(Welcome to Cannes Check, your annual guide through the 19 films in Competition at next month's Cannes Film Festival, which kicks off on May 15. Taking on a different selection every day, we'll be examining what they'...
The Cannes Film Festival waited a long time to secure Steven Spielberg as their Competition jury president, so now that they’ve finally got him, they weren’t going to give him just any motley crew of juror...
With today's announcement of the Directors' Fortnight lineup, the slate for next month's Cannes Film Festival is officially complete. (Bar any stray late additions, of which there are usually a couple.) And the Fortni...
When actor Matthew McConaughey was doing the awards circuit press rounds last year for his Independent Spirit Award-winning work in "Magic Mike," he was strikingly thin. The reason for the physical transform...
Welcome to Cannes Check, your annual guide through the 19 films in Competition at next month's Cannes Film Festival, which kicks off on May 15. Taking on a different selection every day, we'll be examining what they'r...
The slate for next month's Cannes Film Festival is just about complete: the Official Selection was announced on Thursday, Ari Folman's "The Congress" was announced as the opening film for the Directors' Fort...
I'm out in LA for a wedding this week so I haven't gotten around to seeing Tom Cruise's latest, "Oblivion," from "TRON Legacy" director Joseph Kosinski. The film is shaping up to be ...
When the Official Selection for this year's Cannes Film Festival was announced on Thursday, the film I was perhaps most surprised to see left out was Ari Folman's "The Congress." The film was ready in time f...
Recently Academy president Hawk Koch made his mark on the 2014 Oscar ceremony, despite the fact that he's only serving one year in the position and probably shouldn't be making decisions on the next Academy Awards, by...
I imagine like everyone else, you've been glued to the TV and the internet watching the events of the last 14 hours or so unfold. I flew into Los Angeles from New York yesterday and was watching all the news about the...
