Doubt (movie)

You don't even need a mental image of Ron Howard to know that "Frost/Nixon" was made -- and made well -- by a very nice man. Richard M. Nixon is unlikely ever to get more sympathetic treatment on screen. David Frost's people paid Nixon's people $600,...

The movie is called "Doubt," but members of the Screen Actors Guild seem to have few misgivings about it. The film is the leading nominee for the 15th annual SAG Awards, which were announced Thursday (Dec. 18). It picked up five nominations -- individual...

Rumor has it that the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences may actually honor some movies at this year's Oscar ceremony. Movies, as opposed to, you know, filmsfilms. Movies are those big, loud, colorful things that play on many cineplex big...

Dorothea Holt Redmond, an illustrator and production designer who helped visualize several Alfred Hitchcock films and worked with Walt Disney to design a private apartment in Disneyland's New Orleans Square, has died. She was 98. Redmond died of...

Currently showing off her musical-comedy chops in the hit "Mamma Mia!," Meryl Streep may turn her attentions to a romantic comedy for Universal. According to Variety, the Oscar-winning actress is "in advanced negotiations" to play a woman at the center...

What are you going to do the day after the Oscars? Go to the Urth Caffé for breakfast, do the Oprah show, and then go to Japan to open " Australia." I love Oprah. She was the first person to ring me when I got the job. She called and said, "Gayle and...

Seeing Double Two great actresses received double nominations today: Meryl Streep was nominated for best actress (drama) for "Doubt" and best actress (musical or comedy) for "Mamma Mia!," her 22nd and 23rd career Globe nods (she's won six), and Kate...

For a movie that once looked like it might never make it into theaters, "Slumdog Millionaire" continued its remarkable ascendancy Thursday, as the love story of an Indian game show contestant collected four Golden Globe nominations, including top drama,...

The "Dutch angle" (or the "Batman angle," as it is often known in the U.S., for obvious reasons) was first used extensively in German Expressionist cinema -- "The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari" being a textbook example of the use of extremely odd angles. The...

Anne Hathaway seemed immensely proud of herself but also reluctant, initially, to make too big a deal of her experience filming the family dramedy " Rachel Getting Married." The loosely staged movie -- which follows a New England family over the course of...

Film fans, it's time to get your passports stamped. When the AFI Fest begins Thursday night, it will kick off 11 days of screenings and events that will bring some of the best films from the international festival circuit here to Los Angeles, including...

" Slumdog Millionaire," Danny Boyle's stirring fable about a young man who reflects upon his poverty-stricken life while competing to win 20 million rupees on India's version of "Who Wants Be A Millionaire," on Thursday was named best film of 2008 by...