The titular time period looms large and heavy in Iranian filmmaker Asghar Farhadi’s microcosmic family drama The Past. It manifests itself right off [...]

Since the Young Adult category of literature exploded in 1997 with the release of Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone, Hollywood has been [...]

Pity the poor teenaged Disney star. Sure, they get three or four good years headlining a sitcom on the Disney Channel and a [...]

If Spike Jonze (Where the Wild Things Are, Being John Malkovich, Adaptation.) hadn’t written and directed the oddball modern romance Her, then Michel [...]

The one thing you can usually count on in the eclectic oeuvre of the Coen bros. is a sly, slapstick-intellectual, “Is it or [...]

For those who remember, the ABSCAM scandal of the late-’70s was the capper on an era that had already given us such political [...]

What if the grumpiest woman in creation met the inventor of the Happiest Place on Earth? That’s the nominal premise behind the true-life [...]

Just how much of a film fanatic are you? The answer might easily be discerned by your interest in, and ability to digest, [...]

Disney has a big problem. It’s called Disney. Despite the fact that the Walt Disney Studios have spent the last 65 years peddling [...]

Young Hollywood is either genuinely obsessed with the Beat Generation writers, or the Beatniks have become easy shorthand for rebellious behavior. Last year [...]