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Looks like Leslie Stahl didn't get quite the answers she expected when she interviewed the former California governor and born-again m...

As Fox Searchlight prepares to launch Hitchcock in this year's Oscar race with a world premiere screening at the AFI Fest , I though...

And guess what? The long-delayed remake doesn't suck. Seriously. You can read my Variety review here .

Personally, I think this is Jackson's finest performance since Snakes on a Plane .

Most people remember Herbert Lom best as the ever-excitable, chronically frustrated Inspector Dreyfus opposite Peter Sellers' indefa...

So far, I have received -- oh, I dunno, maybe a zillion retweets for this tongue-in-cheek Tweet: "Isn't it about time in the Res...

I keep waiting for the email or phone call from my editors at Variety: "Hey, Joe, thanks for covering 2016 . Now we have another movi...

Hey, didn't I just get here? Then how come it's already time to start packing? Alas, it's no longer feasible, for various rea...

From a 2002 interview: Michael Caine is, by his own admission, “a news junkie,” the kind of compulsive who’ll reflexively tune his TV to...

Veteran actor and indie filmmaker Ed Burns talks about his latest movie -- The Fitzgerald Family Christmas -- and the current state of in...

You do realize, of course, that this instantly iconic image will loom large in each and every future biography and documentary about Pre...

Have not been to a Toronto Film Festival post-screening party in... well, a long time. But I think I made up for it last night, hanging b...

Today, I found a bottle of Coca-Cola and a package of condoms in my 2012 Toronto Film Festival goodie bag. I'm grateful for both gif...

Reason No. 1: It's a Spike Lee documentary about the classic Michael Jackson album. Reason No. 2: It's documentary about the cla...

Sign No. 2,347 that I am getting old: Back in the day, when Tough Enough was shooting in Big D while I was working for the Dallas Morni...

Reason No. 1: Ever since I first glimpsed the above iconic photograph years ago, I've wondered: Geez, who were those guys? And what we...

I had the pleasure to speak with Michael Clarke Duncan on a few occasions at junkets and film festivals – most recently two years ago at...

With all due respect to the late newspaper mogul and Unification Church leader: Does the passing of   Rev. Sun Myung Moon  mean we'll ...

There are times when I watch a short as clever as this one -- winner of the Golden Kitty Award at the Internet Cat Film Festival hosted b...

Reason 1: It's directed by Costa-Gavras (whose classic Z , by the way, inspired another promising film that will be on view at the 2...