Actress-filmmaker Radha Blank’s semi-autobiographical midlife-crisis tale The Forty-Year-Old Version evokes memories of Woody Allen + Paul Mazursky.
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Christopher Nolan new movie gets a release date: Batman trilogy director’s eagerly awaited next effort to come out in the summer. Christopher Nolan new movie release date Warner Bros. will…
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The sharp and well-acted romantic comedy In Stereo feels like a throwback to edgy American indies of years past. Micah Hauptman stars.
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Kristen Stewart and Jesse Eisenberg: American Ultra. Kristen Stewart, Jesse Eisenberg to join Woody Allen movie cast? American Ultra stars Kristen Stewart and Jesse Eisenberg will reportedly be reunited later…
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Golden Globes’ hosts Tina Fey and Amy Poehler (photo © HFPA). Tina Fey and Amy Poehler funny & daring enough at the 2014 Golden Globes telecast? Acting as a lighter…
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Golden Globes: Amy Adams & Jennifer Lawrence are ‘American Hustle’ winners Scroll down to check out the full list of Golden Globes 2014 winners. This year’s Golden Globes ceremony took…
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Cate Blanchett and Woody Allen on the Blue Jasmine set. WGA Awards nominations: Woody Allen & American Hustle in; 12 Years a Slave & Blue Is the Warmest Color ineligible The Writers…
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Magic Mike: the “male stripper movie.” Shirtless Channing Tatum, Matt Bomer, Alex Pettyfer, and Matthew McConaughey are featured in the red-band Magic Mike trailer. (Please scroll down.) Oscar winner Steven…
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Kathleen Turner: Body Heat femme fatale. Actress Kathleen Turner, perhaps best remembered for seducing William Hurt in Lawrence Kasdan’s Body Heat and for romping about with Michael Douglas in Robert…
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Is Raging Bull 2 getting cast? Raging Bull 2? First of all, let me clarify that this isn’t an April’s Fools joke. At least not on my part. And let…
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No Rest for the Wicked with José Coronado Pedro Almodóvar didn’t have much luck at the Spanish Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences’ Goya Awards this evening in Madrid:…
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Rick Santorum puts choir kids to sleep: Far-right Republican presidential candidate was in Florida. Mia Farrow: ‘Gem’ picture of Rick Santorum boring whole choir to sleep Mia Farrow is a…
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Ralph Fiennes in Oscar nominee (but not DGA nominee) Stephen Daldry’s The Reader. In 1948, the 12-year-old Directors Guild of America (DGA), then known as the Screen Directors Guild (SDG),…
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Michelle Williams, Luke Kirby, Take This Waltz With four nominations, Michel Hazanavicius’ silent comedy-drama The Artist is the top nominee in the international categories of the Vancouver Film Critics Circle’s…
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Vanessa Redgrave in Coriolanus, with Harry Fenn as the young Caius Martius, later known as Coriolanus. In actor-turned-director Ralph Fiennes’ modern-day film version of William Shakespeare’s Coriolanus, veteran Vanessa Redgrave…
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Bridesmaids with Kristen Wiig Maya Rudolph. July 10 update: Michael Bay’s Transformers: Dark of the Moon topped the North American box office for the second consecutive weekend (July 8-10), grossing…
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Penélope Cruz, Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides May 26: Featuring Johnny Depp, Penélope Cruz, Geoffrey Rush, Sam Claflin, Ian McShane, and Astrid Bergès-Frisbey, Rob Marshall’s Pirates of the…
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Midnight in Paris: Woody Allen romantic fantasy stars Owen Wilson and Rachel McAdams. Woody Allen’s Midnight in Paris, the director’s 41st film, opened the Cannes Film Festival today. Starring unlikely…
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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 Film…
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Silvio Berlusconi corruption. “Spring had just begun along the beautiful peninsula and they were after Berlusconi. It was a shitty day like so many others …” the narrator explains in…
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Christmas cheer: Love Finds Andy Hardy with Mickey Rooney and Judy Garland. George B. Seitz’s Love Finds Andy Hardy (1938) reunited Thoroughbreds Don’t Cry (1937) co-stars Mickey Rooney and Judy…
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Woody Allen, David Lynch, Martin Scorsese, Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne, and Terry Gilliam have added their names to the petition, organized by France’s Société des Auteurs et Compositeurs Dramatiques (SACD),…
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Evan Rachel Wood, Henry Cavill, and director Woody Allen. Woody Allen’s return to NYC has resulted in one of his best comedies in years. Of course, he hasn’t been making…
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In Emmanuel Mouret’s quietly observant Un baiser s’il vous plaît / Shall We Kiss? (literally, “A Kiss, If You Please”), which opens today in Los Angeles, a young, good-looking couple,…
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It’s always good to hear when a filmmaker is inspired by Woody Allen – as opposed to, say, Quentin Tarantino or Zack Snyder. Case in point: First-timer James C. Ferguson,…
Luise Rainer: MGM star in the mid-1930s. Luise Rainer dead at 104: MGM actress was first two-time and first consecutive Oscar winner in acting categories, and oldest surviving winner The…
Woody Allen is pissed and it shows in the mordantly thoughtful and beautifully acted social satire Blue Jasmine. Cate Blanchett stars.
Penélope Cruz, Alessandro Tiberi, Woody Allen’s To Rome with Love. Cannes movies The 2012 Cannes Film Festival buzz keeps getting stronger for a variety of movies. So far, the only…
The Artist‘s Michel Hazanavicius is the only first-timer among the five nominated directors for the 2012 Directors Guild of America Awards. Hazanavicius’ competition consists of Woody Allen for Midnight in…
Owen Wilson in Woody Allen’s Midnight in Paris. June 19 update: Following the addition of 94 theaters, Woody Allen’s 2011 effort Midnight in Paris was down only 10 percent from…
Of Gods and Men, directed by Xavier Beauvois. Apichatpong Weerasethakul’s Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives, a dreamlike Thai drama about a man dying of kidney failure that…
Peter Shaffer and Milos Forman. Milos Forman & Peter Shaffer: Amadeus 25th anniversary screening Pictured above are playwright and Oscar-winning screenwriter Peter Shaffer and two-time Oscar-winning director Milos Forman at…
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