Modern Family: In Asgar Farhadi’s A Separation, a family falls apart and a child falls from grace in a testament to the bonds between a father and daughter
Director Asghar Farhadi’s A Separation, about the consequences in a middle-class Iranian family when the parents decide to split, which reverberate in their community, could easily be [...]

In the new adaptation of John le Carré beloved Cold War thriller Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, Gary Oldman delivers an engrossing performance as George Smiley, the retired head of the British secret service, who goes back into the fray to hunt a Russian mole hiding somewhere within the establishment.

I caught up with actor Fassbender and filmmaker McQueen recently to discuss their latest daring collaboration, as well as notions of intimacy and connection in the modern world.

The tall, vivacious and good humored strawberry blonde takes a huge step forward in Alexander Payne’s new family reconciliation drama The Descendants, which finds the actress starring opposite George Clooney in an economical but pivotal role as the put upon wife of a philanderer who dallied with Clooney’s spouse.

“Hi, I’m Lizzie, nice to meet you,” greets actress Elizabeth Olsen, joining myself and Martha Marcy May Marlene director Sean Durkin to discuss the pair’s tale of a fragile young woman who flees a cult only to be haunted by paranoia, seeking refuge at the serene lake house of her alienated older sister. [...]

I caught up with Brewer, Hough and Wormald recently to discuss the relevance of their new update and personal connections to the material.

Gerard Butler has played some epic characters in his prolific Hollywood career—Beowulf (Beowulf and Grendel) and King Leonidas (300) come to mind, as well as his upcoming turn in Ralph Fiennes Coriolanus. But perhaps his latest role, as a crusading American missionary who takes on an evil African warlord to protect a country’s children—it’s all true, by the way—is perhaps his most epic, the story of a flawed man who hits rock bottom to find redemption as both a savior and an unlikely mercenary.

I recently met with director Oliver Schmitz and actress Manyaka to discuss Life Above All’s headstrong young heroine, her loss of innocence and the challenges of orphaned children in South Africa.

I recently caught up with the Vera Farmiga at Chicago’s Peninsula Hotel to discuss Higher Ground, notably her thoughts on directing a hot button issue—religion—with a fair and objective point of view.

What’s most effective here is a fully-developed, CGI-driven character—the only dimensional one in the film, actually—and that is Caesar himself, played with marvelous invention by Andy Serkis.