Archive for October 03,2006

Nicollette Sheridan To Sell Lingerie on QVC

Desperate Housewives star Nicollette Sheridan has defended her decision to promote her new lingerie range on shopping channel QVC - insisting it's a way of connecting with her audience.  

2006 Oct 03

Book Meme

This is one of those questionnaire memes that goes around the blogosphere. Strictly for your amusement [via No More Marriages!] 1. One book that changed your life? George Eliot's Middlemarch opened my eyes ...

2006 Oct 03

Coppola Talks Marie Antoinette

Here's the Q & A I did with Marie Antoinette writer-director Sofia Coppola ("Lost in Translation") just before the $40-million period portrait of the 18th century French queen debuted at the Festival du Cann...

2006 Oct 03

Black Snake Moan

I love this retro B-movie poster for the upcoming 2007 release of Craig Brewer's follow-up to Hustle & Flow. His next, a biopic of country music star Charley Pride, will reunite the director with Terrence How...

2006 Oct 03

The movie you didn't see keeps generating angst

All this talk of marketing, positioning, and buzz re: All the King's Men, a movie that seemed like a certain Oscar contender LAST fall, but that now looks like the biggest bomb of the year. Like this Peter Bar...

2006 Oct 03

“Here Comes Your Man” Season Premiere Degrassi: The Next Generation

For those who don’t know, Degrassi is a Canadian teen drama that first made it appearance in the 1980’s. Today Degrassi: The Next Generation stars a new after school special cookie cutter cast that are actual...

2006 Oct 03

Halloween Horror Movie Guide

It’s that time of year again … leaves start changing colors, homes fill with the scent of wood burning stoves, and movie buffs head to the theaters and video stores to watch gory, bloody and disgusting horror...

2006 Oct 03

Cate Blanchett Is The Best Working Actress Today, Says George Clooney

George Clooney has lavished praise on his co-star Cate Blanchett, insisting she is so talented he found her "intimidating" to work with. The pair both star in director Steven Soderbergh's upcoming movie The G...

2006 Oct 03

10.03: today’s most important news story: Film criticism vital to bottom line!

Who’da thunk that mere movie reviews could be so important to a newspaper’s survival? The Sun-Times feels the Ebert effect Web traffic down 25% with critic on sick leave The Chicago Sun-Times’ Web site und...

2006 Oct 03

A Moviemaking Revolution … Or Not?

The big story in the video technology world right now is Red. Red is a digital camera system spearheaded by billionaire Jim Jannard, the impresario behind the Oakley designer-sunglasses empire. The camera pro...

2006 Oct 03