Myrtle Beach Movies

Sandra Bullock reached the pinnacle of her profession on March 7, when she won an Academy Award. Her husband, Jesse James, was by her side. He even teared up when she went on stage to accept the Oscar.

Activist shareholder Carl Icahn raised the stakes in his yearlong dispute with Lions Gate Entertainment Corp. on Friday, launching an all-out bid to take over the movie studio following disagreements over its spending.

The devil has all the best lines in "The Runaways." The film gives us a whiff of sulfurous mid-'70s show-biz sleaze as it charts the rapid rise and swift implosion of L.A.'s first all-girl rock 'n' roll band. The Runaways weren't chart-toppers, but they foreshadowed the riot grrrl movement and launched a couple of certifiable female rock stars, guitarists Joan Jett and Lita Ford.

PHILADELPHIA - "I was thrilled to be able to play a guy of few words who says a lot, and who figures out a lot," says William Hurt. "And who at the same time has an authentic moment-to-moment, scene-to-scene series of discoveries that are given to him by an unlikely source."

The most honored British film of 2010 is Andrea Arnold's "Fish Tank," and rightly so. The Cannes Jury Prize winner is an intimate look at teen alienation and first love in an English tenement.

Feminist heroine or hypocrisy in black leather? There's an interesting debate regarding "the girl" at the center of "The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo," the film version of the internationally popular novel - the first of three published, posthumously, after the death of journalist and crime novelist Stieg Larsson - which was destined for the screen, since nothing speaks the universal language of money more clearly than serial killings.

PHILADELPHIA - Along with an Academy Award-winning career directing dramatic films - he won for "The Silence of the Lambs" (1991) - Jonathan Demme has a nice little sideline making music movies.