... and a Duplass new year

Last year on New Year's Day, we watched movies according to an inadvertent theme: Step Brothers and Forgetting Sarah Marshall , our two...

Everybody works ... sometimes

You hear the phrase "working actor" thrown around in Hollywood, but it's almost never used in a strictly complimentary sense. ...

The next Casey Affleck

When I saw the name Scoot McNairy in the closing credits for Killing Them Softly on Saturday, I thought "Okay, maybe I did know that...

Why can't Nicole Kidman always be awesome?

Tom Cruise got his post yesterday, and among the settlements from their divorce many years ago is that Nicole must be given equivalent cov...

Tom Cruise can run

You know what a lot of actors can't do very well? Run. Lately I've been noticing it a lot. Scenes in movies or TV shows that are s...

Hunger-y eyes

I've been having a staring contest with Jennifer Lawrence since last Friday. That's when this issue of Entertainment Weekly arrived...

Solo men in dire straits

Now that I've revealed my favorite movie of 2010, I can freely discuss a recent pattern in my movie preferences. For the second year in...

Strings attached - to Portman's Oscar hopes

One of the surest bets on Tuesday is that Natalie Portman will receive her second Oscar nomination for her role in Black Swan . After all, s...

Jake Gyllenhaal finally does a romantic comedy

Jake Gyllenhaal has made exactly 20 feature films. It feels like more than that, doesn't it? And because this is his 20th film, I though...