Golden Globes will kick off awards season
These days, the Hollywood Foreign Press group?s ranks have grown to about 90, the awards have gained from network television visibility and the nominated stars usually attend the freewheeling, often unrestrained ceremony.

Actors Kevin Bacon, Kyra Sedgwick among Madoff victims
Kevin Bacon and wife Kyra Sedgwick are among the many victims of the massive Ponzi scheme run by the disgraced New York money manager.

Treasure Coast International Film Festival set for Jan. 28 to Feb. 1
The second annual Treasure Coast International Film Festival is set for Jan. 28 through Feb. 1.

Movie review: 'Valkyrie'
Much ado has been made about "Valkyrie," starring Tom Cruise as would-be Hitler assassin Col. Claus von Stauffenberg.

Movie review: 'The Spirit'
This is what "Sin City" would have looked like without the restraining hand of co-director Robert Rodriguez behind the camera. And "300," shorn of Zack Snyder's reality? It might have had the same expressionist flourishes, the loony, loopy excesses of "The Spirit," aka Frank Miller run amok.

Movie review: 'The Curious Case of Benjamin Button'
There's a lot of "Gump" in "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button." This meandering parable about a man born old who ages into adulthood, then youth and finally infancy, is a film that meditates on love, aging, death, each to its season. Since it was written by the same fellow (Eric Roth) who adapted "Forrest Gump," "Button" has many "Gump" characteristics.

Movie review: 'Bedtime Stories'
Adam Sandler returns to the familiar man-child of yore with "Bedtime Stories," a desperate family-friendly comedy about wild nighttime fantasies that magically come true in broad daylight.

Movie review: 'Marley & Me'
Aww, look at that cute, fluffy puppy in those "Marley & Me" ads. He's so sweet and innocent with those pleading eyes and that shiny, red bow around his neck. It almost makes you think you're in for a feel-good comedy about a rambunctious yellow Lab and the family who loves him no matter what chaos he causes.

Movie review: 'Gran Torino'
Considering that Clint Eastwood's most iconic roles have been serious ones, it's easy to forget that he can be funny ? that he possesses terrific timing with his sly sense of humor. He grumbles and growls his way through his most entertaining performance in years in "Gran Torino" as Walt Kowalski, a Korean War veteran and lifelong auto worker who's disgusted with the changes in his blue-collar, suburban Detroit neighborhood.

Florida's star is dimming as other states lure movie studios
South Florida is as much a character in the film as Marley, the story's unruly Labrador. The two months spent shooting the film in the region this spring pumped more than $10 million into area businesses and paid wages for nearly 1,400 local film industry workers.

Reeves remake is a bad day on 'Earth'
While Robert Wise's science-fiction classic "The Day the Earth Stood Still" was a simple story of deep ideas, the remake is an overblown, puny-minded tale featuring extraterrestrials too stupid or lazy to do a background check on the species they condemn.

Highlights from this year's holiday movies
Hap Erstein offers up his picks of holiday movies that are worth a trip to the theater.