Author Archives: Maggie Van Ostrand

Saoirse Ronan's people are in negotiations to get her the title role in Hanna, the story of a teen assassin. The Hollywood Reporter describes Hanna as "having shades of La Femme Nikita and the Bourne movies." Read More

January 6th saw big wins of the 36th Annual People's Choice Awards going to the vampires. Read More

Hanes has announced they're dumping Charlie Sheen as a celebrity spokesperson. Read More

It's been awhile since William Shatner begged James Spader to be his roommate on Boston Legal, and even longer since Rachel, Monica, Phoebe, Joey, Chandler, and Ross were roomies on Friends, not to mention the guys from Animal House. Here are some Read More

Mendes. Sam Mendes finally gets a crack at James Bond #23, and there’s a rush on to get it on the fast track to a 2011 release. Read More

Movies with really short titles usually win Best Picture Oscars, for a big chunk of the time at almost 25 percent. Based on this year's Golden Globe nominees and the fact that the Globe winners frequently appear to coincide with subsequent Oscar wins, Read More

What's handsome? It's not what it used to be in Hollywood. There are quite a few fine actors today who aren't conventional in their looks, but they're way sexier than in the old days — except for Steve McQueen. He wasn't conventionally good looking Read More

It seems Miramax, the onetime indie giant of the movie industry, has now bitten the dust and been decimated by Disney. Miramax's last movie, Everybody's Fine, starring Robert De Niro and Drew Barrymore, opened in New York last night. Read More

It seems Johnny Depp loves to play characters wearing bizarre makeup, which is weird since Depp is afraid of clowns. This made me wonder what other celebrities are scared of so I began searching for answers. Read More

Thanksgiving, the eatingest day of the year, is just around the corner, probably trying to yank Jenny Craig away from Kirstie Alley. To honor our chow-down and gobble-up national holiday, I'm presenting my top ten movie food scenes. Read More

Throughout the history of film, certain directors have attracted fans with a sense of life's dark side, theirs and ours. Following are eight such directors, in no particular order, all cult-worthy, dead or alive. Read More

Halloween is the time movie fans generally discuss Alfred Hitchcock's suspenseful masterpieces. Me? I like to talk about an even better candidate for this creepy holiday: David Lynch. The mind of the writer/director must be a strange place to live, Read More