The newest big screen “golden age of Hollywood” biography represents something of a 2015 trilogy, a hat trick, if you will. It doesn’t focus on the illustrious career of a celebrated actor or actress, ...

Critic's rating: 3.5 stars out of 5 Bryan Cranston continues to navigate away from Walter White and "Breaking Bad" Jay Roach sometimes struggles to balance the breezy tone of the film with events it ...

This holiday season, moviegoers have the chance to see “Trumbo,” a movie about Dalton Trumbo, the namesake for the popular demonstration area outside the University of Colorado’s student center. The ...

When I ran into a fellow member of New York Film Critics Online last night following the press screening of Trumbo that opens everywhere on November 6 th (unlike most films that I review, this one ...

EXCLUSIVE: Kirk Douglas has released a statement to Deadline regarding Trumbo, a new movie he plays a key part in (even if he isn’t actually in the film itself). The movie, directed by Jay Roach and ...

Bruce Cook's biography of Dalton Trumbo starts on the fly, with Trumbo working with Dustin Hoffman on script revisions for "Papillon" and so impressing the actor that he modeled his character on ...

For the first half of this film, you will wish that Dalton Trumbo had written Trumbo. The set up is the worst kind of history-on-parade filmmaking — every scene introduces a new celebrity who is ...

Bryan Cranston, in the role of blacklisted Hollywood screenwriter Dalton Trumbo, hunches over a makeshift desk in the bathtub, a tumbler of scotch beside him, a cigarette holder clamped between his ...

Editor’s Note: Charles Kaiser is the author of “The Cost of Courage,” “1968 In America” and “The Gay Metropolis.” The opinions expressed in this commentary are his. Kaiser: The climate of fear was an ...

Screenwriter Dalton Trumbo, the heavy-duty Hollywood Stalinist, has undergone a pleasant face-lift thanks to Hollywood. The film “Trumbo,” released today, features Bryan Cranston of “Breaking Bad” ...

Dalton Trumbo is a colorful, contradictory character, ripe for the cinema. He wrote screenplays great and terrible, many of them while he sat in the bathtub, smoking cigarettes and washing down ...