Interview

If you could sic a shark on anyone in the world, who would it be? "My old college basketball coach."  ARTICLE PUBLISHED: 08/30/11

At long last, a cinematic version of the show that spawned songs like "I Dreamed a Dream" and "On My Own" is being developed. Musical veteran Hugh Jackman is already attached to star as noble bread thief Jean Valjean—but who should join him?  ARTICLE PUBLISHED: 08/26/11

“Why are you making donkey sounds?” asks a character to two young lesbians in a fraught—and very funny—scene from Iranian-American first-time director Maryam Keshavarz’s coming-of-age tragicomedy Circumstance (Roadside Attractions, out now).  ARTICLE PUBLISHED: 08/26/11

A new painting by artist Rich Pellegrino depicts The Royal Tenenbaums' nine major characters in watercolor in a slightly Brady Bunch-y grid.  ARTICLE PUBLISHED: 08/26/11

Co-written by Evgenia Peretz with her husband, filmmaker David Schisgall, and directed by her brother, Jesse Peretz, Our Idiot Brother twists tense familial relations with a lightness rare in funny movies today.  ARTICLE PUBLISHED: 08/25/11

This week: Blackthorn and Machine Gun Preacher, two based-ish-on-real-life stories about men who take long journeys, encounter indigenous people who need their help, and administer some vigilante justice along the way.  ARTICLE PUBLISHED: 08/25/11

Legendary punk rocker Patti Smith is adapting Just Kids, her National Book Award-winning memoir about life in New York in the '60s and '70s, into a feature film.   ARTICLE PUBLISHED: 08/19/11

Looking for a lithe blonde with a serious dark side? Emma Bell's your girl.  ARTICLE PUBLISHED: 08/18/11

This week: Twixt vs. The Woman in Black, two Gothic-type supernatural thrillers in which troubled men must deal with the kiddie ghosts of the neighborhoods they're visiting.  ARTICLE PUBLISHED: 08/18/11

A portrait of an actress as an enthusiastic, unambivalent, multitalented, polymathic powerhouse-movie-star-in-progress.  ARTICLE PUBLISHED: 08/17/11