AARP Eye Center
Susan Sarandon, Alfonso Cuaron, Bruce Dern, Ethan Hawke, Julie Delpy and Mary Steenburgen are just a few of the actors and directors who will be celebrated at AARP's Movies for Grownups Awards Monday in Beverly Hills, Calif.
When I glanced at my e-mail alerts on Sunday and saw that Philip Seymour Hoffman, arguably the greatest film actor of his generation, had died of a probable drug overdose, I felt the same mix of sadness and anger that came over me when Whitney Houston died.
It's the slowest movie weekend of the year, and as the cops like to say at a crime scene, "Nothing to see here, folks." We will give a little shoutout to I, Frankenstein-in which the studio has so little faith they won't let critics see it-because it features one of our favorite grownup actors,…
Out of the muck of typical January movie studio throwaways rises a first-rate action thriller from director/costar Kenneth Branagh.
My favorite part of award shows is that moment before the winners are announced, when they show all the nominees on a split screen. You can usually tell the seasoned veterans: While the newbies sweat and tremble, the older stars sit there, totally cool, enjoying that last second or so of being…
The movie studios expect you to stay home and watch football this weekend, so there's not much new out there. But the always-wonderful Geoffrey Rush turns up in a romantic thriller with an intriguing premise, and three terrific holdovers from last weekend should help you start your New Year right.
Here's one of the first Movies for Grownups Radio Shows we ever did-10 years ago in 2003. But the list of my favorite New Year's Eve movies still stands up!
Two new family-friendly stocking stuffers-plus one over-the-top lump of white-hot coal from Martin Scorsese-provide perfect reasons to get out of the house this Holiday season.
Three blasts from the past and one wry look at our not-too-distant-future make this a particularly rich grownup movie weekend.
Just wait 'til next week, when Santa drops a sackfull of blockbusters on your local multiplex. In the meantime, the wonderful Inside Llewyn Davis (reviewed last week) moves from just a handful of theaters to a whole bunch of them...and one gritty new family/crime drama showcases some of the year's…