With a $25 million budget that's probably less than what a Transformers sequel spends on fake sweat for Shia LaBeouf, Pain & Gain tells the true story of a trio of Miami weightlifters whose dreams of quick money turned into a crime spree.

Michael Bay's new film "Pain & Gain" slams into theaters on April 26, but not without a rocky road of controversies in its wake. The film's true-life ...

Director Michael Bay returns this Friday with his first movie since 2005 that does not involve robots that disguise themselves as transportation vehicles. Based on a true story, Pain & Gain stars Mark Wahlberg, Dwayne Johnson and Anthony Mackie as gym-rats-turned-kidnappers who find themselves in way over their heads. Here, we answer every question that you could possibly have about Pain & Gain.

"If you're willing to do the work, you can do anything. That's what makes the U.S.A. great," notes Mark Wahlberg's character in "Pain and Gain." M...

Gangster Squad is not a good movie. But it is that rarity in today's ultra-aware and uber-cynical age; a film so gleefully absurd and ridiculously cliched that it achieves a kind of skewed entertainment value.

Gangster Squad, a movie that is not about a squad of gangsters, opens -- finally -- this Friday. Gangster Squad stars Josh Brolin (Milk) as a Los Angeles cop placed in charge of taking down the operations of very animated gangster played by Sean Penn (Milk). Gangster Squad also stars Ryan Gosling (Crazy, Stupid, Love) and Emma Stone (Crazy, Stupid, Love). As a service, we answer every question that you could have about Gangster Squad.

You get the feeling that Ruben Fleischer would have been happy to make an homage to the gangster movies of the 1940s (filtered through both a 1970s and a 21st-century perspective) when he was making Gangster Squad.

The first trailer for Michael Bay's "Pain and Gain" makes the film look like an amalgam of "Bad Boys," "Out of Sight," "Boogie Nights" and the Hans & ...

Ryan Gosling and Josh Brolin lead the title team in "Gangster Squad," but one look at the film's newest trailer reveals the real star of this show: Se...

How do you go from directing "Community" to taking on "Captain America"? Why not ask one of the directors of "Captain America: The Winter Soldier"? ...

Captain America is getting a new sidekick. According to THR's Heat Vision blog, "Hurt Locker" star Anthony Mackie will play the role of Falcon in "Cap...

Crazy, stupid, love, indeed. "Gangster Squad" -- the "L.A. Confidential"-meets-"Untouchables" crime drama that Warner Bros. still seems set to release...

My hunch about skipping the opening weekend of this year's Toronto International Film Festival has paid off, in more ways than one. Mostly, however, ...

Prior to the show (on that cold red carpet) and during, I caught up with some of the nominees and attendees and chatted about the awards and their respective projects.

In The Adjustment Bureau , we are asked to believe that there could be an organization that monitors each individual's fate so that we stay on path. What path? To where?

Tanya Hamilton made Night Catches Us as both a personal exploration and as an examination of the other side of the civil rights struggle -- the black power movement.