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With 'Fantastic Mr. Fox,' Wes Anderson F... Wes Anderson is famous for his quirky sense of absurdist humor.

In "The Squid and the Whale," playing the older adolescent son of an estranged intellectual couple, and in "Adventureland," playing a recent college grad and aspiring travel writer, spinning his wheels and falling in love at a summer job in an amusement park, Eisenberg was equally potent playing fecklessness or sincerity, and better yet when he ...

There are a lot of terrible movie titles out there, and everyone has their list, but most of these titles are attached to terrible films! It's when bad titles are attached to good movies that there starts to be a problem.

If comparing music from Gillian Welch and Outkast in our 50 Best Albums of the Decade is like apples and oranges, ranking films like Amelie , The Dark Knight and Mulholland Drive is more like apples, ice cream and foie gras.

Brooklyn-based actress-playwright Halley Feiffer is probably best known for her work in heavy films like You Can Count on Me , The Squid and the Whale , and Margot at the Wedding .

Oliver Platt a ' last seen on Broadway in Guys and Dolls a ' will co-star with another stage veteran, Laura Linney, in the Showtime pilot "The C Word." The dark comedy stars Linney as a suburban wife and mother who has been diagnosed with cancer.

London-based Noah and the Whale has been dishing out their wistfully gentle indie/anti/nu/pop-folk for a mere three years.

Roald Dahl's writing for children has only a moderate record of reaching the screen with its naughtiness intact - a pair of not-bad stabs at Charlie and the Chocolate Factory , a middling Matilda and Nicolas Roeg's paralysingly scary take on The Witches are among near-successes to date.

Ever since Zombieland 's impressive box office debut two weeks ago, I've been hearing a lot of chatter about how "that boy from Juno " was so funny fighting the undead alongside Woody Harrelson and company.

A location manager for "The Social Network,'' a biopic on the Facebook founders, starring Justin Timberlake, says scenes will be shot at the Thirsty Scholar Pub on Beacon Street next week, but the pop icon will not be there.

A crude little comedy, "Secret Girlfriend" invites the viewer to become a character.

Woe, be gone: Jesse Eisenberg's worry-prone Columbus has rules about dealing with the zombie behind Door No.

The winner Talk about ticking all the boxes. Sony's new No 1 movie Zombieland greedily spans as many genres as the rest of the top 10 put together.

You could forgive the survivors of the zombie apocalypse if they were to sink into a morass of angst and self-pity.But where is the fun in that?The raucously hilarious Zombieland finds amusement even in the end of the world.At the outset of Ruben Fleischers comedy, the nerdy college-age Columbus is on the road, traveling the scorched earth from ...

Jesse Eisenberg didn't read the script for 'Zombieland' for a while. 'You don't think, as an actor, there'd be any good roles in a zombie movie,' he says.

"Zombieland" may be the only movie in which the hero -- and he is a hero -- admits to suffering from irritable bowel syndrome.

Could Jesse Eisenberg, the gawky kid from Adventureland and The Squid and the Whale, be on the verge of breakout star status? I'd say yes, after watching him on last night's Conan .

Published: Thursday, October 1, 2009 at 1:00 a.m. Last Modified: Wednesday, September 30, 2009 at 9:37 a.m. Zombies have become a powerhouse franchise.

Noah and the Whale 's The First Days of Spring is the breakup album of the year - maybe even the album of the year - and it comes out Oct.

Jesse Eisenberg and Woody Harrelson in Boston for the "Zombieland'' screening. The undead came out in numbers over the weekend to greet Woody Harrelson and Jesse Eisenberg , who were in town to promote their new comedy, "Zombieland'' . The local zombies escorted the two actors to a preview screening of the film at AMC Loews Boston Common.