To coincide with Warner Bros’ release of “Superman Returns,” ReelTime today announced it will make “Superman, The Lost Episodes” available to the public for viewing at no cost. For every time the series is watched, ReelTime will make a donation to the Christopher Reeve Foundation (CRF). So to sum up: you download free entertainment, a charity [...]

Everybody wishes they could… I don’t know, buy something to commemorate PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN 2. Turns out, there are a few items. Nikki Finke has the complete list, but I’m going limit myself to a top ten.

Ping Pong Table
Candied Fruit
Mittens
Bagel
Hocky Puck
Lawn Furniture
Recipe Book
Videophone
Aromatherapy Oils
Audio Speakers

Marketing strategy or beat poetry? We report, you decide.

My love of incredible cons collides with my admiration for Stanley Kubrick here. John Malkovich has assayed the role of Alan Conway, a man who spent the last years of his life conning people into believing that he was Stanley Kubrick. This despite Conway looking nothing like Kubrick, knowing little about his work, and being [...]

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In today’s show: Aaron Spelling has his series finale… Adam Sandler has a remote chance at the #1 spot… and in my commentary I decry the very technology that allows me to do this show. All this and Feldman and Haim together again, today on Box Office [...]

Remember Michael Eisner? Used to run Disney with an iron fist in case-hardened-steel glove? Ground the bones on children into flour, which was then served to him in the form of pancakes with faces drawn on them in whipped cream? He’s going back into the children’s entertainment business.
Eisner has announced that he will buy Team [...]

I don’t get out much.
But I did this weekend! My wife and I went to the Greek Theatre in Hollywood to see Fiona Apple and Damien Rice. Great show. But an interesting thing occurred to me as I watched the video screens.
If you are in the back rows, the Greek is kind enough to provide [...]

With MGM releasing the their officially-sanctioned CASINO ROYALE movie this summer, it’s time to look back at the bloated international co-super-mega production that came out in the late sixties. AUSTIN POWERS owes more to CR than it does to any real James Bond movie. It had a cast which featured everybody, a score by Burt [...]

Our fearless kangaroo-wrestling leader Cameron was kind enough to have me as a guest on The Movie Show this week. We talk about Evil Dead II, Mad Max II (The Road Warrior, for you Americans), X-Men III and Planet of the Apes, with side trips into Bruce Campbell’s chin and Charlton Heston’s toupee. Worthwhile [...]

A new documentary, BRIDGE, chronicles the last actions of six people as they jump from the Golden Gate bridge to their deaths in the sprawling San Francisco bay.
Eric Steel, the filmmaker, took advantage of the low cost of digital video and aimed cameras at the bridge every day for a year in 2004. During that [...]

Aaron Spelling, dead at 83.