its mission to revive Germany through the mass killing of Jews and […]

Hollywood lost another of its stars this weekend. Two-time Academy Award nominee Dennis Hopper (“Hoosiers,” “Blue Velvet,” “Speed,” “True Romance”) has passed away after an eight-year battle with prostate cancer — he was 74.

Former child star and famously short actor Gary Coleman has passed away at age 42. Coleman was admitted to a Utah hospital after suffering a brain hemorrhage that left him in critical condition Wednesday. He was taken off life support today after his condition only became more severe, according to a statement from his manager.

If you’re Disney and Jerry Bruckheimer, how do you go about finding your next “Pirates of the Caribbean” franchise? Well, you start by keeping the whole cast in long hair and eyeliner only you relocate them to the desert. “Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time” is a familiar swashbuckling adventure only transplanted to the […]

Matthew Vaughn’s recently green-lit prequel “X-Men: First Class” has its first cast member: James McAvoy. The 31-year-old Scot, star of Mark Millar comic adaptation “Wanted,” will play a younger Charles Xavier aka Professor X, the role originated by Patrick Stewart in the first three X-Men films.

If you’re in summer movie denial (which I can never, ever imagine having), it’s Memorial Day weekend, so get out and smell the fresh air! Two potentially big movies along with the earlier May hits will all go after everyone’s money on the holiday weekend, hoping the extra weekend night and day will maximize their […]

Walt Disney Pictures is taking a big risk this weekend. Well, actually, the risk was taken awhile back and now it’s time to see if “Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time” can pay off. When Disney and Jerry Bruckheimer realized it would be quite some time before another Pirates of the Caribbean film would […]

Victoria’s Secret model Rosie Huntington-Whiteley will be the next girl to inherit the honored role of wearing a low-cut shirt while running away from explosions in the next Transformers film. Huntington-Whiteley replaces Megan Fox, who supposedly left the franchise on her own terms after a feud of words with director Michael Bay.

More animated super-villainry and long-distance relationships come to us this Wednesday. First up is Will Ferrell in DreamWorks’ “Megamind” and second is the late-summer romantic comedy “Going the Distance” with Justin Long and Drew Barrymore. Also, I’ve now embedded the clips from YouTube right here on Movie Muse for the first time, so that should […]

Despite disappointing at the box office by comparison to its predecessors, “Shrek Forever After” did manage to set records this weekend: 3-D IMAX tickets for the film in some parts of the country cost as much as $20 for a single adult ticket. The Wall Street Journal reported just prior to this weekend that at least […]

Everything about “Whip It” screams sports movie clichés. Bliss Cavendar (Ellen Page) lives in small-town Texas and lies to her parents, namely her mother who has stuck her in beauty pageants her whole life, and sneaks off at night to Austin where she’s becoming a roller derby phenom. She even meets a cute boy during […]

Everyone’s favorite ogre with a brogue was back this weekend, but finished with just $70 million, still an accomplishment, but $30-40 million less than “Shrek the Third” and “Shrek 2.” It seems enough people were tired of the franchise because this also includes receipts from 3-D and IMAX showings.

“The Thin Red Line” is a war story told with images. There is a difference between that and a movie. It is a bold piece of film-making, especially for a war film, yet it makes all the same statements only without the stereotypes. If the creators of those dumb spoofs made “War Movie,” it would […]