Gran Torino (movie)

It used to be that actors stopped playing tough-guy action roles after reaching 60. John Wayne probably held out the longest, into his late 60s. With Clint Eastwood continuing into his late 70s (in "Gran Torino"), Arnold Schwarzenegger (65) and...

Clint Eastwood had said "Gran Torino" would be his last project as an actor, but he returned to the screen in this well-performed drama as a baseball scout who's nearing the end of his career. In what likely is his last trip to find new talent for the...

Despite the arrival of four new films in theaters this weekend, moviegoers weren't interested in heading to the box office. For the fourth consecutive weekend, ticket sales were down compared with the same period in 2011, as none of the fresh arrivals at...

OPENING FRIDAY Dredd 3D    In the movies, the old saying goes, some stars wear the hat. And sometimes, the hat wears them.  Frankly, the helmet wears Karl Urban in “Dredd.”  He never takes off the oversized thing. It closes off his...

The Museum of Contemporary Art's recent fundraiser was proclaimed to be many things: Trailed by a "60 Minutes" TV crew, while being observed by Connie Bruck for a New Yorker profile, Eli Broad said the "Artist's Museum Happening" promised to redefine...

— On a recent misty morning, if you were standing in the right spot, you could have looked up to see a helicopter emerge from the pale heavens above this coastal enclave and a famous face squinting in concentration from the pilot's seat. Clint...

Hollywood is witnessing a phenomenon it hasn't seen in more than a decade -- movies with legs. Pictures that hang in at the box office over multiple weekends -- known as "having legs" among theater operators and studio executives -- are contributing to a...

Like some Zen master clandestinely operating in the heart of Hollywood, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has perfected the art of offering surprises without being surprising. Though specific Oscar nominations can be unexpected, the...

Each year, the Oscar nominations result in a pleasure-pain split in Hollywood. There's the "You like me, you really like me!" jubilation for those whose work gets honored. Then there are the bruised egos of those who early on had been touted as Oscar...

It's become a tradition at this time of year, first in my column, and now in my blog, to grade the major movie studios on their performance over the course of the year. The Studio Report Card started as a way to get a handle on how the business works, but...

LOS ANGELES -- The country's most dedicated mall cop was this weekend's big winner at the box office. "Paul Blart, Mall Cop," opened as the nation's number one movie this weekend, as strong word of mouth endorsements drove up attendance as the weekend...

A complete list of winners for the 66th annual Golden Globe Awards. The Envelope PHOTOS: Arrivals | Winners: Film | TV MOTION PICTURE CATEGORIES BEST MOTION PICTURE, DRAMA "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button" "Frost/Nixon" "The Reader" "Revolutionary...