Outfitted with delicious wit and a forbearing tone, the charm of screenwriter Bob Nelson's Midwest-set dramedy, "Nebraska," is rooted in its clever dialogue and novel approach to...

It's not always easy being an Oscar-winner.   When Jennifer Lawrence returned to the set of "The Hunger Games: Catching Fire" after winning the best-actress Academy Award for...

Veteran TV comedy writer Janis Hirsch is used to her words entertaining millions of viewers. But the letter she scrawled in early 1964 as a hospitalized teenager was intended to comfort an audience of...

Commercials director Fredrik Bond makes a promising feature debut with "Charlie Countryman" a fanciful crime-drama / romance that gratifyingly eschews strict genre...

It seems quite apt that "The Best Man Holiday," a film about a reunion of old friends, feels just like going to an actual reunion. In ways both bad and good.   A reunion, you see,...

When Alex Gibney set out to make a movie about cyclist Lance Armstrong's 2009 Tour de France comeback, the documentarian admits he bought into the hype: The man who'd cheated death was coming...

Comic book movies are increasingly, like Sandra Bullock in "Gravity," lost in space.   Following the summer's glumly bombastic "Man of Steel," which added a heavy...

One of Andrew Lincoln's favorite moments from "Walking Dead" came during his first season on the show.   Here was the British actor shooting his way through a foreboding urban...

On the screen, Chris Hemsworth battles aliens as superhero Thor. But this day, his wounds are of the domestic variety.   "I was trying to grate ginger," said the 30-year-old actor,...

On his first day on the set of "Killing Kennedy," Rob Lowe saw Ginnifer Goodwin donning a replica of the pink suit worn by first lady Jacqueline Kennedy when President John F. Kennedy was...