Posted on July 19, 2017 at 4:00 pm
This looks like a great movie about a terrible movie. Tommy Wiseau’s “The Room” is a legendary catastrophe of a film, sometime referred to as the “Citizen Kane” of terrible movies. In “The Disaster Artist,” James Franco directs and stars in the story of how that movie was made. This new trailer looks terrific.
Posted on July 16, 2017 at 11:52 pm
I could not be more excited about seeing one of my all-time favorite books brought to screen by one of my all-time favorite directors. Madeleine L’Engle’s A Wrinkle in Time is a magnificent story of a brave girl named Meg who has to save her scientist father (Chris Pine). He disappeared while testing a theory about traveling through space. The book was rejected at first by publishers because it did not fit into any one category — it has adventure and science fiction and romance and questions of faith and philosophy. Meg, like Jo March and Mary Lennox, is smart, strong, and brave — and, crucially, succeeds because of her faults, not in spite of them. I interviewed L’Engle’s granddaughter on the 50th anniversary of the book.
And now Ava DuVernay (“Selma”) is directing the movie version. This early glimpse of the film, which will be out next spring, looks thrilling. The trio of otherworldly creatures wonderfully named Mrs. Which, Mrs. Whatsit, and Mrs. Who, are played by Oprah Winfrey, Reese Witherspoon, and Mindy Kaling.
I hope she signs up to do the whole series.
Posted on July 10, 2017 at 9:12 pm
Geoffrey Rush stars as Swiss artist Alberto Giacometti, with Armie Hammer as James Lord, written and directed by Stanley Tucci. Here is the real-life portrait of Lord.
Posted on July 2, 2017 at 8:00 am
Andrew Garfield plays pioneering disability rights advocate Robin Cavendish in “Breathe,” directed by actor Andy Serkis, best known for his extraordinary motion capture performances in the “Lord of the Rings” and “Planet of the Apes” series.
Posted on June 24, 2017 at 8:00 am
Chadwick Boseman (“The Black Panther”) plays a young Thurgood Marshall in this film, coming to theaters in October. His co-stars include Josh Gad, Kate Hudson, and “This is Us” star Sterling K. Brown.
