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Welcome to FSR’s newest weekly feature in which I break down the good, the bad, and the ugly of what Hollywood has to offer.

“Miss Pettigrew, you look like you’ve never attended a cocktail party in your life,” says fashion show commentator Edith Dubarry (Shirley Henderson), betrothed to famous fashion designer Joe Blumfield. She hasn’t. She’s just a waif posing as someone who has.

It appears that Silver and the Wachowski Brothers are confident about Speed Racer, as they have already come up with an idea for a sequel. Also he talked about a film called Ninja Assassain, which is written by the Wachowski’s and will be helmed by James McTeigue.

What an interesting title that is. Our buddy Peter over at /Film tells us that this is the title for an upcoming Guillermo del Toro project. This project is in the very early stages as del Toro tell us that he has just begun to write the story.

Welcome to FSR’s newest weekly feature in which I break down the good, the bad, and the ugly of what Hollywood has to offer.

Arguably the most anticipated movie of the summer, Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, has had its first screening and the reports are that it runs a whopping, summer-sized 140+ minutes.

Richard Gere seems to have been making superb career choices lately. Now he plans to keep it up by signing on for two films we should start anticipating as he will be working with some great talents.

Welcome to FSR’s newest weekly feature in which I break down the good, the bad, and the ugly of what Hollywood has to offer.

Worried that the wizards at Disney and Pixar are fresh out of ideas after Wall-E? Well, I can’t imagine why you would be but if you are, allow me to quickly put that fear to rest. Dick Cook, chairman of The Walt Disney Studios, and John Lasseter, chief creative officer for Walt Disney and Pixar Animation Studios sent out a press release yesterday of their queue of future projects all the way through 2012.

According to Yahoo! news, Judd Apatow, who has become a juggernaut of comedies in the last three years with films like Knocked Up, The 40-Year Old Virgin and Superbad will be honored as Comedy Person of the Year at the Just for Laughs comedy festival in Montreal, July 10-20.

The New York Times is reporting that legendary Academy Award Winning actor Charlton Heston has passed away at the age of 84. He died on Saturday night at his home in Beverly Hills with his wife, Lydia, at his side. In 2002, Heston revealed that he had symptoms related to Alzheimer’s disease.

Continuing his quest to become the Cary Grant of his time, George Clooney directs and stars in a quaint throwback to the screwball comedies of the golden age of cinema, the aptly named Leatherheads.

Directors Jason Friedberg and Aaron Seltzer (Epic Movie, Meet the Spartans) are back at it again, already planning their next parody. So which movies will feel the wrath? Superbad along with this summer’s Hancock, Sex and the City, and The Love Guru are among the unfortunate victims, but will you be among the unfortunate viewers.

Don’t call it a comeback, Mr. Ebert has been doing this ole’ thing for years. After taking almost two full years off from being a full time movie critic, the legendary Roger Ebert has said that he will get back to writing reviews at the end of April.

Few directors are more political in their movies than Oliver Stone, but has he crossed the line by putting into production a film about the Bush Administration? Well, the one thing that does impress us is the stellar cast he’s putting together.

While I’ll admit that Run Fatboy Run has it’s moments and a fair share of big laughs, it’s not recommendable due to the fact that there are more cliches than you can shake a stick at. Pretty much every cliche you can find in any romantic comedy or inspirational sports movie can be found at some point in the film.

Although the picture is occasionally compelling and has hints of honesty, the script by Pierce and co-writer Mark Richard is a one-way ticket to nowhere.

21 galvanizes you from frame one and never lets go. It’s the most entertaining movie about Sin City in recent memory; right up there with Ocean’s Thirteen.

Hugh Jackman and writer Marc Guggenheim, co-creator of TV’s Eli Stone, are working with Virgin Comics to create an original comic book series called Nowhere Man…

I finally see now the masterpiece so many others have heralded the movie as, it just took a couple of extra viewings for me to open my eyes.

Walking into Horton Hears a Who!, I was game for a nice and fluffy time-filler. In all honesty, I did not expect, however, to come away from it thinking that this was the first great movie I’ve seen thus far in 2008. [Grade: A-]

The cash cow that is Harry Potter just got even bigger.

10,000 B.C. is an arid wasteland; a visual ostentation that falls far short of impression and a derivative, vacuously written, cliched-riddled mess that has little to do with accurate history or anything remotely original or interesting.

Finally, the two most talented and impressive actresses under the age of the 30 to emerge this decade are headlining the same film.

Well, the major theme of the night was how many surprises there were. Even Roger Ebert is probably second guessing the Academy right now.

Be Kind Rewind is a missed opportunity that can’t sustain any momentum for more than a few minutes.

“…a terrific surprise with balls, brains, and even a heart.”

If you thought Marty Socrsese waited a long time, wait until you see who is on this list.

Where did our first Best Picture nominee come from, and who is this Michael Clayton guy?

Given the film’s premise, Jumper fails to explore a satiable amount of it’s myriad of possibilities.