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…
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…
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 screening …
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.
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…
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?
Joe Wright's new film Hanna revolves around a 16-year-old girl, raised in the woods and trained to be an assassin. Much like Hit Girl in Kick Ass and Babydoll in Sucker Punch, Hanna is a fearless killing machine in the form of a young woman with a gun. However: Not all female action heroes are created equally. There's…
Hanna's about an ass-kicking teen assassin. This NYC screening was all about ass-kicking teen fashion.
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 the …
A 14-year-old trained assassin played by Saoirse Ronan? Yes, please, movie people!
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?
The British Academy Film Awards, perhaps better known as the BAFTAs, or "the British Oscars," are taking place in London this evening, and the stars are out in full force, wearing their glamorous awards-season best:
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]
[Tokyo, January 21. Image via Getty.]
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.
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.
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...
