You never want to rejoice in someone else's misery, which is why I insisted that we stop partying after the 84th bottle of champagne celebrating the recent firing of Movieline's former top film critic, Elvis Mitchell. Not only did I feel bad for bringing 8 layer dip, chainsaw jugglers and a couple conjoined strippers to the party, but I always feel weird kicking a guy named Elvis.
So, whats the next stop for a guy who lied about seeing a movie and sort of disgraced his profession. How about the UK, where they're proud to lie about movies?
Hollywood has always had a strange relationship with history. Borrowing bits and pieces of truth and filling in the rest of the story like a bad contractor has never been above tinsletown's best. Even Aaron Sorkin is known to have said that he wouldn't "let truth get in the way of our story," when referring to the Oscar nominated The Social Network. Leave it to the King of Sundance to make history a priority in his latest film while perhaps proving Sorkin right in the process.
Hopefully, years from now when this movie is a distant box office memory, brave film teachers will use it as a teaching tool to show students that it takes more than just a list of ingredients to make a really good cake. The Arthur remake seems to follow the recipe as best it can, but will leave viewers wishing they had just eaten at home.
Amtrak probably won't use this movie to promote their service because of what happens at every eight minute mark, but Source Code is one of the most fun rides on public transportation since Speed.
With scenes of the Chicago landscape that dart in and out of the opening sequence, you get the feeling that you're seeing the city through the eyes of a traffic reporter in a helicopter. As your view descends closer upon a train, we see a disoriented man listening to his female companion, Christina (Michelle Monaghan). He looks like he's one nap from a hangover and has no idea who the woman is. Then he stares into a bathroom mirror and doesn't recognize the face staring at him. And suddenly, the train explodes.
In it's infancy, the internet was often referred to as the "Information Superhighway". While an excellent marketing tool, somehow we became too enamored by the information and not by the highway aspect, which may have been more important. After all, what happens to cars when we neglect the roads?
Like emotional potholes caused by a disaster, Trust tackles that subject and it does so head on. Annie (Liana Liberato) is the 14-year-old with seemingly everything a girl could want. Girl next door looks, a loving family and a loyal best friend. Clive Owen plays Annie's father, a successful ad executive and along with the mom, Lynn (Catherine Keener), they are the perfect suburbanite coupling.
Opening up in theatres this week is Trust. Directed by former Friends star David Schwimmer, the film stars Clive Owen, Catherine Keener, and Liana Liberato. At the film's LA press day, I had a chance to sit down with David, Clive, Catherine and Liana. They discussed what the movie means to them, the touchy subject material, how they prepared for their roles and more.
A few weeks ago we caught up with actor Jake Gyllenhaal to discuss Source Code, his upcoming film. That was during the SXSW film festival. This past weekend, we got another chance to sit down with the actor, at the film's LA press day. Gyllenhaal plays Colter, an Air Force pilot who wakes up in someone else’s body and must figure out who set off a bomb on a train. He has to re-live the same eight minutes over and over again as part of a new scientific program called the source code.
We've already talked to Duncan twice before, once on Source Code and Mute and once on just Source Code. Well, we enjoyed talking with him so much that we decided to sit down with him one more time before Source Code opened. Last time we talked to him was when we caught up with him at SXSW. This time it was at the LA press day for the film.
Trust is is the second directorial effort from former Friends star David Schwimmer. In the film, Liana Liberato plays Annie Cameron, a 14 year-old girl targeted by a sexual predator who causes an emotional shockwave that threatens to tear her family apart. Her co-stars are Clive Owen and Catherine Keener as the parents who struggle to keep their family together. We had a chance to speak to Liana about the intense dramatic role and how the film has changed her personally and professionally
For better or worse, March Madness takes over the TV screens and dreams of players and bookies alike, placing their final bets on an upset that no one suspects. It seems where the NCAA ends, the MPAA begins as one of it's favored sons may well have pulled off a career upset, which will leave audiences anything but.
This cinematic embodiment of this Comeback Kid is Matthew McConaughey, who rides in the back of a film vehicle which will remind audiences why we thought he was cool in the first place. Known more of late for his shirtless photographs than his acting prowess, McConaughey grabs Michael Connelly's best seller by the lapels and drags it's main character down the halls of redemption.
