The actress is a contender for this year's Best Actress Oscar.
For those of us still clinging to the illusion of youth – I’m 29, but humor me – this has been a mighty distressing summer. The reboot of “Spider-Man,” for example, seemed utterly superfl...
Remake of: "The Big Clock" (John Farrow, 1948)
As good a demonstration as any of the virtues of using B-movies as the foundation for better B-movies, Roger Donaldson’s cracking military thriller reloc...
With today's announcement of the Directors' Fortnight selections, this year's Cannes lineup is effectively complete -- bar some late additions that festival director Thierry Frémaux has told us to expect. As it...
The auteur: Jacques Audiard (French, 59 years old)
The talent: Though Audiard has never been averse to working with actors on the French A-list, his latest represents his shiniest star collaboration to date, with Osc...
Among the major European auteur titles being bandied about in the speculation as to the Cannes lineup, Jacques Audiard's "Rust and Bone" is surely among the most impatiently awaited, not least because it pai...
When the directing gig for "The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn" became open a number of well known Hollywood filmmakers auditioned for the job including Sofia Coppola, Bill Condon and Gus Van Sant. After...
There was a sense last year that Ricky Gervais held back in his first turn as Golden Globes host. He managed to insult the people in the room, but he also managed to appear tentative. Nobody's going to accuse Gervais ...
Even a week before broadcast, MTV announced some major events surrounding the Sept. 13 show. Jay-Z and Alicia Keys would hit the stage together; new trailers for "Twilight Saga: New Moon"and MJ's "This Is It" would be...
