The mythology of "Thor," inspired by Scandanavian legend, is dense and filled with an array of magical characters -- good and evil -- who orginate from the magical realm of Asgard. Click through t...
Idris Elba, best known as the smooth criminal Stringer Bell on HBO's "The Wire," is seen here as Heimdall, an Asgardian sentry in the upcoming "Thor."
Read Drew McWeeny's review of the film here.
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The North American distribution rights to Roman Polanski's "Carnage" (formerly "God of Carnage") have been picked up by Sony Pictures Classics. They are expecting the film to be released at the end...
The 64th Cannes Film Festival line up was announced this morning and 49 films in this year's selection with 33 countries represented. And as festival director Thierry Fremaux noted, of the 19 in competition four are b...
Odin (Anthony Hopkins) shows his power in this impressive image from Kenneth Branagh's "Thor."
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In the comments section for the article I ran last week, the great Vern asked the question, "Has there ever been a good movie directed by an effects artist?"
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Director-star Jodie Foster at the SXSW premiere of 'The Beaver.' The film stars Mel Gibson, who did not attend the event, as a troubled executive/family man who learns to communicate with others through the use of a s...
Jodie Foster has been part of film as long as I've been paying attention. She's eight years older than I am, so by the time I was paying attention to movies at all, she was already working and familiar and estab...
The funny thing about "The Mechanic," starring Jason Statham and Ben Foster, is that it's a movie with a hit man and a wanna-be hitman as the main characters. These are people who murder other people for a l...
Live Tyler has some fun at the world premiere of "The Ledge" at the 2011 Sundance Film Festival on Friday.
