David Chase

Robert Redford's 'new territory' with 'Captain America' sequel

2013-03-29 08:00:00

Though Robert Redford may be the very platonic ideal of a movie star -- a matinee idol from films such as "Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid," "The Sting," "The Way We Were," "The Electric Horseman" and "Out of Africa" -- he has of late been involved...

From 'World War Z' to 'Star Trek,' six story lines to watch in 2013

2013-01-03 09:35:00

Predicting the biggest film stories months ahead of time is a fool's errand – last year at this time few were talking about Aurora or “Zero Dark Thirty.” Yet we here at Movies Now, along with many of our counterparts, make these kinds of...

Directors detail their films' crucial scenes

2012-12-13 10:30:00

For most directors, there is usually one moment in their film that brings it all together while they are shooting — or sometimes before production has even started — one scene that unlocks key relationships among the characters or clicks so...

James Gandolfini's 'Not Fade Away' performance honors late father

2012-12-21 16:40:00

Daytime at the Roxy nightclub on Sunset Boulevard is like being on a Disneyland ride when the lights go on and the carefully constructed illusion is exposed. It's the slightly surreal setting for James Gandolfini to talk about his recent collaboration...

2013 Grammy Award nominees

2012-12-06 17:03:00

Indie-rock trio Fun. and R&B/hip-hop star Frank Ocean scored big in Grammy Award nominations, scoring six nods apiece mostly in the top Grammy categories. The Recording Academy announced the nominations Wednesday during a show in Nashville. The 55th...

Discovery's 'Zombie Apocalypse' plays what-if with end times

2012-12-18 13:24:00

Let’s get one thing straight right away: Zombies aren’t real. The government knows it, the police know it and even so-called “zombie preppers,” the subject of Discovery Channel’s new special “Zombie Apocalypse,”...

'Hyde Park,' 'Lincoln' and more films give history a leading role

2012-11-29 10:24:00

In "Hyde Park on Hudson," the retelling of the visit of the king and queen of England to President Franklin D. Roosevelt in upstate New York in 1939, there's a particularly remarkable scene: Roosevelt's mother — who owned the house where everyone...

Lots of talk about guns and violence but not a lot of nuance

2012-12-19 09:41:00

Since the tragic events that took place Friday in Newtown, Conn., the national conversation has largely been dominated by talk about how� to prevent future mass shootings. Liberals -- and an increasing number people in the middle -- have called for...

The risks and rewards of 'auteur' filmmaking

2012-11-29 07:00:00

Nicholas Jarecki was in trouble: He couldn't come up with the perfect line for Susan Sarandon to say to Richard Gere for a particular scene in "Arbitrage." He needed a catchphrase a business tycoon would have invented. But as a film writer and director...

Getting the music right on 'Not Fade Away'

2012-11-03 12:12:00

Steven Van Zandt's gig on "Not Fade Away" began with a disappointment. The first feature from "Sopranos" creator David Chase, the film follows a group of New Jersey high-school kids as they put together a garage band in the wake of the British Invasion....

Album review: Dr. John's 'Locked Down'

2012-04-03 16:37:44

Are you sick of TV antiheroes?

2011-07-29 16:36:30

5. "Not Fade Away" Can a coming-of-age movie still feel original? Can a film about music and starting a band deserve to be in the same time zone of a recent classic like "Almost Famous"?

2012-12-18 14:21:00

It's not quite a musical or a comedy, but the Globes often include movies in that category just for incorporating music, and David Chase's ("The Sopranos") feature debut does that splendidly.

2012-12-13 08:11:00

Can a coming-of-age movie still feel original? Can a film about music and starting a band ever deserve to be in the same time zone of a recent classic like "Almost Famous"?

2012-12-07 09:58:00