Actor Costner Still in Love With Movies

Kevin Costner has always loved the movies. Born in California in 1955, Costner grew up learning some of life’s lessons from the silver screen. “Movies affected me a great deal,” Costner said recently while promoting his latest movie, “The...

Meeting a Moral Issue: An Interview With Len Morris

Filmmaker Len Morris finds it shameful that a documentary on child labor is even possible in the 21st century. But it is, and Morris’ Galen Films, in conjunction with Romano Productions, spent years documenting a human rights abuse afflicting a quarter of a...

‘Passion Recut’ Hits Theaters This Friday

More than a year after “The Passion of the Christ” bowed in U.S. theaters to controversy and long lines, Mel Gibson’s version of Jesus Christ’s crucifixion will debut theatrically again—this time lacking its more brutal shots. “The...

Walden Media Carves Film-Lit Niche

Several popular children’s books have recently been adapted for the big screen—”Holes,” “I Am David” and now “Because of Winn-Dixie”—and these faithful adaptations have the same driving force behind them: Walden Media....

‘Stolen Childhoods’

Filmed over seven years across seven countries, “Stolen Childhoods” examines the crisis of child labor—crisis, because a quarter of a billion children remain slaves to work. Production on the 85-minute documentary was completed in December 2003, and it has...