Jim Sturgess

The throes of winter might not have been the best time to ask moviegoers to sample a drama set in a Siberian gulag, but now that the season has changed, viewers might be more ready to embrace director-screenwriter Peter Weir's ("Witness") film. It's...

The voices behind the owls showed up for a pre-party and the premiere of "Legend of the Guardians: The Owls of Ga’Hoole" at Grauman's Chinese Theatre in Hollywood on Sunday — and because it's hard to resist animated animals in a tale of good versus...

In the “Guardians of Ga’Hoole” novels of Kathryn Lasky, owls have mastered fire and metallurgy and have been known to play the lute as they sing their epic poems about epic battles from days of yore. And in the film about them, they all sp...

“The Way Back” stars Ed Harris, Mark Strong, Colin Farrell, Jim Sturgess, men escaping from a Soviet gulag, hiking thousands of miles to freedom. Peter Weir directed this. Is it really his first film since the terrific “Master and...

Right now it looks like Colin Firth is far ahead in the Academy Award race for lead actor. All Oscarologists know that voters are suckers for actors who portray real-life characters (Forest Whittaker in "Last King of Scotland," Philip Seymour Hoffman in...

New movies are wisely staying out of the way of "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1," this weekend, except, of course, for Russell Crowe's -- his thriller "The Next Three Days" is the other lone wide release. Whether Crowe's (and Elizabeth...

We keep a running in-house tally of what's opening and when on the cinema scene, and a few times a year, I just dump the dates I have out on the blog here to give you an idea of what's opening, what it's about, and when. As May 6 is the more or less &#...

Dates are changing, studios are firming up release plans, figuring out what will actually be finished in time for this or that target date, in some cases. Films will be picked up at Sundance and find their way into theaters. Documentaries will find a...

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The director Peter Weir begins the conversation by stating the obvious. “I am drawn to big, difficult things that can hold my attention for two or three years. Outdoors, sure. Big cast? If I can get one. Distant locations? Certainly.” He’s...

Peter Weir's “The Way Back” is an entertaining old-fashioned prison escape movie with a touch of the epic about it. The novelty in this “Great Escape” is that the prisoners — soldiers and political prisoners — are on...

The legendary British horror label Hammer Films has Harry Potter star Daniel Radcliffe lined up for an upcoming feature — The Woman in Black. He'd play a lawyer–sorry, “solicitor” -- involved in settling an estate, meeting the...