Saoirse Ronan

Academy Awards: A recent L.A. Times study of the academy found that the median age of voting members is 62, and few members are too young to legally buy a beer. Among the youngest are 17-year-old Saoirse Ronan, who scored a supporting actress nod for...

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Trained as an assassin by her CIA-veteran father (Eric Bana), a youngster (Saoirse Ronan, reteaming with "Atonement" director Joe Wright) becomes the target of an intelligence agent (an appropriately steely Cate Blanchett) in this well-staged action tale....

Stphenenie Meyers' “Twilight” follow-up novel, “The Host,” will be a movie to be directed by Andrew “In Time” Niccol and starring Saoirse Ronan. Deadline.com says that Jake Abel and Max Irons are up for the male leads...

You or I don't always notice when a scene in a film has gone on a long time without an edit, the “long takes” Orson Welles, Hitchcock (in “Rope”) and Robert Altman (“The Player”) were famous for. But we can sense them....

Marcus found his way to the theater showing “The Way Back,” starring Ed Harris and Colin Farrell. The PG-13-rated film is a story inspired by true events in a Soviet prison escape during World War II. Based on the book “The Long Walk,&...

Evangeline Lilly has been cast as an elf character added by Peter Jackson in his movie version of "The Hobbit: -- and here are a few good reasons that "Hobbit" superfans should chill out about that....

At this point, it sure looks like we have solid Oscar front-runners for best picture ("The Social Network"), best actor (Colin Firth, "The King's Speech") and best actress (Natalie Portman, "Black Swan"). It's very possible that all three could trot...

“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...

"Blue Valentine" just got slapped with an NC-17 rating, which may hurt it at the box office and therefore at the Oscars, but it's certainly in the derby thanks to realistic, deeply felt performances by past nominees Michelle Williams and Ryan Gosling. See...

Click here to download TV listings for the week of Oct. 17 - 23 in PDF format Weekly TV Listings can also be downloaded here This week's TV Movies SCHOOL DAYS: Van Acker, left, Dyana Liu, Ryan Pinkston and Elise......

Actress Rachel Weisz and her partner of nine years, director Darren Aronofsky, split months ago, their reps have confirmed with several media outlets. The couple, who got engaged in 2005 but never married, have a son, Henry, who was born......