“Poetic License” filmmakers Donatich and Apatow have promising futures. Apatow directs her mother Leslie Mann (“This is 40”) as a disaffected professor’s wife auditing a poetry class who befriends ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. It’s every screenwriter’s dream to pen one more great — and potentially Oscar-nominated — leading role for a beloved actor ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. “The Christophers,” the story of a past-his-prime painter (Ian McKellen) and the mysterious assistant (Michaela Coel) he hires to ...

One of the best films of the year so far wasn’t made by a brash young director, and it doesn’t come with a costly advertising campaign. Steven Soderbergh was the hot young director of 1989, the year ...

Two quick questions: What makes great art great? And: When does Steven Soderbergh sleep? That first query is the quietly thrumming engine behind The Christophers, a dual character study that, at any ...

The Julian Sklar we encounter in The Christophers is an artist past his prime. He no longer paints, following a gimmicky stint as a judge on a reality TV art competition. His artworks once fetched ...

Art forgery films and books have long been a fascinating topic. “The Christophers” boasts a masterfully comic lead role with Sir Ian McKellen, countered by deadpan serious Michaela Coel, plus a ...

An actor of such high caliber as Ian McKellen has no shortage of exceptional performances. Though he is best known to many for his roles as Magneto in the X-Men movies and Gandalf in The Lord of the ...

The screenwriter talks about reuniting with director Steven Soderbergh for an entertaining two-hander written specifically for Ian McKellen and Michaela Coel — even though Solomon and Soderbergh had ...

McKellen serves as Julian Sklar, a famous artist who has a collection of unfinished work that is known collectively as “The Christophers;” hence the movie’s title. Julian’s kids, Sallie (Jessica ...

"That's where the 'art' of it comes in..." "The art of – what?" "Becoming someone else..." Picturehouse revealed another new UK trailer for The Christophers, the latest Steven Soderbergh movie to ...

Ian McKellen and Michaela Coel are terrific in Steven Soderbergh’s sharp-eyed take on art and money. By Alissa Wilkinson When you purchase a ticket for an independently reviewed film through our site, ...