Bryan Singer was an X-factor when he took the helm of the first X-Men film. He was a smart indie director who knew his way around a twisting plot and carefully choreographed action sequences. But   

As in a dream, Jesus brings me a side of scrambled eggs. He wears a big smile and a shiny nametag, every hair in place. Brings me coffee, too. All around us are ancient hardwood, marble and finer  

At this point in the brief career of Max Minghella, son of director Anthony Minghella (The Talented Mr. Ripley, Cold Mountain), I am reminded of former magazine cover girl and faux actress Kelly   

"There's nothing fair about who lives and who dies," says manly Kurt Russell to manly Josh Lucas in Poseidon, trying to buck up the younger guy who I am shocked -- shocked! -- to report starts   

Gretchen Mol, who stars in The Notorious Bettie Page, couldn't be more accommodating in her interview. She is cheerful and fully engaged with the questions, at times self-deprecating, at others   

In 1979, Prince proudly proclaimed, "I Wanna Be Your Lover," tossing salacious lines like, "I wanna be your brother/I wanna be your mother and your sister too" into the mix. These teasing refr  

Like many people around the country, I watched the signature events of 9/11 unfold in a surreal time frame on Good Morning, America. The confusion of images unspooling, the speculation about why   

Cameras are rolling on the set of Phantom of the West, a mawkish western shooting in the Moab desert, but leading man Howard Spence (Sam Shepard) is nowhere to be found. A washed-up alcoholic lose  

With Walking and Talking, Lovely and Amazing and now Friends With Money, writer/director Nicole Holofcener has emerged as a sharp-witted observer of the lives of dissatisfied American women. Wor  

Marilyn Hotchkiss' Ballroom Dancing and Charm School opens with that ukelele version of "Somewhere Over the Rainbow" that's been making the rounds of allergy commercials lately. From that mome  

Sophie Scholl -- The Final Days is the latest of a small but significant group of German films about domestic resistance to the Nazis. Michael Verhoeven's The White Rose, a 1982 film about a stu  

The best independent film comedies of late have been subtle movies about relationships, more filled with naturalistically rendered life lessons than with the big laughs that come from exaggeratio  

How lucky can one Hollywood boy toy be? For instance, take Josh Hartnett, the latest dark-haired model to step off the dream factory line for his close-up. He got his auspicious heartthrob-in-tra  

Spike Lee and Sidney Lumet, two of New York's finest, offer up new projects on cops, robbers and mobsters that epitomize our conception of the underbelly of the City. In Hermit in Paris: Autobi  

Pirated DVDs of Tsotsi are selling at a brisk pace on the streets of Johannesburg despite the fact that it's a rough edit missing the Kwaito music soundtrack. The price is right -- slightly more