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...
There was a lot of buzz this week that "Monster" and "The Killing" pilot director Patty Jenkins is the top candidate to direct "Thor 2." Marvel Studios has already dated the film fo...
Welcome back. Today marks the beginning of the sixth year of Tech Support here at In Contention. I am delighted about the new collaboration with HitFix, which will doubtless result in even more comprehensive awards co...
TORONTO - The first thing Megan Fox asks me before we begin our interview is, "How are you? How is your kitty?"
That might have made me an unbiased Fox fan for life. It was an earlier conversation w...
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...
When Amy Poehler rushed the stage the moment her name was read, it almost seemed like a rare moment of improv. Of course, as each actress in the category climbed on stage upon hearing her name, we quickly realized it ...
Director: Sarah Polley
Cast: Michelle Williams, Seth Rogen, Luke Kirby, Sarah Silverman
Why: The scene in the dark with The Buggles blasting, which is such a perfect, gorgeous, communicative moment that it fee...
Spidey's really gonna have his hands full.
In next year's reboot "The Amazing Spider-Man," Rhys Ifans will play the villainous Lizard in opposition to Andrew Garfield's Spider-Man, and Ifans has given awa...
Madonna is likely hoping for a better reception of her latest directorial effort "W.E." at the Toronto Film Festival, after many critics savaged it in Venice (though our own Gregory Ellwood gave it a more mi...
Who says getting mad is a bad thing? Not Joe Jonas. As he sings in his new up-tempo, rhythmic new single, “Just In Love”: “Love is even more wild when you’re angry.” We hope that pu...
