Amanda Peet

"Syriana" is a film of paradoxes, contradictions and complications. It's a political thriller that thrives on misdirection, on hiding information just as it hides glamorous George Clooney behind a rumpled exterior and a full beard. Even its title is a...

It occurred to me the other day that "Prison Break" could end with, you know, everybody dying. After all, death becomes this show. Sure, "24" started the trend of no one is safe (opening credits be dammed), but "Prison Break" has taken it to a whole...

NBC has made an official commitment to "Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip," giving the Aaron Sorkin drama a spot on its fall schedule for 2006-07. The early pickup isn't too much of a surprise, given its pedigree -- Sorkin and fellow executive producer...

It's not the Emmys or even the Golden Globes, but like Reese Witherspoon said, we're just trying to matter. So thank you so much for voting in the 2006 Amy Awards. I have so much fun doing this every year because you pick the categories, you pick the...

Former "Arrested Development" star Jason Bateman has developed into a first-time father. The actor and his wife Amanda Anka welcomed a baby girl on Saturday (Oct. 28) in Los Angeles, reports People. They named their first child Francesca Nora Bateman,...

PERHAPS the explosion of cosmetic surgery in Los Angeles, a phenomenon that has spread to all corners of the civilized world, can be traced to the gene pool theory. Pay attention: There might be a quiz later, and the high scorer wins five free Botox...

Release dates are subject to change. Nov. 23 The Ice Harvest - Harold Ramis stretches a bit with this comic thriller, in which John Cusack's sleazebag lawyer lusts after Connie Nielsen's strip-club owner. Billy Bob Thornton, so good at playing...

Amanda Peet should have her hands full with the premiere of her latest TV series "Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip" on the horizon, but she's also got something new in the works for her personal life. The "Whole Nine Yards" actress and her fiancee are...

Alec Baldwin has hosted "Saturday Night Live" a dozen times over the years, including five shows since Tina Fey has been its head writer. Now the two of them may be working together a lot more, as Baldwin is on the verge of being cast in an NBC pilot...

Tuesday February 22, 2000      When renowned British explorer Sir Ernest Shackleton embarked upon a bold attempt to cross the continent of Antarctica via the South Pole in 1914, among the crew of 27 aboard his sailing ship Endurance was the already...

At a motel along a deserted stretch of a Nevada highway, 10 people take shelter during a storm only to be killed, one by one, in the sleek and clever thriller "Identity." Throughout, the film teeters tantalizingly on the preposterous, but James Mangold'...

Ah, the complications of age-appropriate romance in the movies. It's the comic gift of "Something's Gotta Give" and its writer-director, Nancy Meyers, to make the romantic relationship between a 63-year-old man and a fiftysomething woman — no big...