Two of this year’s most-nominated features for Best Picture at the Academy Awards were odes to Hollywood’s long-ago past: Hugo, Martin Scorsese’s 3-D love letter to pioneer Georges Meli

The Artist and Hugo celebrate the best of old-school moviemakers

If you’re not a fan of the Underworld horror-flick franchise, you’ll likely be lost from the get-go when the fourth installment, titled Underworld: Awakening

John LeBold’s collection of classic costumes is part of a celluloid-themed New Year’s blast at Turning Stone.

Owen Shapiro, the fest’s artistic director and a film professor at Syracuse University, and his steadfast spouse—and the fest’s managing director—Christine Fawcett-Shapiro, spent the summer in Bologna, Italy, to coordinate the new SU Abroad program for student filmmakers.

Considering the acclaim he received for his 2005 documentary 39 Pounds of Love, the awardwinning story of a boy with a rare form of spinal muscular atrophy who ultimately outlived his doctor’s predictions by some 35 years, one might expect Israeli filmmaker Dani Menkin to stick with a winning formula, following up with another slice of real life.

A funny thing happened on the way to last summer’s Capitolfest, the annual blowout of BOOKS rarely screened movies at Rome’s Capitol Theatre, 220 W. Dominick St.

A host of upgrades are new this summer at the Finger Lakes Drive-In (252-3969, www. fingerlakesdrivein.com), about 30-plus miles away from Syracuse, and located for the last 64 summers on Routes 5 and 20 (Clark Street Road, to the locals), about two miles past the Bass Pro Shops drawing card at Fingerlakes Mall in the farming community of Aurelius.

Manufactured-on-demand DVDs help bridge the gap for die-hard movie collectors

Keeping things fresh even as the plotline remains firm, Phillips and co-writers Craig Mazin and Scot Armstrong swap out some elements here and there, such as relegating the original groom, played by Justin Bartha, to the sidelines, and adding Lauren’s teen brother Teddy (Mason Lee), a musical prodigy, to the fourth-wheel slot.