Michael Mann's "Blackhat" begins with the camera slowly descending from above Earth, diving down into a nuclear facility, and submerging into the underlying, twisting maze of electronic circuitry. A...

Ah, to de-glam. It's one of the surest shortcuts to newfound artistic appreciation: a bedraggled deviation into dowdy drama by a beautiful star. Acclaim by way of sweatpants. "Cake," in which...

Time travel. There's hardly a more alluring fantasy in our pop culture, from the simplest depictions - children's cartoons, comic strips, romantic comedy films -to the "Interstellar" kind that you...

"Transformers: Age of Extinction" is rolling out with the most nominations at this year's Golden Raspberry Awards. The action sequel starring Mark Wahlberg alongside morphing robots led all films...

Ridley Scott did not originally want to make "Exodus: Gods and Kings." "It's biblical, and I was afraid of all those associations," the 77-year-old filmmaker said. The script convinced him,...

If you're one of those who fondly recalls spending the '60s luxuriating in a pleasantly disorienting haze, well, consider "Inherent Vice" a reunion of sorts. You'll fit right in. If, on the other...

To what do we owe the second coming of the biblical epic? A genre that was once as moldy as stale communion wafers has been reborn this year, first with Darren Aronofsky's "Noah" and now with...

The numbers are unavoidable. Paul Thomas Anderson has made seven feature films and he has made seven films set in California. "It's just there, isn't it?" sighs Anderson. "If...

At Sunday's premiere of "Selma" in New York, the cast acknowledged parallels between their film about the African-American civil rights movement and recent protests nationwide, calling...

Responding for the first time to the firestorm that erupted over the lack of diversity in this year's Oscar nominations, film academy president Cheryl Boone Isaacs says the all-white acting slate...