"The Master" is a movie people are going to be talking about for a long time. Paul Thomas Anderson's haunting meditation on friendship, manipulation and man's desperate search for sanity is more enigmatic than his earlier films -- it neither grabs you by the throat, like "There Will Be Blood,"...

Bryan Cranston tried out for a role in Alexander Payne's next project, the road-trip movie "Nebraska," but probably won't get the role, the director told The Huffington Post today.

"He's auditioned already," Payne said of Cranston in an interview timed to coincide with yesterday's DVD release of "The Descendants." "I...

The peculiar logic of awards season requires all would-be Oscar winners to prove their Kodak Theater-worthiness by delivering a series of increasingly tasteful, humble, entertaining, and moving speeches over the course of several dozen black-tie events. So while you may think the Golden Globes victories are meaningless for the movie...

New York City is awash in perks, and those who are talented, shameless and/or craven enough to gain access to them tend to take their privileges for granted after not very much time at all. An expense-account dinner at a Michelin star restaurant? Sounds nice, but what's the cab situation...

Say what you will about 2011, but there sure were a lot of great acting performances by women. So many that, according to the self-appointed prognosticators over at Gold Derby, Rooney Mara, Kirsten Dunst, Elizabeth Olsen, Charlize Theron, Scarlett Johansson and about 900 other female forces of nature...

You don't have to admire the political record of former British prime minister Margaret Thatcher to appreciate Meryl Streep's virtuoso acting performance in "The Iron Lady." Rarely has such an instantly identifiable movie star disappeared so completely into a role.

The film presents a Thatcher long past her prime:...

I grew up rooting for the New York Yankees, and even I know that a team can't win the championship every year, no matter how much money it spends. Sure, one should always be skeptical when the front office claims to be in the midst of a "rebuilding year," since...