Savages

By Norm Schrager at 10:58 PM on July 5, 2012

There must have been a secret on the Savages set that didn’t quite make the rounds. Benicio Del Toro heard it. John Travolta got it. So did Salma Hayek, God love her. The news was this: Play it campy, super campy—like one shade away from a gleaming Spanish-language telenovela. But not every player or writer in Oliver Stone’s scattered drug cartel drama goes far enough, leaving Savages a mess....  read more

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Hick

By Shannon M. Houston at 4:53 PM on May 21, 2012

There would seem to be plenty to get excited about in Derick Martini’s second feature film, Hick (based on the novel by Andrea Portes). If the plot is not especially enticing (a young girl from a hick town leaves home, travels West, and experiences the evils of the world), then the cast certainly garners attention. Chloë Grace Moretz takes the lead, playing alongside Juliette Lewis, Blake Lively, Eddie Redmayne and Alec Baldwin. Moretz and Redmayne each starred in two major pictures from last year (Hugo and My Week With Marilyn, respectively), and their pairing here certainly makes for an intriguing...  read more

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Watch the First Trailer for Oliver Stone's Savages

By Ross Bonaime at 4:14 PM on April 6, 2012

With Oliver Stone’s last film, 2010’s Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps, he took his original 1987 film and updated it for a younger audience. In his latest film, Savages, Stone looks like he will be taking his trademark directing style and grit and putting it into a film for a newer generation.  read more

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The Town review

By Allison Winn Scotch at 10:06 AM on October 4, 2010

After a string of what could only be called embarrassments—Reindeer Games, Gigli, Jersey Girl, Paycheck,Surviving Christmas—Ben Affleck seems like he’s ready to be taken seriously again. He dropped the high-profile relationship with the Jenny From The Block (you just know they both now regret that music video in which they mauled each other), took some time to clean himself up, got married to Jennifer Garner, accepted quieter parts like his supporting role in Hollywoodland, and emerged, incredibly, as a serious director in 2007 with Gone, Baby Gone. And now, four years after Project Rehabilitate Ben was launched, it can officially...  read more

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The Private Lives of Pippa Lee Review

By Sean Gandert at 10:00 AM on March 24, 2010

Release Date: March 2 Director/Writer: Rebecca Miller Cinematographer: Declan Quinn Starring: Alan Arkin, Robin Wright Penn, Winona Ryder, Keanu Reeves, Maria Bello, Blake Lively Studio/Run Time: Screen Media Films, 98 mins. Girl gone mild In The Private Lives of Pippa Lee, Rebecca Miller adapts her novel of the same name, telling again the melodramatic story of its title character. Lee and her husband’s relationship has slowly fallen apart, and Miller takes us back in time to show what led to this loveless marriage with a much older man. A bifurcated plotline attempts to contrast the dullness of Lee’s...  read more

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Gossip Girl Star to Join Jon Hamm, Jeremy Renner in Ben Affleck's The Town

By Jeffrey Bloomer at 7:30 AM on September 3, 2009

Gossip Girl starlet Blake Lively has been cast opposite Ben Affleck, Jon Hamm, Rebecca Hall (Vicki Cristina Barcelona), Chris Cooper and Jeremy Renner (The Hurt Locker) in The Town, a crime thriller that will also mark Affleck’s second feature as a director. ...  read more

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