Ghosts of Girlfriends Past (movie)

Welcome to Questions of Characters, the column that puts a name to some of the most familiar faces in movies, on television, the stage and commercials who either hail from Chicago or have spent enough time here to consider it home. Name: Daniel...

Acting couple Ben Affleck and Jennifer Garner are the latest owners of a California ranch house in the Pacific Palisades that has been capturing the imagination of A-listers since Gregory Peck bought it in 1947. The pair recently purchased the nearly 8,...

If you haven't been living on the moon, you know that this Sunday the Super Bowl will be played (and if you didn't know, you can find the details of the monstrous amount of coverage here). It's become a national holiday of sorts, and also a day on which...

Matthew McConaughey has just cracked open his second Corona when the man wearing Mardi Gras beads and a Village People policeman's cap approaches his car. "Do you know Duane?" the inebriated-looking man asks with suspicion, poking his head inside the...

“Mr. Popper’s Penguins” is precious, protracted and pleasant enough, if not exactly potty trained. It pops from beloved children’s book to the screen as a passable time-passer for the pre-school set. Oh, the alliteration! That&#...

Call Emma Stone “the lucky one.” And not just because of her red-hot career. She burst on the movie scene as a no-nonsense, smoky-voiced object of desire in 2007’s “Superbad” and has been making movies, wall-to-wall and back-...

Matthew McConaughey has been missing from the big screen for a couple of years. There were other things he had on his mind, other priorities. “Took two years off,” he says in that soft Texas drawl that helped make him a star. made him a star....

Matthew McConaughey, Bradley Cooper or ... an alien? Each will carry a new film at the box office this weekend, but moviegoers may have a difficult time choosing between the two handsome leading men and a decidedly less attractive protagonist.......

Jennifer Garner is in final negotiations to co-star with Ricky Gervais in the comedy "This Side of the Truth." Gervais and Matthew Robinson are co-writing and co-directing the project, which focuses on a land in which lying doesn't exist. Gervais will...

Directed by Mark Waters (Freaky Friday, Mean Girls) Written by John Lucas & Scott Moore (Four Christmases) Stars: MATTHEW MCCONAUGHEY (A Time to Kill, EDTV) JENNIFER GARNER (13 Going on 30, "Alias") MICHAEL DOUGLAS (Wall Street, The...

Emma Stone and Kathy Bates are looking ahead to their next roles. " The House Bunny's" Stone has signed on for "Easy A," according to Variety. The movie follows a high-school student (Stone) who, having faked sluttiness in exchange for popularity,...

Matthew McConaughey is going to court and Tobey Maguire is going for the checkered flag. McConaughey will play the title role in an adaptation of Michael Connelly's 2005 novel "The Lincoln Lawyer," according to Variety. No, it's not a celebration of Abe'...