In tomorrow's podcast Anne and I touch on the possibility of Paul Thomas Anderson's "The Master" showing up at Venice, but we both secretly hope it goes to Telluride, too/instead. Because, yes...
We've had "The Impossible" -- a true-life survival drama set against the tragedy of the 2004 Boxing Day tsunami -- in our Contenders section for a while now, though for whatever reason, it's been languishing...
Sorry, John Hawkes. Better luck next time, Joaquin Phoenix. Hard cheese, Hugh Jackman. Get your gracious-loser faces perfected, because this year's Best Actor Oscar has Daniel Day-Lewis's name written all over it. Aga...
Does the young cop have ties to Batman? From the looks of things, he certainly knows how to handle crime in Gotham. "Rises" is JGL's second film for director Christopher Nolan, after 2010's "Inception.&...
Female directors and producers may have received relatively short shrift at the Academy Awards over 84 years -- for those of you keeping score, only seven women have won Best Picture, while that number famously drops ...
A colleague was recently bemoaning Pixar's descent into the world of, as he put it, "Roman numerals, Roman numerals, Roman numerals."
Indeed, after turning "Toy Story" into an amazing fr...
This Friday the giant zit that is "The Dark Knight Rises" hype will finally be popped and the anticipation for Christopher Nolan's superhero denouement will give way to discovery. But the great thing about B...
This is a total cop-out of an admission, but the best film I saw in my recent trip to the Karlovy Vary Film Festival was one I'd seen before. (Okay, including what I caught in the Jean-Pierre Melville retrospective, I...
Manhattan played host to the world premiere of Christopher Nolan's "The Dark Knight Rises" today on a hot day in the city (which also served as one of the key locations of the shoot). The Associated Press of...
One of the highlights of my extremely (mercifully) short trip to Comic-Con this year was a big showcase of all the Batmobiles, from the 1966 TV series edition through the Tumbler of Christopher Nolan's latest Batman f...
