Frances O'Connor

Arguably best-known as manic Hollywood agent Ari Gold on "Entourage," multiple Emmy winner Jeremy Piven departs considerably from that persona to play the mogul behind a legendary London department store in this drama series from writer Andrew Davies ("...

From the nation that brought you "Are You Being Served?" comes "Mr. Selfridge," a loose dramatization of the founding of a British retail institution, the Selfridge & Co. department store, familiarly called Selfridges. Its eight-part run begins Sunday,...

PARK CITY, Utah -- The Sundance Film Festival is rightly famous for launching the careers of eminent filmmakers — directors Quentin Tarantino, Wes Anderson, Steven Soderbergh and Bryan Singer, to name just a few, all were discovered in Park City....

AMERICAN REUNION *1/2 (C-) Directed by Jon Hurwitz, Hayden Schlossberg Starring Jason Biggs, Eugene Levy, Alyson Hannigan, Seann William Scott, Chris Klein, Thomas Ian Nicholas, Eddie Kaye Thomas, Ali Cobrin, Tara Reid, Mean Suvari, Natasha Lyonne,...

"True Blood" star Marshall Allman is fuming over the Funny Or Die video that exposes the "method shapeshifting" process he uses to play Tommy Mickens on the hit HBO series. "Yeah, your laughter is my shame," he told me Thursday over the phone from...

Kiele Sanchez's character on "Lost" has barely been introduced this season, but the actress may be moving on to another ABC project. Sanchez has signed on to the network's pilot "Football Wives," headlining the latest round of casting at the Alphabet....

The most exciting part of "Timeline," Richard Donner's dud of a time-warp adventure, is the big, blazing balls of death hurled from the trebuchets, catapults used by medieval armies to hurl flaming orbs and the occasional poor soul at the enemy. No one...

Friday November 14, 1997      Imagine Terrence Malick's "Badlands" done as black comedy, with the rural atmosphere of "Psycho" and dialogue rubbed against flint, and you are in the general vicinity of writer-director Bill Bennett's deliciously twisted...

Thursday November 18, 1999      With its self-effacing heroine and deeply moral concerns, "Mansfield Park" is Jane Austen's unlikeliest candidate for screen success, but that hasn't stopped writer-director Patricia Rozema from trying. She's turned what...

Finally, inevitably, John Woo has gone to war. Starting with Hong Kong classics like "A Better Tomorrow" and "Hard-Boiled," and continuing into Hollywood extravaganzas "Face/Off" and "Mission: Impossible 2," Woo is his generation's preeminent...

Friday October 15, 1999      Cedric Kahn's relentless "L'Ennui" is such a rigorous exploration of sexual obsession that it proves to be a most demanding film. Virtually devoid of eroticism and sensuality, it depicts with the utmost realism a 17-year-...

Friday October 20, 2000      Selling your soul to the devil is not just a figure of speech, it happens in the movie business all the time. In fact, it seems to have happened with "Bedazzled," a film about just such a transaction.      Inspired by the...