According to DeMille's biographer Scott Eyman, DeMille was given carte blanche by Wilder to alter his dialogue, change a line or two and even protest to the writer/director about the "Lindbergh/Paris" line, which originally had both DeMille and Norma dancing on a table together. DeMille to...

My stepdaughter and her boyfriend just came back from seeing Michael Bay's latest reason to bring back nitrate, the new TRANSFORMERS whatever. They enjoyed it but no ringing endorsement, and so far my favorite review is from Leonard Maltin, who begins with "Well, there's 3 hours shot to hell......

One of the great ones-versatile, brilliant, subtle and just plain fun to watch either on the big screen or the smaller one-has left us. He was never boring, could steal a scene from even the best of them (did that with most of GODFATHER III) and gave us two of the greatest Western characters of the ...

Agree with you, Paul-AGE OF INNOCENCE was beautiful to look at but it felt more like Scorsese trying to show that he could do something without violence or characters like Nicholson's in THE DEPARTED or Cage in BRINGING OUT THE DEAD but instead having characters with no juice in them. Day-Lewis and ...

THE MONUMENTS MEN: 7.5/10 Being a fan of history, WWII movies and a lot of the cast of this film, I got exactly what I was expecting: an old-fashioned war epic about men on a mission that is pretty much a by-the-book war film with the prerequisite characters. You have your charismatic leader (George...

EXECUTIVE SUITE is another one of those great films that if I happen to run across it on TCM, I will stop and watch to the end. It is also interesting to view this film as another example of the dismantling of the studio system, with MGM contract players (Nina Foch, June Allyson, Louis Calhern, Walt...

THE FAULT IN OUR STARS 9.5/10 Saw this film at an advance screening a couple of weeks ago and the crowd was asked not to post anything until the film opened, but since I have already seen some glowing reviews, I decided not to wait. This is an outstanding film, not just for the teenage crowd, which ...

Evidently the TED sequel is set for release in July of 2015, with Amanda Seyfried replacing Mila Kunis as Wahlberg's wife, although Kunis will have a tiny role (she was replaced for "creative reasons," according to McFarlane, and she is still working in FAMILY GUY). So, we will see if his ...

A MILLION WAYS TO DIE IN THE WEST 3/10 I REALLY wanted to like this movie-I love westerns, Monument Valley is as goof-proof a location as you can ask for (I seriously doubt there is a bad angle anywhere) and I thought TED was surprisingly funny yet with some gravitas sprinkled around. Seth McFarlane...

I think from Wayne fans alone the funds could be raised to save the film as much as possible, and considering how well the long version did on laserdisc and even VHS you would think that even if MGM did not want to do it, they would at least allow a well-intentioned group of investors to save it. Al...

Looks like MALEFICENT will do pretty good this weekend, Seth McFarlane will not have the hit he had with TED, and :twisted: Adam Sandler's latest piece of merde continues to slide down, taking 5th behind the big guy... http://www.thewrap.com/maleficent-leaves-x-m/?utm_source=newsletter&utm_mediu...

Because after all the money they lost on THE LONE RANGER, unless there is someone in the director's chair who either has a track record with them or another studio, or a producer to protect them like Bruckheimer will with Verbinski or Bay, the suits at Disney fancy themselves filmmakers when all the...

Saw a truly wonderful, human story tonight that, unfortunately, I cannot write any more about until it opens on June 6 :cry: . I will say this much-there were two wonderful performances in this adaptation of a novel by one of our best writers, and considering its only competition that weekend is the...

Have the Kino version and am satisfied with that.

You mentioned merchandizing-was somewhat surprised to go into the local Walmart and not see ANYTHING for the film, which you think would be a given considering the title character and how much kids love dinosaurs and their ilk.