Here’s the first look at Oscar Isaac in Paul Schrader’s upcoming pic The Card Counter, in which he plays William Tell, a former serviceman who lives a spartan existence playing cards before he moves ...

Green covers the screen as the opening credits for Paul Schrader’s “The Card Counter” surface. The color and texture come from the felt distinctive to casino tables. But this isn’t a study on greed ...

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 ...

In “The Card Counter”, Oscar Isaac (“Star Wars: The Force Awakens”) plays William Tell, an ex-military interrogator turned gambler haunted by the ghosts of his past decisions. Tell was one of the men ...

Drew Baumgartner is a Brooklyn-based writer and editor. A passionate comics reader and film buff, he swears he'll love any story if its title makes him laugh. Focus Features has just released the ...

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 ...

Oscar Isaac, the star of writer-director Paul Schrader’s ardent romantic drama The Card Counter—premiering at the 78th annual Venice Film Festival—is the matinee idol we barely deserve in our ...

As a former film critic and one of the more engaged minds on the subject of cinema for nearly a half century, Paul Schrader has seen more movies than most of us. But based solely on the films he’s ...

As much as he is a legend to the “new Hollywood” generation of the 1970s — especially as a screenwriter — Paul Schrader can be the definition of hit-or-miss when he’s also directing. When the trailer ...

These flashback scenes set in Iraq’s Abu Ghraib prison are brought to nightmarish life with visuals created with a special camera, an ultra-wide architecture lens and computer software that are ...