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BOMBSHELL — Jay Roach Interview

December 22, 2019 By Leave a Comment

BOMBSHELL — Jay Roach Interview

Click here to listen to the interview. When I spoke to Jay Roach on December 6, 2019, I wanted to know why he had been tempted to, as I put it, poke the bear by taking on one of the most embarrassing moments in Fox News history. In taking on the story of how Gretchen… Read More »

Tagged With: Bombshell, Charlize Theron, Fox News, Gretchen Carlson, Janice Dean, Jay Roach, John Lithgow, Megyn Kelly, Mostly Sunny, NDA, Roger Ailes, sexual harassment

Dreary DARK PLACES

August 7, 2015 By Leave a Comment

Dreary DARK PLACES

DARK PLACES is awash with dark moodiness as it tells a raggedy story that suffers from a failure of to find a narrative structure as strong or as compelling as the performance of his star, Charlize Theron. Based on the novel by Gillian Flynn, on whose novel of the same name GONE GIRL was based,… Read More »

Tagged With: book to screen, Charlize Theron, Gillian Flynn, murder, mystery, narrative, suspense

MAD MAX: FURY ROAD

May 13, 2015 By Leave a Comment

MAD MAX: FURY ROAD

George Miller first sent Mad Max blazing across the sere post-apocalyptic landscape in 1979 and thence onto cinematic legend. Sequels followed. Mel Gibson in the eponymous role rose to international fame and, eventually, Miller moved on to different sorts of classics with BABE and HAPPY FEET. Now, thirty years and more later, he is revisiting… Read More »

Tagged With: Charlize Theron, cinema, dystopian future, George Miller, Hugh Keays-Byrne, MAD MAX: FURY ROAD, movie, narrative, Nicholas Hoult, patriarchy, post-apocalyptic, reboot, Sci-fi, Toecutter, Tom Hardy

35th Annual Razzie Awards — John Wilson is Still Fighting the Good Fight

February 16, 2015 By Leave a Comment

35th Annual Razzie Awards — John Wilson is Still Fighting the Good Fight

I learned a long time ago that it’s pretty much impossible not to get facetious with the founder and Head Berry of the Golden Raspberry Awards Foundation. John Wilson, author, raconteur, and bringer down of bloated egos, began his valuable public service 35 years ago, and through the years his righteous drubbing of all that… Read More »

Tagged With: A MILLION WAYS TO DIE IN THE WEST, Adam Sandler, ALL ABOUT STEVE, Arnold Schwarzenegger, bad cinema, Ben Affleck, Bill Cosby, BLAZING SADDLES rip-off, BLENDED, BOYHOOD, CAKE, Cameron Diaz, CAMP X-RAY, CATWOMAN, Charlize Theron, cinema, DREAMGIRLS, Drew Barrymore, Eddie Murphy, Eddie Redmayne, Everything I Know I Learned at the Movies, Expendables 3, film awards, GIGLI, Golden Raspberry Awards Foundation, Halle Berry, holiday commercialism, Jennifer Anniston, JOHN WICK, John Wilson, Julianne Moore, JUPITER ASCENDING, Keanu Reeves, Kellan Lutz, Kelsey Grammer, Kirk Cameron, Kristen Stewart, LEFT BEHIND, Mark Wahlberg, Mel Gibson, melissa mccarthy, Michael Bay, Mike Meyers, movie awards, Nicola Peltz, Nicolas Cage, NORBIT, Norman Mailer, Official Razzie Handbook, PARIS WHEN IT SIZZLES, post-production 3D, razzie, Razzie Redeemer, Ryan O’Neal, Sandra Bullock, SAVING CHRISTMAS, SELMA, Seth MacFarlane, SEVENTH SON, Shep Gordon, Sister Rose Pacatte, STILL ALICE, SUNSET BOULEVARD, SUPERMENSCH, Sylvester Stallone, TAKEN 3, TAMMY, THE LEGEND OF HERCULES, The Montalban, THE THEORY OF EVERYTHING, TOUGH GUYS DON’T DANCE, TRANSFORMERS 4, War on Christmas, white liberal guilt, William Holden

MONSTER

October 21, 2014 By Leave a Comment

MONSTER

Patty Jenkins’’ film, MONSTER, is brilliant, breathtaking, and completely unforgettable. Those are words that are sorely overused in the land of crit-speak, and yet there are few films that are so very deserving of them. Jenkins’ biographical story of Aileen Wournos, convicted serial killer, has all the earmarks of a tabloid tale from one of… Read More »

Tagged With: Aileen Wournos, based on a true story, Charlize Theron, director, Oscar-winning performance, Patty Jenkins, serial killer, weight gain

Oswalt Patton and YOUNG ADULT

September 1, 2014 By Leave a Comment

Oswalt Patton and YOUNG ADULT

Patton Oswalt was robbed. When I spoke to him on November 15, 2011, I was positive that he had a lock on a Best Supporting Actor nomination for his work in YOUNG ADULT. Certainly, no one that was subsequently nominated in that category gave a better performance. As Matt, the nerd hopelessly in love with… Read More »

Tagged With: Charlize Theron, cinema, disability, drama, film, Jason Reitman, Jason Statham, movie, Patton Oswalt, RATATOUILLE, Richard III, THE SEARCHERS, vagina dentata

Patty Jenkins Dissects MONSTER

September 1, 2014 By Leave a Comment

Patty Jenkins Dissects MONSTER

For Patty Jenkins, MONSTER was more than a movie, it was a mission. The writer/director took a lot of risks, including the casting against type of the film’s star, Charlize Theron, as real-life serial killer Aileen Wournos. It paid off big time, and did so with a smart film that raises more questions about society than… Read More »

Tagged With: Aileen Wournos, based on a true story, Charlize Theron, director, Oscar-winning performance, Patty Jenkins, serial killer, weight gain

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