Tweet Filmmaker Terrence Malick won the prestigious Palme d’Or award for The Tree of Life, a drama about a 1950s Texas family, starring Brad Pitt as a somewhat stern father and Sean Penn in a present-day storyline as the grown…
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The Morning Feed: ‘Paradise Lost’ Filmmakers witness the release of the West Memphis 3
Tweet Filmmakers Joe Berlinger and Bruce Sinofsky were in a Jonesboro, Ark. court yesterday to witness the release of prison inmates Jason Baldwin, Damien Echols, and Jessie Misskelly after 18 years in prison. Known as the West Memphis 3 and…
The Morning Feed: ‘Blade Runner’ Déjà vu — Ridley Scott to revisit his 1982 sci-fi classic
Tweet Ridley Scott continued work on his highly secretive Alien prequel Prometheus, starring Charlize Theron, Michael Fassbender and Idris Elba among others. The veteran director also agreed to return to another one of his classic sci-fi franchises, his 1982 film…
The Morning Feed: Lady Gaga to Decorate Barneys New York Christmas Windows
Tweet After becoming a cover girl for fashion magazines Vogue and Harper’s Bazaar earlier this year, performer Lady Gaga cements her trendsetter status with a deal to decorate the Madison Ave. Christmas windows at Barneys New York. In addition to…
Get Me Ron Perlman! Mike Myers Back for ‘Austin Powers 4’
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…
‘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…