NEW YORK – Alison Lohman got one of her first big breaks by fibbing. “Matchstick Men,” she decided to go for broke. So, she fibbed. When Lohman, then 22, met director Ridley Scott, she pretended she ...

Watching the previews for Matchstick Men, I realized something. Every coming attraction was either a historical, heavy-budgeted action flick (The Last Samurai, Master & Commander, The Alamo) or your ...

The "caper" genre of film is one of the most successfully formulaic in modern cinema. Typically, these films tell the story of a loveable and charming conman or thief who is seen for his true good, ...

Ridley Scott's "Matchstick Men" tells three stories, each one intriguing enough to supply a movie. It is: (1) the story of a crisis in the life of a man crippled by neurotic obsessions; (2) the story ...