The Impossible (movie)

LOS ANGELES -- "Beasts of the Southern Wild" star Quvenzhane Wallis is an actress of talent, poise and maturity well beyond her years. She was only 5 years old when she auditioned and 6 when she played the part of Hushpuppy, a little girl of fierce...

Ben Affleck's "Argo," a drama about the Iranian hostage crisis, won the highest acting honor Sunday night at the 19th Screen Actors Guild Awards. The CIA thriller, which won best ensemble cast, also won the directing honor at the Golden Globe Awards two...

On Sunday night, it's the actors' turn. Many critics groups and the Hollywood Foreign Press Assn. have already weighed in with their favorite films and performances of the year, and now the time has come for the Screen Actors Guild Awards. Oscar...

Oscar-winning director Kathryn Bigelow ("The Hurt Locker") has masterfully directed action and actors in "Zero Dark Thirty," a slow-burning re-creation of the hunt for Osama bin Laden. Like a crime thriller, the story takes us through unsettling...

There won't be much buzz at the box office on the first weekend of the new year, as only one new movie -- "Texas Chainsaw 3D" -- hits theaters nationwide. The horror flick starring the serial killer made famous in 1974's "The Texas Chainsaw Massacre" is...

"The Impossible" is a film that will not just keep you invested in the characters lives, but will make you care and cry for them as Juan Antonio Bayona skillfully develops the charters and the plot along with it. A recounting of the 2004 Indian Ocean...

Chances are most people won't ever have the chance to hold an Oscar statue, but one Herald-Mail reader will want to get his or her acceptance speech ready on Sunday, Feb. 24. That's when he or she correctly identifies the most winners in the 10...

"Lincoln," "Argo," "Les Miserables" and "Zero Dark Thirty" received multiple nominations for the 85th Academy Awards, as many pundits had predicted, but there were also several surprises on Thursday morning.  What does it all mean? Join Los Angeles...

The nominations for the 2013 Academy Awards will be announced Thursday morning at precisely 5:38 a.m. and 30 seconds (yes, it's that precise). You can watch Seth MacFarlane and Emma Stone announce the Oscar nominations live above. The event at the...

Everything that was false about the tsunami sequence in the recent Clint Eastwood film "Hereafter" — the bland overview perspectives, the lack of human immediacy — is corrected, terrifyingly, by the first half-hour of director J.A. Bayona's...

PALM SPRINGS -- Veteran Helen Mirren showed how to express gratitude like a pro, saying “thank you” in at least half a dozen languages. Fresh-faced Tom Holland, the 16-year-old actor from "The Impossible," charmed with his youth. But it was...

For this awards season, Hollywood came through with a bumper crop of movies that were critical and fan favorites. But in many cases, the big studios themselves can't take much of the credit. Among the films basking in Oscar nominations — and...