We live in an age of cultural morbidity, which is exactly why we're getting yet another post-apocalyptic fantasy/nightmare movie — to let us all indulge our cynicism towards the human race. How I Live Now, based on Meg Rosoff's 2004 YA novel about a Manhattanite teenager who goes to live on a remote English farm… » 8/18/13 5:30pm 8/18/13 5:30pm

Violet and Daisy stars Alexis Bledel and Saoirse Ronan as two big-city gals just trying to make some extra money. By waiting tables, you ask? No, of course not — what a banal question. They kill people for money, people like James Gandolfini, a mysterious mark who might also be a therapist. He at least asks… » 5/02/13 11:00am 5/02/13 11:00am

Even though I've read stuff about the movie The Host — based on a novel by Twilight's Stephenie Meyer — I have no idea WTF it's about. Aliens, body image, love? (Also, I've already seen an awesome movie called The Host, it was a Korean monster movie.) All I know is there were some cute dresses on display at a… » 3/28/13 12:05pm 3/28/13 12:05pm

The final Twilight film is about to hit theaters, but we're not done with Stephenie Meyer projects yet: The film adaptation of the writer's sci-fi-romance novel, The Host, will be released in March 2013. » 11/15/12 6:30pm 11/15/12 6:30pm

Comic writer Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa — who has written for Big Love, Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark and worked on the graphic novel adaptation of Stephen King's The Stand — is penning the script for a remake of 1976 horror film Carrie. For those unfamiliar with the story, the trailer above gives most of it away: Carrie… » 5/20/11 4:50pm 5/20/11 4:50pm

On Friday, the film tied with Arthur for second place behind Hop, and ended up grossing a respectable $12 million this weekend. Did anyone see it? And do you agree that the director got it right? » 4/11/11 12:15pm 4/11/11 12:15pm

Hanna's about an ass-kicking teen assassin. This NYC screening was all about ass-kicking teen fashion. » 4/07/11 10:40am 4/07/11 10:40am

Eric Bana always has the air of being ready to do a stunt, if necessary. Like Oscar Wilde and his wallpaper, Alice Callahan's dress and tights are engaged in mortal combat. Model Irina Sheik may be taking…

• As we know, Oprah found her long-lost sister. They laughed, they cried, they went on teevee and held hands. But what we don't know is how Oprah's BFF Gayle King feels about all this.
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A 14-year-old trained assassin played by Saoirse Ronan? Yes, please, movie people! » 12/21/10 1:24pm 12/21/10 1:24pm

Not one but two new "Snow White" movies are in the works, with all kinds of weird casting being batted around. Who would you choose? » 12/14/10 5:20pm 12/14/10 5:20pm

In The New York Times Magazine this weekend and online now: While Gabby Sidibe was shot in a Palm Beach-like interior, Saoirse Ronan, Abbie Cornish, Carey Mulligan, and Emily Blunt look stuck in a Lars Von Trier movie. [NYT] » 2/17/10 5:40pm 2/17/10 5:40pm

• Blake Fielder-Civil says he and ex-wife of seven months Amy Winehouse are planning to remarry. "Amy's wearing the Tiffany ring I bought for her three years ago, again. We've been meeting up and talking about the old times," he says.
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• "When we try to go to TGI Friday's or Applebee's, we can't eat because people go crazy." It has gotten so Snookie has taken to trying to conceal her identity behind sunglasses, even at night. [Page Six]
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[Tokyo, January 21. Image via Getty.] » 1/21/10 6:50pm 1/21/10 6:50pm

Awards show season kept rolling right along last night with the 15th annual Critic's Choice Awards, and though not everyone left with a statue, the night was a victory for mostly everyone on the red carpet. » 1/16/10 11:40am 1/16/10 11:40am

• Earlier this week on The View, Joy Behar joked about Tiger Woods' mistress Rachel Uchitel: "Yeah, you-ka-tell she's a hooker." Uchitel didn't find it so funny, and her lawyer threatened to sue the show.
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Critics were horrified by The Lovely Bones, and not because it deals with the rape and murder of a 14-year-old girl. In Peter Jackson's hands, the complex themes of Alice Sebold's award-winning book are reduced to a sentimental CGI whodunit. » 12/11/09 6:40pm 12/11/09 6:40pm

For a movie about a young girl who's raped and murdered, people sure looked happy at The Lovely Bones premiere at Grauman's Chinese Theatre. Rachel Weisz and Saoirse Ronan, in fact, looked amazing. And then there were the 90s flashbacks... » 12/08/09 10:30am 12/08/09 10:30am