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Scrooge lost in animation

Feature | Film and TV
2009-11-15

LIONEL Barrymore. Alastair Sim. Laurence Olivier. Albert Finney. George C. Scott. Bill Murray. Michael Caine. Mr Magoo. Scrooge McDuck. Of the many to play Ebenezer Scrooge, Jim Carrey now adds his name, starring...

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Drama with a difference

Feature | Film and TV
2009-11-13

CUTTING-EDGE international theater productions and innovative local performances are highlights of the 5th Shanghai International Contemporary Theater Festival, which starts on Sunday. In less than one month, theater...

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Revenge play as opera

Feature | Film and TV
2009-11-13

"THE Wilderness," a classic revenge play by famed dramatist Cao Yu ("Peking Man"), has been adapted into varied theater, film and TV series. But its incarnation next week as Peking Opera may be a first. On November...

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Doomsday and disaster flicks: That's the ticket to ride

Feature | Film and TV
2009-11-13

THE end of the world unfolds today, as Hollywood's latest doomsday flick "2012" opens worldwide, and in Shanghai theaters near you. Nothing sells like disaster, horror and special effects, so the catastrophe...

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Cougars: Hot in Hollywood, endangered in real life

Feature | Film and TV
2009-11-11

DARIN Riggio has a thing for older women - he dated his first "Cougar" when he was a 19-year-old college student. She was 43. Since then, the 24-year-old who lives in Boca Raton, Florida, has dated women old...

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Wushu film about female assassin

Feature | Film and TV
2009-11-10

JOHN Woo's latest movie, now being filmed in Shanghai, is about a retired female assassin and gang leader in ancient times whose past catches up with her. The US$12 million-budgeted film stars kung fu star Michelle...

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Staging thriller, sleuth classics

Feature | Film and TV
2009-11-6

MIX a Hitchcock masterpiece with a thrilling spy novel, add a dash of Monty Python, and you have "The 39 Steps," a comic thriller for anyone from nine to 90. One of the best-received dramatic plays in both the...

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Taiwan director films self, son, dad

Feature | Film and TV
2009-11-6

MANY documentary film makers turn the camera outward to explore social changes, and some turn it back on themselves, hoping to understand truths that eluded them earlier. One of the inward-looking film makers is...

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Amelia put off course ... again

Feature | Film and TV
2009-11-1

CONSIDERING the risks Amelia Earhart took, losing her life in the call of aviation, Hilary Swank and director Mira Nair don't put much on the line in their film biography "Amelia." Swank and Nair play it safe...

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Crowded theaters build momentum for 3D at home

Feature | Film and TV
2009-10-29

FANS scrambled to see 3D movies such as "Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs" in theaters this year and new 3D televisions could soon have home viewers feeling as if they're surrounded by a spaghetti hurricane on their...

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Not enough to get wild about

Feature | Film and TV
2009-10-25

THE book "Where the Wild Things Are" is just 339 words long. But in turning it into a movie of the same name, director Spike Jonze has expanded the basic story with a breathtaking visual scheme and stirring emotional...

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'Super Frogmen' to talent shows

Feature | Film and TV
2009-10-24

WITH less than 200 days to go before World Expo 2010 opens in Shanghai, new films, books and TV shows are showcasing the best of the city, and some involve the Expo. Some films are running now, while others will...

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Edgy films, a dark drama

Feature | Film and TV
2009-10-23

SHORT films by fresh young directors will be screened this weekend and an alternative theater group presents a Chinese version of a dark and unfinished German masterpiece. Yao Minji is in the audience. Many alternative...

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Graduation for exciting star

Feature | Film and TV
2009-10-18

SIXTEEN-YEAR-OLD Jenny learns the ways of the world in the coming-of-age drama "An Education," but there's a revelation in store for us, too. We get the pleasure of meeting an exciting young actress who surely deserves...

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Chic Coco but taste for more

Feature | Film and TV
2009-10-11

THE young Coco Chanel noticed style everywhere, even in the crisp white and basic black of the nuns' habits at the orphanage where she was raised. "Coco Before Chanel" has a similarly keen eye for appearances,...