James McAvoy

The Conspirator: Robert Redford's History Lesson

Scarlett Johansson Talks Playing Courtney Love in Cobain Biopic

Scarlett and Courtney. See the resemblance?​Courtney Love's been gabbing about the possible upcoming Kurt Cobain biopic a lot lately (maybe to detract attention from the bad press Hole's new record's been getting?) - she doesn't want Robert Pattinson to play Kurt. She wants James McAvoy. She w ... More >>

A.M. Music News: Kurt, Courtney, Kris Kristofferson, and "A Day In the Life"

​-- New York Times: Jon Pareles on Hole at Terminal 5: "(Courtney Love) spent less than 50 minutes onstage, barely engaged the audience, stood in place and sang largely by rote. Her voice has never been pretty or in tune, but at this concert it was dilapidated whenever she wasn't shouting, and ... More >>

The Last Station: Helen Mirren's Latest Oscar Shot

​-- New York Times: Jon Pareles on Hole at Terminal 5: "(Courtney Love) spent less than 50 minutes onstage, barely engaged the audience, stood in place and sang largely by rote. Her voice has never been pretty or in tune, but at this concert it was dilapidated whenever she wasn't shouting, and ... More >>

Finally, Some Hot Movie Stars to Drool Over in Person

​It's been a long time coming. First we were supposed to get baby-face James McAvoy, but, as Mark Fefer reported, shooting of the movie, The Details, got shut down. Then McAvoy got replaced by doe-eyed Spider-Man Tobey Maguire. Well, Maguire's finally here. He's shooting in Montlake. And wor ... More >>

Your Plans to Spend the Summer Ogling James McAvoy May Need to Be Put on Hold

That's because the new movie that was scheduled to be shot here, The Details, which had just gotten underway a few weeks ago, has abruptly shut down. "They've run into some challenges," says Amy Lillard Dee, head of WashingtonFilmWorks, which provides financial incentives to movie-makers who agree ... More >>

Who Wants Angelina Jolie?

So this is how Angelina Jolie affords all those babies and pregnancy leave. Occupying the middle station in the holy trinity of comic book, movie, and videogame, Wanted (released today on DVD, $34.98, Universal Home Ent.) was predictably trashed by critics this summer. Adapted from the graphic novel ... More >>

DVD Release: Wanted

So this is how Angelina Jolie affords all those babies and pregnancy leave. Occupying the middle station in the holy trinity of comic book, movie, and videogame, Wanted (released today on DVD, $34.98, Universal Home Ent.) was predictably trashed by critics this summer. Adapted from the graphic novel ... More >>

Penelope the Pig

So this is how Angelina Jolie affords all those babies and pregnancy leave. Occupying the middle station in the holy trinity of comic book, movie, and videogame, Wanted (released today on DVD, $34.98, Universal Home Ent.) was predictably trashed by critics this summer. Adapted from the graphic novel ... More >>

Wanted: Angelina Jolie gives us all the guns and violence we could ask of a summer movie

So this is how Angelina Jolie affords all those babies and pregnancy leave. Occupying the middle station in the holy trinity of comic book, movie, and videogame, Wanted (released today on DVD, $34.98, Universal Home Ent.) was predictably trashed by critics this summer. Adapted from the graphic novel ... More >>

Penelope: Christina Ricci as Porcine Sex Symbol

So this is how Angelina Jolie affords all those babies and pregnancy leave. Occupying the middle station in the holy trinity of comic book, movie, and videogame, Wanted (released today on DVD, $34.98, Universal Home Ent.) was predictably trashed by critics this summer. Adapted from the graphic novel ... More >>

SERVER REBOOT THURSDAY, Oscar Movie Edition

So this is how Angelina Jolie affords all those babies and pregnancy leave. Occupying the middle station in the holy trinity of comic book, movie, and videogame, Wanted (released today on DVD, $34.98, Universal Home Ent.) was predictably trashed by critics this summer. Adapted from the graphic novel ... More >>

Atonement: Keira Knightley Stars in Her First Bodice-Ripper

So this is how Angelina Jolie affords all those babies and pregnancy leave. Occupying the middle station in the holy trinity of comic book, movie, and videogame, Wanted (released today on DVD, $34.98, Universal Home Ent.) was predictably trashed by critics this summer. Adapted from the graphic novel ... More >>

Becoming Jane: Anne Hathaway as Harlequin Heroine

So this is how Angelina Jolie affords all those babies and pregnancy leave. Occupying the middle station in the holy trinity of comic book, movie, and videogame, Wanted (released today on DVD, $34.98, Universal Home Ent.) was predictably trashed by critics this summer. Adapted from the graphic novel ... More >>

DVDs of the Week

Ugandan genocide and a grunt's-eye view of WWII.

Starter for 10

The cute guy from The Last King of Scotland stars in middling '80s Britcom.

Oct. 13-19, 2006

Hedwig, depressed Swedes, and a wandering Dutch architect in Africa.

The Last King of Scotland

Opens at Guild 45 and other theaters, Fri., Oct. 6. Rated R. 123 minutes.

In Like a Lamb

Mild but pleasing, The Chronicles of Narnia succeeds more with the CG effects than the kids.

Bonjour Monsieur Shlomi

Also: Bright Young Things, The Brown Bunny, Criminal, Evergreen, Love Me If You Dare, Red Lights, Uncovered: The War on Iraq, and Warriors of Heaven and Earth.