Olivia Thirlby

**1/2 (out of four) I’m not faulting Paul Dano for being one of the less (to put it nicely) screen-friendly presences in Hollywood. I am faulting “Being Flynn” for shoving Denise (Olivia Thirlby, excellent), a cute and extremely...

"The Darkest Hour" is the latest film to focus on the invasion of Earth by aliens from outer space. The strange invaders are without any solid form. They appear as shape-shifting units of powerful glowing energy. They float down from the sky looking very...

The Sundance Film Festival 2012 will be loaded with celebrity parties, and The Ministry has your guide. Get our lowdown on Sundance Film Festival parties featuring performances from Drake and cast parties for films like "Redlights," with Elizabeth Olsen...

Aug. 31 THE DEBT (Focus): Helen Mirren, Tom Wilkinson, Ciaran Hinds and Sam Worthington star in this remake of an award-winning Israeli thriller about a retired Mossad assassination team that has to revisit its biggest failure when a man it allegedly...

Sundance Film Festival announces its lineup for 2012 competition films. The Sundance Film Festival roster for the U.S. dramatic and U.S. documentary competition -- 16 movies in each category -- features some familiar names both in front of and behind...

Here's an arresting trailer for a film about a young aspiring novelist (Paul Dano) writing and volunteering among the homeless in search of –literally and literarily — for his father (Robert DeNiro). Lili Taylor and Julianne Moore also star in...

NO STRINGS ATTACHED (2011/B-/Directed by Ivan Reitman/Starring Natalie Portman, Ashton Kutcher, Kevin Kline, Cary Elwes, Greta Gerwig, Lake Bell, Mindy Kaling, Olivia Thirlby, Chris Bridges/DreamWorks//Rated R/Comedy/107 minutes/Available on: DVD and Blu-...

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...

Ivan Reitman — whose directing career (“Ghostbusters”) is so long in the tooth that he actually has a son, Jason, directing Oscar-worthy comedies — has his best outing in decades with “No Strings Attached,” an amusing...