So many of God’s lonely men populate Paul Schrader’s films. They’re inveterate self-torturers and diary-fillers, often murmuring in voiceover what they cannot tell another human being. “God’s lonely ...

"The body remembers. It stores it all." A man searching for redemption... likely thing to find in a Paul Schrader movie. The films share similarities in their portrayals of men on the verge of ...

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 ...

The Card Counter will hit theaters on Sept. 10. In The Card Counter, Oscar Isaac is a card shark cruising casinos for easy prey, warning, with a cold dead-eyed stare, “Any man can tilt.” He certainly ...

"The Card Counter" will compete for the Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival in September. The official synopsis for “The Card Counter” from Focus Features reads: “Redemption is the long game in ...

Paul Schrader’s The Card Counter moves from Venice into 579 theaters this weekend — the first in a welcome stream of specialty films from the Lido, Telluride and Toronto that could, perhaps maybe, ...

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 ...

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Student coaches on the craft of card counting meet with a group of about a dozen fellow classmates in a crammed Pioneer Hall dorm room once a week — but not for an underground gambling ring. The new ...

Update 4:19 pm: This story has been modified to include reaction from the creator of the card-counting iPhone app. Since the July 2008 launch of the App Store, Apple has maintained a sort of moral ...