The premise: directed by Grant Heslov, The Men Who Stare at Goats, is based upon actual events which took place after the war in Vietnam, when the US was reassessing itself as a military power.
For a time the concept of noble, Samurai like, warriors gained traction in some quarters, and the army is said to [...]

The premise: let me come straight out and say it, Bondi Tsunami does not make for the average film watching experience.
Written, directed, and even largely filmed by Melbourne film maker Rachael Lucas, on an ultra low budget, this is a film that through music, split frames, and comic book inserts, aims to explore the Japanese [...]

The premise: set in Wellington and Berlin, Separation City is a wry yet insightful dissection of two faltering marriages, and love that was meant to be, yet wasn’t, written by Tom Scott, and directed by Paul Middleditch.
The play: Klaus (Thomas Kretschmann) an artist, and his wife Katrien (Rhona Mitra) a cello player, have recently [...]

From Roger Ebert’s wrap up of this year’s Oscars:
In what was expected to be a close race, “The Hurt Locker” took an early 4-3 lead and then pounded home with the best director and picture Oscars for a total of six. Its best film editing award correctly predicted the best picture winner, as [...]

The premise: originally produced in 1934, Alfred Hitchcock remade The Man Who Knew Too Much in 1956. He considered the latter version the more superior.
Set in Morocco and London, Dr. Benjamin McKenna (James Stewart), his wife Jo (Doris Day) a former Opera singer, and their son Hank (Christopher Olsen), are holidaying after visiting Paris [...]

Code names for in-production movies: 2001: A Space Odyssey was referred to as “How the Solar System Was Won” during production, while Alien was known as “Star Beast”.

The premise: based on the Lewis Carroll classics “Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland”, and “Through the Looking Glass”, Tim Burton’s film Alice In Wonderland picks up the story of Alice (Mia Wasikowska) some 13 years after events of the novels.
Alice is now 19 years old and looks set to enter into a marriage effectively arranged by [...]

Damon Stea’s “Memoirs of a Scanner”, an entry in this year’s Disposable Film Festival – which celebrates film making minus movie cameras – was produced using a flatbed scanner…
Stea, a double-major in cinema production and videogame design at USC, ran into one technical difficulty. “It was hard to do lighting for a machine that was [...]

Some of the decisions made by the Academy Of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences when handing out Oscars have puzzled some and infuriated others…
The Shining wasn’t even nominated for any awards in 1981; bloated, self-important Crash beating Brokeback Mountain and Capote in 2005; Catherine Zeta-Jones in Chicago beating Meryl Streep in Adaptation to the [...]

The premise: maths professor Venkat Subramaniam (Amitabh Bachchan), who struggles to find recognition for his mathematical theorems, concocts a formula that allows him to work out who holds the winning hand in Teen Patti (Three Cards), an Indian gambling card game.
And faster than he can deal a round of cards, four students and another professor [...]