Michael Caine must be a jolly good sport. Some time during the making of "Journey 2: The Mysterious Island," a director had to say to him, "Sir Michael Caine, this is the part when you clamber atop a bee the size of a small plane, hold on tight and pretend to fly over the island." (Today)
Must have been a false memory planted by previews or TV commercials. I mistakenly thought "The Vow" was a romantic comedy, but it is, in fact, a romantic drama. It shuns silliness and grand, Garry Marshall-style gestures for quieter moments between Rachel McAdams and Channing Tatum. She plays Paige, a sculptor, and he's Leo, owner of a small recording studio in Chicago. (Today)
From Renaissance cameos to cinematic ones, the art of the miniature is a many-splendored thing. Shorts in film -- as in underwear -- are expected to contain something animated or organically active. (Today)
"You crushed my windpipe," the raspy-voiced CIA operative reminds his prisoner. "You locked me in the trunk," he counters, as if one excuses the other in "Safe House." (Today)
A Pakistani woman named Zakia, weary of a husband who was an abusive drug addict and alcoholic, went to court to divorce him. "So you want to divorce me? I'll make a spectacle out of you for the world to see," he said, right before he threw battery acid in her face. (Today)