ENTERTAINMENT

12/02/2008

Director Danny Boyle says 'Slumdog Millionaire' takes a close-up look at India's largest city
Meeting famous people is tricky business, especially famous people you really like or admire. Because in most cases, it's really their work you like or admire, not them. Whatever you've seen them in makes you think they're smart or cool or funny, but all too often when you meet them, you discover that, alas, they're not.

11/07/2008

Though everyone hated J.R. Ewing, for Larry Hagman, he was role of a lifetime

Associated Press

Larry Hagman

Sitting at the desk in the living room of his suite at the Ritz-Carlton, Larry Hagman looks as if he could be a retired CEO or an elder statesman. But then he gets up to greet his guests and puts on the cowboy hat that had been resting on the desk and in an instant, the transformation is complete. No makeup artists, no phone booth – with a wave of his hand, J.R. Ewing appears.
Quiz: Do you know 'Dallas'?
Link: Dallas 30th Anniversary Reunion
Video: After 30 years, TV fans still drawn to 'Dallas'

10/31/2008

Dallas Video Festival: Documentaries, commercials, animated features and more

Dallas Video Festival

If imitation is the highest form of flattery, then the Dallas Video Festival should be feeling pretty good.

10/22/2008

Anne Hathway brings realism to new character in 'Rachel Getting Married'

Sony Pictures Classics

One of the most striking things about Rachel Getting Married is how natural it feels.

10/13/2008

Christian Slater comes to prime-time TV in 'My Own Worst Enemy'

NBC

Christian Slater stars in the new series My Own Worst Enemy.

James Bond has a new face with Daniel Craig, but as NBC's new series My Own Worst Enemy reminds us, there's a new superspy atop the pop culture pyramid – Jason Bourne. While this high-tech thrill ride isn't exactly a direct spinoff of the Bourne film franchise – in the way Fox's Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles connects with the Terminator franchise – it is obviously modeled after the successful film series.
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Michael Cera and Kat Dennings make their own 'infinite playlist'
On the surface, Nick & Norah's Infinite Playlist is about young love. But behind, under and all around that love story, the movie is about the power of music and the manifestation of that power that is the homemade mix.

10/08/2008

Tom Maurstad: Financial crisis transforms our television viewing experience
The ongoing financial implosion has had lots of effects on our nation's economy and our society's psychology. But one of the most dramatic has been its transformative effect on the television viewing experience.

10/06/2008

'Flash of Genius' trailer doesn't paint the whole picture

AP

Greg Kinnear stars in Flash of Genius

The trailers for Flash of Genius, opening this weekend, are in heavy rotation. If you've been to the movies lately or tuned in to any of the rollout of the new fall TV lineups, you've seen one version or another. In quick, dramatic cuts, you see scenes from the story of a man whose invention is stolen by a corporate giant and the battle to win the credit he's due. As the David-and-Goliath images play, the grim-voiced narrator intones portentous phrases like "one man's battle" and "the American dream."
Showtimes/review: Flash of Genius
Blog: The Screening Room
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