Lee Daniels' "The Paperboy," which screened on Thursday at the Cannes Film Festival, is a camp classic that will delight audiences at midnight screenings for years to come. Or it's a ludicrous hunk of ...

Following on from Precious, his first well-received directorial effort (after the largely unappreciated Shadowboxer) appearing in the festival's Un Certain Regard secondary competition back in 2009 ...

More stories by Nigel M. After seeing his sophomore film “Precious” premiere in Sundance’s US Dramatic Competition and go on to become a Academy Award-winning phenomenon, Lee Daniels is set to unveil ...

This lurid Southern tale by the director of Precious shows that he still knows how to push people’s buttons – and gather an all-star cast to sell the goods. One might be forgiven for thinking, at ...

Nicole Kidman stars in director Lee Daniels' New Orleans-shot drama 'The Paperboy.' It will open up the 2012 New Orleans Film Festival with a 7:30 p.m. screening on Oct. 11 at the Joy Theatre on Canal ...

Directors draw on many sources to draw truthful performances from their actors. But in depicting a prisoner on death row, not everyone has a brother serving a jail sentence for murder to tap for ...

Matt Goldberg has been an editor with Collider since 2007. As the site's Chief Film Critic, he has authored hundreds of reviews and covered major film festivals including the Toronto International ...

A man (John Cusack) convicted of killing a seedy sheriff is given a new life when a female pen pal (Nicole Kidman) enlists the aid of two journalists to try and get him off death row.

The slightly disturbed Hillary Van Wetter is sentenced to death for allegedly killing a racist policeman. A woman with a fondness for jailbirds and two journalists decide to reopen the case - though ...

Zac Efron steps out at the premiere of The Paperboy during the 2012 Toronto International Film Festival held at the Elgin Theater on Friday evening (September 14) in Toronto, Canada. Earlier in the ...

A heady, humid swamp fever rises from Lee Daniels's violent and black-comic Florida noir The Paperboy, based on the thriller by Pete Dexter: a lazy, funny tone co-exists with menace, and Nicole Kidman ...

The film served as an Oscar nominee's blank-check follow-up. From her breakout moment in 'To Die For' to her HBO hit 'Big Little Lies', let's look back at the career of one of the industry's most ...