To film Mitt, Netflix's behind-the-podium documentary on the 2012 Presidential hopeful, director Greg Whiteley followed Mitt Romney and his family on the campaign trail for six years, beginning the moment when Romney first decided to run for the U.S. Presidency. What Whiteley ended up with is an apolitical film at ... More

It’s easy for an actor to fade into the background starring opposite Meryl Streep and Julia Roberts, but in August: Osage County, Dermot Mulroney holds his own. In his role as Steve Huberbrecht, the fiancé of Juliette Lewis’ Karen Weston, Mulroney provides both comic relief and an uncomfortably sleazy ... More

Luke Arnold’s got his coif to thank for his success. Those long locks have helped him land a number of roles, including his most recent as John Silver on Black Sails, Starz’s ambitious new pirate drama premiering January 25. “I think that it’s been great for my career that these ... More

Kenneth Branagh might have gotten his start as a player in the Royal Shakespeare Company, but these days the Academy Award-nominated actor, director and Knight of the British Empire is working on something a little less classical. His latest film, Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit, opens January 17, making ... More

There’s nothing average about Carrie Hopewell, the mobster’s daughter and exceedingly dangerous safecracker masquerading as an everyday mom—albeit one about to serve out a jail sentence—on Cinemax’s addictive series Banshee. Surprises are also de rigueur for Ivana Milicevic, the actress who plays Hopewell. The Sarajevo-born, Michigan-raised Milicevic—whose Banshee character ... More

Kaya Scodelario might be the world’s finest surly teenager. From her star-making turn as beguiling bad girl Effy Stonem the British series Skins to her latest role as the title character in the twisted thriller The Truth About Emanuel (out January 10), the English actress takes on troubled teens ... More

Every family has its issues. That’s especially true for the Westons, the family at the center of August: Osage County, director John Wells’ adaptation of Tracy Letts’ Pulitzer Prize-winning play, out Christmas Day (nationwide January 10). The clan, helmed by malicious matriarch Violet (Meryl Streep), has gathered at its Oklahoma homestead ... More

As if the film’s seven Golden Globe nominations weren’t enough, here are six more reasons to see David O. Russell’s American Hustle over the holidays. The Hair. You’ll inevitably find yourself mesmerized by the hair in American Hustle, the styling of which can only be described as “so awesomely bad, ... More

Bérénice Bejo was ready to roll. For two months, she'd been rehearsing to star as Marie—a Frenchwoman juggling an estranged Iranian husband, a younger new boyfriend (with a comatose wife) and children from different relationships—in The Past, the new film from Oscar-winning director Asghar Farhadi (A Separation). And ... More

There's a catch-22 that comes with being a movie star. On one hand you've got one of the more recognizable faces in the world; on the other your job is to convince audiences that you're playing a character entirely different from yourself. If this were an easy task, there'd be ... More