The opening days of the Toronto International Film Festival saw a trio of tragicomedies combine humor with pain, often with mixed results.   The balancing act can be precarious....

Swedish director Roy Andersson won the Venice FilmFestival's Golden Lion on Saturday for his absurdist drama "A Pigeon Sat on a Branch Reflecting on Existence." That counts as a...

"Very soon, this whole structure that we all love so much will be gone," prophesies Danny Huston's wide-grinning movie studio head in Ari Folman's "The...

In "The Longest Week," Jason Bateman plays a privileged, pampered, narcissistic New Yorker whose sole effort at productivity in life is his meandering work on a novel called "The...

Some may pine for George Clooney's chin or Scarlett Johansson's lips, but no body part should be more envied than Elmore Leonard's ear.   Leonard's dialogue seemed to have...

He has lied, cheated and killed, but "House of Cards" President Frank Underwood isn't done yet. Next he's going to sing.   Two-time Academy Award winner Kevin Spacey will...

"The Good Wife," ''Homeland," ''Scandal," ''Nurse Jackie" and, well, "Girls" are just a few current shows that put women front and...

Onetime 007 Pierce Brosnan embraces a darker take on spycraft in Roger Donaldson's "The November Man," playing a former CIA agent whose autumnal nickname acknowledges his tendency to...

"Abandon all hope, ye who enter here," is the inscription uncovered by a gang of 20-something treasure hunters in the catacomb-hopping horror flick, "As Above, So Below." But the...

It's a time-honored rite harking back to an era of black-and-white TVs and the trio of networks whose programs they delivered: the grand unveiling of new fall fare.   As part of the...