Hamish Linklater

CBS presented a 2013 fall schedule Wednesday morning that adds one drama and four new comedies for fall, two of which will debut on Thursday nights. The network is expanding its Thursday comedy block into a second hour, moving “Two and a Half Men&...

NEW YORK — Above all else, Rachel Robinson remembers the kissing. When the taunts at the ballpark grew too fierce and the naysayers too loud, her husband, Jackie, would come home to their Brooklyn apartment and the couple would try to block out...

Oscar nominee Christoph Waltz ("Django Unchained") hosts "Saturday Night Live" at 11:30 p.m. Saturday on NBC. Alabama Shakes is the musical guest. Could a good showing as host help Waltz at the Oscars? He is a competitor in the tightest category,...

The weekend highlights include the fall finales for two of TV's best dramas. “The Walking Dead” wraps up the audacious first half of its season at 9 p.m. Sunday on AMC. The next eight episodes start in February. So far, the season has been...

**1/2 (out of four) Does an all-over-the-place character necessitate an all-over-the-place movie? I don’t think so, though “Lola Versus” almost succeeds in embracing life’s messiness even when the film possesses no more...

"Lola Versus" is a comic case study of a yearlong emotional meltdown for an about-to-turn-30, angsty, artsy New Yorker. While that might not sound entertaining, it is made so by star Greta Gerwig, who inhabits Lola with an endearing ease. The about-to-...

Daryl Wein and Zoe Lister-Jones, the twentysomethings behind the new offbeat romantic comedy “Lola Versus,” endured a yearlong, real-life breakup whose spirit they funneled into the movie. For the film, which opens in Los Angeles Friday and...

"42," the Jackie Robinson baseball movie starring Harrison Ford as Branch Rickey, also features Hamish Linklater as Ralph Branca. Directed by Brian Helgeland, it will be released at the start of next year's baseball season....

Mr. Board was bored watching a movie based on a board game. Although I think it’s false to keep stating in reviews and press releases that this is based on the Hasboro game. It’s an alien invasion film with battleships. Other than missiles...

Greta Gerwig's Lola Versus, from Daryl Wein and Whitney star Zoe Lister-Jones, premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival on Tuesday....

  I have seen the future of great filmmaking…and her name is Miranda July. Of course, I thought that at various times with Quentin Tarantino and M. Night, so…maybe the jury’s still out. The Future is a quirky film I fell in love...

Writer-director Miranda July’s “The Future” is this year’s second movie to vocalize the thoughts of a pet (a cat named Paw Paw voiced by July). The first: a dog with audible opinions in “Beginners,” written and directed...