Here's the new red band trailer for Julian Farino's The Oranges, an all-audiences taste of which we saw not long ago. Hugh Laurie was going to play the bad guy in Jose Padilha's RoboCop, but even after dropping out of that he'll probably be good at pissing someone off when his character in The Oranges as…
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Dating can be a tricky proposition under even the best of circumstances, but in The Oranges, Hugh Laurie's divorced dad David Walling finds himself in a particularly sticky situation when he falls for the much younger daughter (Leighton Meester) of his best friend (Oliver Platt). Toss in a jealous ex-wife (Catherine Keener) and a son…
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If you're more interested in the typical fall slate of festival entrees than summer's glut of tentpole action fare, this is a great week. The Toronto International Film Festival announced the first wave of films that will play the fest in September. This is a batch of about 50 titles, which makes up only a…
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I talked a bit about The Oranges just the other day -- that's the indie that will put Hugh Laurie back on the big screen in a May-September romance with Leighton Meester. When I mentioned the film last week Catherine Keener was noted as being in the mix as the mother of Meester's character. Now…
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I'm excited about the upcoming version of Mildred Pierce to be directed by Todd Haynes. Already set to star Kate Winslet in the title role, the HBO mini-series has just added a couple more good names: Guy Pearce and Evan Rachel Wood. Sure, Wood's career has been spotty, but there's something that suggests she can…
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