Of all the people to sound the alarm on the decline and fall of the film industry, Steven Spielberg might seem like an improbable choice.
Horror movies which incorporate the found-footage style are a dime a dozen and just about played out. But we have faith that Barry Levinson and his gaggle of isopods in his new Contagion-Paranormal Activity-Inconvenient Truth mashup, The Bay, will actually buck the odds and be something we like.
Frank Pierson, the Oscar-winning screenwriter of Dog Day Afternoon and Cool Hand Luke, has died at the age of 87, after a career that saw him working in television on shows like Mad Men and The Good Wife right up to the end of his life.
Spike Lee shook Mitt Romney's hand, favors Bloomberg's soda ban, thinks we will gentrify The Atlantic Ocean, and other highlights from his New York Magazine interview with Will Leitch.
What's your favorite Wes Anderson film? You would be amazed at what your preferences say about who you are, at least according to this entirely unscientific but completely authoritative exploration.
This morning we released our ranking of America's most cantankerous film critics, and since then, several people, including winner Kyle Smith of the New York Post, have asked why longtime New York City critic Armond White was left out of our contest.
Call it brash independence, a unique way of seeing, or simple cantankerousness, but it's often struck us while reading film reviews that some critics enjoy going against the grain. We crunched some numbers to crown America's most cantankerous film critic.
An international trailer for the upcoming Margaret Thatcher biopic The Iron Lady has been released, and it presents itself as a stirring King's Speech (meets Evita?) style drama about a populist hero overcoming adversity. Wait. Are we talking about the same Margaret Thatcher here?
Clint Eastwood's not a Republican. He's not a Democrat either. He didn't object when GQ classified him as a "social libertarian" in an interview last month, but it's technically not a form of libertarianism, which is okay, because Eastwood and politics were a bad match from the start.
Stunning stop motion animation and pretty embroidered book covers make Spike Jonze's latest project look both gorgeous and gruesome.
Plus: Sue Mengers, 78, died at her home, what Aaron Sorkin thought of 'Moneyball'
Plus: The Tommy Lee Jones contract snafu that keeps on costing Paramount
Plus: Diablo Cody's directorial debut gets a cast
Plus: Anderson Cooper's syndicated talk show debuts Monday
Plus: A two minute history of the movie title sequence
Plus: A rave review that will erase any lingering doubts about 'Moneyball'
Plus: Meryl Streep, Yo-Yo Ma among this year's Kennedy Center honorees
Plus: 1988 George Lucas calls out 'egotistical gangsters' like 2011 George Lucas
A provocative column says martial movie fare helped gloss war's image, then and now
Plus: Wolverine could be learning the way of the samurai in Canada
Plus: Meryl Streep's Margaret Thatcher biopic gets a harsh initial response
Plus: Jason Bateman and Melissa McCarthy are making an identity theft comedy
Hollywood is wondering whether lavish deals for super directors can be sustained
Surely someone's filmed sadder scene than 1995's 'The Champ'
It's the studio's first film threatened with the "rotten" label
'Mulholland Dr.' themed Paris nightclub is the latest side gig for the director
A running tally of the number of times J.J. Abrams's new movie winks at its producer
The strong feelings being produced by the 'Hangover' star's French TV interview
Even when he's selling plumping mascara, the Black Swan director makes the shots his own
It's not the kind of support the director was hoping for
Two days in, and the weird questions are already flowing
Critics are resigned to say the film is fine "for what it is"
The Hollywood studio now owns one of the most popular review sites
Most of the major players have been cast...except for a Barack Obama
Before Mel Gibson became persona non grata he made a movie about a hand puppet
This happened after 9/11, too
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