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…

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…

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…

Grant Bowler, Taylor Schilling, Atlas Shrugged: Part I May 8, ’11, 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…

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,…

‘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…

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…

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…

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,…

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…

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.…

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…