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The Incredible Burt Wonderstone Lacks Mike's Magic

Jackie K. Cooper | Posted 05.20.2013 | Entertainment
Jackie K. Cooper

Steve Carell is an immensely popular actor. Jim Carrey used to be. Steve Buscemi is an actor's actor, and Olivia Wilde is an up and coming young actress. With all this talent in the cast of one movie, The Incredible Burt Wonderstone, it should be a guaranteed success. Guess what folks, it isn't.

Review: The Incredible Burt Wonderstone

Scott Mendelson | Posted 05.14.2013 | Entertainment
Scott Mendelson

This is frankly a terrible film, but ever more disheartening because the material for a decent comedy so obviously exists within the botched final product. The Incredible Burt Wonderstone is a missed opportunity.

Movie Review: The Incredible Burt Wonderstone

Marshall Fine | Posted 05.14.2013 | Entertainment
Marshall Fine

The Incredible Burt Wonderstone is a movie for 8-year-olds who haven't seen a lot of movies and provide fresh eyes for its tired gags. Anyone older will see every punchline coming long before it arrives.

Who Steve Carell Would Make Every Movie With

AP | SANDY COHEN | Posted 05.13.2013 | Entertainment

BURBANK, Calif. — Alan Arkin is Steve Carell's idol, in reality and in their new movie. The 78-year-old Oscar winner plays the master magician ...

Alan Arkin Dings 'Crude' Seth MacFarlane

AP | DAVID GERMAIN | Posted 04.24.2013 | Entertainment

LOS ANGELES — You think the Academy Awards are boring? Try the nominations. They only last a few minutes, but it's generally a sleepy academy su...

Popcorn Preview: Stand Up Guys

Leslie Sisman | Posted 04.16.2013 | Entertainment
Leslie Sisman

Film: Stand Up Guys (2012) Cast includes: Al Pacino (The Merchant of Venice), Christopher Walken (Catch Me If You Can), Alan Arkin (Argo), Lucy Punch ...

Who Got Emma Stone In Bed With Ben And Bradley?

Posted 01.30.2013 | Celebrity

Movie buffs everywhere, rejoice: Vanity Fair's new Hollywood Issue brings together 2013's biggest stars in glorious and unexpected ways. The gorgeo...

Movie Review: Stand Up Guys

Marshall Fine | Posted 03.31.2013 | Entertainment
Marshall Fine

The waste of talent in Fisher Stevens' Stand Up Guys is criminal. It's the movie equivalent of shooting a man in Reno, just to watch him die.

Who's In The Running For Best Supporting Actor?

Posted 01.10.2013 | Entertainment

Tommy Lee Jones and Alan Arkin were on the receiving end of some good news today, as they were among the cast of Best Supporting Actor nominees for th...

WATCH: First Clip From 'Stand Up Guys'

Posted 12.10.2012 | Entertainment

"Stand Up Guys" is being billed as an action-comedy, but don't think the new film is like the usual films you associated with that genre. After all, i...

WATCH: The (A)political Shortcomings Of 'Argo'

Posted 01.09.2013 | College

Professors Kevin Taylor Anderson and Salman Hameed go head-to-head in their discussion over Ben Affleck's critical feature, "Argo" and talk about its ...

Alan Arkin Didn't Realize Bryan Cranston Was In 'Little Miss Sunshine'

The Huffington Post | Christopher Rosen | Posted 10.26.2012 | Entertainment

Two years before he was Walter White, Bryan Cranston co-starred as the slimy Stan Grossman in "Little Miss Sunshine." For those who don't remember his...

Popcorn Preview: Argo

Leslie Sisman | Posted 12.17.2012 | Entertainment
Leslie Sisman

A CIA specialist comes up with a plan to rescue hostages from Iran by disguising them as a Canadian film crew.

Argo: A Tragedy and a Farce

Brian Formo | Posted 12.16.2012 | Los Angeles
Brian Formo

The pieces all fit handsomely in Argo and Affleck is a natural director -- the only section that feels like an outlier is Hollywood.

ReThink Review: Argo - Blowback to the Future

Jonathan Kim | Posted 12.12.2012 | Entertainment
Jonathan Kim

With an impressive 91 percent fresh score on Rotten Tomatoes, Argo has been receiving some Oscar buzz, with some critics claiming it's one of the year's best films.

Review: 'Argo' (2012)

Scott Mendelson | Posted 12.10.2012 | Entertainment
Scott Mendelson

Ironically the picture's greatest strength as a movie arguably becomes its greatest flaw as a film. It is not really about anything other than itself, refusing to infuse its narrative with any deeper meaning beyond our own knowledge of what happened next.

Is 'Argo' Ben Affleck's Best Movie?

Mike Ryan | Posted 12.10.2012 | Entertainment
Mike Ryan

On Friday, Argo, one of the most critically acclaimed movies of the year -- and a bona fide Oscar contender -- will get released into a movie theate...

Review: Argo

Marshall Fine | Posted 12.09.2012 | Entertainment
Marshall Fine

It's a little early to be proclaiming Ben Affleck's Argo the best movie of the year -- but one of the best? No question.

WATCH: Pacino & Walken Buddy Up In 'Stand Up Guys'

Posted 09.13.2012 | Entertainment

It looks like the next four months are going to be good ones for Christopher Walken fans. The mercurial actor has a stand-out supporting role in the u...

Toronto Festival Conclusions: The Oscar race Begins

Marshall Fine | Posted 11.13.2012 | Entertainment
Marshall Fine

While this year's best-picture winner may in fact have played at TIFF 2012, there was no huge critical groundswell around a realistic contender, the way there was last year.

The Good Wife's Julianna Margulies Celebrates Steppenwolf Theatre

Lonna Saunders | Posted 07.17.2012 | Chicago
Lonna Saunders

The Good Wife's Julianna Margulies came to Chicago as the guest of honor at the third annual Steppenwolf Salutes Women in the Arts luncheon.

Movie Review: Thin Ice

Marshall Fine | Posted 04.18.2012 | Entertainment
Marshall Fine

Almost 20 years later, there has yet to be a film noir that out-Fargos the Coen brothers' Fargo. Jill Sprecher's Thin Ice takes a run at it.

PHOTO: Shaggy Ben Affleck Takes Center Stage In New 'Argo' Pic

Posted 01.30.2012 | Entertainment

A shaggy-haired, bearded Ben Affleck holds court in a new image from his next directorial feature, "Argo." Affleck, who will also star in the film,...

Ben Affleck's Top Secret Is Very Real Story

Posted 02.26.2012 | Entertainment

Try to wrap your head around this: A movie is being made about the story of a fake movie studio producing a fake movie with a fake crew, all concocted...

Movie Review: The Muppets

Marshall Fine | Posted 01.21.2012 | Entertainment
Marshall Fine

It's been 20 years since the death of Jim Henson. And Frank Oz has retired as the voice of Miss Piggy and Fozzie Bear. But the Muppets live on in The Muppets movie, as funny, outlandish and sweet as ever.