"Benjamin Button" represents a richly satisfying serving of deep-dish Hollywood storytelling. Due to its history-spanning structure, blank-page title character and technical sleight of hand, the film ...

David Fincher raises expectations. If nothing else, he's one of the best technical filmmakers working today, and he's also a man who commits to a number of projects but tends to put a film out every ...

The button is a perfect symbol for “The Curious Case of Benjamin Button.” Simple and old-fashioned, yet somehow timeless. None of the cheap shortcuts of the zipper or – shudder – Velcro. Take one of ...

This story is free to read because readers choose to support LAist. If you find value in independent local reporting, make a donation to power our newsroom today. As the film opens, we are introduced ...

When we’ve reached the end of a story that touches us deeply, we rarely move right on to the task of figuring out how or why our armor was breached. That kind of assessment might come later, but one ...

The Curious Case of Benjamin Button: Drama. Starring Brad Pitt and Cate Blanchett. Directed by David Fincher. (PG-13. 167 minutes. At Bay Area theaters.) The lesson here is never to aim to make a ...

Steven Weintraub launched Collider in the summer of 2005. As Editor-in-chief, he has taken the site from a small bedroom operation to having millions of readers around the world. Over the years, he ...