Rebecca's Hollywood Movies Blog December 2006 Archive

Guillermo del Toro's fantastical tale, Pan's Labyrinth, is the filmmaker's second movie with the Spanish Civil War (The Devil's Backbone was his first) as its backdrop. It's also a very ... Read More

2006 wasn't the best year for actresses but it was definitely a banner year for actors - and for one actor in particular. Leonardo DiCaprio delivered the sort of performances ... Read More

These movies might be real stinkers but at least the filmmakers/studios were brave enough to screen them for critics before launching them on audiences. Almost every film from the horror ... Read More

Are there 10 movies that immediately come to mind when you look back on all the films released in 2006? I've seen hundreds and yet other than a dozen or ... Read More

The future as envisioned in Children of Men finds mankind on the brink of extinction. It's been 18 years since a child was born and the world is in turmoil. ... Read More

Ben Stiller stars as a security guard at a natural history museum hired to watch over the exhibits at night in Night at the Museum. He soon experiences something the ... Read More

A special green carpet with yard markers led the way into Grauman's Chinese Theater at the Hollywood Premiere of Warner Bros Pictures' We Are Marshall. A marching band, Buffalo ... Read More

Matt Damon stars as one of the agents who got in on the ground floor of the CIA in the dramatic movie The Good Shepherd directed by Robert De Niro ... Read More

30 years after the first Rocky movie took audiences by storm, Sylvester Stallone steps back into the ring for one last boxing match in the dramatic film, Rocky Balboa, co-starring ... Read More

Robert De Niro steps behind the camera for the second time with the dramatic film The Good Shepherd. De Niro not only directed the film but also produced the pic ... Read More

Anyone hoping Eragon will fill the gap left by the completion of the Lord of the Rings trilogy will be seriously disappointed. Stiff acting, a silly plot and dialogue so ... Read More

Reactions from those nominated for Golden Globes came swiftly. A flurry of press releases let the public know what the nominees had to say about the honor (as if ... Read More

Helen Mirren, Leonardo DiCaprio, Clint Eastwood, and the cast and crew from Babel have every reason to be happy about the 2007 Golden Globes. They can all thank the Hollywood ... Read More

Irwin Winkler's Home of the Brave is the first feature film to focus on what happens to America's brave men and women after they've finished up their tours of duty ... Read More

George Clooney stars as Jake Geismer, an American war correspondent who returns to Berlin to cover the Potsdam Peace Conference, in the gritty drama The Good German co-starring Cate Blanchett ... Read More

Will Smith stars as Chris Gardner, a down on his luck father who accepts an unpaid intern position at a prestigious stock brokerage firm in hopes of giving his son ... Read More

Leonardo DiCaprio, Jennifer Connelly, and Djimon Hounsou joined Blood Diamond director Edward Zwick and others from the cast and crew for the Hollywood Premiere of Blood Diamond, held at the ... Read More

Apocalypto is a gorgeous film. The sets, CGI, cinematography, costumes, and make-up are first rate, vividly recapturing the heydays of the Mayans. The acting from Rudy Youngblood as the film’s ... Read More

Oscar winner Jennifer Connelly (A Beautiful Mind) plays an American journalist named Maddy Bowen who travels to Sierra Leone to do an exposé on the diamond industry in the action ... Read More

Cameron Diaz stars as the owner of a media company that specializes in producing movie trailers in the romantic comedy, The Holiday, co-starring Kate Winslet, Jude Law, and Jack Black. ... Read More

Leonardo DiCaprio's in the enviable position of possibly competing against himself for Best Actor honors this year. DiCaprio earned high praise for his leading role in Martin Scorsese's The Departed, ... Read More

If you're planning a trip to Brazil, you might think twice about watching Turistas. The horror/thriller, directed by John Stockwell and starring Josh Duhamel, Beau Garrett and Olivia Wilde, takes ... Read More