The Master (movie)

The prosaic, marquee-challenging title tells mostly all in the case of "Jimmy P. (Psychotherapy of a Plains Indian)," Arnaud Desplechin's profoundly Freudian study of loss and healing in post-WWII America, as seen through the experience of a dynamic...

Spaniards David and Alex Pastor, who wrote Ryan Reynolds-starrer "Selfless," are prepping a directorial outing, "Phoenix". Budgeted at $15 million-$20 million, and set up at Spain's Morena Films, "Phoenix" is an English-language action-thriller with sci-...

In the movie business, the label "art film" isn't always a deal-breaker. Nowhere is this more apparent than at Cannes, where films that might seem obscure to your average Hollywood studio executive rack up worldwide presales and receive the kind of...

Smart sells. Dumb, not so much. If there’s an encouraging lesson to be drawn from the recent performance of independent films in the international market, it’s that intelligent movies by strong directors are being embraced by audiences, while...

Don Draper and Harry Potter are teaming up? Not exactly, but actors Jon Hamm and Daniel Radcliffe are appearing in the upcoming series "A Young Doctor's Notebook," set to premiere this summer. The four-episode series, produced by the BBC and airing in...

Moviegoers and movie critics have come away from "Oblivion" raving about the vavoom vehicles in the box-office hit starring Tom Cruise -- especially lead character Jack's futuristic folding motocross bike. Known on the set as "Jack's moto bike," the...

May 03 (TheWrap.com) - If Megan Ellison shows what a very, very rich person with a yen for moviemaking can do, Cynthia Stafford is determined to show what a "a mini-mogul" who got her funding from a big lottery win, can do. In the last few months, as...

Watching "André Gregory: Before and After Dinner" often feels like visiting with an elegant, genial, slightly mystifying old friend. Too bad Cindy Kleine, the documentary's producer-director-narrator — and Gregory's wife — didn't better...

Paul Thomas Anderson is getting back to work, according to /film. The director of "The Master," "There Will Be Blood," "Punch Drunk Love" "Magnolia" and "Boogie Nights" is beginning to film his adaptation of Thomas Pynchon's novel "Inherent Vice." It'...

The Cannes Film Festival is making a statement at this year's gathering: We still really like Americans. The main competition will feature four directors from the U.S. -- Alexander Payne (“Nebraska”) Joel and Ethan Coen (“Inside Llewyn...

* (out of four) Forgiving critics and moviegoers often call films without articulate points or well-defined characters "poems." This usually affixes to work by Terrence Malick and will surely be a tag for the frustrating, hollow “Upstream Color,&...

Spring gardening The Master Gardener Series presents the class, "Grow it! Eat it! Spring Vegetable Gardening," at 7 p.m. Tuesday, April 9, at Historic Oakland, 5430 Vantage Point Road, on how to prepare the garden soil for spring planting, plant seeds...