Miramax Films

It's the end of the line for New Line -- at least in its current form. The 40-year-old studio behind such franchises as "Lord of the Rings," "Austin Powers" and "Rush Hour" will become a significantly smaller version of itself and merge into a unit of...

Evalynne Engle came to this large yet laid-back southern Mexican city from Nevada, not to battle her home-renovating addiction but to indulge it. "I have a disease called remodeling-itis," said Engle, 61, a retired interior design and painting teacher...

United Artists, the independent production unit of MGM controlled by actor Tom Cruise and his producer partner, Paula Wagner, is expected to become the first movie company to reach an interim agreement with the Writers Guild of America, enabling the...

One of the great climaxes in modern romantic comedy arrives at the end of "Moonstruck." Remember the scene? Everyone's sitting around that luscious-looking Brooklyn brownstone kitchen, sorting out complications and revealing their true feelings, and...

In certain scenes, Laurence Olivier took more time sipping his tea in the 1981 British television adaptation of " Brideshead Revisited" than it takes to watch the entirety of the brisk, rather disheveled film version of the Evelyn Waugh novel now in...

There's probably no better barometer of Hollywood's presence here than Lynne McNamara. Her thrice-weekly column, "The Backlot," chronicles filming and celebrity sightings around town in the Vancouver Sun. There's Halle Berry and Nicollette Sheridan...

John Dahl's World War II saga "The Great Raid" begins with a lengthy, painstaking preamble to a lengthy, painstaking reenactment of the raid on Cabanatuan. Rings no bells? Not to worry. Based on two books, "The Great Raid on Cabanatuan" by William B....

"Derailed" is a silly, lurid, pulpy thriller that's not nearly lurid and pulpy enough to be much fun, but more than silly enough to be ludicrous. Directed by Mikael Håfström from a vaguely familiar screenplay by Stuart Beattie, it ushers in every twist...

A bear runs through "An Unfinished Life," both literally and figuratively, a bear that symbolizes the ways this potentially involving film goes astray. And despite the presence of high-wattage talent like Robert Redford, Jennifer Lopez and Morgan Freeman,...

As Leonardo DiCaprio walked on stage at the Beverly Hilton Hotel last October to accept the Hollywood Film Festival's actor of the year award for his portrayal as Howard Hughes in "The Aviator," the audience burst into applause. Ironically, few people in...

It's dangerously easy to lose yourself in the sound of someone's voice. The eyes may be the window to the soul, but the human voice is the cat burglar, prying open the window with deceptive purrs. "The Night Listener," an intriguing adaptation of the...

In "The Matador," a delightfully sly diversion, Pierce Brosnan breaks the mold and turns in what might be considered the performance of his career, the kind of witty, relaxed star portrayal that recalls those of Cary Grant and other Golden Era legends....