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SOLILOQUIES THAT SEALED THE DEAL
JULES Your mom and I are in hell right now and the bottom line is marriage is hard. It’s really fuckin’ hard. It’s just two people slogging through the shit, year after year, getting older, changing —...
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YOU CAN’T SCARE THE ACADEMY… RIGHT?
Everyone already knows about the scene in “127 Hours” (Fox Searchlight, 11/5, trailer) in which the mountain climber Aron Ralston (James Franco) cuts off his arm in order to save his life, as I wrote...
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Harvey Weinstein Talks Oscars, Michelle Williams and the Charm of “My Week...
By Sean O’Connell “Pulp Fiction.” “The English Patient.” “Good Will Hunting.” “Shakespeare in Love.” “Chicago.” “The Aviator.” “Gangs of New York.” “The Reader.” “The King’s Speech.” For decades,...
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Cannes Festival Selects Tim Roth as Un Certain Regard Jury Prez
By Josh Abraham English actor and director Tim Roth will be the president of the Un Certain Regard Jury, part of the Festival de Cannes Official Selection, for which twenty films will be announced at...
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Hollywood Film Awards to Honor Quentin Tarantino’s ‘Django Unchained’ Screenplay
By Scott Feinberg The Hollywood Reporter *** The Hollywood Reporter has learned that Quentin Tarantino, the iconic Oscar-winning scribe of Pulp Fiction (1994) who is in Oscar contention again this year...
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Violence Could Become A Major Factor In This Year’s Crop Of Oscar Contenders
By Joey Magidson Film Contributor *** Like everyone else, I was shocked and saddened by the tragic school shooting this past Friday in Newtown, Connecticut. The thought of little kids and their...
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The Top 10 Directorial Debuts Of All Time
By Joey Magidson Film Contributor *** For a filmmaker, it’s rare to make a real impact with your debut feature. Most of the time, you begin your career with a calling-card movie or a work that doesn’t...
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‘The Walk’ Hopes to Follow in Oscar Footsteps of Past NYFF Opening Night Films
By Patrick Shanley Managing Editor The 53rd New York Film Festival will begin this Saturday (postponed from today due to Pope Francis‘ visit) with Robert Zemeckis‘ high-wire biopic The Walk opening...
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