Now comes the hard part for Daniel Radcliffe. With the Harry Potter series at the end, the young man is now faced with making the transition to successful adult actor. Choosing smart scripts that will...

At the age of 59, Liam Neeson has become a bona fide action star, a go-to guy who audiences have willingly embraced in the well-worn genre. There’s a lived-in quality to his characters; these me...

Upon seeing mixed martial arts champion Gina Carano dispatch one of her opponents during a short-lived title match, director Stephen Soderbergh wondered why no one had turned her into an action star. ...

Character actors are made, not born. Often circumstances steer performers towards a career consisting mostly of supporting roles. James Cromwell would agree with this sentiment as he’s fashioned...

Along with Hugo and Drive, also 2011 releases, Michel Hazanavicius’ The Artist is a film steeped in the history of American cinema. With nods towards A Star is Born, Citizen Kane and Singin&rsqu...

From the 1930s through the 1950s, double features were common in American cinemas and the film that played on the lower part of the bill was referred to as a B-movie. These were exercises in narrative...

With its labyrinthine plot, shifting narrative threads and myriad characters, Tomas Alfredson’s adaptation of John le Carre’s classic spy novel, Tinker Tailor Solider Spy, may be initially...

Some 10 years later, we’re still trying to come to terms with the attacks of 9/11. Perhaps the most important aspect of art is that it allows us to examine tragedies of this sort in an attempt t...