We're best off viewing Luhrmann's Gatsby as a handbook for theme parties for the 1 percent. And think of future adaptations from the literate age Lhurmann might consider.

With a cast of largely baby-faced actors, Jay-Z as an executive producer, and a soundtrack weighted towards hip hop and electronic music, is The Great Gatsby more for younger fans of Luhrmann's more boisterous previous films like Moulin Rouge! and Romeo + Juliet?

After four wildly different tries at bringing F. Scott Fitzgerald's much-admired tome The Great Gatsby to the silver screen, I'm starting to think it ...

The problems start with Nick Carraway, whose role as the book's narrator is justified on screen by placing him in a sanitarium -- the film's invention -- where he has been diagnosed as "morbidly alcoholic."

Don't believe the hate. The Great Gatsby is not a terrible film; indeed, it's a surprisingly affecting one.

"Jane Got A Gun," but lost a director. As first reported by Deadline.com, director Lynne Ramsay ("We Need to Talk About Kevin") left the new film "Jan...

"You can't repeat the past," professional wet blanket Nick Carraway (Tobey Maguire) says to happy-time reveler Jay Gatsby (Leonardo DiCaprio) in the n...

Kathryn Bigelow and Mark Boal's take on the hunt for Osama bin Laden, a thrilling Zero Dark Thirty, begins with torture so brutal I found it an eye averting experience.

There is something magical about The Odd Life of Timothy Green. But not, unfortunately, magical enough.

Before you meet the young boy with a curious accessory -- leaves growing from his ankles -- in the new movie from Disney, The Odd Life of Timothy Green, you think the message may have something to do with the environment.

If you've noticed -- and become frustrated with the fact -- that Hollywood has been churning out an unending number of CGI blockbusters and mindless s...

Kathryn Bigelow's film about the military's hunt for Osama Bin Laden is on the verge of enlisting three new stars. According to a number of reports, ...

Welcome to Seal Team Six, Joel Edgerton. Your mission: take out Osama Bin Laden. The Australian actor, most recently seen in this fall's critically...

I realize 'tis the season for everyone and their brother to release their "best of" lists so I'm throwing in a twist... here are my top 20 moments in film this year followed by my top 11 favorites.

When Leonardo DiCaprio cleaned up, went from rags to riches and slipped into in the finest of suits aboard the Titanic, it was a revelation: the young...

The future of Greece may be in doubt these days, but its past is looking pretty good to Warner Bros. Insiders tell Vulture that the studio is entering...

He made drifting proletariat from 1912 look like a dream, and over a decade later, Leonardo DiCaprio has moved up the ladder to 1920s socialite. No...

This film is an emotional heart-tugger from beginning to end. The basic plot concerns a battle between two brothers in a mixed martial arts event, but it is the back and side stories that place this film it into the greats.

"It could be a movie about chess or two brothers competing in the knitting championship," Joel Edgerton says, musing on the boiling point tension in "...

In the extravagant nature of Jay Gatsby himself, Baz Luhrmann's 3D film adaptation of F. Scott Fitzgerald's novel is once again upping the level of gr...