actors

Hollywood’s Made a Literal Monster Out of Doug Jones

From ‘Pan’s Labyrinth’ to ‘Hellboy’ to ‘The Shape of Water,’ Doug Jones has become Hollywood’s go-to practical effects creature. Here, he explains how he made them human

‘The Hurt Locker’ Told Us Everything We Needed to Know About Jeremy Renner

The star-making turn in the Oscar-winning film played to his considerable strengths. But his subsequent choices have often revealed the challenges character actors face trying to be movie stars

Kenneth Branagh Shocked the World With ‘Henry V.’ Then He Had to Live Up to It

That acclaimed 1989 film has cast a long shadow across the rest of the actor-director's career. Did he betray his early promise? Or do we expect too much from boy wonders?

‘The Amityville Horror’ Is the Only Time Ryan Reynolds Isn’t Playing Himself

I don’t have to see his new film ‘Red Notice’ to tell you he’s gonna play Ryan Reynolds. But there is one movie in which the exhaustingly average everyman gives us range