It’s that time of year again—the time when all of the hard-hitting, super-prestigious movies premiere at film festivals in the hopes of getting on the ticket for awards season. The Card Counter—a new ...

Reading "Bringing Down the House," a team of MIT students who bested casinos by using counting strategies at blackjack, inspired the author to try it himself. (Photo: Mary Rauzi) My career in card ...

Green covers the screen as the opening credits for Paul Schrader’s “The Card Counter” surface. The color and texture come from the felt distinctive to casino tables. But this isn’t a study on greed ...

As a former film critic and one of the more engaged minds on the subject of cinema for nearly a half century, Paul Schrader has seen more movies than most of us. But based solely on the films he’s ...

The actor also reflects on one of the most challenging aspects of playing 'X-Men' character Cyclops. By Brian Davids Writer “I was only 11-years-old when I worked on The Tree of Life. I was not an ...

Tiffany Haddish is used to dishing out laughs in her film roles, and even though she’s dipped her toe in dramatic waters, love scenes evaded her. Until The Card Counter. Her character La Linda falls ...

Oscar Isaac plays a cold-eyed card shark with a bloody ace up his sleeve in the latest of Schrader's films about men at work. “You get a job, you become the job.” That’s what a veteran cabbie named ...

The poster for Paul Schrader’s The Card Counter has been released, drawing us further into the world of high-stakes gambling. Written and directed by Schrader and starring Oscar Isaac, Tiffany Haddish ...

For his new Oscar Isaac drama, Schrader returns to themes that have been at the center of his work for 45 years. Some filmmakers write a hit movie and spend the ensuing years trying to escape its ...

Oscar Isaac as William Tell in "The Card Counter." (Courtesy Focus Features) “Is there a limit to how much it takes to reach expiation?” asks the protagonist of Paul Schrader’s “The Card Counter.” It ...