While Hugh Jackman has been rehearsing from coast to coast for his inaugural run as Academy Awards host, another first time emcee is getting ready for is own debut, new Spirit Awards host Steve Coogan. T...
Is the villainous Gru selling out?
The evil mastermind (voiced by Steve Carell) in "Despicable Me" is back for another round of cool cars, weird gadgets and colorful weapons, with his fateful minion...
When I saw "Tristram Shandy: A Cock & Bull Story" at the AFI Fest, it was screened at the Arclight, and I was sitting in the front row. As a result, when Rob Brydon and Steve Coogan stepped up to d...
PARK CITY - Sometimes a title change -- even one necessitated by external forces -- can reveal more about a film's uncertainties than anyone involved could possibly realize. Michael Winterbottom's jazzy but ...
It's been too long since Oscar has been given its due on HitFix, but thank the Grammys and a busy news week for the delay (sigh, what we'd do for an extra set of hands).What's the buzz with less than a week le...
Will Ferrel and Mark Wahlberg are one of the least likely pairs in hollywood, and to a certain degree this is why they were cast in "The Other Guys." Judging from five new clips from Sony, this odd couple sh...
Next week, I'll be sitting down with the director and screenwriter of "Percy Jackson & The Olympians: The Lightning Thief," which Fox hopes will be the first in a series of adaptations of the y...
I'm a fan of the films that Adam McKay and Will Ferrell have made together so far. "Anchorman," "Talladega Nights," and "Step Brothers" are all deranged, and they also all...
"Our Idiot Brother" is a film that wrestles with tone, sometimes unsuccessfully, and it often goes broad at moments that might work better if played more honestly, but it has a great cast that seems willing ...
The "Two and a Half Men" star is playing a decidedly more handsome version of the Apple Computers founder in director Joshua Michael Stern's biopic.
