Tweet The dog days of August are upon us, as well as the closing weeks of the summer movie season, but there are still plenty of Hollywood casting news both silly and serious to fill this week’s “Get Me Ron…
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‘The Help’ Review: Bryce Dallas Howard makes a villainess to remember in Civil Rights-era melodrama
Tweet The Help Walt Disney Studios Rated PG-13 Running Time: Minutes Grade: C+ Movie baddies are seldom as delicate and pretty as Bryce Dallas Howard’s Southern belle Hilly Holbrook. Howard (yes, Ron Howard’s daughter) is equally funny and revolting as…
Let Us Now Praise: ‘A Little Help’ lead Jenna Fischer
Tweet One of my favorite books, from one of my most favorite writers, is James Agee’s 1941 collaboration with photographer Walker Evans, Let Us Now Praise Famous Men. In their extensive reporting project for Fortune magazine, Agee and Evans bring…
Get Me Ron Perlman! Tom Cruise Joins Suspense Drama ‘One Shot’
Tweet Because I’ve been asked numerous times, I wanted to explain why I call this column about the week’s casting news “Get Me Ron Perlman!” I’ve sat down and interviewed Ron Perlman multiple times but my favorite moment occurred over the…
The Morning Feed: Jean-Luc Godard: “I am not an auteur, well, not now anyway.”
Tweet Jean-Luc Godard’s latest work, Film Socialisme, self-described as a “symphony in three movements,” that unfolds on a Mediterranean cruise ship and a gas station in rural Switzerland, continued its slow and steady, worldwide expansion since playing film festivals last…
‘Horrible Bosses’ Review: Jason Bateman delivers steady laughs but fails to save workplace-as-hell comedy
Tweet Horrible Bosses Warner Bros. Rated R Running Time 93 minutes Grade: C+ The showiest scenes in director Seth Gordon’s workplace-as-hell comedy Horrible Bosses belongs to veteran comic actress Jennifer Aniston who looks fit and fabulous as a sex-crazed dentist…
The Morning Feed: Cy Twombly Dies At Age 83
Tweet American abstract painter Cy Twombly, one of the influential painters of the New York School, died today at age 83 according to the art online forum Hyperallergic. Born in Lexington, Virginia in 1928, Twombly arrived in Manhattan in 1950…
The Morning Feed: Katie Couric to launch Daytime Talk Show at ABC
Tweet Katie Couric, after becoming the first woman to helm a U.S. network TV newscast, announced Monday that she was joining the Disney/ABC Television Group to launch a daytime talk show in September 2012 as well as join the ABC…
‘The Hangover Part II’ Review: The Party Boys are Back for Another Night Out With Added Laughs
Tweet The Hangover Part II Warner Bros. Rated R Running Time: 101 Minutes Grade: B In this summer’s race of movie sequels, the party boys of The Hangover Part II are laggards. After all, Captain Jack Sparrow is back for…
The Morning Feed: Judge Denies Tattoo Artist’s Request To Stop Release of ‘Hangover 2’
Tweet Tattoo artist S. Victor Whitmill, who inked boxer and Hangover supporting actor Mike Tyson with a tribal tattoo around his eye in 2003, filed a lawsuit in federal court April 28 claiming Warner Bros. violated his copyright by giving…