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You might know character actor Terry Kinney if were to see him in a random film, but you might not know why you should respect him. Though he's cashed plenty of paychecks appearing in crap like The Firm and Save the Last Dance, Kinney is eminently worthy of… Continue reading
Look, I think Judd Apatow is doing to comedy what James Caan did to Playboy Playmates in the 1970s, but I have no freakin' idea who Ed Helms is. Apparently, he plays Andy Bernard on The Office. Cool. How much of a philistine am I for not watching The Office?… Continue reading
Because no one's tired of this story yet… I hate that the post-release Grindhouse discussion is focused almost exclusively on the picture's disappointing box office performance, but a) it is a story, and b) this is how mainstream film discourse goes… Continue reading
Oh, look what I done did! It's the ol' bait 'em with the promise of fifty-three-year-old director butt and give 'em Abbie Cornish trick! Ah, but who wouldn't want to be pillow'd upon the Somersault star's ripening breast? Campion, the visually gifted but oft… Continue reading
Something remarkable happened over the weekend, but it got lost in the hand-wringing over Grindhouse‘s poor box office showing: after years of turning down role after role that might've asked him to play a morally ambiguous figure, Harrison Ford quietly… Continue reading
Leonardo DiCaprio, the interesting actor turned teen heartthrob turned interesting actor again, has lined up his next post-Revolutionary Road project, but this time I can goddamn guarantee you that it's a go picture. The movie is Body of Lies, which used to… Continue reading
Film Weekend Gross Per screen B.O. Total 1 Blades of Glory $23,000,000 (-30.3%) $6,744 $68,383,000 2 Meet the Robinsons $17,004,000 (-32.3%) $3,435 $52,235,000 3 Are We Done Yet? $15,000,000 (-New) $2,877 $19,063,000 4 Grindhouse $11,591,000 (-New) $4,417… Continue reading
(Correction: The Weinstein Company is not the U.S. distributor of Rian Johnson's The Brothers Bloom, as was originally indicated in this article. TWC is currently the foreign sales representative.) Spirits were high Thursday night at the New Beverly in West… Continue reading
I feel like the professor who begins his semester by showing up late to class reeking of whiskey, but inauspicious debuts are my specialty, and those were always the best classes anyway… Hello, I'm Andre Dellamorte, and I'm doing to a twice weekly now… Continue reading
My grandmother was always quick to remind me, "If you ain't got nothin' nice to say, don't fucking say it, and, for the last time, turn off that goddamn hose!" She also blamed the Jews for her chronic arthritis, and once mailed President Reagan what she… Continue reading
I'll never forget a brief exchange I had with Peter Bogdanovich in 1997 at a New York City Barnes & Noble book signing for the updated This is Orson Welles (a must-own tome for anyone who claims to love films, even though Welles wasn't always the most… Continue reading
We're drawing nearer to the finalization of the 2007 Cannes Film Festival's in-competition, out-of-competition and un certain regard selections, and, as has been the case since the early 90s, the program directors are busily lining up some big names to ensure… Continue reading
