The Southeastern Film Critics Association has voted Ben Affleck’s period thriller Argo the best motion picture of 2012. The 21-year-old organization, whose 48 members—including this author and INDY ...

If ever I sat in a movie theatre watching a perfect movie, it would have to be ARGO. I can’t put my finger on it but something about it was so authentic. The way the people looked. The way they talked ...

The American success story told through "Argo" is one of the reasons it was one of 2012's best films. Subscribe to read this story ad-free Get unlimited access to ad-free articles and exclusive ...

On one level, I’m pretty tickled about how well “Argo” has come on during the recent film awards. Back in early December, when “Argo” was hardly at the forefront of anyone’s Oscar best picture ...

Proof that the world cares about American movies, even nonexistent ones: the violent demonstrations in many Islamic countries beginning on Sept. 11 of this year over the Prophet Muhammad–slurring ...

A kooky sci-fi script, the CIA and ads in The Hollywood Reporter: the real story behind the film is too strange to have been invented. By Bill Higgins, Borys Kit In a scene from Argo, Affleck, as ...

His latest offering Argo, screening at this year's BFI London Film Festival, is a based on a true story that's outlandish even by Hollywood standards. The action takes place during the 1979 Iranian ...

Tony Mendez, the former CIA officer who famously supervised the rescue of six American diplomats from Iran in 1980 and authored the memoir upon which the 2012 film 'Argo' was based, has died. He was ...

Maybe it's the influence of reality TV or the need to separate "real" from "virtual" in an increasingly digital age, but there's no question that the number of feature films "based on actual events" ...