Channing Tatum delivers a sensitive performance in Magic Mike, Steven Soderbergh’s smart new picture about a star male stripper in Tampa who has the money, the women and the glory – but really just wants to settle down with a nice girl and start…
Read MoreWhat Becomes a Movie Icon Most? Gary Oldman on his Larger-Than-Life Career, and Impressively Minimal Smiley in “Tinker Tailor Solider Spy”
In the new adaptation of John le Carré beloved Cold War thriller Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, Gary Oldman delivers an engrossing performance as George Smiley, the retired head of the British secret service, who goes back into the fray to hunt a Russian mole…
Read MoreGerard Butler has played some epic characters in his prolific Hollywood career—Beowulf (Beowulf and Grendel) and King Leonidas (300) come to mind, as well as his upcoming turn in Ralph Fiennes Coriolanus. But perhaps his latest role, as a crusading American missionary who takes…
Read MoreMichael Fassbender and Steve McQueen Go to Depths of “Shame” to Deliver 2011 Movie High
Shame, one of the year’s best movies, is a downward spiral into a sad world of sexual encounters for an addict whose limits are about to be tested. He’s played by Michael Fassbender in an extraordinarily exposed performance where the actor goes to hell…
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