Tim Robbins And Victor Garber Offer Opposing Portrayals Of Real People In 'Dark Waters'
Of the Dark Waters real people inspirations, Tim Robbins and Victor Garber offer interesting foils, as characters connected with Mark Ruffalo's hero.
Read MoreOf the Dark Waters real people inspirations, Tim Robbins and Victor Garber offer interesting foils, as characters connected with Mark Ruffalo's hero.
Read MoreA big Castle Rock twist has changed our entire perception of Hulu's Stephen King anthology series. Let's talk about what it means.
Read MoreHere's our look at Frank Darabont's The Shawshank Redemption at 25, which remains essential fuel for a film lover's soul.
Read MoreYou can catch The Shawshank Redemption in theaters again for its 25th anniversary starting this weekend. Find out when and where right here.
Read MoreIn the Here and Now trailer, HBO introduces a multi-racial family lead by Holly Hunter and Tim Robbins in Alan Balls new modern family drama.
Read MoreThe Here and Now trailer reveals a cryptic, hypnotic look at the new HBO drama from Six Feet Under creator Alan Ball, featuring Tim Robbins and Holly Hunter
Read MoreLois Smith stars in Marjorie Prime as a woman piecing together the past with a hologram of her husband (Jon Hamm). Watch the Marjorie Prime trailer now.
Read MoreJacob's Ladder recently turned 25 years old, so, of course, it's time for a Jacob's Ladder remake. David Rosenthal will direct Michael Ealy in the remake.
Read MoreThe Brink has been cancelled at HBO after one season -- after being renewed back in July. The geopolitical satire starred Jack Black and Tim Robbins.
Read MoreA real life Shawshank Redemption prisoner caught after 56 years has some strange ties and similarities to the Frank Darabont drama from 1994.
Read MoreAfter chronicling the 2000 Bush-Gore debacle with 2008's Recount and John McCain's failed 2008 presidential run with last year's Game Change, Jay Roach is once again diving into the world of politics for HBO. But this time, the crisis being depicted is totally fictional. Roach has just cast Jack Black and Tim Robbins in the…
Read MoreWhile the mainstream is fetishizing the '90s, a crew is still looking back at the forgotten corners of '80s pop culture. IFC mini-series The Spoils of Babylon is from exec producers Will Ferrell, Adam McKay, Matt Piedmont, Andrew Steele and Nate Young. (Steele and Piedmont wrote.) It is designed as a spoof of '80s event television, and…
Read MoreIn The Avengers, Mark Ruffalo played a seemingly mild-mannered man waging a constant internal battle against his predilection for anger. In the upcoming Thanks for Sharing, he plays a guy who's a lot like that, only he's fighting sex addition, not anger issues. And Pepper Potts -- I'm sorry, Gwyneth Paltrow -- is along for…
Read MoreProduced by Will Ferrell and Adam McKay, Welcome to Me features Kristen Wiig as a lady with multiple personalities. She then wins the lottery and spends the money on a TV show that's about herself. It's written by Eliot Laurence, directed by Shira Piven and starts production in August. Three actors were just added to the…
Read MoreDespite sharing a theme and a location -- sex addiction and New York City, respectively -- Stuart Blumberg's Thanks for Sharing couldn't look more different from Steve McQueen's Shame. Whereas the latter was a dark, depressing portrayal of one man's downward spiral, the former looks like a lighter, more hopeful affair about a group of…
Read MoreWill Ferrell and Adam McKay are living in the past. The modern TV "event series" has its roots in, well, Roots, and other mini-series adaptations of popular epic fiction. The late '70s and early '80s saw a rash of highly-touted adaptations of historical novels and family sagas, with the runaway success of Roots followed by…
Read MoreFifteen years after Quentin Tarantino's Jackie Brown hit theaters, Dan Schechter is making plans to travel back fifteen years before that movie took place. The writer-director has been amassing quite a cast for his sorta-prequel The Switch, including John Hawkes, Yasiin Bey (formerly known as Mos Def), Jennifer Aniston, and Isla Fisher. But now he's…
Read MoreIf you were perhaps looking for a companion piece to The Flowers of War, in which a big western star (Christian Bale) played in a film about Chinese history, then Back to 1942 might be it. Here Adrien Brody and Tim Robbins are two men caught up in social and political upheaval in China's Henan…
Read MoreBriefly: Here's another example of the increasing, and sometimes increasingly weird, overlap between the US and Chinese film industries. Tim Robbins and Adrien Brody have been cast in a film that will chronicle the effects of a famine that devastated central China as war raged against Japan in 1942. That's not quite the same as…
Read MoreZach Gilford, best known as sensitive QB Matt Saracen on Friday Night Lights, will be starring opposite Arnold Schwarzenegger in The Last Stand. Described as "a combination of Die Hard and High Noon," the action film revolves around a border town sheriff (Schwarzenegger) who finds himself tasked with stopping a drug kingpin from crossing the…
Read MoreOne of the weirder American monster legends is that which concerns the Jersey Devil, which originates in the 18th century, but became one of the breakout American pop-culture monsters thanks to reported sightings in the early 1900s. Now Stephen Moyer from True Blood will star in a new film exploiting the legend: The Barrens. He'll…
Read MoreLast night during 30 Rock and American Idol Warner Bros. premiered a new TV spot for Green Lantern, but the spot was really more of a recut trailer. At 1:30, it is essentially a shortened version of the WonderCon footage that was shown off not long ago. But there are a few new bits sprinkled…
Read MoreThese days, reality television may be considered by some to be a blight on our cultural landscape, but there was a time when it offered a more honest counterpoint to the idealized families being portrayed on American sitcoms. Back in the early '70s, filmmaker Craig Gilbert conceived of a documentary series about a California household as…
Read MoreLong before The Real World, Survivor or Jersey Shore, producer Craig Gilbert created An American Family. The PBS documentary special that aired in 1973 was unlike anything ever put on television. It chronicled the real life, daily struggles of the Louds, a seemingly perfect California family who were not only catapulted to fame by the…
Read MoreReality stars are a dime a dozen these days, but HBO Films' Cinema Verite takes us back to a time when that wasn't the case. The film dramatizes the behind-the-scenes action surrounding PBS' 1973 documentary series An American Family, which HBO's marketing team is referring to the first reality show. The series followed a Santa…
Read MoreWarner Bros has released the full movie trailer for Martin Campbell's big screen adaptation of DC Comics' Green Lantern starring Ryan Reynolds, Blake Lively, Peter Sarsgaard, Mark Strong, and Tim Robbins. I like how they save the sci-f/DC Comics logo reveal to half way through the trailer, trying to sell audiences on the story of…
Read MoreUpdate: Two more images have been added to this post bringing the total up to six photos. New images include Hector Hammond before his alien encounter and Hector in a bunker with the corpse of alien Abin Sur. Earlier today we had the first look at Ryan Reynolds in costume as Green Lantern, thanks to…
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