Films: "The Matrix" (1999), "The Matrix Reloaded" (2003), "The Matrix Revolutions" (2003)
Director: The Wachowskis
Best of the bunch: "The Matrix"
Weakest Link: "The Mat...
Year first released: 2001
Director: Jean Pierre Jeunet
Why we'd consider: There are few contemporary live action directors who use perspective and dimension as creatively as Jean-Pierre Jeunet. Arguably, any of his ...
Director: Asghar Farhadi
Cast: Bérénice Bejo, Tahar Rahim
Iranian auteur Farhadi's last two features, "About Elly" and "A Separation," premiered modestly at the Berlinale. But follo...
Previous collaboration: “Gone Baby Gone” (2007)
Why Ben should: No disrespect to the Oscar-winning “Argo” director, who has a sure hand with actors, but he’s not his own best leading man...
Stars: Meryl Streep, Julia Roberts. Ewan McGregor, Benedict Cumberbatch, Abigail Breslin, Juliette Lewis, Dermot Mulroney, Chris Cooper, Sam Shepard, Margo Martindale
Release Date: TBD
Festival Speculation: Venice, ...
When the Academy signed Seth MacFarlane on as host, they were aiming to use the "Family Guy" creator's brand of provocation as an asset. Instead, his "edge" couldn't cut through many of the sleepil...
This is another case where I'm not sure the whole film works, but there are things about this movie that Spielberg really nailed. For one thing, he cast Djimon Hounsou, who is remarkable in the film. And say what you ...
Charlie Brooker is one of those UK wonders who hasn't made the jump to American audiences yet, and that is a damn shame.
Wildly prolific, Brooker seems to produce about 600 hours of new television every year, shows...
Warner Bros.' long-awaited "Justice League" movie may have hit another speed bump on the long road to the big screen -- and it could be Superman's fault.
While "Justice League" -- which would unit...
Played: Milton Greene, starting in season 3's "Mamma Mia"
With Alec Baldwin playing against his own personal convictions as arch-conservative corporate overlord Jack Donaghy, it might have made sense to...
