Spotlight Director Tom McCarthy Eying Disney’s Timmy Failure

Tom McCarthy is most recently known for his excellent directorial work on the Academy Award-winning Spotlight, which catapulted the already Oscar-nominated writer/director (he co-wrote Pixar's sensational UP, to name a few of his credits) into the "choose whatever project you want" portion of his career. It looks as if McCarthy's next move will be a turn from  his recent very serious topical work: adapting the kids’ book series,

Spotlight’s Editor Tom McArdle Helps Make Journalism Look Thrilling

People pour over files, excel spreadsheets, and names in a directory. There's phone calls, and more phone calls, and some face-to-face meetings. There's a late hour knock on a nervous journalist's door, and it reveals…a colleague bearing a pizza. These are some of the things editor Tom McArdle was cutting when he worked on Spotlight, and in each instance, the scenes are thrilling. The film, centered on a team of Boston Globe investigative reporters who uncover a massive coverup of sexual abuse at the Catholic archdiocese of Boston in the early aughts,

Around the Web: The Year’s Best Film Posters, Meet the Characters of Anomalisa & More

Film posters, the Oscars Best Picture race, Anomalisa and more; here are a few of the things we're reading today.

Slate's Adrian Curry has rounded up the year's best film posters; our favorite is the gorgeous photography-and-illustrated poster for Hou Hsiao-Hsien's The Assassin. 

Vulture's Kyle Buchanan takes a look at the thorny Best Picture category,

The Big Short & the Frenzy of Must-See Films in December

As the year comes to a close, there's a frenzy of films coming out in the next few weeks that are required viewing. I caught a screening last week of Alejandro González Iñárritu's The Revenant (we'll be discussing the film in more detail soon), a brutal, simultaneously gorgeous film that I haven't been able to totally shake since. In a way, the outrageous commitment the film required (you can read all about the production process here) reminded me of what it took for director Tom McCarthy and his co-writer Josh Singer to pull off 

Around the Web: C-3PO Unmasked, Momentum Continues for Spotlight & Mad Max: Fury Road & More

A quick glance at what we're reading around the web.

In a must read for Star Wars fans, Vulture’s Boris Kachka chats with “Star Wars’ most special effect of all,” Anthony Daniels, the man in the golden droid suit. 

Speaking of The Force Awakens, Slashfilm’s Peter Sciretta attended the film’s press conference this past weekend (in which there was no footage shown,