Japanese star Koji Yakusho ("Shall We Dance?" and "Babel") plays the titular lumberjack whose life is interrupted by a visiting movie crew in "The Woodsman and the Rain." Recently widowed Katsu ...

Great filmmaking is more than the stringing together of plot exposition, suspense, special effects and, if the audience is lucky, the odd dream sequence or slow-motion fight scene to create a visually ...

PARK CITY, Utah (Reuters) — “The Woodsman,” starring Kevin Bacon, may not play in Peoria — to paraphrase the old show business saying — but if the film about a pedophile can win fans anywhere, it is ...

Writer-director Nicole Kassell’s debut film is a lean drama anchored by subject matter which, although difficult, remains distantly disquieting yet never challenging. Bacon delivers a carefully ...

Beverly Hills, Calif.? Kevin Bacon wants you to know the same thing he told his kids: No children were harmed during the making of his latest film. In “The Woodsman,” Bacon gives a career performance ...

Kevin Bacon wants you to know the same thing he told his kids: No children were harmed during the making of his latest film. In “The Woodsman,” Bacon gives a career performance as the most reviled of ...

Excellent..very well handled considering the delicate subject matter. You felt both disguist and sorry for him. It was great that Kyra and Kevin did it together..in a sensitive way..they have children ...

A stunningly crafted work from first-time feature director Nicole Kassell, "The Woodsman" is a sober, penetrating account of a pedophile struggling to overcome his sexual attraction to young girls and ...

In the pedophilia drama The Woodsman (released April 12), Kevin Bacon lurks around the edges of the film draped in blues and browns, wearing his limbs and baggy clothes like a soft shell. It’s as if ...

Kevin Bacon delivers a startling performance in the uber controversial drama The Woodsman, but much of his excellent work is compromised by the way that the filmmakers ultimately deal with the ...