Shame (movie)

Review: Pleasing '42' has Jackie Robinson's number

2013-04-11 17:29:00

"God built me to last," Jackie Robinson says at one point in "42," and, thankfully, his remarkable story is built the same way. It would have to be to survive the full-dress Hollywood biopic treatment it gets in this film, which is unabashedly subtitled...

Jackie Robinson's widow says '42' hits home

2013-04-05 13:00:00

NEW YORK — Above all else, Rachel Robinson remembers the kissing. When the taunts at the ballpark grew too fierce and the naysayers too loud, her husband, Jackie, would come home to their Brooklyn apartment and the couple would try to block out...

Pitt-Fassbender drama "Twelve Years a Slave' coming December 27

2013-04-02 11:34:00

The release strategy for Steve McQueen’s “Twelve Years a Slave” is coming into focus. Fox Searchlight announced Tuesday that it, not parent company 20th Century Fox, would be releasing the period drama. The larger studio has overseen...

James Badge Dale: 'Flight' star, and crush you didn't know you had

2012-12-14 08:00:00

James Badge Dale has that familiar, handsome face that many a solid actor or high school sweetheart might have when you pass him at the coffee shop or traffic light. What you don't know is that you already love Dale -- or "Badge," as he's affectionately...

High hopes, low notes for film world's NC-17 rating

2012-08-18 08:30:00

In the late '80s a thunderbolt of inspiration struck Jack Valenti, longtime chief of the Motion Picture Assn. of America: What if his organization got rid of the X rating, besmirched by years of misappropriation by hard-core exploitation films, and...

Matthew McConaughey's NC-17 'Killer Joe' posts so-so opening

2012-07-29 12:41:00

Did a prohibitive�NC-17�rating stop moviegoers from seeing�"Killer Joe"�at theaters this weekend? Maybe. The film, which stars Matthew McConaughey as a Dallas detective who also kills people for money, debuted in limited release this weekend and...

The Rising Star: Andrea Riseborough ascends in 'W.E.'

2011-11-06 00:00:00

Madonna may be the most famous name associated with "W.E.," the romantic drama she directed that premiered at the Venice Film Festival in late summer. But the woman everyone could be talking about after the film comes out on Dec. 9 is someone rather...

Will an NC-17 rating help or hurt 'Shame?'

2011-11-30 21:37:58

Cannes Film Review: 'The Selfish Giant'

2013-05-17 16:30:05

Oscar Wilde is uncharacteristically muffled in "The Selfish Giant," an abstruse contempo interpretation of Wilde's Christian fairy tale, but writer-helmer Clio Barnard's voice comes through loud and clear. A jaggedly moving study of a feral adolescent...

Visual arts: Year's exhibitions were both ambitious and unpredictable

2012-12-20 12:21:00

The year 2012 brought exhibitions that were ambitious, unpredictable and sometimes downright messy — but when it comes to art, these are all good things. What's more, all that disheveled enthusiasm wasn't solely confined to the alternative spaces...

Artist Steve McQueen's work is what it is: Not as it seems

2012-10-31 14:57:00

The celebrated British artist Steve McQueen has made two feature films in the past few years. "Hunger" won the Camera d'Or at the 2008 Cannes Film Festival for its vision of Irish Republican Army bomber Bobby Sands, and the hunger strike that ended his...

Grandin Theatre in Roanoke to show a movie rated NC-17

2012-03-15 12:22:00

Is it art or is it porn? For the first time in more than 15 years, the Grandin Theatre will show a movie rated NC-17. A NC-17 movie is similiar to the old X rating. NC-17 means no one under seventeen is admitted, not even with a parent. The movie in...

Box office: $3,909,002 Steve McQueen's Golden Globe-nominated film follows a sex addict (played by Michael Fassbender, right) struggling to find emotional connection.

2012-08-14 12:57:04

Maybe that's asking too much. But Chastain appeared in seemingly every movie this year anyway, turning in great work in films both very good ("Take Shelter"), OK ("The Help," "The Debt"), very bad ("Texas Killing Fields") and everything in between.

2011-12-28 14:52:28

Though his performance as a sex addict in the NC-17 rated drama "Shame" earned him Critics Choice and British Independent Film Award nominations, Michael Fassbender got the cold shoulder from the Screen Actors Guild . But the film both sparkled and sparked controversy on the festival circuit, so

2011-12-14 07:20:50