Interview

After the success of Let the Right One In, the suburban Stockholm-set, chilly child-vampire flick, the last thing people expected director Tomas Alfredson to do was make a spy movie, in English. And not just any spy movie, but the most British of spy stories, based on the famous source material by the very British John le Carré.  ARTICLE PUBLISHED: 12/09/11

It wasn't until after Ed Wood's death that his work was truly revived. Yet, his widow Kathy was then living in low-income apartments on the sleazy side of Hollywood Boulevard, surrounded by Latino gangs, gunshots, and hookers. Bob Blackburn, a Seattle-born radio personality who had just moved to Los Angeles, became her neighbor, forming an unlikely friendship that would last for the next 13 years.  ARTICLE PUBLISHED: 12/09/11

The characters played by actress Ari Graynor can rarely be described as "quiet"—she's played selfish party girls in both Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist and The Sitter, out today; and her character in Whip It was named Eva Destruction—but it would be appropriate to describe Graynor's Hollywood ascent as a quiet, confident one.  ARTICLE PUBLISHED: 12/09/11

Gary Oldman stars in the adaptation of John le Carré's best-selling 1974 novel Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy as George Smiley, an esteemed British agent who is summoned out of retirement to spearhead the search (although he is a suspect himself). Colin Firth plays his debonair colleague and friend, Bill Haydon.  ARTICLE PUBLISHED: 12/09/11

This week: In the Land of Blood and Honey vs. Miss Bala, two movies set in wars past or ongoing, with women being tested well beyond their means.  ARTICLE PUBLISHED: 12/08/11

A pill-popping, alcoholic mother and her castrated daughter aren't regular material for children's animations. Yet co-directors, designers, and producers Emma Burch and Pete Williamson were able to turn such macabre material into a charmingly gloomy independent short, Being Bradford Dillman.  ARTICLE PUBLISHED: 12/08/11

Let's not call it a comeback, because Albert Brooks never really left us. Let's say he's finally getting some well-deserved recognition as one of the most brilliant talents, comedic and otherwise, in the last four decades.  ARTICLE PUBLISHED: 12/06/11

The teaser poster for the film, released last week, suggests a new take on the cabin-in-ruralia-psycho-killer genre, and today's trailer, too, is promising: it appears that in a market suffocated by a glut of unoriginal horror fare, Cabin in the Woods offers something different.  ARTICLE PUBLISHED: 12/05/11

In her film Predella, our newest Discovery, filmmaker Vita Hewison, transforms a familiar corner shop (complete with generic blue-and-white linoleum floors) into a sensually rich forum of conceptual art.  ARTICLE PUBLISHED: 12/05/11

We thought you should know that this most recent adaptation of 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea will be directed by David Fincher, with rumors of an Andrew Kevin Walker screenplay.  ARTICLE PUBLISHED: 12/02/11