Derek Jacobi

Dear Disney: I don't pretend to understand the vagaries of filmmaking or the pressures of corporate America in an economically challenged year, but I do know a few things about your target audience since, as the credit-card-wielding, annual-Disneyland-...

In a less competitive year, Jeff Goldblum would have had a shot at an Oscar nod for his performance in "Adam Resurrected," in which he plays Adam Stein, a mental patient irrevocably haunted by his Holocaust survival. This original drama is less glum...

LOST: SEASON 4 Series: Last spring's 13 episodes can help tide you over (or help you scour for clues) until the Oceanic survivors start their fifth ABC season Jan. 21. Revisit the freighter "rescue," the return to society of the six who "survived" and...

•Showtime has picked up the fourth and fifth seasons of its drama Dexter, which stars Michael C. Hall as a Miami blood-splatter expert who moonlights as a serial killer. Showtime said each season would consist of 12 episodes, Variety reports. &#...

As winter settles over the multiplexes, it's time for Christmas comedies, heartwarming dramas and ... Nazis? First, the fun stuff: In the coming weeks, plenty of movies will battle for the hearts and minds of family filmgoers. On Dec. 19, "Seven Pounds,"...

One filmmaker with Connecticut roots was confused for another filmmaker with Connecticut roots at a Spanish film festival during the weekend. But the wronged Kaufman didn't mind at all. The New York Post reports that low-budget movie icon Lloyd Kaufman,...

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I like to start rumors at TVzone, which is much easier to do than actual reporting, and here's one I'd like to float: Is one of the great actors of stage and screen going to join "Eli Stone? That......

"Sunny" premieres... Sorry...Been a long day, and just now catching up on all the important news of this day, September Eighteenth Two Thousand and Eight. So tonight, a special treat. We give you the headlines and then we give......

IN THE "Say what?" department, this statement ranks up there: "If Camoletti had written a tragedy of this quality, he'd be up there with Pinter." Few people could get away with comparing Marc Camoletti, the French playwright of the creaky '60s sex...

If you're planning to visit Rome before you die, it pays to prepare for the experience. Here are 10 books and movies to help you understand what you see in the Roman Forum, at the Vatican and on the Piazza Navona. 1. "The Agony and the Ecstasy" (1961, by...

PREMIUM CABLE "Gladiator" *** 6:15 p.m., Cinemax "I am required to kill, so I kill. That is enough." A great Roman general (Russell Crowe) is marked for death for refusing to support the new, ruthless emperor (Joaquin Phoenix), who killed his own...