Meryl Streep will be awarded the Honorary Golden Bear for Lifetime Achievement at the 62nd Berlin International Film Festival on February 14, 2012. Read more

Cyril Tusche’s fascinating profile of Mikhail Khodorkovsky, the now imprisoned Russian oil mogul and international monetary powerhouse, is a gripping thriller presented with stunning cinematic style. Read more>>

Errol Morris has tackled miscarriages of justice and Abu Ghraib. Now, in Tabloid, he turns his attention to the case of Joyce McKinney, and this may be his final documentary. Read more>>

Does Mel Gibson’s performance make up for his controversial behavior? Jeanne Wolf got surprising answers from Jodie Foster. Plus, see extended scenes from “The Beaver” that haven’t been shown anywhere else. Watch the interview

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Everyone is thinking it: Arthur, Dudley Moore’s 1981 comedy about a lonely billionaire, didn’t need to be remade. But to have comic/actor/all-around crazy guy Russell Brand fill Moore’s shoes and swap the character’s butler for a nanny — played by Helen Mirren! — and suddenly update the classic doesn’t sound like such a bad idea. Read more

In Catherine Hardwicke’s “Red Riding Hood,” the titular character of the classic fairy tale is no longer referred to as an item of clothing: Her name is Valerie. And she’s all grown up, torn between the man she loves and the man she’s been arranged to marry, her emotions further taxed as her town battles a werewolf. Amanda Seyfried, blessed with a fairy-tale face, plays Valerie and here talks with her director about the look of the film, its modern touches, and why Valerie is far from a damsel in distress. Read more

When Miguel Arteta’s broadly, sweetly funny Cedar Rapids opens Friday, Anne Heche, who stars as the sole woman in a group of misbehaving insurance agents, might finally get her nationwide due as the gifted comedian she’s technically been for the last fifteen years.

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Ben Foster’s most critically acclaimed role to date was as a quietly tortured military man who delivered news of soldiers’ deaths in “The Messenger.” So his participation in a straight-up action flick, “The Mechanic,” is a bit of a shock. Co-starring with stuntmaster Jason Statham in the remake of Charles Bronson’s 1972 original, Foster toughened up and decided he wasn’t about to let something like vertigo — or even the possibility of death — prevent him from doing his own stunts, too. Particularly one of the movie’s most stunning: a free-fall off the side of a 450-foot building. Read more

The assassin at the center of The Mechanic is a man of precise action and few words. The 1972 original starred, naturally, Charles Bronson. Now the current remake recruited an actor who’s perhaps destined in fill Bronson’s shoes: the reticent Transporter and Crank star, Jason Statham. Read more