Malayalam movies are a staple for all South Indians, especially since the nation of India produces more movies than any other country on Earth.  Malayalam movies, however, are not punctuated with just song and dance …

Though Punjabi movies may not be as popular or as well known as mainstream Bollywood films, they are gaining in popularity each year as Indian cinema branches to new corners of the world.  Many of …

The saddest movies of all time can be a difficult list to conjure since what some viewers find moving, others find sappy and sentimental.  But every so often a film comes along that seems to …

by Richard von Busack
LET’S LEAVE aside the social problem of Facebook as a privacy violator. I’m not up to the depths of tireless radio investigator Dave Emory, who reached for his Foucault when titling a …

by Richard von Busack
OLIVE (Emma Stone) is a high school student in Ojai, population 8,000; her dirty-minded best friend, Rhiannon (Aly Michalka), invites her over for a party, but Olive declines and fibs about having …

Let’s just admit it: the Star Wars actors are a part of our national consciousness.  For whatever reason, George Lucas’s original trilogy resonated with audiences so powerfully that nearly three decades after their release, the …

From The Last Samurai and Memoirs of a Geisha to Babel and even Godzilla, many of Hollywood’s greatest hits and most treasured classics have been set in Japan.  But setting has been only one reason …

By Richard von Busack
Dana Brown is the son of the man I’ve heard described as the only really financially successful independent filmmaker in history, Bruce Brown (Endless Summer, et al). Happily the guava didn’t fall …

Let’s just be honest: there are some ugly actors in Hollywood who have made it quite big – bigger, in fact, than their more physically appealing contemporaries.  Now, lest you think we are being unduly …

Our Favorite Australian Actors
We, as all fans of cinema do, love to take time to reflect on our favorite Australian actors.  Anyone familiar with Hollywood knows that the industry loves its Aussies, having made many …