Reading "Bringing Down the House," a team of MIT students who bested casinos by using counting strategies at blackjack, inspired the author to try it himself. (Photo: Mary Rauzi) My career in card ...

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 ...

Matt Goldberg has been an editor with Collider since 2007. As the site's Chief Film Critic, he has authored hundreds of reviews and covered major film festivals including the Toronto International ...

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 plays a cold-eyed card shark with a bloody ace up his sleeve in the latest of Schrader's films about men at work. “You get a job, you become the job.” That’s what a veteran cabbie named ...

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 ...

Film Critic 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 ...

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 ...

I’m the one that speaks in random movie dialogue. I almost always miss contact on high-fives. For years, I have been writing, speaking at length, and thanking the gods that my shocking encyclopedic ...

The log line for The Card Counter should sound familiar to anyone who has ever seen a Paul Schrader film before: A professional card player who (you guessed it) wins games by counting cards cannot ...