Pro: Michael Haneke's Palme d'Or winner keeps accumulating critical superlatives, while its moving account of love enduring the indignities of dementia should hit home with older voters – and that's most the Aca...
Friday brings the second weekend of the summer movie season and Tim Burton's latest, "Dark Shadows." The film is…unfortunate. My thoughts line up a bit with Drew McWeeny's: it almost gets by on laughs...
"Mars Attacks!" was bats***. We all know that. But from a design standpoint, it's certainly an oddity and intriguing. The film was based on a series of 1960s trading cards and Burton wanted to incorporate th...
After Hollywood churned out more prequels and sequels in 2011 than almost any other year, how exciting is it that only six made HitFix's most anticipated list of 2012? Yes, there are a few remakes and new versio...
Sacha Baron Cohen has been cast as corrupt inkeeper Monsieur Thenardier in the upcoming screen adaptation of "Les Miserables" opposite Hugh Jackman, Russell Crowe, Anne Hathaway, Helena Bonham Carter and Edd...
We've come to expect the unexpected from Academy Award nominee Johnny Depp. Known for his dashing good looks and quirky character choices, the actor has had a long and fruitful career, often teaming up multiple times ...
Aang is one powerful little dude in "The Last Airbender."
It seems a forgone conclusion that a big screen version of the fourth novel in Stephenie Meyer's series, "Breaking Dawn," will happen, but Summit Entertainment has been careful not to commit to the project o...
Previous nominations or wins: None.
Pros: His role as a gay man dealing with the death of his longtime lover during the 1960s has already won him the Venice Film Festival Best Actor Award. Firth's performance...
Unlike actors or directors, the peak of a screenwriter's career tends to come in a very short, select wave except for a select few who usually dabble in directing as well. For "Twilight Saga" screenwrite...
