Film & Video
  • Nicole Kidman Struts Her Stuff in "The Paperboy," a Steamy Florida Noir Targeting Racism

    In Lee Daniels's "The Paperboy," set in Florida in 1969, Nicole Kidman gives a sympathetic perfomance as a principled but delusional voluptuary, Charlotte Bless, whose fatalistic attraction to ...

  • Weinsteins Set Broadcast of Bin Laden Manhunt Movie Two Days Before Election

    On Sunday, November 4, two days before the Presidential Election, the National Geographic Channel will broadcast "Seal Team Six: The Raid on Osama Bin Laden." Directed by John Stockwell, the film ...

  • Steve Carell, Mark Ruffalo, and Sienna Miller to Grapple With Du Pont Wrestling Murder Drama

    Steve Carell will presumably have to step out of his comic persona to play John Eleuthere du Pont in the upcoming "Foxcatcher." To be directed by Bennett Miller ("Capote." "Moneyball"), the movie ...

  • Andy Warhol Stars (Again) as Sixth-Grade Boy's Unlikely Confidant

    Twenty-five years after Andy Warhol's death, his fragile physical presence and his iconhood continue to inspire filmmakers. Following "SNL" regular Bill Hader's impersonation of him in this year's ...

  • Michelle Williams Eyed for Film of Irene Nemirovsky's Occupation Romance "Suite Francaise"

    Michelle Williams, reports Variety, is likely to be cast as the Parisian pianist Lucile Angellier in the long-gestating film of the first and second instalments of Irene Nemirovsky's planned ...

  • Kevin Kline is In Like Flynn for "The Last of Robin Hood"

    In a stroke of perfect casting, Kevin Kline has been cast as Errol Flynn, the talkies' greatest swashbuckler, at the sad end of his life in "The End of Robin Hood." Variety reports that Richard ...

  • Houdini Spy Movie Woos "Karenina" Director as Hollywood Embraces Escapism

    Who will play Harry Houdini in his late twenties in the upcoming movie that proposes the world-famous escapologist worked for Britain as a spy. The ageless Johnny Depp might fancy the part but ...

  • Christoph Waltz's Gorbachev Will Face Off Against Michael Douglas's Reagan in "Reykjavik"

    In a double coup of non-obvious casting, Michael Douglas has been cast as President Ronald Reagan and Christoph Waltz as Soviet General Secretary Mikhail Gorbachev in "Reykjavik." The movie, which ...

  • Why the New "Scarface" Needs Michael Mann at the Helm

    Although Universal's fresh take on "Scarface" has acquired a new writer, still no director has been chosen, according to latest reports. Michael Mann, perhaps the American filmmaker most likely to ...

  • Gotham Awards: "Beasts of the Southern Wild" Gets Two Nods-and a Snub

    Arguably the year's most visionary film with true indie cred, "Beasts of the Southern Wild" was unaccountably omitted from the Best Feature contenders when the Gotham Independent Film Award ...

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