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At age 15, Chloë Grace Moretz is now right in the center of the child/adult Venn diagram. Pretty soon we’ll have to accept that she really is a young woman

You have to admire the chutzpah, if not necessarily the filmmaking skills, of Jay and Mark Duplass, the duo behind the stay-at-home-son comedy-drama Jeff, Who Lives at Home. With their 2005 debut, The Puffy Chair, the Duplass brothers took an uninteresting story fleshed out with lackadaisical dialogue and, using barely rudimentary camera skills, fashioned a noodly tale about love, life and relationships.

The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences announced that 10 live action short films are advancing in the voting process for the 84th Academy Awards. This is list has been cut down from the original 107 films that qualified in this category.

Among the great mysteries of the spy-movie world — along with the question of how Blofeld keeps his suits from being covered with cat hair — is this: Why aren’t the Johnny English movies better?

Most of the time when filmmakers are working on low or no budget projects they have to rely on themselves to produce marketing materials such as an EPK (Electronic Press Kit) rather than hire a person or firm to handle marketing. This can be a challenging task since many are unsure how to go about doing this.

The idea of building a person to spec — especially when that person is some form of ideal woman — is one that’s haunted the movies in variations from My Fair Lady to Vertigo to Bride of Frankenstein to Weird Science.

This should go well with your green eggs and ham! Johnny Depp is set to star as Dr. Seuss!

What do you call an action movie manned by people who look as if they don’t want to be there? An inertia movie? Action movies aren’t just about action — they’re also about presence, about watching appealing or compelling personalities go about the business of kicking ass.

It’s hard to believe but Vegas Cine Fest, which is being held from August 25-27 at the Tropicana Las Vegas Resort and Casino, is almost here. As many people know I am the marketing consultant for the award-winning documentary More To Live For