When I spoke to Sony Classics honcho Michael Barker at this year's Telluride Film Festival, he told me, "Watch out for Jodie Foster." We were talking about the lead actress category ...
One of this pundit's biggest disappointments last awards season was how little traction Tilda Swinton received for her stunning turn in "I Am Love." That was partially due to the film's release da...
Things just ain't the same. At least, that's the mantra for studios attempting to play the best picture game this year. After two years of expanded play following the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sci...
Ever since Roman Polanski's adaptation of Yasmina Reza's play "God of Carnage" announced its cast, I admit I've been a bit wary. The play, which I saw on Broadway in 2009, was rousing and wonderful, specific...
While filmmakers, movie fans and a small contingent of press made their way to Telluride, CO for the annual Telluride Film Festival today, the world's critics got their first taste at two of this season's highly antic...
In "Carnage," Oscar winner Kate Winslet and Christophe Waltz play a married couple who confront another couple (Jodie Foster and John C. Reilly), when their kids get into a schoolyard fight.
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The return of director Terrence Malick to feature filmmaking after a twenty year sabbatical, this World War II drama is an elegiac rumination on man's destruction of nature and himself, based on James Jones' semi-auto...
After directing two of the most extraordinary movies of the 1970s, Badlands and Days of Heaven, American artist Terrence Malick disappeared from the film world for twenty years, only to resurface in 1998 with this vis...
Writer/director Paul Thomas Anderson followed his critical and commercial breakthrough Boogie Nights with this wildly ambitious story of lives intertwining on a single day in California's San Fernando Valley.
Earl P...
Academy Award-nominated for his groundbreaking animated short of the same name, filmmaker Shane Acker makes his feature directorial debut with this expanded version of his acclaimed post-apocalyptic fable. In a world ...
