A familiar face for the month of May drops into theaters this weekend for his farewell tour. It might not be easy being green, but when you’re Shrek and DreamWorks, it’s sure easy making it. “Shrek Forever After” plans to make some more effortless cash at the box office this weekend and put Tony Stark […]

Saturday Night Live was such a tour-de-force for comedy that in the late 1970s, the sketch comedy show took its exploits to the silver screen. In the 30 years since “Blues Brothers” became the first great comedy of the ’80s, SNL has tried again and again to turn a profit on some relatively low-budget films. […]

Deadline Hollywood is reporting that Transformers co-star Megan Fox will not be appearing in the third installment of the mega-hit franchise. The news comes several months after Fox loosely compared director Michael Bay to Hitler in an interview with Wonderland magazine. After trading jabs back and forth, it appears Bay will get the last laugh as […]

Today’s trailers actually take us beyond the summer of 2010 and into fall. Not that any of us want a “taste of fall” at the moment, but these trailers at least offer some recompense when summer betrays us for fall. First up is sci-fi thriller “The Adjustment Bureau,” previously slated for July but wisely moved […]

With Disney’s live-action re-imagining of “Alice in Wonderland” making more than $330 million domestically and nearly $1 billion when you add the overseas totals, you have to expect some other projects involving classic heroines will either be pitched or dusted off the shelf. Most recently, Deadline reports that Disney has purchased a seven-figure pitch for a […]

Brave are the filmmakers who go out and try to capture the plight of the middle class, aka relationship drama. James L. Brooks’ “Broadcast News” is a romance twisted up with a career that’s all about constantly proving yourself and rising to the top. In reality, it’s just co-worker romance with the heated pressure of […]

With the number of mainstream movies centered around a future human dependency on robots, it would be incredibly stupid if we actually let that happen. “Surrogates” is the latest of these concepts and surprisingly one of the more well thought-out ones. Based on the graphic novel by Robert Venditti and Brett Weldele, “Surrogates” imagines a […]

“Iron Man 2” still leads the box office after this weekend, but the distance from the rest of the field became not nearly as vast. Universal’s “Robin Hood,” compared to my predictions at least, outdid itself just a bit and helped see Tony Stark and friends to almost a 60 percent cut in gross from […]

Films about the movie industry are always interesting, but “Sullivan’s Travels” is in its own special niche in the show-biz comedy genre. The premise is about a successful musical comedy director who wants to make a serious picture about human suffering. The film opens with a dedication to the memory of clowns, buffoons — anyone […]

It’s possible that any sequel ten years in the making would be bound to fall flat. “The Boondock Saints II: All Saints Day” might have been destined to do so from the beginning. The cult following if not worshipping of the original beckoned creator Troy Duffy to bring us the McManus brothers once again, even […]

Samuel L. Jackson, whose yapper is rather infamous in the world of movie news, told a radio show recently that at some point after “The Avengers,” Nick Fury and S.H.I.E.L.D will get a movie all of their own. After all, you know SLJ wouldn’t agree to do any major film if his character weren’t guaranteed […]

The Merrie men have come to the month of May. Well, kind of, as this “Robin Hood” doesn’t really take place in the bandit days of Hood, but I’m too big a fan of alliteration. Anyway, it’ll be tough for Sir Robin going against the man of metal, but he should still fare pretty well, […]

Amanda Seyfried is such an “it” actress right now that you probably forgot she used to be a mean girl. Remember Karen, the girl whose nipples possessed the ability to tell when it was going to rain? That was Seyfried, and almost needless to say, she’s come a long way from the dumb blonde stereotype […]

Filmmaker James Cameron’s constant yen to explore the unknown has taken us to the future, the depths of space and now the deepest caverns of the ocean. “The Abyss” is an underwater survival story with a science-fiction bend. It is a trip into the depths of what we know exists on this planet but can’t […]

It took a lot for me to pass over the opportunity to include the newest trailer for Christopher Nolan’s “Inception,” which says a lot about what I think of these two trailers for Robert Rodriguez’s “Machete” and the J.J. Abrams and Steven Spielberg collaboration “Super 8.” The first comes out early this fall and the […]