Philip Seymour Hoffman

For Phoenix, Act II is full of musical numbers

Joaquin Phoenix is retiring – from movies, anyway. That's what he told the media at the recent L.A. premiere for his upcoming film, “Two Lovers.” As if to emphasize the decision, he had written the words “Good Bye” on his...

August Evening

Cast: Pedro Castaneda, Veronica Loren. Mini review: August Evening follows an aging undocumented farm worker named Jaime and his young, widowed daughter-in-law, Lupe, as their lives are thrown into upheaval. - San Antonio...

Philip Seymour Hoffman: 'Fame isn't the reason why I act'

If there's one role Philip Seymour Hoffman will never play, it's that of the Hollywood star. Just take his ensemble today: with his thatch of straw-coloured hair in desperate need of a comb, he's dressed in a tight brown...

BAZ BAMIGBOYE on Whoopi Goldberg, Meryl Streep, Kate Winslet, Kristin Scott Thomas and much more...

Whoopi Goldberg brings Sister Act to the London stage Whoopi Goldberg just can't shake old habits. She told me she has become a producer of the musical version of her hit film Sister Act, which begins performances at the London...

"Synecdoche," where everything sparkles

All the world's a stage, literally, for Caden Cotard. A small-time theater director in Schenectady, N.Y., he becomes the unlikely recipient of a MacArthur "genius" grant and spends the windfall on a vast avant-garde theater...

In 'Synecdoche,' the parts don't quite make up the whole

The hotbed of anxiety and ego that can underlie a theater rehearsal or a routine visit to a doctor's office - that's one of several emotional textures that writer-director Charlie Kaufman (the screenwriter of Being John...

What's coming

Next week, it's the moment Stephenie Meyer fans have been waiting for: "Twilight" opens. Starring Kristen Stewart and Robert Pattinson, it's the story of a misfit teenage girl who falls for her mysterious classmate. By...

Where's Oscar?

Chances are you haven't even seen him yet, though it's a bit late in the year for him to start surfacing. He may have popped up a few times over the summer and once or twice in October, but for the most part he's been invisible.

Gold Derby nuggets: 'The Dark Knight' music out of tune with Oscars | 'Gomorrah' going for the...

• "The Dark Knight" may be contending in a slew of categories come Oscar time, but it looks like it is out of the running for its musical score. Variety reports that the exec committee of the academy's music branch...

Night and Day: Palace intrigues - A multiplex giant throws a smart festival

Itandrsquo;s primarily billed as a film festival spotlighting the best films screened in Prague this past year, though in Palace Cinemasandrsquo; estimation, that includes the last (pray to God) Rambo outing and Speed Racer.