This week’s issue of New York magazine has a very interesting cover story focusing on the ongoing enigma that is the actor/director/artist/author/whatever James Franco (“James Franco: Is He For Real?”). Fresh from his second short-term stint on the soap opera “General Hospital,’ in which he plays a homocidal performance artist–also named Franco–fixated on resident hitman/heartthrob/hero [...]
Yesterday the Toronto Film Festival announced its lineup for its annual cinema shindig, which will run this year from September 9 to 19. And among the 50 star-studded offerings are Blue Valentine starring Michelle Williams and Ryan Gosling as a couple whose marriage is on the brink and Black Swan, starring Natalie Portman in a [...]
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The great Janet Maslin (who formerly reviewed movies for the New York Times) has written a review of Andrew Morton’s unauthorized (what else?) biography of Salt star Angelina Jolie, scheduled to be published next week. Maslin doesn’t seem to be impressed by the dearth of sources in the book and Morton’s purple prose. Because every [...]
According to boxofficemojo.com, the Angelina Jolie-starrer, Jolie, had an impressive opening weekend, scoring $36,500,000. Yet it still couldn’t beat the confusing but visually stylish Inception, which netted over $43,000,000, making it number one for a consecutive weekend (with Salt coming in at number two).
The Cold War may be over (or not, given the recent New York City-based Russian spy scandal) but it’s alive and well in Salt, the new action adventure thriller directed by Phillip Noyce (Patriot Games, Clear and Present Danger) and starring Angelina Jolie. Originally intended to be a vehicle for Tom Cruise (until he bowed [...]
Life’s many interventions has kept me away from the blog this week but I should be back in form the end of this week with a review. Stay tuned. And sorry about that.
I think it was about dream invasion and thievery but I was confused about so many of the details and plot turns. Where’s Heath Ledger’s Joker when you need him? (RIP Heath).
Now that we all pretty much know (thanks to Radaronline) the unexpurgated profane contents of Mel Gibson’s telephone rants to his ex-girlfriend Oksana Grigorieva–tirades in which he basically insulted nearly every ethnicity known to the human species, I have a disturbing and distressing confession to make: Back in the 1980s when Mel Gibson’s star was [...]
For a movie that’s only playing on seven screens, The Kids Are All Right is doing spectacularly well. For its opening weekend, the movie made $143,000 on Friday and $199,000 on Saturday. According to boxofficemojo.com, the movie took in for the weekend of July 9-11, $491,971. The movie will be going into wide distribution this [...]