More than four years after Carrie, Miranda, Charlotte and Samantha downed their last cosmo and faded into the history of successful HBO series, comes the eagerly awaited big-screen adaptation that for many will be the movie event of the year. Fans of the show will gorge themselves on two-and-half hours of designers, drama, drinks and divas, [...]

From the “inspired by true events” tagline on the poster to the documentary-like intro, Bryan Bertino’s first feature, The Strangers, contains painstaking efforts to achieve a patina of realism. The film partly succeeds, delivering a spectrum of fear that is as subtle and disquieting as hearing footsteps at your back door and as suffocating as having [...]

There’s a point in Tarsem Singh’s second feature film where crippled, thirty-something Roy Walker asks five-year-old Alexandria, “Are you trying to save my soul?” Such a weighty question put to such a naive child makes for a truly confusing, yet beautiful scene – a sequence that speaks as much to the writer-director’s talents as to his shortcomings [...]

Where has Helen Hunt been? The 44-year-old actress was a hot property during the late nineties and around the millennium, but she’s largely laid low since then. She’s now starring as the lead in Then She Found Me, which serves as a bit of a return for her to the mainstream, as well as her debut as a director. [...]

Robert Downey Jr. is definitely a wily character who has managed to leverage his frenetic genius all over Hollywood throughout recent memory (albeit in fits and starts) – a guy well-known for getting high and arrested back when such behavior was truly self-destructive as opposed to self-aggrandizing. Over the past few years, Downey has slowly molded [...]