The silent cinema’s greatest artist was born on April 16, 1889. And whether it was acting, writing, directing, or composing his own soundtracks, Chaplin did it all.
Watch: The Best Christmas Films of All-Time
I’m a sucker for George Bailey. The protagonist of Frank Capra’s 1946 film It’s A Wonderful Life is one of the most genuinely likable characters I’ve ever seen on screen — a kind man who’s flawed in all the right places.
War Horse: Spielberg’s Searing, Splendid Christmas Gift
How many Steven Spielbergs are there, anyway? One Spielberg released a 3-D animated comedy yesterday: The Adventures of Tintin. Another has an emotionally urgent live-action epic opening Christmas day: War Horse, the story of a …
Today’s Movie Trailer: Prometheus is Totally an Alien Prequel
Saying something doesn’t necessarily make it so. To hear star Michael Fassbender and director Ridley Scott talk about Prometheus over the past several months, you’d think it was the worst thing imaginable for the film to be a …
Cameron Crowe’s We Bought a Zoo is Pure Cornography
Star Matt Damon shines bright, but all else in blight, in this egregiously dewy family drama
Director Wim Wenders On Filming the Work of Pina Bausch in 3-D
Wenders spent 20 years trying to figure out how he could bring the experience of a live Pina show to the screen. When 3-D returned in popularity, he saw his chance.
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American Horror Story Finale: They Really Are a Screa-um, the Harmon Family!
Spoilers for the season finale of American Horror Story below:
If there is one thing I would not have predicted of American Horror Story when it began, it was that it would end up the season so straightforward and sensible. …
Angelina Jolie Goes Dark in the Land of Blood and Honey
In Angelina Jolie’s respectful and more than respectable directorial debut, the grimly immersive In the Land of Blood and Honey, a woman ends up in a Serbian rape camp overseen by a man she had a fleeting romance with on the …
8 Ways to Better Enjoy the Nutcracker
Though it was composed by a Russian and choreographed by a Frenchman in 1892, The Nutcracker is a decidedly American phenomenon. Somewhere in the mid-20th Century, the Tchaikovsky ballet caught on to become a stateside holiday …
Spielberg’s 3-D Cartoon Adventure: It’s Tintinastic!
The 65-year-old boy wonder finds a kindred spirit in Hergé’s teen hero, and the beloved comic book becomes a whirling, almost abstract miracle of nonstop motion
Brace Yourselves for Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close
Child star Thomas Horn is so good, Stephen Daldry’s weepfest nearly overcomes its Unbearable Cuteness
Three Cheers for Fashion Tourism: Come to Hong Kong for the Dim Sum, Stay for the Tailored Suits
In Anthony Bourdain’s new travel series, a quick visit to Hong Kong’s Simpson Sin suggests the rise of a whole new form of travel show
The Hobbit Trailer: Lord of the Rings Redux
It was ten years ago this month that The Fellowship of the Ring, the first part in one of the most ambitious sagas ever filmed, was released. Now, we have our first look at the prequel to that trilogy. And…it looks pretty much …