Taxi Driver (movie)

On New Year's Day, my wife and I saw Martin Scorsese's "Hugo" at the Cinemark at Bella Terra. For those who haven't seen it yet, it's about a young orphan who lives in a train station in Paris and finds escape through the silent movies that play at the...

“We’re always sitting in personal private judgment of the films we see,” Steven Spielberg said Wednesday, in Wednesday’s Cannes Film Festival press conference introducing this year’s nine-person jury headed by Spielberg....

Don't be fooled into thinking that "The Big Wedding" is about the fetching young bride and groom. This is gross-out humor for the senior set. With raunchy comedies all the rage, I guess it was inevitable that sooner or later someone would go for the...

In "Family Weekend," onetime "High School Musical" cast member Olesya Rulin plays a competitive high-school jump-roper who takes her parents hostage after they miss one meet too many. Aided by her younger brother and sister, the teen's plan is to hold...

Leaving aside the rather unfortunate title that makes it sound like a far more ridiculous exploitation film, "The Kill Hole" is a promising debut for writer-director Mischa Webley, even as he often seems to get in his own way. Made up of four or five...

When photographer Steve Schapiro first arrived on the Lower East Side set of "The Godfather" in 1971, there were rumors floating around that Marlon Brando was not well. Moving closer to the action, he noticed an old man in an overcoat and hat talking to...

While it's true that there's only so much anyone can say about the Oscars, remember it can be said again and again. As a reader (and writer), I know by now that there are 10 abiding Oscar stories. Here they are, all in a single article: The history...

Robert De Niro, who is nominated for his seventh Oscar for the quirky romantic comedy "Silver Linings Playbook," will talk about his craft after a screening of the David O. Russell film late Monday afternoon at the American Cinematheque's Aero Theatre...

A top dancer at Russia's Bolshoi Ballet is seeking refuge in Canada following the acid attack earlier this month on the company's artistic director, Sergei Filin, according to news reports. Ballerina Svetlana Lunkina told the newspaper Izvestia that she...

Hector Gonzalez straps a five-string bass guitar over his belly inside a music studio on a dreary stretch of Monterey Park. He plays as a smooth, prerecorded tenor joins a funky accordion through his headphones. Trying to bite a bullet, or sometimes...

I will take Jodie Foster's 6 minutes and 40 seconds of unfiltered passion, confusion, confession and love, so much love, over anything else anyone in Hollywood has said in a very, very long time. The occasion was Sunday night's Golden Globes, and as the...

One week ago, thousands of moviegoers nationwide were making plans to catch midnight screenings of"The Dark Knight Rises"in Chicago, in Los Angeles, in Atlanta, in suburban Denver. We know what happened at the Century 16 in Aurora, Colo. As the story,...