The last time filmmaker Martin Scorsese delved into the world of terror, it was for his 1991 remake of the 1962 thriller Cape Fear starring Robert De Niro. Over eighteen years later, he’s exploring some of the same territories of fear and suspense in Shutter Island, his adaptation of Dennis Lehane’s novel.
The eerie film reteams him with [...]

Opening on February 26 is The Crazies, Overture Films’ remake of the 1973 George Romero film of the same name.  Starring Timothy Olyphant, Radha Mitchell, and Danielle Panabaker, it centers on a small town whose residents become infected by a virus that causes them to go…well, you know.  Recently, I got the opportunity to do a phone interview [...]

“Shutter Island,” which opens Friday, is the fourth film Leonardo DiCaprio and Martin Scorsese have made together, and the most unexpected. It’s not a biopic (”The Aviator”) or a modern gangster movie (”The Departed”) or a historical gangster movie (”Gangs of New York”). It securely occupies that most American of genres, the film noir — the dark film, [...]

Brooklyn-born Noah Baumbach turns to Los Angeles for the first time for the setting of his new film ”Greenberg.” Using an original story he devised with his wife, actress Jennifer Jason Leigh, the film follows a forty-something character, Roger Greenberg, played by Ben Stiller, who claims to be “doing nothing.” He’s given up on his early [...]

In 1984, Paul Reubens was looking for a director. The film in development was Pee-wee’s Big Adventure (1985), and Reubens, who had been working on the perversely juvenile conceptual-art project for about 15 years, was desperate to find someone he could trust to direct it with style. So, as people in Los Angeles do, he asked [...]

Unless you’re really unfamiliar with 24, it’s not much of a spoiler to say that, since Season Eight exists, Kiefer Sutherland’s long-suffering action hero has survived the effects of last season’s bio-weapon and is back fighting terrorism once again.
Executive Producer Howard Gordon, who has been with the series since its inception and has been 24’s showrunner for [...]

Twin brothers Albert and Allen Hughes burst on the filmmaking scene with the 1993 urban drama “Menace II Society.” But the duo’s Alcon-produced, Warner Bros.-distributed “Book of Eli,” is their first since 2001’s “From Hell.”
Albert Hughes: I moved to Prague eight years ago. I have a kid in Los Angeles so I come out and [...]

The world of filmmaking is changing drastically and to understand how the technology is being shaped and used by current filmmakers, it’s often better to hear it straight from the horse’s mouth.
James Cameron and Peter Jackson are the kings of the CGI world. Cameron, of course, directed Titanic, the highest-grossing movie of all time—which he says [...]

Maggie Gyllenhaal is one of those actresses whose easy charm has graced many movies yet you can’t point to exactly any one movie you’ve seen her in. Of course, fans will know her from ‘The Dark Knight’ and ‘Secretary’.
It may seem an unlikely matchup, but Jeff Bridges and Maggie Gyllenhaal star as romantics who have a whirlwind [...]