Screening Room: James Bond fest at the Aero

Other film events: Egyptian Theatre's Stanley Kubrick tribute, Cinema Speakeasy short film workshop and more. Screenwriter-director Tom Mankiewicz, who died in July of cancer, is being honored Thursday evening at the American Cinematheque's Aero Theatre with screenings of two of the Roger Moore James Bond films he wrote: 1973's " Live and Let Die," which marked Moore's first outing as 007, and ...

Trailer Roundup: Movies in theaters this weekend

Whether New England gets bashed by a storm named Earl or not, here are the movies opening in theaters this weekend, Sept 3, 2010. Plan on catching any of these?

Top Gear’s The Stig Revealed!

The identity of the mysterious race car driver on Top Gear, The Stig, has been revealed to be former James Bond stunt double Ben Collins.

Australia Talks Movies - Film franchises

Next on Australia Talks Movies, the franchise movie and the remake. The Batman and Star Wars series have been hugely successful film franchises, and there are new James Bond and Mad Max films in the pipeline. Then there are the remakes -- often Americanised versions of foreign films. Has Hollywood run out of new ideas? Or does it know a good, marketable, story when it sees one. Has merchandising ...

'Public Enemy' Wraps Up A Criminally Good Saga

Neither director Jean-Francois Richet's style nor star Vincent Cassel's swagger falters in Public Enemy Number One , the exhilarating follow-up to Mesrine: Killer Instinct . With its shootouts, prison breaks and wild flights of ego, the saga's second half was sure to be watchable. It's also smart, funny and incisive -- about the criminal and his era. (Recommended)