Get ready Maine filmmakers, the big screen is calling. It’s getting easier all the time for aspiring movie mavens to make their own films. And thanks to that crazy Internet I’ve been hearing so much about, it’s also pretty easy for those movies to be seen by large numbers of people. But seeing your work […]

Catherine Hardwicke tries to transfer her panting pretty young thing “Twilight” style to “Red Riding Hood,” a werewolf-without-the-vampires fantasy aimed at that magical PG-13 audience. And for all the heaving bosoms, the big-eyed flirtation and the cool fairytale hair products, it doesn’t work. Amanda Seyfried has the title role. She is Valerie, who wears the […]

You’ll want to stay through the closing credits of the new motion-capture animated adventure “Mars Needs Moms,” a film from the people who gave us “The Polar Express.” There are four minutes of clips of the real-live cast of the film — Seth Green, Joan Cusack and Dan Fogler among them — wearing the mo-cap […]

Whose idea was it to turn loose those latter-day Caribbean pirates Johnny Depp, Bill Nighy and (director) Gore Verbinski on a cartoon, ostensibly for kids? “Rango” requires some explanation. It is funny, inventive and downright daft. But who is it for, what is it and most pointedly — what is the point? Many’s the movie […]