Movie review: Unsettling 'Foxcatcher' goes beyond the tabloid headlines

Thanks to the heated news and awards attention it has received in recent weeks, it's unlikely that anyone will find themselves watching Foxcatcher without a working knowledge of its headline-grabbing background. Yet when I 

2ND UPDATE: Last night, Deadline broke news that a Tweet generated under the Warner Bros Digital banner slammed rival Oscar pic Foxcatcher. Initially, Warner Bros disavowed the Tweet as an imposter, which seemed a 

Thankfully, Sony Pictures Classics has started 2015 with a resurgence of its awards campaigns by providing the screenplays to some of the most talked about films of 2014, including Foxcatcher, Whiplash, Mr. Turner, Still 

Bennett Miller's Foxcatcher is a true-life crime story that the director's previous subject, Truman Capote, might have written about: murder in cold blood, mirroring the American nightmare. It is a case study in steady dread, even if viewers know who

Bennett Miller's "Foxcatcher" (opening Friday locally), in which du Pont tragically befriends Olympic wrestler brothers Mark (Channing Tatum) and Dave (Ruffalo) Schultz, certainly had the potential of failing to pin down its stranger-than-fiction tale