A question arises: Are American audiences ready to embrace appealing KGB operatives on television? Has enough passed from the post-war era to neutralize our view of Soviet spies?

So - if the movie year had ended June 30 and we had to choose the best films of 2011 from the releases that hit American screens since Jan. 1, which o...

Onscreen in Tom McCarthy's Win Win, they interact like a long-time married couple. In fact, actors Paul Giamatti and Amy Ryan barely knew each other ...

An editor once defined the word "dilemma" for me as "a choice between two undesirable outcomes." Life is full of dilemmas. So are movies: Without dil...

Will Miller find WMD in Iraq? Will American reconstruction efforts in Baghdad go as planned in the face of growing insurgency? Of course not, but there are enough frenetic firefights to maintain a satisfying level of suspense.

Film festival programmers rarely create festivals full of films built around a single theme. Yet quite unintentionally, I spent Friday seeing five films that dealt with the idea of abandonment, reunion and reconciliation.

HBO's In Treatment, recently described by cast member Amy Ryan as "the perfect storm" of acting, writing and psychoanalytic therapyhttp://www.huffing...

Amy Ryan is a star but not a celebrity -- an artist with such a startling intelligence and mercurial range that the match-up with the brooding and powerful Gabriel Byrne seems logical and effortless.

Jack Goes Boating, which played at both Sundance and Toronto, is a noteworthy directing debut for the Oscar-winning Hoffman, who proves himself as sure-handed behind the camera as in front.

Green Zone is a movie which, given a stronger sense of purpose, might have recounted exactly those failings and shown in stark relief how we were hoodwinked into war.

I didn't walk out of Lovers of Hate but people around me did and the urge for flight was strong. Thankfully, this turgid comedy eventually developed a modicum of suspense.

It's a girl for Amy Ryan and fiancé Eric Slovin! Daughter Georgia Gracie Slovin arrived on Oct. 15 in New York City. "All are doing well and so ha...

Amy Ryan's next role? Mom. The actress, 39, is expecting her first child with fiancé Eric Slovin, a comedy writer, her rep confirms to PEOPLE. The b...

Optimism was in the air among Academy Awards nominees -- both on their films' prospects and the chances that Hollywood's crippling writers strike wil...