Even during "Mad Men" episodes that don't heavily feature Roger Sterling, it's now conventional wisdom that star John Slattery will provide one laugh-...

Yes, there's a new Hobbit movie coming out soon. (The first of three Hobbit movies, actually.) But, most of the buzz -- both good and bad -- stems from the fact that The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey will be shown on a special kind of film with a rate of 48 frames per second. Truth be told, I had no idea what this meant when it was first announced.

It's strange to think that we almost live in the future. At least, the future that director Robert Zemeckis and producer Bob Gale envisioned in "Back ...

As a person in his 30s, I have never before been referred to as an "old fogey." Then again, I have also never before been in a give-and-take conversat...

For someone in their mid-to-late 30s, 1980's "Flash Gordon" holds a dear, dear place in that person's heart, no matter how campy it might be. (Not to ...

When Matthew McConaughey calls, he introduces himself by simply saying, "McConaughey." This has probably been his introduction of choice for some time...

It's hard to remember a time when Ian McKellen wasn't a hero to nerd culture, owing to his unforgettable portrayals of Gandalf the Grey, in "The Lord ...

On December 14, Peter Jackson makes his fourth cinematic foray into J.R.R. Tolkien's Middle-earth with The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey, the firs...

Quentin Tarantino's Django Unchained is, perhaps, the most anticipated movie of the season because, well, it's a movie directed by Quentin Tarantino and people like his movies. With two more ados before we start, the movie stars Jamie Foxx and Christoph Waltz as men hunting bounty in the old South a few years before the Civil War. With one more ado, it also stars Leonardo DiCaprio as a plantation owner who happens to own Django's wife (Kerry Washington). Are there any further ados? There appear to be no further ados. So, with no further ado, we answer every question that you could possibly have about Django Unchained.

In 2011, Jessica Chastain was everywhere. This is just barely hyperbole, as Chastain appeared in seven -- seven! -- movies in 2011. When she was done,...

It's always interesting to to see what a directer who's just won the Academy Award chooses for his next project. It's a little different for actors --...

Until five years ago, it's safe to say that almost no one in the United States had heard of Christoph Waltz. The actor had worked for many years, most...

Lesson learned: if you refer to a plot point in a Quentin Tarantino movie as "harebrained," Quentin Tarantino just might want to speak to you about yo...

Samuel L. Jackson does not mince his words. At all. After spending 20 minutes in a room with the actor, who reunites with "Pulp Fiction" director Quen...

Now it makes perfect sense that Kathryn Bigelow would direct "Zero Dark Thirty," the controversial new film that chronicles the hunt for Osama bin Lad...

"The Guilt Trip" is a far cry from working choreography on "The Flintstones." Nothing against the John Goodman not-really-a-classic, but it's remarkab...

When Quentin Tarantino sent word that he wanted to speak to me personally about my review of his latest movie, "Django Unchained," I was pretty sure h...

Here is a list of my favorite movies from 2012. I was considering writing a longer introduction -- perhaps framing 2012 as a banner year for cinema, which it was -- but I will just leave it at "here is a list of my favorite movies from 2012" because, no matter how good or bad a given year is, I always end up with 10 favorite movies. So here they are.