Rex Reed

Sure, it was a rock fight. Yet to focus on the rock is to miss the fact that the UConn Huskies moved a mountain over 28 glorious days. Sure, the game was ugly to the eye. Yet defense is beautiful to the soul to a man who Tuesday sounded like he has no...

What does Melissa McCarthy have to say about Rex Reed's scathing review of “Identity Thief”? Maybe she'll tell us Sunday night at the Oscars, where she will be a presenter. She also will have a worldwide audience. McCarthy, an Oscar nominee...

  Melissa McCarthy conquered the box office over the weekend. The people who shelled out $36.6 million to see her in “Identity Thief” have a chance to bolster her ratings on “Mike & Molly” at 9:30 p.m. Monday on CBS. I went to...

Academy Award nomination ballots went out Tuesday, so in the spirit of casting our votes, we take a look at the best picture candidates and see how they're faring....

Every year moviegoers get a full-on assault of Oscar ads. But do any of them work?...

When French filmmaker Gilles Paquet-Brenner set out to make a movie from “Sarah’s Key,” the international best-seller by Tatiana De Rosnay, he saw the chance to make a Holocaust movie that works as a ticking clock thriller – with a...

“If you go, hit the Bunker Hill monument first.� Ben Affleck is talking about home — Boston. “There are bars — I’m not naming names — down on the main strip, where guys have been known to get stabbed. And the pr...

Think of Ryan Reynolds as a stock, one which every recommendation screams “BUY.� Hollywood certainly sees him that way. On a roll since last year’s “The Proposal,� and “Wolverine,� a guy who, after years in the...

Michael Sheen is a gifted mimic, as he proved with his spin on TV talker David Frost in “Frost/Nixon” and his three outings as former British prime minister Tony Blair. He’s done vampires (“Twilight”) and werewolves (“...

Sony bigwigs keep bragging to everyone who'll listen that "Burlesque," the new Christina Aguilera and Cher-starring musical from Screen Gems, is one of the studio's all-time highest testing movies. But the showbiz circuit buzz about the film has been...

Rex Reed raised an interesting issue in his hilarious pan of "Burlesque," the new Steven Antin musical that stars Christina Aguilera and Cher. Judging from the print ads and posters for "Burlesque," not to mention her omnipresence on the promotional-...

The reviews are still flooding in for "Sex and the City 2" and guess what? They're as bad as ever. The film's Rotten Tomatoes fresh rating is now residing at 12, which is higher than 0, which is where it......