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Kelly Rutherford burst into tears and freaked out after a judge shut down her last ditch effort to keep her kids in the U.S.Rutherford claimed another judge had illegally awarded custody of her 2 kids to her ex-husband, Daniel Giersch, who lives in France. Rutherford claims the judge effectively deported the kids.So she was in federal court Wednesday ... asking a judge to step in, but the federal judge said he didn't have the power.

Jesse Tyler Ferguson attends the Hollywood Reporter’s 22nd Annual Women In Entertainment Breakfast

Birthday shoutouts go to Dionne Warwick, who is 73, Jennifer Connelly is 43, Mayim Bialik is 38, and Sheila E. is 56. She had big hits with “The Glamorous Life” and “A Love Bizarre,” but not enough attention is paid to her minor hit “The Belle Of St. Mark.”

Bob Newhart, don’t become the next Kirk Cameron!

In ratings news, last night’s winter finale of Arrow was down a bit, but up in the demo, while Modern Family finally ticked up.

Disney Channel is producing the live action TV movie Descendants, which will feature the children of classic Disney villains. It is “set in a present day idyllic kingdom, where the benevolent teenaged son of the King and Queen (Beast and Belle from Disney’s Beauty And The Beast) is poised to take the throne. His first proclamation:...

Sooni Taraporevala [Photo:Siddharth Dhanvant Shanghvi]

S alaam Bombay! that is being re-released today marked the beginning of Sooni Taraporevala’s screenwriting career and a momentous association with filmmaker Mira Nair twenty-five years ago. Since then, Sooni Taraporevala has given memorable screenplays like The Namesake and Mississippi Masala that won her the Osella award for Best Screenplay at the Venice Film Festival in 1991. She has also dabbled in direction with Little Zizou (2008). Taraporevala talks about her first film, the Cannes Camera d’Or winner and Oscar-nominated Salaam Bombay!, the art of adaptation, her friend Mira Nair and her plans for direction:

Twenty-five years since you wrote your first screenplay. How do you feel about it now?

I think it’s one of the best I have written. We saw the movie again last week and everyone’s comments were that it looks like it was made yesterday. It has not dated except for the...

The classic action film features a small group of world-weary assassins or Green Berets or Navy Seals or mercenaries who assemble to pull off one last suicidal mission, after which they will retire. It helps if they are slightly over the hill. At least two of the men don't want to go on the assignment. Towards the end of the film, one of the men who stayed behind will materialise out of thin air to bail out his buddies. This man will most assuredly die. At some point in the film, the leader of the unit will tell his men: "This is my fight. You guys have no skin in this game. You're free to go." But the men will not go. Never, ever, ever.

In the course of the classic action film, several large men possessing a preposterous level of upper body musculature will be betrayed, usually by somebody...

The biggest and most fatal problem of Dondon Santos' Noy is that it was never allowed to grow its own set of balls. The film is basically a product of favors: from then-presidential candidate and now-president apparent Noynoy Aquino, his family, and his campaign team, who allowed Santos and his crew the opportunity to shoot the presidential campaign from the inside. As such, it never fully acquires a voice. It relays its message, or whatever sort of motherhood generality it tries to impart, through minuscule peeps and squeaks. It is what it is, and no matter how it musters every conceit in cinema like mixing documentary footage with overt melodrama, it remains to be at most, a limp and flaccid political statement if not an absolutely impotent failure.

 

Noy (Coco Martin) is an ambitious yet unqualified young man who by submitting a fake diploma and a demo reel he...