Stephen Daldry's "Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close" is set for a December release and has all the trappings of an "Oscar film," to say nothing of the director's impressive streak as of late. In ...
When most people hear that actor Albert Brooks, well known for his comedy work over a 35-year career, is playing a villainous mob figure in Nicolas Winding Refn's "Drive," the response tends to be one of sur...
Clooney directed the political drama, in which he also stars as Democratic presidential candidate Mike Morris. Ryan Gosling co-stars as Morris' idealistic staffer, who gets an inside look at dirty politics while on th...
Actor Michael Shannon first met director Jeff Nichols through the latter's film school connections. North Carolina School of the Arts professor Gary Hawkins had a project at the Sundance Film Festival's Filmmaker's La...
This year's Best Actor race is an odd bird indeed. There are so many wonderful performances out there, but so few seem to fit into the (unfortunate) Oscar paradigm. Hopefully that will mean studios will recognize some...
Sales at the Toronto Film Festival have become a complex card game over the years as production companies and talent hit the fest with films they want to see in that year's Oscar race. The goal for many is to land, ma...
In 1932, Paul Muni played an Al Capone-esque Italian-American gangster terrorizing prohibition-era Chicago. In 1983, Al Pacino hammed it up as a Cuban immigrant mobster terrorizing coke-addled Miami. Now, with Univers...
Linked in today's round-up is a story from The Guardian newspaper in London in which Ryan Gibey bemoans the loss of microbudget American independent cinema. Of course, there isn't really a loss there, as shoe-string b...
After his public comments about the editing of "The Tree of Life," we're still unsure if Sean Penn will appear at any future SAG screening or, now, Academy member screenings of the critic's favorit...
Based on the 2003 book "Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game" by Michael Lewis, "Moneyball" has Brad Pitt portraying real-life Oakland A's general manager Billy Beane, who managed...
