A Musicial Version of Back to the Future?

Is a musical version of Back to the Future so far-fetched? After all, Marty introducing rock music at the school dance is one of the highlights of the movie. Deadline.com reports that director Robert Zemekis is in talks with the film’s co-writer Bob Gale and composer Alan Silvestri about bringing the franchise to Broadway: A [...]

Back to the future for CBS News

CBS News takes a page from the distant past and reintroduces the special "Person to Person" (8 p.m.) to a new generation.

Young Adult – review

Director Jason Reitman and screenwriter Diablo Cody follow up their bright, optimistic teenage comedy, Juno , with a dark variation on the homecoming/nostalgia-trip movie, a familiar genre that probably originated with Julien Duvivier's Un Carnet de bal in 1937. Charlize Theron plays the depressed, borderline alcoholic divorcee Mavis Gary, ghostwriter on a once popular series of high school ...

Star attractions

Many celebrities from the big screen, the concert stage and the sports arena have also entered the tourism-hospitality industries.

'Chronicle' brings excitement and originality back to the superhero genre

Watching high-school students soar around the Seattle Space Needle isn’t what it used to be. A decade ago, a certain measure of awe came hand-in-hand with walking into a movie theater to see two teenagers throw cars at each other. Now, it just seems like clever CGI trickery. read more