You can’t get much better than this cast: Penelope Cruz, Sir Ben Kingsley, Dennis Hopper, and two of our all-time unsung cinema heroes, Patricia Clarkson (movie crush) and Peter Sarsgaard. You could choose three movies from each of their resumes and have one hell of a film festival. Now they’re all in Elegy, from director Isabel Coixet […]
Chuck Palahniuk already had quite the loyal fan base and the film adaptation of his book, Fight Club, gained him an even larger following. So my initial thought is that Choke, a new film based on another of his novels, is going to do surprisingly well. However, there are two ways this might go wrong:
1) Screenwriter and director […]
Chris Bell is a pretty unassuming guy. But in his heart of hearts, he’d rather not be. He’d prefer to be a fist-pumping, super-ripped, California-tanned, smiling superstar. But life didn’t swing that way for Chris — and his documentary on the world of performance-enhancing drugs is better because of it.
The Bell Brothers, with Chris Bell at center
Instead, Chris is […]
Documentary director David Modigliani is pissed. He’s angry at the American tidal wave of political rhetoric–and the soapbox filmmaking that comes with it.
But Modigliani has actually done something about it. He’s the guy behind Crawford, an entertaining look inside the tiny Texas town the Bushes suddenly called their own. You know when the President talks about “the ranch?” You’d […]
Is it already time to reminisce about the 90s? I guess so, as The Wackness revels in all its New York 1994 glory. (see our Wackness Sundance coverage)
Starring Josh Peck (various Nickelodeon shows, Drillbit Taylor) and Ben Kingsley (this summer’s The Love Guru), The Wackness follows a recent high school grad’s summer plans to sell weed under the cover […]
There are three ways to tell if you’re an influential writer: 1) You’re blacklisted. 2) You win an Oscar (two of ‘em, both credited years too late). 3) Metallica writes a song based on one of your books. This was the life of Dalton Trumbo (The Brave One, Spartacus, Johnny Got His Gun).
This June, Samuel Goldwyn […]
