Scarlett Johansson

Avengers: Age of Ultron (movie 2015) review: Joss Whedon entry works well enough as a ‘stand alone’ title, but the MCU is starting to feel stale.

The Other Woman movie with Cameron Diaz, Kate Upton, and Leslie Mann. The Other Woman movie box office: Cameron Diaz & Leslie Mann comedy to top North American box office…

Captain America: The Winter Soldier (movie 2014) review: Another first-rate Marvel and Disney collaboration. Chris Evans and veteran Robert Redford star.

Gay Marriage Legal in Utah and Lesbian Movie wins 2 Utahn Awards showing Timing is Everything + Academy announces ‘fierce’ Oscar competition.

Tony Awards: ‘Lucky Guy’ with Tom Hanks. Tony Awards 2013: Tom Hanks, Nora Ephron & Cicely Tyson among nominees April 30 update: The Tony Awards 2013 nominations were announced earlier…

Anthony Hopkins: Hitchcock. Anthony Hopkins ‘Hitchcock’ poster: ‘Psycho’ style The Hitchcock poster above shares a few elements with the Psycho 1960 poster, such as the splitting of the image into…

Jeremy Renner as Hawkeye, The Avengers. The Avengers are here. Have no fear. Scroll down for the extended Super Bowl Avengers trailer, and feel free to start laughing. For to…

Irish Film Awards: Brendan Gleeson in The Guard Irish Film Awards: Winners Michael Fassbender & Saoirse Ronan John Michael McDonagh’s The Guard, reportedly the most successful independently made Irish production…

MI4: Tom Cruise to save Box Office with Ghost Protocol? + 2 Steven Spielberg flops while Cameron Crowe needs another Jerry Maguire.

Vicky Cristina Barcelona set with Javier Bardem, Penélope Cruz, Scarlett Johansson, and Woody Allen. I saw Woody Allen’s Vicky Cristina Barcelona at its Canadian premiere at the 32nd Montreal World…

Scarlett Johansson Oscar dress. Scarlett Johansson at the Oscars Looking great in a long purple dress, Scarlett Johansson displays her tight-fitting costume and bare back at the 83rd Academy Awards…

Tony Award winners: Eddie Redmayne in Red, with Alfred Molina. June 13 update: Hollywood took over Broadway at the 2010 Tony Awards. Or almost. Presenters included Daniel Radcliffe and Academy…

Iron Man 2 box office: Robert Downey Jr. is back as the Marvel superhero in a mammoth hit that has failed to break major domestic records.

Best Actor Academy Award nominees Don Cheadle (Hotel Rwanda) and Mickey Rourke (The Wrestler), Best Actress Academy Award winner Gwyneth Paltrow (Shakespeare in Love), director/executive producer Jon Favreau, Academy Award…

Robert Downey Jr. in Iron Man 2. Reviews for the blockbuster-to-be Iron Man 2 have mostly ranged from lukewarm to downright negative. The original Iron Man has become the Tin…

The Will Ferrell basketball movie Semi-Pro was the top title on the domestic box office chart. And yet, that was at best a wobbly debut.

Superbad box office: Greg Mottola’s teen comedy with Michael Cera and Jonah Hill has topped the domestic chart for two weekends and it’s a summer sleeper hit.

The Black Dahlia (movie 2006) review: Brian De Palma’s neo-noir is a poor imitation of the actual thing. Josh Hartnett, Aaron Eckhart and Hilary Swank are the badly miscast stars.

Match Point with Scarlett Johansson and Jonathan Rhys Meyers. If Alfred Hitchcock were to direct a screenplay written by Nietzsche, Dostoevsky, and Stanislaw Lem, and based on Theodore Dreiser’s An…

In Good Company (movie 2004) review: Dennis Quaid and Topher Grace greatly assist Paul Weitz’s timid socially conscious comedy. Also in the cast: Scarlett Johansson.

Toronto Film Festival topics: Sex and politics. Highlights include a biopic of contentious American researcher Alfred Kinsey and veteran filmmaker Jean-Luc Godard’s latest political musings.