John Michael McDonagh's 2011 debut, "The Guard," provided the wonderful Brendan Gleeson with a vehicle for some of his best screen work, playing an Irish West Country cop unencumbered by...

A year after playing Jackie Robinson in "42," Chadwick Boseman was back in biopic spring training.   To become James Brown for the film "Get on Up," Boseman...

Helen Mirren lowers her voice to a whisper and her eyes take on a devious twinkle as she makes a confession: When she has a really good time making a movie, as she did on "The Hundred-Foot...

Visiting a retired Frank Capra at his Sierra Nevada hideaway, Clint Eastwood was baffled.   "I always thought: 'He could be making a film right now. He's as lucid as could be....

Throughout his long career, Woody Allen has been fascinated by magic, a theme he's explored frequently onscreen: playing a magician in "Scoop," sending Owen Wilson on time travel in...

He was South Africa's last white president, overshadowed by Nelson Mandela when they plotted the historic transition to a multi-racial democracy for which both men won the Nobel Peace Prize in...

The high-concept comedies spawned by "The 40-Year-Old Virgin" need to start using birth control.   Judd Apatow's landmark film rightfully ushered in a new era in comedy, but it...

There’s a lot more purging going on in this inevitable sequel to last summer’s surprise horror hit “The Purge.”   Expanding the parameters of the low-budget original...

You'll have to say one thing for Brett Ratner's production of "Hercules": This movie has a sense of proportion. Running just over 90 minutes, the movie is often clunky, but at least...

Hollywood star Tom Hanks has started shooting portions of his newfilm "A Hologram for the King" in Egypt's Red Sea resort city of Hurghada, the country's state news agency...