PARKERSBURG, W.VA. -- Onetime factory manager and current job hunter Dan Christian sits in the crowd of the Smoot Theater and beams with excitement. He's dressed in a tuxedo, something he hasn'  

Woody Allen has been working his way back from a series of terrible, geriatric comedies like Curse of the Jade Scorpion by getting out of his movies as an actor and focusing on sophisticated, inte  

Two gods make up the Jamestown settlement epic The New World, a movie that's often too beautiful for words. Colin Farrell puts his bedroom eyes and wild-man looks to the test as Captain John Smit  

BEVERLY HILLS -- Wes Studi, the actor who plays a 17th-century Algonquian Indian named Opechancanough in Terrence Malick's The New World, knows how he would change the film if he had control of   

It's not a matter of legendary producer and B-movie kingpin Roger Corman getting smaller after 50 years in show business. The Hollywood movies, many of them special effects-driven fantasies, kee  

Poets have been telling the story of the Cornish knight Tristan and the Irish princess Isolde since the Middle Ages. Composer Richard Wagner put their love story to music in his influential 19th-c  

The overflowing basket of critical acclaim for director Ang Lee's epic romance Brokeback Mountain includes the Golden Lion, the Venice Film Festival's top prize, as well as best film of the yea  

The new millennium began with dire prognostication, incessant paranoid rants about an apocalyptic technological crash and collapse of global markets. We were stockpiling canned food and water in our  

Steve Ramos 1. CAPOTE Philip Seymour Hoffman gives the male performance of the year as author Truman Capote, laying out charm, eccentricity and heartache in equal measure in director Bennet  

Meeting comic Sarah Silverman makes one an immediate target of her outrageous humor. Add an unseasonably warm September afternoon in Toronto and a rushed reporter with a habit of profuse sweating   

The Squid and the Whale is more than just a movie. It's a way of life. Or, perhaps more aptly, it serves as a guidepost to what mattered culturally in the life of a close-knit but divorcing famil  

The childlike thrills of his recent War of the Worlds remake are over, and director Steven Spielberg's reputation as the creator of movie roller coasters remains rock solid. If audiences crave s  

New York filmmaker Noah Baumbach stands out. While everyone else at the closing ceremonies for the 2005 Sundance Film Festival arrives in soiled clothes, Baumbach walks past the recently installe  

As endangered heroine Anne Darrow, freckly beauty Naomi Watts shrieks on cue, just when the biggest and scariest jungle monsters join her onscreen. A good bone-rattling scream like the ones Watts   

For the first time in his career, leading man George Clooney has no need for his good looks. A scraggly beard covers his chiseled chin as CIA Agent Robert Barnes, one of many crisscrossing charac