'James White' Trailer: Christopher Abbott Is Like A Raw Nerve In Sundance Success
Girls star Christopher Abbot was singled out for great praise at Sundance thanks to his leading role in this film; now see the James White trailer.
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Sequel Bits: First Look At Amber Heard In 'Machete Kills,' Plus More 'Alex Cross,' Trouble On 'Mad Max: Fury Road,' And 'Pirates 5,' 'Sex And The City 3'
The image you see above is the first look at Amber Heard as she appears in the Robert Rodriguez film Machete Kills. The movie is, as you likely know, the sequel to 2009's Machete, which was itself an expansion of the very entertaining "fake" trailer that appeared in the Rodriguez/Tarantino effort Grindhouse. After the break,…
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'Rampart' Trailer: Woody Harrelson Makes The Bad Lieutenant Look Like A Boy Scout
From the moment I heard about Rampart the movie placed high on my 'must-see' list. The Messenger director Oren Moverman reunites with Woody Harrelson and Ben Foster to tell a story about the LAPD's disgraced Rampart division, with a script originally written by LA crime master James Ellroy. Ice Cube is a good cop and…
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Oren Moverman's 'Rampart' Adds Steve Buscemi, Sigourney Weaver And Robin Wright
Oren Moverman's Rampart is one of the films I'm most excited about that hasn't been shot yet. Why? Because Moverman wrote and directed a fantastic picture in The Messenger, and then you team him up with James Ellroy and Ellroy's long-standing interest in the Los Angeles Police Department. Mix in Moverman's leads from The Messenger,…
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The Trades: McGregor And Mulligan In Electric Slide, Sex And The City 2, Hutton In Polanski's Ghost
There a bunch of stories that broke tonight in the Hollywood trade newspapers, and I just don't have time to cover them at length, so I thought I'd do a quick trade news run-down. Ewan McGregor and Carey Mulligan are in talks to star in Tristan Patterson's The Electric Slide, about a guy who robbed…
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TIFF Review: Lymelife
At every film festival, I try to pack in as many screenings as humanly possible (At TIFF this year, I've been rather unsuccessful...). This leads to seeing a lot of films you wouldn't normally watch just because it fits nicely on the schedule between two other films. I call these movies the "nothing better to…
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