entertainment - "movies"

'It's my magical mystery tour," is how Tarsem - the nom de screen of the successful director of TV commercials Tarsem Singh - describes the epic jaunts he took over the years, and around the globe, in the process of filming The Fall.

You can always spot a filmmaker who watches people with the same care that he watches movies. The characters upstage any style or particular genre long enough for the human behavior to occupy the foreground, for the illusion to work its magic: Life is calling the shots, not a screenplay. The socially explorative independent director Ramin Bahrani practices that kind ...

I was on this stage in 1988, so to be here today in 2008... I haven't always made great movies, but I've been trying real hard.' WILL SMITH on collecting his Best Male ...

The Boston Public Library shows two free movies today in separate locations. At the Adams Street Branch in Dorchester at 2 p.m., you can see the 1942 film 'Random Harvest,' which is about a soldier who gets amnesia and then falls in love with a showgirl. At the Central Branch of the BPL at 6 p.m., you can see the ...

With a combined 133 movies and 72 years in the business between them, Hong Kong action superstars Jackie Chan and Jet Li have put off appearing in a film together for far too long. Even the idea of them sharing the screen gets your neck hairs pricking. Li's mercurial grace and Chan's comic daredevilry, the ways in which each man ...

June it filled with top picks, and practically only top picks. The best schedule for the overall health of the movie industry is only two wide releases, the potential blockbuster and the counter-programming release. This month that's exactly what happens; however, almost every week the counter-programming film has a serious shot at $100 million as well. If everything goes well, then we could have 8 films opening this month that crack 9 digits and that would put 2008 back on track. Even a more conservative estimate has four $100 million movies coming out this month, but there's a lot of uncertainty involved here. On the limited front, none of May's limited releases managed to breakout and expand wide, so there's still an opening for sleeper hit of the summer. That role could be filled by The Promotion, which appears to have the best shot at escaping the art hour circuit and reaching multiplexes.

Rather than more sequels to superhero movies weve already seen and dipping into the vault until even the most obscure Marvel character gets his own movie try these superheros on for size