Last year’s Cinefest 30 was winding down and everyone was in a good mood. It was a well-attended affair for the hardy movie confab, with visitors coming in from across the country.

Bruce Willis headlines an old-school cast in the espionage action-comedy Red

     Comtemporary thespians James Franco and Anne Hathaway were brought in to co-host the Feb. 27 Academy Awards ceremonies, an obvious attempt to win over a younger demographic of

Comtemporary thespians James Franco and Anne Hathaway were brought in to co-host the Feb. 27 Academy Awards ceremonies, an obvious attempt to win over a younger demographic of viewers who already think awards shows are tedious televised affairs.

This occasional series devoted to the celluloid treasures of Charlie Sheen (born Carlos Irwin Estevez) begins with the acting legend’s starring role in the 1987 feature No Man’s Land..

The next edition of the “Brew & View” 35mm film series at Eastwood’s Palace Theatre, 2384 James St., features a big-budget bullet-riddled epic plus a low-budget walk on the wild sid

Every year there is usually an out-of-theblue long shot amid the thespian races, the one performer who is perfectly happy being nominated and doesn’t have a snowball’s chance in hell of winning, let alone even fretting about going to the podium.

It was 47 years ago this month when the rock’n’roll British Invasion came to America, when the yeah-yeah-yeah lyrics took hold of the pop charts and barbershop profits got clipped when boys wanted to grow their hair long.

For moviegoers with a taste for loppedoff limbs, damsels in scream mode and pig-masked wackos brandishing chain saws, the cinematic seven-pack on display Saturday, Jan. 29, at Eastwood’s Palace Theatre, 2384 James St., will serve up quite the sanguine slaughterhouse.

What we’ve got here is a 32-yearslater remake of a drive-in clone to a 1975 bona fide cinema thriller, so you might be inclined to believe that the law of diminishing returns is in full effect here. Yet last summer’s three-dimensional redo of Piranha.