Young Vivienne Jolie-Pitt, 4, may soon be taking her first [...]

An exotic beauty from downunder Mia Wasikowska is the daughter of Polish photographer Marzena Wasikowska and the Australian painter John Reid. She was destined for a career as a prima ballerina. However, during adolescence, the future ballerina hung up her dancing shoes. "I practiced dance thirty-five hours a week,” she told the British magazine The Observer. “The race for perfection quickly spoiled any pleasure I’d felt. I chose another way of expressing myself." Namely, acting. Rather espousing the same M.O. as her compatriot Naomi Watts, Wasikowska never became a media darling, avoiding the spotlight and keeping a low profile. She clearly

“The Dictator” is Sacha Baron Cohen’s first attempt at anchoring [...]

Louis Malle’s “My Dinner with Andre,” released in 1981, documented a two-hour conversation between the courtly, garrulous actor-stage director Andre Gregory and the diminutive, nasally defiant actor-playwright Wallace Shawn. If you were one of the many dazzled by it, you will undoubtedly want “Before and After Dinner,” the new documentary on Andre Gregory conceived and directed by his wife, Cindy Kleine, to see the

Paris-A motorist pressed charges last week against France’s best-known actor [...]

“True Romance,” “Crimson Tide,” “Spy Game,” “Man on fire,” “Pelham 123” and “Unstoppable.” His films had a voice, the director’s imprimatur evident across his entire opus (multiangle camera work allowing for wide coverage, extremely cadenced action scenes--"Domino" is a good example of that--and a succession of big-name actors who repeatedly answered the call and returned to act in his movies). Tony Scott made

Every kid has that movie that’s going to scare the crap out of them for the first time. The stop-motion animation studio Laika, which was behind 2009’s fantastic “Coraline” and now this Tim Burton-meets-low-rent monster movie mash-up “Paranorman,” again manages a good first step for scary movie virgins.

Norman (Kodi Smit-McPhee) is a young kid living in Blithe