
Oscar snubs: Musical chairs in the director's seat
In this year's Oscar nominations, the director's seat was the hot seat. In the now heavily analyzed awards season, unequivocal snubs have become less ...

In bite-sized roles, Gandolfini ubiquitous again
In the five years since "The Sopranos" ended, James Gandolfini has eschewed the spotlight, instead disappearing into a heap of character actor ...

After 'The Sopranos,' a bigger screen for Chase
After "The Sopranos" went black, David Chase's next move was never in question: He would make a movie. In all Chase's time toiling as a writer in ...

Review: 'Zero Dark Thirty' is massive, meticulous
Until the very end, she is described as "The Girl." Even after a relentless, decade-long pursuit that leads to the daring midnight raid of Osama bin ...

Hunting bin Laden and history in 'Zero Dark 30'
Kathryn Bigelow and Mark Boal were knee-deep in preparing the follow-up to their Oscar-winning "The Hurt Locker," a film that would chronicle the ...

Nearing 50, a heightened perspective for Pitt
The face is hardly wrinkled and the long blond locks appear unchanged, but Brad Pitt, who will turn 49 in December, is increasingly preoccupied with ...

Capsule reviews of new movie releases
"The Central Park Five" — This documentary takes an emotionally charged subject — the wrongful conviction and imprisonment of five black and Hispanic ...

Review: 'Softly' hammers its message hard
Writer-director Andrew Dominik's "Killing Them Softly" is an incredibly stylish genre exercise set in the world of mobsters, junkies and lowlifes, but ...