BERLIN – A high-concept melodrama that satirizes the predatory nature of a media and public eager to feed on real people’s tragedies, As Luck Would Have It might have worked better with an impeccable stylist and outré humorist like Pedro Almodovar in cha

One year after scandalizing Hollywood with his bilious classic Sunset Boulevard, writer-director Billy Wilder was up to his old tricks with Ace in the Hole, which did to journalism — and to the average American — what his previous picture had done to Tin

"I got to the center part where the white bread has become that thing that attacks Spock in the middle of 'Star Trek,'" he says. "It wasn't an alien life form, it was Greer Garson's capirotada." But culinary perfection is not the point of DeCaro's recent

Oscar-nominated composer and lyricist, Dory Previn, died yesterday, Feb. 14, 2012, in her Southfield, MA home. She was 86 years old. She was born Dorothy Veronica Langan on Oct. 25, 1925 in Woodbridge, NJ, where she grew up under difficult circumstances.

The first clip from the forthcoming documentary Jodorowsky’s Dune has been released. You can watch it here below. The universe works in perplexing ways, especially when it comes to the cinema. There have been more than a few books written about the great

Over the years I’ve come to the conclusion that Shirley MacLaine is my favorite yesteryear actress. That’s not to put down Elizabeth Taylor, but as far as female powerplayers from that era I’m smitten with Shirley. She constantly picked interesting proje