Dave Karger on Clint Eastwood in Gran Torino: But I had a chance to see the film last week and I’m happy to report that has much more depth. Like Eastwood’s last acting-and-directing job, Million Dollar Baby, it goes to some very surprising places. I’ll leave the actual criticism to my much more qualified colleagues Lisa Schwarzbaum and Owen Gleiberman,...
Monthly Archives: November 2008
AJ Schnack brings the news that the International Documentary Association (IDA) has announced its winners in all but the top prize category. Schnack thinks it will be down to Young @ Heart versus Man on Wire. Also in the running for Doc Feature, Waltz with Bashir, also poised to do some damage in the awards race in one way or another. ...
Like Juno and Little Miss Sunshine, Slumdog Millionaire is poised to become one of the top money makers of the season – it’s the keep the costs low, story strong, profits high strategy that works, especially since Danny Boyle didn’t set out to make this year’s Little Movie That Could. It just turned out that way. It’s one of those great surprises....
David Carr and Michael Shannon, photo credit: Hollywood-Elsewhere Variety’s Anne Thompson chats with David Carr about getting back into the Oscar game (his site will launch December 1). For his part, Carr says he won’t be doing a lot of reading: While Carr installed his Google Reader last week so he can check out other Oscar blogs, he wants to avoid falling...
Just in time for the Milk raves that are about to pour in, Gus Van Sant made a cameo on Entourage as himself, telling Vinnie Chase he didn’t like his work but thought the actor was getting better as an actor. The cliffhanger was that Martin Scorsese has just hired Vinnie to star in his reworking of The Great Gatsby. When Entourage returns this Summer there will be...
I can tell this season is going to be one sweaty release after another as we wait with baited breath to see what the critics think. With the odd and somewhat annoying refrain of “detachment” coming up again and again, how nice to see a critic actually give the film an unqualified rave, Kirk Honeycutt of the Hollywood Report writes: The fantasy element in F....
Exclusive first look at Vicente Amorim’s Good, from the acclaimed play by C.P. Taylor, starring Viggo Mortensen, Jason Isaacs, and Jodie Whittaker. As in this superb still, the casual matter-of-fact presence of the swastika jumps out with a throat-grabbing jolt from the otherwise sedate and subdued color palette. ...