For almost 90 years, The Great Gatsby has confounded filmmakers looking to bring F. Scott Fitzgerald's classic work of American literature to the big screen. So you can't fault Baz Luhrmann for trying something different with his attempt to crack...

According to writer/director Shawn Linden, part of the inspiration for his new film "The Good Lie" came from childhood, when he and his friends would swap increasingly outlandish stories around a campfire, each trying to outdo the last. And Linden clearly put all that practice to...

Let's be honest here: Michael Bay's last couple movies may have made big gains at the box office, but they've also been pretty painful to watch. So his new movie "Pain & Gain" is being billed as a "change of pace" for the blockbuster director since it only...

Baseball season may be officially underway, but with April weather notoriously unpredictable, it's not exactly prime time to be spending an evening at the ballpark. Fortunately for movie fans, there's a more climate-controlled way to get your spring baseball fix: "42," which arrives in theaters this Friday.

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The poster claims Evil Dead is "the most terrifying film you will ever experience." At SXSW, there were reports of audience members seeking shelter in the theater lobby midway through the premiere. And recent trailers show night-vision footage of audiences recoiling in fear, a marketing tactic...

When you make one movie with your family, it's a cute story, not to mention a cheap source of labor. But when you make three and counting, people start confusing your fictional creations with autobiography, as Judd Apatow and Leslie Mann are beginning to find out....

Steve Carell and Jim Carrey square off as rival magicians who find Las Vegas isn't big enough for both of their supersized egos in The Incredible Burt Wonderstone. From longtime 30 Rock director Don Scardino, the film stars Carell as the title hero who,...

With all the awards shows competing for our attention this time of year, it can seem like one gala event bleeds into the next. But to anyone starting to feel awards season fatigue, the newly-minted Canadian Screen Awards offers an antidote to that glut, combining the year's best of film,...

With "The Hangover," co-writers Jon Lucas and Scott Moore helped turn four hard-partying idiots and one crazy night into a billion dollar (and counting) franchise. So it only makes sense that they'd follow a similar formula for their directorial debut, "21 and Over," which is another feature-length ode...

One look at the creepy poster for "The Last Exorcism: Part II" and you know that Ashley Bell is tough -- not only did she literally bend over backwards for that painful-looking pose, the stunt sent her to the doctor afterwards and she still came back...

As Randy in "21 and Over," Jonathan Keltz gets shot at, gored, takes both a dart and a baseball bat to the face, and gets his phone, van, and girlfriend stolen -- and he's the bad guy in "Hangover" writers Jon Lucas and Scott Moore's directorial...

In "Dark Skies," Josh Hamilton plays Daniel Barrett, a character instantly familiar to anyone who's watched a horror movie lately -- for some reason, no matter how well-meaning, it's always the dad that's the last one to piece together exactly what evil is terrorizing his family....

For Cal Brunker, when his directorial debut "Escape from Planet Earth" hits theaters this Friday, it'll have been a long time in the making.

It's been almost seven years since the project first got underway at The Weinstein Company, and two and a half since Cal came...

You may have heard people call the upcoming "Beautiful Creatures" "the next 'Twilight,'" partly because those people apparently forgot they already used that comparison for "The Hunger Games," and partly because of the seemingly obvious similarities.

Based on the first of five books from Kami Garcia and Margaret...

Now that both the "Harry Potter" and "Twilight" series have wrapped up, there's a franchise-sized hole in many people's lives -- and studio executives are feeling the withdrawal just as much as fans. So the hunt is on for the next big young adult series, and "The Mortal...

In case you haven't heard, Arnold Schwarzenegger is back (again) for "The Last Stand," a goofy, bloody shoot-'em-up that marks Korean director Kim Jee-woon's US debut and Arnold's first starring role since "Terminator 3." But he's not the only one making a comeback with "The Last...

Maybe the biggest knock on Gangster Squad, the pulpy new mobster movie from Zombieland director Ruben Fleischer, is that we've seen most of this before. Loosely based on true events, and Paul Lieberman's book, there's organized crime and cops fighting it out for the fate of a city,...

It might be time to apologize for all those Ben Affleck jokes, because in the nearly 15 years since Matt Damon and Affleck took the Oscar podium for "Good Will Hunting," only one of them has become a successful writer/director -- and it's not Damon.

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Between his latest film and The 40-Year-Old Virgin, the big four-oh is obviously an important number for Judd Apatow (and, presumably, many others). But the semi-autobiographical This Is 40 doesn't just see the famously self-obsessed writer/director looking back at his own life, it also sees him...

For many, the holidays are all about returning home -- and for Ed Burns, his new film "The Fitzgerald Family Christmas" sees the writer, director, and actor going back to his roots in more ways than one.

Shot in his old neighborhood and featuring a cast...