Jeanne Moreau, one of the greatest film actresses of all time, had an English mother and a French father. An avid reader who identified most with the rebellious Antigone, Moreau defied her disapproving father to train at the...
"I hate endings," the late Sam Shepard told The Paris Review in 1997. "Just detest them. Beginnings are definitely the most exciting, middles are perplexing and endings are a disaster ... The temptation towards resolution, towards wrapping...
I’m totally hooked on USA’s “The Sinner,” the excellent adaptation of Petra Hammesfahr’s mystery novel starring Jessica Biel, Christopher Abbott, and Bill Pullman, directed by “Christine” director Antonio...
Kathryn Bigelow’s “Detroit” is a film that we are going to talk about for a long time. That conversation will concern more than its incredible craft, which features Bigelow recreating the proverbial war zone that is Detroit during...
Last year’s San Diego Comic-Con was heavily themed on a science fiction series that only lasted three season—"Star Trek." In recognition of its 50th anniversary, the Wednesday night special movie screening under the stars was the...
In the all too brief 10-minute round table following the "Battlestar Galactica" Reunion, I was seated next to David Eick who, with screenwriter Ronald D. Moore, reimagined the 1978 TV series and controversially changed Starbuck and Boomer into...
The award-winning book Wonderstruck tells two stories in different time periods, one in words, one in pictures. Both are by Brian Selznick, who has written the screenplay for a movie version directed by Todd Haynes and starring Julianne Moore. In an...
Last time the team behind Psych was at SDCC was bittersweet. While some may have suspected as much, it had yet to be announced that 2013-2014 would be the last season for the goofy sitcom about a highly observant, emotionally immature young man who...
Comic-Con's “Women Rocking Hollywood” panel of female directors, as led by Leslie Combemale, was filled with thanks for the support they give each other. Participants in the panel included Victoria Mahoney, Aurora Guerrero, Tina...
Since “Toy Story” became an enormous box-office hit and a beloved modern masterpiece by giving audiences an inspired look at what ordinary toys do when their owners aren’t around, Hollywood has been striving to repeat that...