In his directorial debut, “Love Actually,” veteran romantic-comedy scribe Richard Curtis (“Bridget Jones’s Diary,” “Notting Hill,” “Four Weddings and A Funeral”) weaves a dizzying array of love affairs
‘Glass’ performances prove to be rock solid
Writer/director Billy Ray has referred to his captivating film “Shattered Glass” as the cinematic equivalent of good reporting. And while the movie
“Elf” is an instant holiday classic that establishes its star — Will Ferrell — as one of the very best comedic actors working today. Yep, folks, it’s that good, and director
You probably already know that Will Ferrell is a very funny man, but what you may not know is that the former “Saturday Night Live” standout and newly-minted movie
When last we visited the Matrix, an army of menacing machines was bearing down on the last bastion of humanity, our hero Neo (Keanu Reeves) learned that the Oracle’s
By Daily Press Staff
Retired Santa Monica College English professor Dick Dodge, 77, died Friday in his Pacific Palisades home.
Dodge, who taught at SMC for 36 years before his
You see the names Hopkins, Kidman, Sinise and Harris on the marquee for a film adaptation of a Pulitzer Prize-winner’s best-selling novel and you figure, boy, is
In director Jane Campion’s unbearably stylized “In The Cut,” Meg Ryan goes looking For Mr. Goodbar and, instead, discovers the wearisome progeny. Much ado has been made of her
Perennial cutie Meg Ryan delivers the most revealing performance of her 20-year film career in Jane Campion’s nourish thriller, “In The Cut.” Ryan, whose most popular roles have
Surely the intense and ultimately tragic love affair between the celebrated poets Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes was a lot more complex (and interesting) than the one the makers of
