Cynthia Ellis

If Mother Theresa were a secret hoarder and Gandhi sniffed glue, would it make their idealism and the transformation they brought to millions any less valuable?

This is the question that political...

When Olivia Wilde comes into the studio, and sits down, her light-green cat's eyes settle on you with a steady gaze and a mix of curiosity, intelligence, and...

Talking to Brad Hall and Julia Louis-Dreyfus about their delightful new short film, Picture Paris, the conversation ranged from the intricacies of Parisian culture to the hilarious masturbation episode of...

It is a fascinating experience to see such an iconic face up close. In life, huge blue eyes twinkle with kindness and curiosity, resting on top of cheekbones higher than any mathematical equation could...

It has been said that Ernest Hemingway wrote the first six word novel: For Sale, Baby Shoes, Never Worn.

Hemingway once described his writing as, "Getting the most from the least." Well, the same can certainly be said of Corey Stoll in the film Midnight in Paris. How else do...

Often, as a journalist, you need to ask questions about projects you have not yet seen and do not initially care about, like Peruvian goats doing ballet in the Somalian desert. But it is an entirely...

Documentaries are like Shakespeare and musical theater. 98% of the time they feel like an un-ending math class, but the other 2% of them change us forever.

Senna, the new import from Britain about...

Why won't our parents shut up already about the Sixties? Here's your chance to live it for two hours and find out. Directors Alex Gibney and Allison Ellwood have resurrected,...

Giancarlo Esposito's performance in Breaking Bad's fourth season premiere was so electrifying that, as Woody Allen once said, "All the blood went out of my face and went to my brother."

You can hold...

The strangest thing about meeting Simon Van Booy is that it doesn't feel strange at all.

Many people might call Simon's new novel, Everything Beautiful Began After, a love triangle. But really, it's more of...

It's beginning to seem like politicians and professional athletes should come with a tag attached, a kind of disclaimer saying, "Likely to sleep with multiple prostitutes, strippers, and secretly have off-spring with the household staff. Other risks include genital photography displayed on social networking sites and a general affinity for...

Most kids wait until their parents are long dead or hopefully living in an obscure Peruvian village before telling the truth about them publicly.

It was Jack Osbourne's idea to make a movie...

The Thomas Wolfe adage, "You can't go home again," turns out not to be completely true, as Michael Cuesta's new film, The Roadie, illustrates. You can, in fact, go home again, but it is...

For those who best remember Abigail Breslin with her tear-away pants, gyrating to the Commodores' song "Brick House" while her grandfather cheers her on from the sidelines, well, a lot has happened since then.

Nine years...

Can catching a ball for your favorite baseball team, in front of millions of fans, literally ruin your life? An occurrence that is essentially every young boy's dream, turned into a nightmare of almost...

Thomas Dekker shows up wearing a fedora and scarf, publicist and manager in tow, instantly picks up the cat and we begin an animated discussion about Matilda, the resident feline at The Algonquin Hotel who stars...

Dennis Farina. You have to love him. You can't help yourself. And it's not just me. Michael Mann must have felt exactly the same way when Farina first came on the set as a law...

Last Night is so irresistible to talk about that one crew-member, in the middle of filming a scene interrupted it, shouting out, "My wife always does that!!"

Um, take two?

Writer and director Massy Tadjedin probably hoped that viewers would be...

William H. Macy. Portrait by Leslie Hassler.

William H. Macy has a voice that could sell needles to a porcupine. He can say the word "Golly" and have it be rife with unspoken meaning and depth. When applied to the drunken and...

Emmy Rossum. Portrait by Leslie Hassler.

It is a bold and dangerous move to leave your legendary and Academy Award nominated actor, William H. Macy, drunk and unconscious for the majority of the pilot. But this is where we discover the...