Author MichaelLiss

Office star John Krasinski really is that freaking nice in real life. But for his directorial debut Brief Interviews with Hideous Men, Krasinski dives deep down the rabbit hole of the male psyche. The film, whi...

One of the higher-profile movies making its debut at Sundance this year is Adventureland, director Greg Mottola's follow-up to Superbad. The ‘80s-set film, which he also wrote, stars Jesse Eisenberg from The ...

Nicholas Kristof, two-time Pulitzer-winning Times columnist, wants us to care. And he knows what he's up against.The Sundance documentary Reporter follows Nick through life-risking trips in Afghanistan, Darfur ...

Robert Siegel left his post as editor-in-chief of the Onion to do what all writers eventually try their hand at: write screenplays. How'd that work out for him? He wrote the words that lead to Mickey Rourke's O...

500 Days of Summer, a post-modern love story, unfolds by juxtaposing the high and low points of a failed romance, constantly jumping back and forth in time. In a bit of a role reversal from traditional romantic...