2012 was a banner year for actors putting on a clinic, from Daniel Day Lewis in Lincoln to Naomi Watts in The Impossible. Toss in Matthew McConaughey in Killing Joe and Jessica Chastain in Zero Dark Thirty and deciding the Top 10 Performances of 2012 becomes difficult.
It was a franchise-heavy year in 2012, what with The Avengers, The Hunger Games and The Dark Knight Rises. So, which of those, or perhaps Breaking Dawn Part 2, scores as the top movie franchise of the year?
Hitchcock director Sacha Gervasi talks exclusively about being an Alfred Hitchcock fan and living in his world while making the movie. Gervasi also dishes the dream team of stars Anthony Hopkins and Helen Mirren, as well as why we still find Hitchcock mysterious.
Charlie Hunnam has been made a star, thanks to Sons of Anarchy. The actor tells us exclusively about making the big screen jump opposite Olivia Wilde in Deadfall.
Olivia Williams talks exclusively about Hyde Park on the Hudson and makes the argument that her character, Eleanor Roosevelt, was of her time and that "we've moved back." Williams plays Roosevelt as a renegade.
The stars are out with the latest Movie Fanatic weekend movie preview: Gerard Butler, Eric Bana, Olivia Wilde and Bill Murray all are featured in new films. Of Hyde Park on the Hudson, Deadfall and Playing for Keeps... which is best?
The British are coming, well at least peacefully in Hyde Park on the Hudson. Our Hyde Park on the Hudson review has to say that although the performances by Bill Murray as FDR and Laura Linney as his distant cousin are fantastic, the film falters.
[narrating] We sat and drank with the sun on our shoulders and felt like free men. Hell, we could have been tarring the roof of one of our own houses. We were the lords of all creation. As for Andy - he spent that break hunkered in the shade, a strange little smile on his face, watching us drink his beer.
[narrating] I wish I could tell you that Andy fought the good fight, and the Sisters let him be. I wish I could tell you that - but prison is no fairy-tale world. He never said who did it, but we all knew.