Gary Winick

When diagnosed with type 2 diabetes, Paul Sorvino worked with his doctor to create an overall treatment plan that included diet, exercise, and diabetes medications. He also realized the importance of support, and was thankful for his family and friends to...

Gary Winick, a pioneering producer and director of independent digital films who found mainstream success with such movies as "13 Going on 30" and "Letters to Juliet," has died. He was 49. Winick, who was diagnosed with brain cancer about two years ago,...

Romeo's true love wasn't a real person, but that doesn't keep women from writing her notes about their own romantic trials ... in this movie, at least, which boasts lovely Italian scenery. Amanda Seyfried ( "Mamma Mia!") plays an American in Verona who...

When you are feeling like a loser, taking a trip to loser-land may not be the most consoling recourse. Such, more or less, is the conclusion reached early on by Jim, the eponymous slacker played by Casey Affleck in Steve Buscemi's low-key comedy...

The new live-action rendering of E.B. White's perennial children's favorite, "Charlotte's Web," is so carefully spun that it's lifeless. Which is ironic because, since it was first published in 1952, the book the movie is based on has been a gentle...

Film producer Michael London has a few "Smart People" in mind for his next film. "Sideways" actor Thomas Haden Church, Rachel Weisz and Dennis Quaid are set to star in the indie comedy-drama helmed by first-time feature director Noam Murro, according...

"November" is not the sleek lady-in-distress thriller that its trailers suggest. More of a psychological mystery, it gets underway with a well-staged opening sequence as a young man (James Le Gros) stops at a corner market in Los Angeles one evening to...

Wim Wenders' "Land of Plenty" offers a thoughtful look at a post-9/11 United States from one of its most caring longtime observers, an artist whose vision of America can record terrible socioeconomic inequity, ignorance and paranoia yet somehow remain...

Spike Lee's planned NBC drama about post-Katrina New Orleans has fallen through, but the "Malcolm X" director has signed on to another project at the network. Lee will direct a drama pilot, formerly titled "M.O.N.Y.," about an unlikely candidate who...

The romance of the Sundance Film Festival is simple: It's the place where long-harbored dreams are first exposed to public view and, if favorably received, are launched into the world. Gordy Hoffman had been driving a cab in Chicago for 3 1/2 years...

"Chelsea Walls" is a beautiful, poetic film that captures the aspirations and struggles of a group of creative residents of Manhattan's landmark Chelsea Hotel, legendary home to artists and writers for whom it was built, a haven for such giants as Mark...

In the timely and scary "Final," Denis Leary gets the chance to give the major dramatic performance that one sensed he was capable of since he emerged as a comedian and actor. Leary combines unintimidating, easy to identify with looks and manner with a...