Mary Elizabeth Winstead

The first in what I dearly hope is a trilogy to include "Calvin Coolidge: Exorcist" and "George W. Bush: Werewolves Is Comin'," the frenzied and occasionally diverting mashup"Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter" rewrites American history so that the Civil War...

On NBC’s fantastic “Parks and Recreation,” Nick Offerman has turned Ron Swanson into such a spectacular, hilarious symbol of contained emotion and old-fashioned, meat-and-potatoes masculinity that it feels necessary to establish that...

Zero stars (out of four) I don’t know when or how “A Glimpse Inside the Mind of Charles Swan III” came about, but here’s the phone conversation that may as well have taken place between star Charlie Sheen and writer/director Roman...

To bond as married alcoholics for the Sundance hit “Smashed,” co-stars Mary Elizabeth Winstead and Aaron Paul, appropriately, went out and got drunk. “I don’t know what I really learned about myself from that particular night...

* (out of four) If “history prefers legends to men,” as “Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter” claims, wouldn't history books have been delighted to include the legend of the time a vampire picked up a horse and threw it at one of...

The Hero Complex Film Festival kicked off Friday evening with a 25th anniversary screening of “They Live,” a 35th anniversary […]...

Much has changed socially and politically since the release of “They Live,” John Carpenter's 1988 sci-fi action film about a […]...

When Oscar winner Ben Kingsley signed on to play the Mandarin in “Iron Man 3,” he joined a legion of ......

The big new release this week is Life of Pi, which won four Oscars (and was nominated for seven additional Oscars — and many other awards). The film won for: Best Achievement in Cinematography, Best Achievement in Directing, Best Achievement in...

Optimism is running high for distribution deals at the Sundance Film Festival but box-office success isn’t guaranteed....

Golden Globes viewers got a glimpse of the unruly charm of Octavia Spencer when she stood up and showed some genuine emotion in accepting her supporting actress prize for "The Help," then followed it with an impassioned speech that cited Martin Luther...

The Sundance film festival movie “Smashed,” about a hard-drinking young woman who decides to get sober after one too many late nights, mixes in lightness with the seriousness. It’s an alcoholism drama, lo-fi style....