One of the first screenings I caught here in New York this week was Ben Lewin's "The Sessions," which I saw yesterday. The film debuted at Sundance (where it was called "The Surrogate&quo...
Directed by: Ben Affleck, USA World Premiere
When militants storm the U.S. embassy in 1979 Tehran, six Americans manage to slip away. Knowing it’s only a matter of time before they are found, a CIA “exfil...
Awards season is still months away from formally beginning, but the best actor race is already shaping up. It's going to be another competitive year with highly anticipated performances from Daniel Day-Lewis (&q...
This lengthy Billy Wilder yarn about Charles Lindbergh and his famed cross-Atlantic flight has always stuck in my head mainly for the film’s second act. In particular, James Stewart’s one-man show from t...
After three peaceful months in which the "O" word was among the furthest things from my mind -- even at Cannes, where unusually few films sparked such speculation -- the distant-but-not-invisible threat of t...
An air force pilot and animal researcher risk their lives to save chimpanzees from life-threatening experiments.
When Scarlett Johansson put on the spandex to play Marvel heroine Black Widow in "Iron Man 2," it was immediately clear that the character would become a regular in the Marvel movie universe. She's reprising...
If you'd never attended the Sundance Film Festival, this was the year to skip. 2012 was one of the more forgettable editions of the prestigious festival and after the first weekend everybody in Park City knew it...
At the bustling Sundance Film Festival, it's hard to keep up with acquisition news, so we've devised this handy guide to remind you which film went where. Some of 2012's big pick-ups include the Robert De Niro fi...
Now better known for his bad-ass heroics in a series of action films than for starring in the awards-bait dramas he used to churn out on a regular basis, Liam Neeson has transformed himself into one of the more unlike...
