by Quendrith Johnson, Los Angeles Correspondent Hey, so Ben Stiller is back. Ignore that casual pop opening. (Smiley face.) It’s just in keeping with Stiller’s upcoming starrer from Amazon Studios, BRAD’S STATUS. You can Google up what this remade actor has been up to personally, because it shows in his work. Those are real tears, and this is a heartfelt movie, despite the toss-away title. BRAD'S STATUS is directed by Mike White, the guy who brought us SCHOO...

While We’re Young, Review: Means and ends Documentary film-maker and lecturer Josh (Ben Stiller) and his wife Cornelia (Naomi Watts) are a middle-aged New York couple who befriend a free-spirited, liberal younger couple, Jamie (Adam Driver) and Darby (Amanda Seyfried). The young couple claim to be fans of his, and Jamie is an aspiring documentary-maker himself. Josh is struggling on the post-production of his new documentary film about leftist intellectual Ira Mandelstam (Peter Yarrow) ...

Night at the Museum: Secret of the Tomb, Review: Lancelot, Camelot, Huge Ackman and Amen! In this year’s Hollywood Christmas release, Night at the Museum: Secret of the Tomb, 'Santa Claus' is symbolically replaced by a whole team of entertainers, “eleven”, at director Shawn Levy’s last count. The star-cast includes two veterans who are no more—Robin Williams and Mickey Rooney—and inanimate objects and creatures by the dozen, who make-up for Rudolph,...

By Maria Esteves – November 5, 2013 The 51st New York Film Festival World Premiere of THE SECRET LIFE OF WALTER MITTY, directed by Ben Stiller was held at Alice Tully Hall, New York, Saturday, October 5, 2013. Red carpet arrivals included actress Amy Stiller, actress Christine Taylor, actor Terence Bernie Hines; cast and crew members Adam Scott, Adrian Martinez, Kristen Wiig, Olfur Darri Olafsson, Patton Oswalt, Sean Penn, actor/director Ben Stiller, and producer John Goldwyn. THE...

By Maria Esteves – October 10, 2013 The 51st New York Film Festival 2013 (NYFF51) Centerpiece Gala Presentation of THE SECRET LIFE OF WALTER MITTY directed by Ben Stiller was held at Alice Tully Hall in Lincoln Center, Saturday, October 5, 2013. Presented by the Film Society of Lincoln Center, red carpet arrivals included industry executives, festival directors, celebrity guests, cast and crew. THE SECRET LIFE OF WALTER MITTY opens nationwide Wednesday, December 25, 2013. Watch Trailer ...

By Maria Esteves - October 10, 2013 The 51st New York Film Festival (NYFF51) THE SECRET LIFE OF WALTER MITTY press conference moderated by Dennis Lim was held at the AMC Lincoln Square, Saturday, October 5, 2013. Questions posed by Lim and members of the press to cast and crew director/lead actor Ben Stiller, actress Kristen Wiig, screenplay writer Steven Conrad, production designer Jeff Mann, producers John Goldwyn and Stuart Cornfeld, and included "What was the process coming up with an...

As the days lengthen, so the Nantucket Film Festival fires up for its 15th annual storytelling blowout, June 17 to 20, 2010. The Festival, which celebrates screenwriters, screenwriting and the art of the raconteur in today's cinema, boasts "The Writers are Coming" as its motto. Wordsmiths aren't the only ones to wash ashore. Once again, 4,000 screenwriters, producers, agents, development executives and lay cinephiles are due on the Massachusetts island -- along with some 6,000 l...

    "I still consider myself a New Yorker, even though these days I have been spending more and more time in Los Angeles", filmmaker Noah Baumbach explained on the stage of the Jacob Burns Film Center on Saturday afternoon immediately following a screening of his latest "dramedy" GREENBERG, which is set in the City of Angels. "Admittedly, I am seeing that city differently these days......maybe because my wife Jennifer Jason Leigh grew up there, so some...