Previous collaboration: “Gone Baby Gone” (2007)
Why Ben should: No disrespect to the Oscar-winning “Argo” director, who has a sure hand with actors, but he’s not his own best leading man...
Pro: Arkin's been around the block. His first nomination came 45 years ago and in 2007 the goodwill finally came in the form of an Oscar win (for "Little Miss Sunshine"). He's a highlight in the movie for hi...
Ah, BAFTA -- even when they're not making a conscious decision to do so, they seem to wind up shadowing the Academy. As Kris reported yesterday, AMPAS brass are meeting today to discuss potential changes to the voting...
It looks like 2012 is going to be a big year for studio anniversaries. We've already talked about Paramount's centennial celebration, which was rung in with a classy screening of 1927 inaugural Best Picture winner &qu...
While on the one hand we hate to bolster all those tired male-female stereotypes this Valentine's Day, there's no denying they exist for a reason. Yes, some guys are unrepentant criers and some women can sit stone-fac...
We all knew that Marvel was planning a sequel to the summer 2011 hit "Captain America," but we weren't quite sure when they were planning to do it, what with "The Avengers" coming up in May, and &q...
As I floated around the web recently, I found myself struck by a pair of (on the surface) unrelated articles on The Guardian's culture site. One dealt with John Cleese taking steps to transform his dream of staging an...
Joel is stunned to discover that his girlfriend Clementine has had the memories of their tumultuous relationship erased. Out of desperation, he contacts the inventor of the process, Dr. Howard Mierzwiak, to have Cleme...
When the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences announced last month that it was changing the way the best picture nominees were being determined it set off quite a flurry across the industry and among Oscar watc...
For me, this list is a lark.
While I've been counting down the Top 31 TV Shows of the Decade, my movie-centric colleagues Gregory Ellwood and Drew McWeeny handled the big screen, with Greg offering his ...
