Michael Shannon's so quiet and reserved in person you wonder how he made the leap to stage acting. Yet when unleashed by a role, his presentation can be so overpowering that it often overwhelms other performances.
Should the Salahis be boiled, flogged, or has the media made it much more than it really was?
Between 60 and 70 percent of those age 65 and over are diabetic or prediabetic -- half are unaware they have the condition because they are symptom free.
Torture victims often lose their voice twice: first during the torture itself and then when no one listens to their ordeal, Actress Emma Thompson says...
The Messenger -- being released this weekend -- is a film in which Harrelson tests his mettle and shines. Is it Oscar-worthy? "I think I did an okay job," Harrelson says.
He is the unbearable lightness of being a director, producer, actor, mentor. He is the most effervescent of gentlemen, one who has that gene for making it all look easy.
Warning: Major spoilers ahead I loved the movie Precious: Based on the Novel Push by Sapphire because it told me two moving stories at once. The ...
The situation for women who want to make movies is grim. Despite the fact that film schools graduate as many women as men, just 4% of Hollywood directors are women.
Voters in Maine turned out in record numbers yesterday to repeal a law legalizing same-sex Oscar hosts, throwing the plans for this year's Academy Awards into turmoil.
That Evening Sun starts out as if it had been plucked from a Sundance time capsule circa the early 1990s: an elderly person raging against the indigni...
Even as today's high school and college students are pushed harder in school, they cannot write an essay or use descriptive language nearly as fluently as their parents and grandparents could.
Have you ever wondered what it would be like to win an Oscar? Or just to own one and place it on the mantle for all the world to see. The Academy ...
The documentary American Casino, made by Leslie and Andrew Cockburn, follows plain folk with subprime-mortgaged homes as their properties become bundl...
After a Boston premiere of the film The Boys Are Back, I caught up with director Scott Hicks by phone to compare notes on manhood.
Instant runoff voting (IRV) is gaining support in the United States, particularly as a means to replace runoff elections that double the costs of admi...
When strangers ply us with questions like "And you are?", "Who are you with?", or "Where did you go to school?" they are likely sizing up our power as belied by our affiliations.
The news of director Roman Polanski's arrest stirred me more than I might have expected since I'd just screened a revealing documentary about this man's tortured life, Roman Polanski: Wanted and Desired.
A total of seven companies showed up; two of them were actually looking for a Dustbuster convention but were at the wrong hotel. (We forced them to get on stage and do a demo anyway. They were totally awesome.)
When it comes to women in hip-hop, don't call it a comeback. Women have been here for years.
If someone makes a brilliant Oscar-winning short and no one watches it -- does it have any impact? When the movie has potential for changing the lives of children around the globe, that's just not good enough.
The Toronto International Film Festival suffers from its own success. There are too many damned commercials before the start of each film.
