Archive for December, 2007

TRAILER: ‘Hellboy 2; The Golden Army’ »

 

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Talking to ‘The Great Debaters’ »

 
Some of the most powerful dramas you’ll see on the big screen are from real stories. The Great Debaters is certainly one of them.Denzel Washington stars and debuts as director in this true-life inspired movie based on The Wiley College debate team. Denzel plays Mel Tolson, the coach of the all-black school team in 1930’s [...]

Daniel Day-Lewis recounts the way he lives »

 
“You don’t meet the book when you meet the writer,” the novelist William Gibson has said. “You meet the place where it lives.” A relatively uncontroversial remark about the people who vent their imaginations on the page — no one should expect Philip Roth to sound exactly like Nathan Zuckerman — Gibson’s adage applies only [...]

INTERVIEW: Hilary Swank signs off with ‘P.S. I Love You’ »

MoviesOnline recently sat down with two-time Academy Award winner Hilary Swank (”Million Dollar Baby,” “Boys Don’t Cry”) at the Los Angeles press day to talk about her new movie, “P.S. I Love You,” directed by Richard LaGravenese. The film also stars Gerard Butler (”300”), Lisa Kudrow (TV’s “Friends”), Harry Connick, Jr. (”Bug,” TV’s “Will & [...]

TRAILER: Cassandra’s Dream starring Ewan McGregor and Colin Farrell »

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Clint Eastwood is the set whisperer »

 
The first thing you notice when you walk on to the set, inside the shuttered Park Plaza Hotel overlooking MacArthur Park, are the 300 extras in late-1920s period costumes, seated at cafeteria tables in a holding area, gazing up at you in their wool suits (for the men) and cloche hats (for the women) as [...]

Comedian Sacha Baron Cohen to kill off Borat »

The actor behind controversial spoof reporter Borat has killed him off, he said in an interview with Britain’s Daily Telegraph newspaper published on its website Friday.
Sacha Baron Cohen said that Borat, the outrageous, blundering character from Kazakhstan who earned him a Golden Globe award last year, had made his last screen appearance.
He is also killing [...]

INTERVIEW: Director Jake Kasdan on making ‘Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story’ »

 
Jake Kasdan has lived his entire life with a surname that’s been associated with great filmmaking, but when it came time to enter the family business, he decided to take a different route, focusing more on comedy first with his debut Zero Effect starring Bill Pullman and Ben Stiller, and then joining the Judd Apatow [...]

MOVIE OPENINGS: Dec 21 »

NATIONAL TREASURE: BOOK OF SECRETS 
 
Director: Jon Turteltaub
Stars: Nicolas Cage, Diane Kruger, Justin Bartha
Studio: Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures
The Plot: Tracking down the missing pages of John Wilkes Booth’s diary is the first step in treasure hunter Benjamin Franklin Gates’s plan to uncover a worldwide conspiracy.
READ REVIEWS FOR ‘NATIONAL TREASURE: BOOK OF SECRETS’
WALK HARD: THE DEWEY [...]

Sacha Baron Cohen stuffs his pants in ‘Sweeney Todd’ »

 
Sacha Baron Cohen has a thing for showing off his privates. Well, what appear to be his privates, that is.
We’ve already been subjected to Borat dressed in that barely there fluorescent-green banana-hammock bathing suit. Now comes his hilarious turn as Signor Adolfo Pirelli opposite Johnny Depp in Tim Burton’s Sweeney Todd.
There’s no missing Pirelli’s package. [...]