James McAvoy

X-Men: Apocalypse with Oscar Isaac a cartoonish presence as the supervillainous title character. ‘X-Men: Apocalypse’ review: Step back for series, but latest ‘X-Men’ movie ‘works well enough’ There’s a three-way brawl going on in the Marvel universe, but it doesn’t involve Spider-Man, Captain America, or…

X-Men: Days of Future Past with Hugh Jackman as The Wolverine. ‘X-Men: Days of Future Past’: Bryan Singer has a surefire hit with latest ‘X-Men’ sequel With yet another spring and summer movie season overstuffed with superhero extravaganzas, 20th Century Fox’s X-Men series, which debuted in…

James McAvoy, Michael Fassbender, Jennifer Lawrence, Nicholas Hoult, X-Men: First Class June 10 Directed by Matthew Vaughn, and starring James McAvoy, Michael Fassbender, Jennifer Lawrence, Rose Byrne, January Jones, Kevin Bacon, Nicholas Hoult, Oliver Platt, and Jason Flemyng, X-Men: First Class scored $4.02 million at…

Grant Bowler, Taylor Schilling, Atlas Shrugged: Part I. May 8 update: The first installment of a planned trilogy based on Ayn Rand’s 1957 novel, Atlas Shrugged: Part I had one of the worst drop-off rates this weekend at the North American box office, down more…

Limitless with Robert De Niro and Bradley Cooper: $100 million worldwide? April 18, ’11, update: Despite yesterday’s estimates, Carlos Saldanha’s animated 3D feature Rio failed to reach the $40 million mark at the North American box office this past weekend, April 15-17. According to actuals…

‘Hall Pass’ with Christina Applegate and Jenna Fischer: Lowbrow comedy tops box office chart – but flops all the same. Lowbrow comedy ‘Hall Pass’ tops weak week: A box office flop all the same March 4 update: Bobby and Peter Farrelly’s Hall Pass, starring Owen…

Jennifer Aniston bikini pic: Adam Sandler leading lady in Just Go with It. Jennifer Aniston bikini & Adam Sandler: ‘Just Go with It’ tops Feb. 18 update: The Adam Sandler-Jennifer Aniston comedy Just Go with It, which also features Brooklyn Decker and Best Actress Academy…

Starring Robin Wright as Mary Surratt, the only woman charged as a co-conspirator in the assassination trial of Abraham Lincoln, and James McAvoy as Surratt’s lawyer, Robert Redford’s courtroom drama The Conspirator bowed at the 2010 Toronto Film Festival. Whether or not The Conspirator ultimately…

Meryl Streep in It’s Complicated, with Alec Baldwin. Those expecting to find major surprises in the 2010 Oscar nominations were in for a major surprise: there were very, very few truly unexpected nominees. All five Directors Guild nominees, Kathryn Bigelow, James Cameron, Quentin Tarantino, Lee…

Precious with Gabourey Sidibe and Paula Patton. The Spirit Awards’ eventual big winner – topping all of its five nominations – was Lee Daniels’ dysfunctional family drama Precious, adapted by Geoffrey Fletcher from the novel Push by Sapphire. Gabourey Sidibe plays the illiterate Harlem adolescent…

Heath Ledger in The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus. One of this year’s AFI FEST offerings along with “fantasy soccer” by way of Looking for Eric, Viggo Mortensen’s dystopian reality in The Road, and phone sex surprises via Easier with Practice. AFI FEST 2009 highlights, Nov.…

Warren Beatty. Warren Beatty will receive the Art Directors Guild’s Outstanding Contribution to Cinematic Imagery Award, “given to an individual whose body of work in the film industry has richly enhanced the visual aspects of the movie-going experience,” at the ADG Awards ceremony on Feb.…

Oscar Best Picture Nominees Major Rules Change: Lionel Barrymore, James Stewart, Jean Arthur, Edward Arnold in Frank Capra’s You Can’t Take It with You, the Best Picture winner of 1938. There were 10 nominees that year, among them The Adventures of Robin Hood, Angels with…

WALL-E movie: Pixar release enjoys impressive box office debut. ‘WALL-E’ tops U.S. and Canada box office, Angelina Jolie and James McAvoy ‘inspirational’ thriller ‘Wanted’ a strong runner-up June 30 update: Directed by Andrew Stanton, Pixar Animation’s WALL-E was catapulted to the top of the North…

Javier Bardem: Best Supporting Actor Academy Award winner for Joel and Ethan Coen’s ‘No Country for Old Men.’ Javier Bardem Academy Award winner Javier Bardem was the year’s Best Supporting Actor Academy Award winner for his performance as a merciless hired killer in Joel and…

Nicole Kidman and Keith Urban. Nicole Kidman and Keith Urban on the red carpet at the 2008 Oscars. Nicole Kidman has been nominated for two Best Actress Academy Awards: Baz Luhrmann’s Moulin Rouge! (2001), with Ewan McGregor, and Stephen Daldry’s The Hours (2002), with Meryl…