Clifford Irving was a writer of middling interest in the early 1970s. Yet thanks to a wild stroke of inspiration he became a singular force in the literary industry. As Lasse Hallstrom's The Hoa  

What's in a Name? Mira Nair, the Indian-born American director of the gloriously sensual Monsoon Wedding, is certainly the right choice to adapt to the screen The Namesake, Jhumpa Lahiri's   

Seven years ago, Christopher Nolan introduced audiences to a very special amnesiac named Leonard (Guy Pearce) in Memento. Leonard lacked the capacity to create lasting short-term memories -- a deb  

We've been told how hard it is for the pimps out there, but a good street hustle can pave the way for a golden future. Everyone acknowledges that Morgan Freeman's got game now, but back in 1987  

After about 20 minutes of watching The Good German, I was all set to drop a stinky load of outrage on this waste of celluloid. Then something happened. Maybe it was a brain aneurism. Before I kn  

Chris Rock's sophomore directorial effort, I Think I Love My Wife, is also his first independent film (well, if Fox Searchlight counts), and so he's justifiably concerned about how his fans will  

When James Longley's documentary Iraq in Fragments premiered at the 2006 Sundance Film Festival, the biting, cautionary, tragic double meaning of the title wasn't so readily apparent as it is no  

"It's mythology out of history," director Zack Snyder says of his blood-soaked, steroid-driven adaptation of Frank Miller's award-winning graphic novel 300. Set in 480 B.C., it recounts the r  

For D.A. Pennebaker, the time has come to look back. For the new digitally remastered "deluxe edition" DVD of his classic documentary Don't Look Back, which followed Bob Dylan during a 1965 sol  

Black Snake Moan is something to behold. Teetering on the edge of complete outrageousness but never less than sincere, this far-out fable centers on Rae (Christina Ricci), a white-trash skank wi  

Cincinnati filmmaker Melissa Godoy sets out to discover how we can "stay whole against the assault of old age" in her new documentary, Do Not Go Gently. The film tackles a subject of increasing   

Barely two sentences into my phone interview with actor Ioan Gruffudd and his thickly sweet accent has disrupted my concentration completely. It doesn't help that just the night before he rang m  

Joel Schumacher, the same director who stank up cinemas with 8MM and The Phantom of the Opera, hits a new low with debut screenwriter Fernley Phillips' hackneyed script about a could-be killer ob  

Along with his paintings, silk-screen prints and outré movies, Andy Warhol also created the modern notion of "celebrity." If you wanted it bad enough, you could have it. You didn't have   

One sure winner at this year's Academy Awards will be the Internet. More specifically, it will be the awards-oriented Web sites and blogs that have come together -- in a "perfect storm" converg