Washington PostNEW YORK. Over the past 15 years, much of Ben Stiller’s work — “Zoolander,” “Meet the Parents,” “There’s Something About Mary,” “Tropic Thunder” — has turned not only into…

CNN(CNN) — It’s easy to understand why comedians like Jim Carrey, Mike Myers, and Sacha Baron Cohen have flirted with adapting James Thurber’s 1939 New Yorker story about a timid…

Variety (blog)Moviegoers will have plenty to unwrap in theaters Christmas Day, with a hefty eight films opening, including Martin Scorsese’s latest “The Wolf of Wall Street”, Ben Stiller’s “The Secret…

Hollywood ReporterFrom Steven Spielberg and Jim Carrey to Sacha Baron Cohen and Mike Myers, many have tried to remake the 1947 classic about an adventure-prone daydreamer. But Stiller finally cracked…

BBC NewsBen Stiller’s latest role sees him take on a more dramatic turn in The Secret Life of Walter Mitty. Based on the 1939 short story by US author James…

E! OnlineBen Stiller directs himself as Walter Mitty, forever a daydreamer who barely leaves an impression at work, but in his mind is the most extraordinary man alive—especially with the…

San Francisco ChronicleThe Secret Life of Walter Mitty. SNOOZING VIEWER. Comedy-Drama. Starring Ben Stiller and Kristen Wiig. Directed by Ben Stiller. (PG. 114 minutes.) If, while watching “The Secret Life…

Washington PostThis has been such an exceptional year in movies that calling a movie “perfectly likable” or even “good” starts to sound like faint praise. Which means that “The Secret…

Plain DealerBen Stiller stars in and directed “The Secret Life of Walter Mitty.” (20th Century Fox). Print

Boston GlobeCritics so far have roughed up Ben Stiller’s adaptation of James Thurber’s 1939 short story “The Secret Life of Walter Mitty,” and it seems bound for the same film…

Philly.com‘I haven’t really been anywhere noteworthy or mentionable,” an apologetic Walter Mitty tells the guy on the phone from eHarmony, who’s wondering why Walter has left so much blank space…

BBC NewsActor Ben Stiller talks about his latest character in The Secret Life of Walter Mitty. Stiller’s character is a daydreamer who works at Life magazine and imagines starting a…

USA TODAYLOS ANGELES — Ben Stiller was rehearsing hosting duties at NBC’s Saturday Night Live when he called Kristen Wiig offstage to discuss something serious. Stiller was working on a…

The legendary actor, and one of this blogger’s favorites going back to the television show The Streets Of San Francisco, and to Wall Street, Michael Douglas, will present at the…

The latest Academy News from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences is coming fast, heavy, and furious in the days leading up to the 84th Academy Awards on…