Inside Hollywood Examiner

The Twilight Saga: New Moon

Wed, 18 Nov 2009 18:29:55 -0700

I mentioned a few weeks ago what a mistake it was for the Twilight filmmakers to follow author Stephenie Meyer's New Moon novel too closely and for losing their minds for having Edward go awol for much of the Twilight sequel: The Twilight Saga: New M...

Martin Scorsese chooses his top scariest movies of all time

Sat, 31 Oct 2009 17:16:24 -0700

Psycho Film Clip Arguably one of the best directors of his generation, Martin Scorsese spoke to The Daily Beast about his personal top ten scariest horror movies. He actually came up with eleven and what you would expect from a true auteur, p...

Monty Python 40 years of outrageous British comedy

Wed, 07 Oct 2009 16:15:35 -0700

The British kings of comedy, Monty Python, are 40 years old. Their humor is as fresh today as it was decades ago. I was too young to watch Monty Python in the 70’s but I do remember my brother and his best mate listening to an L...

More Than A Game is an impressive documentary

Fri, 02 Oct 2009 18:03:46 -0700

I’m not going to lie to you. I don’t know one thing about basketball but I do know a good story andMore Than A Game delivers enough true-life rags, riches, heartache and dream catching to capture Hollywood.More Than A Game is writte...

Barbie Doll in Hollywood

Sat, 26 Sep 2009 16:25:21 -0700

After the recent success of live action toy franchises to hit the big screen it comes as no surprise to hear that Mattel’s Barbie doll is getting the Hollywood treatment. As a child I couldn’t see the point of Barbie when...

Stanley Tucci joins Burlesque cast

Sat, 26 Sep 2009 15:23:34 -0700

Burlesque adds Stanley Tucci to the cast that see Cher’s return to the big screen in more than a decade. She stars alongside Christina Aguilera in a neo-burlesque musical directed by Steve Antin. Tucci is riding high from the s...

Inglorious Basterds set to top Pulp Fiction

Sun, 20 Sep 2009 19:58:32 -0700

Evil Auntie and the Bay Area Web Pioneers

Tue, 01 Sep 2009 13:00:51 -0700

Evil Auntie is a comedy cooking series cooked up by Bay Area multi-media pioneers, Robin Elaine McCain and Leslie Strait, and is a 2009 Webby Awards Official Honoree. Evil Auntie is lovingly based on one of McCain’s aunts and each month ...

The Cove

Tue, 25 Aug 2009 23:50:36 -0700

Richard O’Barry trained a number of dolphins for use in the 1960’s Flipper TV show and soon discovered that the ill treatment of these intelligent mammals in captivity all over the world was something he couldn’t turn a blind...

Box Office

Sat, 15 Aug 2009 11:06:29 -0700

G.I. JOE trailer in HD Box Office G.I. Joe: The Rise of the Cobra remains at the top of the box office this week over $76 million in ticket sales despite some fans and many critiques seeing through the blatant hard sell toy tie-ins. Paramount ...

Hollywood Box Office News from Ginger Liu

Fri, 07 Aug 2009 00:14:15 -0700

Funny People, Judd Apatow’s tale of LA stand-up comedians played by Adam Sandler and Seth Rogen, hit the top of box office charts over the weekend and are expected to nose dive like a bad joke. Apatow’s signature take-no-prisoners c...

Robert Rodriquez's Machete

Fri, 07 Aug 2009 00:12:46 -0700

Robert Rodriquez’s (Grindhouse-Planet Terror, Sin City, From Dusk Till Dawn) new movie, Machete, is set for release in 2010 and centers around an ex-agent, played by Danny Trejo (Grindhouse) who enacts blade-wielding revenge on the bosses who p...

Aliens, Ridley Scott, Leo DiCaprio and Aldous Huxley

Fri, 07 Aug 2009 00:11:25 -0700

Leo DiCaprio and director Ridley Scott are on board to adapt Aldous Huxley’s 1931 novel, Brave New World. Huxley’s visionary sci-fi tale is set in the 26th century in a perfect world were births are strictly controlled in laboratories, fa...

A Perfect Getaway

Thu, 06 Aug 2009 20:05:11 -0700

A Perfect Getaway is the kind of romp that plays on people’s fears of having too much of a good time away from the mundane but at least controllable confines of an American city. Milla Jovovich and Steve Zahn are honeymoon couple, Cydney...

G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra

Thu, 06 Aug 2009 20:02:25 -0700

When Paramount decided to hold back on the reviewers pre-screening of G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra, the usual suspicious sniffs of turkey wafted around Hollywood as fast celebrity gossip. But let’s not forget that Paramount’s very own Tran...

Julie & Julia

Thu, 06 Aug 2009 19:49:57 -0700

Julie & Julia is essentially two films about how passion and food can change peoples lives. Although in Julia Child’s case, the bon vivant American cook with French sensibilities changed the lives of a whole nation used to eating con...

John Hughes is dead

Thu, 06 Aug 2009 19:15:14 -0700

Director-writer-producer John Hughes died today in NYC of a heart attack. He was 59. Perhaps no other filmmaker in Hollywood captured 1980’s American teenage-angst better than Hughes. No other decade before or since has been defined by a...

Julie & Julia: Dick Flicks and Sexist Journalism

Wed, 05 Aug 2009 13:15:56 -0700

Julie & Julia is fabulous entertainment. I'm reading reviews and I'm sick of many male journalists who dismiss this movie as "chick flick," "one for the over 50's," "for women." I'm so sick of sexist journalism. Gi J...

Comic Con Ends

Tue, 04 Aug 2009 00:33:52 -0700

San Diego’s Comic-Con was a resounding success after attracting Hollywood big guns to the international comic convention last week. Of course this was a chance for studios to show case upcoming releases, to gage fan reaction as well as gain val...

Flame & Citron

Tue, 04 Aug 2009 00:32:27 -0700

Sounding like a new superhero movie from Marvel’s production line, the Danish, Flame & Citron (Flamen & Citronen) is the true story of real life superheroes from the Holger Danske resistance group during World War II. The title refers...