Talk about karmic connections. I had just started reading Roger Ebert’s wonderful essay about Ron Galella, the notoriously relentless paparazzo, who is profiled in the new documentary “Smash His Camera,” when I heard the news about the death of J.D….

America’s fiery hordes of Tea Party conservatives seem to have the hapless Democratic Party on the run, but one right-wing congressional candidate in Illinois may have met his match this week when he was caught appropriating (or should we say…

One of the most fascinating films up at Sundance this week is “Catfish,” a documentary that has wowed audiences and critics alike with its portrait of Nev Schulman, a bright-eyed young New York photographer who becomes involved, via Facebook, with…

Maureen Dowd, the sly, sharp-tongued columnist at the New York Times, knows what makes Barack Obama different from most of the men who run Hollywood — he actually respects women. In male-dominated Hollywood, most actresses still get stuck playing the…

Yesterday, we found ourselves trying to puzzle out why so many conservatives were losing their minds over the progressive politics of the amazing “Avatar.” Today, the battle front moves to Turner Classic Movies, the cable TV oasis for movie lovers,…

It’s no secret that “Avatar” has been stunningly successful on nearly every front. The James Cameron-directed sci-fi epic is already the fourth-highest-grossing film of all time, having earned more than $1 billion around the globe in less than three weeks…

No one can lay a glove on the Golden Globes. It’s the award show that has survived so many crazy incidents and outrageous behavior over the years — remember the time a Hollywood Foreign Press Assn. member was suspended for…

The MPAA has embarrassed itself an untold number of times over the years for its prudish attitude toward sex and its wildly permissive attitude toward violence. But what’s it’s done to Nancy Meyers’ upcoming comedy, “It’s Complicated,” is perhaps the…

Who says the auteur theory is dead? You know before the credits have barely began to roll that you’re watching a Wes Anderson movie, or for that matter a film by Pedro Almodovar or Martin Scorsese. But when it comes…

It’s bad enough that everyone, from the far left to the far right, has a beef with Barack Obama’s new Afghanistan war policy. But you really know the worm has turned when some of the best Obama spoofs are now…