LOS ANGELES (AP) — Hollywood's holidays are off to a dreadful start: Fewer people went to the movies the last two weekends than during the box-office hush that followed the Sept. 11 attacks 10 years ago.
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High school is its own very particular trauma -- at least according to Patton Oswalt.
"In high school, you're not straight, you're not gay, you're not black, you're not white. You're a high schooler. That's wha...
There’s a single line—make that a single word—in the opening reel of “Young Adult” delivered with such pointed lack of empathy as to immediate wipe clean any cosier expectations we might ...
It is an unhappy and semi-annual habit among Oscar-watchers to dismiss the Best Actress race as “weak,” a selection of performances that handily distils – either by conformity or exception – Ho...
"Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows" star Robert Downey Jr. signs autographs for some lucky fans at the film's L.A. premiere on Tuesday night. The sequel, also starring Jude Law, Rachel McAdam...
It's been interesting finding myself caught in the middle on a great many films this year that have sparked passion on both sides of the scale. Watching the pendulum swing between love and hate on "J. Edgar,...
Charlize Theron's latest role isn't the most likeable of characters. She embodies beautiful Mavis, the leading lady -- rather, girl -- of "Young Adult," directed by Jason Reitman and penned by "Juno&q...
Just what, exactly, is wrong with Mavis Gary, anyway? As written by Diablo Cody and played by Charlize Theron in "Young Adult", advance word from those who have seen the film indicate she's essentially an ir...
On this week's must list, Charlize Theron and Gary Oldman return to their old stomping grounds in two very different films, while on television a pop starlet tries on comedy for size and the sun sets (at least tempora...
Remember when I noted Patton Oswalt's bringing down the house at the Los Angeles pop-up screening of Jason Reitman's "Young Adult" at the New Beverly? "If he really puts in the work,...
