entertainment - "movies"

The Shanghai Film Festival will screen some of Anthony Minghella's movies as a tribute to the late director.

There's nothing subtle about Tyler Perry and his black-centric movies. The farce is in-your-face, the melodrama has more soap than a Laundromat, and the messages - drugs are bad, school is good, single moms are the heroes of our time - come mounted on billboards.

Film News: Slate includes animated and live action films -- Indian animation major DQ Entertainment and Bollywood player Pritish Nandy Communications have pacted to develop and produce six movies over three years.

Kimberly Peirce's complex nature is right there in her name - the soft and the sharp at disarming peace with each other. The filmmaker whose two movies feature a roiling heartland and men named Brandon - 1999's 'Boy's Don't Cry,' with Hilary Swank and 'Stop-Loss,' which opens here Friday, with Ryan Phillippe - seems at peace with herself. The gap ...

It feels pretty futile to be reviewing a Tyler Perry movie. Bad reviews have never stopped his movies from being giant box office hits, and given that the African-American community has made Perry such a success, its fair for anyone to assume that, if I critique it, its just because white people dont get it.

'MR 73' is the third in a trilogy of police thrillers that Olivier Marchal began in 2002 with 'Gangsters' and followed up two years later with 'Department 36.' It also is far and away the darkest of the three movies. While its resolutely dour tone and downbeat ending might deter younger spectators, the convincing portrayal of a cop at the end of his tether should pay off handsomely with mature audiences in many territories.