James Caan News

Dear David Inman: I know the friendship between football players Brian Piccolo and Gale Sayers was depicted in the movie "Brian's Song." I was told there is a later movie about their friendship.

Meteorology is like the main character in The Perfect Storm. Which makes sense on The Weather Channel - but as the network will soon find out, climate-centric movies aren't exactly a well-stocked cinematic genre.

Let's get this out of the way immediately: Antichrist , Danish director Lars von Trier's new sylvan horror film, contains graphic scenes of a penis ejaculating blood, a self-inflicted clitorectomy and a hobbling that rivals James Caan's in Misery .

So the Weather Channel has announced that they're going to start showing movies with weather themes.

Paul Sheldon has made his reputation as a writer thanks to a character named Misery, the star of his series of historical romance novels.

Opening this week: Law Abiding Citizen, The Stepfather and Where the Wild Things Are.

The lamentable follow-up to Paris je t'aime is connected by unenlightening tie-in sequences, confusing the question of who directed what.

Contrary to the title of the movie that won Hilary Swank an Oscar, boys really do cry.

One of the "classier" Stephen King adaptations hits Blu-Ray and, man, does it ever hold up.

"The rain. Sometimes it gives me the blues. When you first came here, I only loved the writer part of Paul Sheldon.

Such is the rapid and worrying rise of the machines, that this week's big hit at the pictures is completely animated, in a computer sense.

CLOUDY WITH A CHANCE OF MEATBALLS Director: Chris Miller, Phil Lord Voice cast: Bill Hader, Anna Faris, James Caan, Bruce Campbell Rated: PG for brief mild language.

"Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs" is the latest delight from Sony Pictures Animation, the folks who gave us "Monster House" and "Surf's Up." A delicious farce and a backhanded slap at America the Obese, it may be the funniest animated film of the year.

A Sony Pictures Entertainment release of a Columbia Pictures presentation of a Sony Pictures Animation production.

Not only is Misery the best adaptation of a Stephen King book ever made, it's the only good one ever made.

I'll admit to having a soft spot for heist movies. It's just too bad that, with the exception of The Thomas Crown Affair remake, most recent heist flicks have come off atrociously, a fact to which anyone who sat through the ridiculous Entrapment can testify.

Sydney Bristow, Lara Croft, Sarah Connor . . . I get them. I really do. They kick butt, and they take names.

Tycoon James Caan, famous for his role in the BBC's hit series, talks to Mark Leftly about his own private-equity firm and how it takes young businesses and turns them into major players James Caan's real-life lair is far more elegant than the cavernous studio that he and his fellow judges inhabit on the BBC's hugely successful Dragons' Den series.

Al Pacino, Marlon Brando, James Caan and John Cazale in The Godfather - one of the films fans can download from the new filmfresh site.

Do you remember a movie called Mickey Blue Eyes ? Summer of 1999, starring Hugh Grant as a fancy-pants art auctioneer who gets tangled up with his fiancee's Mafia-connected family? Ring any bells? There's no reason it should.