Interview

In acclaimed actor and director (My Name is Joe, The Magdalene Sisters) Peter Mullan's newest film, NEDS (an acronym for Non-Educated Delinquents), the duality of teenagerhood is palpable.  ARTICLE PUBLISHED: 04/27/11

In Beyond the Black Rainbow, director Panos Cosmatos takes a horror plot that we've seen in countless incarnations—the evil doctor controlling a young beauty as she struggles to escape—and infuses it with a color-drenched visual style.  ARTICLE PUBLISHED: 04/27/11

Gird your loins, Hollywood: There’s a new God of Thunder in town, as Aussie actor Chris Hemsworth prepares to drop the mighty action-hero hammer this month alongside Natalie Portman and Anthony Hopkins in Kenneth Branagh’s Thor  ARTICLE PUBLISHED: 04/27/11

Michelle Williams was born in Montana in 1980. Her first major acting role was on the television show Dawson’s Creek from 1998–2003. Even while the show was still running, Williams was being cast in films. It seems directors (she’s worked with filmmakers such as Wim Wenders, Ang Lee, and Martin Scorsese, among others) recognized her ever-evolving talent from the start.  ARTICLE PUBLISHED: 04/26/11

POM Wonderful Presents: The Greatest Movie Ever Sold follows Morgan Spurlock on his quest to reveal the inner workings of product placement by making the first blockbuster documentary completely paid for by sponsors.  ARTICLE PUBLISHED: 04/22/11

Centered on the four photographers nicknamed "The Bang Bang Club"—on their friendship and bond, on the brutal and violent world of post-Apartheid South Africa in the early '90s, and on "the cost of bearing witness," as Silver noted in a recent press conference—Steven Silver's film's push for authenticity stands out.  ARTICLE PUBLISHED: 04/22/11

This week, it's Water for Elephants versus Passion Play, two films about high drama under the big top, the pretty ladies who star in the circus, and the romantic triangles they can't seem to help but generate.  ARTICLE PUBLISHED: 04/21/11

Lotus Eaters, one of this year's Tribeca Film Festival picks, delves into the corrosive beauty—and inevitable downfall—of the London socialite scene.  ARTICLE PUBLISHED: 04/20/11

Terry and Dean are back. After a five-year hiatus, the Canadian duo (David Lawrence and Paul Spence) return in the new film Fubar II: Balls to the Wall, still luckless, head-banging, and burned out. Complete chaos ensues.  ARTICLE PUBLISHED: 04/19/11

Quoi de neuf? This is the omnipresent question in director David Dusa’s feature debut Fleurs du Mal, the story of “@Miss_Dalloway,” a Tehrani student living in exile in Paris, and “Gecko,” a young Parisian, who meet cute via Facebook chat.  ARTICLE PUBLISHED: 04/18/11