Mystic River News

No matter how many Oscars Sean Penn wins or the number of serious dramatic roles he takes on, he'll always be stoned surfer dude Jeff Spicoli.

Funk in the bathroom. Salsa in the kitchen. Rock in the garden. The Sonos Digital Music System lets you play all your digital music, all over your house and control it all from the palm of your hand.

Oscar presenters Hayek and Cruz are among the celebrities who planned to support Global Green USA by arriving at the Academy Awards in hybrid cars.

It's never quite happened for Kevin Bacon. It may be just a vagary of the star system, but his almost-handsomeness and the suspicion of something snide in those pointy features could be why he's been ...

Academy Award winners Sean Penn and Prince have been tapped to present at the 77th Academy Awards , telecast producer Gil Cates announced today.

JILLIAN WHEELER is prone to easy laughter. She loves hanging with her friends, ice skating, shopping at the mall, eating cheesecake and going to Chunky's Cinema where her favorite movies are the really scary ...

Clint Eastwood's started his screen career as a baby-faced contract player at Universal Pictures, performing bit parts behind B-movie legend John Agar in a pair of science-fiction classics, "Revenge of the ...

Catherine Zeta-Jones is not the only star coming to Harvard this week. Two-time Oscar winner Tim Robbins, this year - s Hasty Pudding Man of the Year, will take his turn on Holyoke Street tonight.

Purdy-Quinlan Studios, an activity and learning center, located in Bicknell Square in North Weymouth opened its doors on Oct.

ThinkFilm Inc. Samuel Bicke is a lousy salesman. He stutters, he sweats, he can't spin that web of B.S. that every good salesman must in order to trap his prey.

Emmy Rossum at the age of 18 has been getting a lot of attention with her film starring role in Phantom of the Opera and her recent Golden Globe nomination.

Longtime reader of the site; first submission. The film's directed by Aric Avelino.

While their significant others already have Pudding Pots for their mantles, Tim Robbins and Catherine Zeta-Jones will now have their turn to parade through the Square with men dressed in drag.

Dennis Lehane writes dark books. His blockbuster Mystic River, the source of the Oscar-winning film, and his six other novels reverberate with violence, particularly child abuse and its terrible consequences.

While I somehow managed to completely miss Alexander before it disappeared from theatres, there were plenty of other bad movies.

Directed by Joel Schumacher. Screenplay by Joel Schumacher and Andrew Lloyd Webber.

Today is, of course, Festivus . And with Festivus comes the traditional airing of grievances.

Charlize Theron won the best actress in a drama Golden Globe Award here on Sunday for her startling role as a vagabond serial killer in Monster.

In 2004, I watched over 175 movies, many of them more than once, some of them not even until the end.

Born: Feb. 5, 1964, in New York City. Education: Graduated from Brown University in 1986 and the Juilliard School in 1990.

If you look at greater Alton through a camera lens, you'll see how cinematic it is.

Laura Linney, who can currently be seen as Clara "Mac" Kinsey in Fox Searchlight's Kinsey , has signed on to star with Gabriel Byrne, Deborra-Lee Furness, John Howard and Leah Purcell in the drama Jindabyne, an ...

Kevin Bacon has some theories about why the general public is leery of actors who take a turn at being musicians.

Fox Searchlight presents a film written and directed by Bill Condon. With a running time of 119 minutes.

Kevin Spacey, Liam Neeson, Samuel L. Jackson and Laura Linney have been added as 2005 Palm Springs International Film Festival honorees, making its Jan.

It's our annual lists column (coming next week: our annual favorite movies column). Actually, it's just one sort-of list.

Sometimes Trey Parker and Matt Stone are trying to make you laugh. Sometimes they're trying to make you squirm.

Daniel Sullivan (Proof, Sight Unseen) directs the co-production with Manhattan Theatre Club which will open on SCR's stage, Sept.

Anacondas: The Hunt for the Blood Orchid contains many of the qualities that make films like Mystic River so popular with film reviewers.

Actor Jonathan Togo (Mystic River) has been added to the cast of CBS' CSI: Miami as a new investigator, while Madchen Amick (Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me) will play a recurring role on NBC's ER as Noah Wyle's ...

CODE 46 With Tim Robbins, Samantha Morton. Director Michael Winterbottom. At the Angelika (1:32). Rated R: Frontal female nudity.

Comedian and liberal radio talk-show host Al Franken had New York delegates to the Democratic National Convention in stitches with a 25-minute monologue poking fun at state Attorney General Eliot Spitzer and ...

The region has long been a hot spot for tourists, but it's now playing host to Hollywood hot shots.