Valkyrie (movie)

A scheme to assassinate Adolf Hitler, hatched by some of those within his own party, fuels director Bryan Singer's compelling drama. As unlikely as producer and star Tom Cruise might seem as the leader of the plot – wearing an eye patch, no less – he...

Got tired of listening to WFAN, 1050 ESPN and WIP so checking in on Chris Russo on Sirius XM right now. For the past few minutes he has been going down the list of movies now out and announcing which......

With a few days left before the Mets get down to official business, it's a more relaxed atmosphere early this week, and the clubhouse discussion this morning turned to movies. Yes, life over here is a little different than what's......

A female voice floats from a loudspeaker, sounding preternaturally calm amid the morning chaos inside Los Angeles Opera's costume shop on South Alameda Street downtown. "We're ready for a dwarf in Fitting Room 2," the voice intones. In recent days,...

THE poster for Judd Apatow's first feature, "The 40Year-Old Virgin," gave us Steve Carell gazing beatifically into the middle distance above the encouraging tagline, "Better late than never." The poster for his second feature, "Knocked Up," gives us...

It would appear that the saying is true...no one can pass up a cute puppy or a baby. Well, the latter doesn't come into play for the holiday season, but the former does a la 20th Century Fox's " Marley & Me." The film, which stars an adorable yellow...

It's not every actor who reaches his late 40s, decides to reinvent himself as a movie star and . . . succeeds. Up until the late 1990s, the now 59-year-old Tom Wilkinson had, by his own measure, a comfortable life in the English theater, churning out...

Heading into the 1989 Sundance Film Festival -- back then known as the Utah/U.S. Film Festival -- Steven Soderbergh harbored no illusions about setting the film world on fire with his debut feature, "sex, lies, and videotape." Upon arrival in Park City,...

"Marley & Me," the tale of a boisterous dog, led a strong pack of movies at the box office over the weekend, but together, they still couldn't pull this year's movie attendance out of the doghouse. "Marley" made the most money ever for a Christmas Day...

Bryan Singer is in negotiations to produce "Capeshooters," a superhero project set up at Warner Bros. According to the industry trades, Warner Bros. acquired the upcoming Rob Liefeld graphic novel for Singer's Bad Hat Harry production banner, making...

WHO KNEW Tom Cruise could shake it like a Polaroid picture? Last week, he rocked audiences with his cameo as a profane, hip-jiggling, Machiavellian movie chief in " Tropic Thunder." The role was designed to show the world -- and Hollywood insiders --...

Backing a Tom Cruise film shouldn't be about supporting Scientology, but about the film's message. That's the line that the German Defense Ministry is following regarding the actor shooting his latest project "Valkyrie" in a key military location in...