One of the major Achilles’ heels for producers and directors is the distribution game. Once you’ve made your movie, what do you do? How do you play the game? What strategies do you employ? Is there even a strategy??

This year’s Method Fest, brought a bit of Hollywood glitz and glamour to Calabasas once again and featured a rich variety of films shorts and student films from an international group of actors, directors and producers.

During interrogation by Chief Inspector Uhl (Paul Giamatti) in "The Illusionist", the magician Eisenheim (Edward Norton) confesses to his supporting crowd, "Everything you have seen here has been an illusion." Perhaps, everything we have seen has been a w

Before Rupert Angier (Hugh Jackman) travels to Colorado to find scientist Nikola Tesla (David Bowie), Cutter (Michael Caine), magician mentor, tells Angier, "Obsession is the game of young men?" In Director and Writer Christopher Nolan's "The Prestige" ob

Director Allen Coulter's "Hollywoodland" is engrossing provocative storytelling. The movie pulls you in. "Hollywoodland" is a great movie. Writer Paul Bernbaum poses three different possible scenarios surrounding George Reeves's death, including suicide.

Jason Statham is the most exciting new action star to come along in years. Statham is rugged, charismatic, and a great martial artist. Directors and Writers Mark Neveldine and Brian Taylor's "Crank" starts with an intriguing storyline...

"Step Up" is derivative, predictable, and formulaic. That being said, Director Anne Fletcher's hybrid classical hip-hop dance romance is completely arresting and thoroughly enjoyable. I was surprised how engaging the movie is...

"Snakes on a Plane." The beauty of the movie is that no one has to ask: Now what is the movie about? No doubt that "Snakes on a Plane" will win "Best Movie" at next year's MTV Movie Awards.