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Miles Davis Biopic Finds Director

For years Don Cheadle has been trying to get his biopic of Miles Davis, which he plans on starring in, off the ground. Now another film about the jazz legend may be getting in the way of his plans.  read more

The Guard review

To speak in stereotype for just a brief moment (as Sergeant Gerry Boyle does frequently in this overseas cop-flick), the Irish are the most intense group of people yet concocted. They are simultaneously vulgar, aggressive, pensive, loud, lazy, energetic, loving, self-abusive and fecking silly to no end. They are Europe’s redneck philosophers, drunken warrior poets that would make good representatives if we were trying to summarize all the various things it means to be human....  read more

Iron Man 2 Review

Director: Jon Favreau Writers: Justin Theroux (screenplay), Stan Lee (comic book) Cinematographer: Matthew Libatique Starring: Robert Downey Jr., Don Cheadle, Gwyneth Paltrow, Scarlett Johansson, Sam Rockwell, Mickey Rourke Studio: Paramount Pictures Starting to rust...  read more

Herbie Hancock to Score Miles Davis Biopic

Don Cheadle's biopic of jazz legend Miles Davis has been slow to develop, but big news came recently...  read more

Watch the New Iron Man 2 Trailer

Back in December, we showed you a trailer for the upcoming Iron Man 2. Well, scrubs those images from your brain, dear reader, because that trailer is old news! Last night (March 7), Robert Downey, Jr. debuted an updated, flashier version on Jimmy Kimmel’s show....  read more

Brooklyn's Finest

Release Date: Out Now Director: Antoine Fuqua Writer: Michael C. Martin Cinematographer: Patrick Murguia Starring: Don Cheadle, Ethan Hawke, Richard Gere, Wesley Snipes Studio/Runtime: Overture, 133 mins. Three Brooklyn cops, one well-worn destination Antoine Fuqua, director of the stiff-shouldered new drama Brooklyn’s Finest, mines the sturdy, winded mythology of the big-city-cop movie with sincerity. He works best at a mid-range budget and makes muscular, brutal movies that trade in the clichés of the genre but demand our submission to their dramatic overtures. “King Kong ain’t got shit on me!” Denzel Washington famously declares in Training Day, Fuqua’s best film,...  read more

Drunk History Takes Sundance Short Film Jury Prize

On March 22, Jen Kirkman drank two bottles of wine and then discussed a historical event…and began the making of what would become one of the most successful short films at Sundance this year. “Drunk History: Douglass and Lincoln,” directed by Jerry Konner, has won the Sundance Jury Prize in Short Filmmaking (via indieWire)....  read more

The 25 Best Movie Performances of the Decade

Sometimes, a good actor can make a bad script tolerable and mediocre script enjoyable. But occasionally, an actor will stumble upon a role they seemed born to play, and watching them transform themselves is an utter joy.  read more

Springsteen, Vedder, Damon, Cheadle, many more aboard for People's History of the United States

In an unusually ambitious project, the History Channel announced that it plans to adapt Howard Zinn’s seminal 1980 book A People’s History of the United States as a two-hour film with archival footage and readings by Bruce Springsteen, Eddie Vedder and John Legend and film stars like Matt Damon, Josh Brolin, Don Cheadle and Marisa Tomei. ...  read more

Hotel for Dogs

There are movies that work for children...  read more