Hollywood Movies - General - Recent Questions and Answers
Tonight is a good night. You're out with friends, you have a nice dinner resting in your belly, and you've settled into your high-backed theater seat to enjoy the latest romantic-...
Hollywood is a place stars are made. People like Will Smith, Julia Roberts, Matt Damon and Tom Hanks have become household names thanks to the media titans in southern California. ...
I was 10 years old the first time I saw the movie that was destined to become my all time favorite film. My older brother, Jack, took me to a revival house, handed me some popcorn ...
The theaters anticipate sold out crowds for the upcoming movie release of Pirates of the Caribbean; On Stranger Tides, however, you can be one of the select few to gain bragging ri...
"The Family Stone" is about the Stone family during the Christmas holiday in the small New England town of Thayer, Connecticut. The eldest son Everett, played by Dermot Mulroney, ...
Learning how to make movies is not an easy thing to do especially if you wish to present it to the upper echelon of Hollywood. This does not meant that it is impossible, it just me...
Sydney Lumet, the luminous director of "Network", "Dog Day Afternoon", "The Verdict" and many more great works, said that a good film story does two things that seem contradictory:...
Why are romantic comedies so hard to get right?
The New York Times ran an op-ed called "Tragedy of Comedy," a conversation between TV critic Maureen Dowd and Sam Wasson, the 28-ye...
In The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus, director Terry Gilliam takes us on a journey with a traveling theatre group, led by the once immortal Doctor Parnassus. The group travels al...
Martin Scorsese is a director with a body of work spanning generations. His most common theme is that of a surrogate father. From "Mean Streets" all the way up to "The Departed," h...
The golden age of movies is universally considered to be the period from the early 1930's to the late 1940's. Some people do allow the golden age of movies to run into the early 19...