Since when has professional theater become a fashionable alternative to screen work for movie stars? Nowadays, more Hollywood actors are proving that they’re not afraid to postpone lucrative film careers to test their craft onstage. According to USA Today’s fall theater preview, 2009 marks “the highest celebrity quotient in a fall [Broadway] season….”
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Film Review – Surrogates
Friday, October 2nd, 2009As advertised by the invention’s manufacturer, VSI, surrogates allow users to “do whatever you want, be whoever you want” without any risk or danger — until now.
This summer at the movie theater
Friday, May 29th, 2009Summertime is blockbuster season at the movies. Each year, major Hollywood studios, including Warner Bros., Paramount, Universal, 20th Century Fox, and Columbia, fight over coveted slots in a competitive summer lineup, hoping to release their films to the largest audiences possible. Most will not become next year’s Oscar contenders, but these popcorn flicks are guaranteed to resonate throughout American pop culture, while entertaining moviegoers during the dog days of summer.
Terminator: a determined action flick
Friday, May 29th, 2009By now, everyone in the world knows there is a new Terminator movie out. Naturally, I gleefully hurried to the Jamestown theater to watch the latest struggle between man and machine, this time played out with a grown up John Connor. Does it live up to the hype? Almost. Terminator Salvation provides pretty good action and has some thrilling scenes and special effects, but it falls short with moments of sheer absurdity.
Well worth the trek to the cinema
Friday, May 15th, 2009The new Star Trek flick is quite entertaining. It’s visually interesting and audibly impressive. It also aims to please non-Star Trek fans as well as “Trekkies” — an ambitious goal for a Star Trek movie — and it succeeds admirably.
The world’s most prestigious film festival
Friday, May 15th, 2009Every year in mid May, a spectacular event occurs on the Côte d’Azur (French Riviera) in the south of France. The small sea-side region of Cannes, known for its picturesque beaches and quaint cafes, experiences a wave of unparalleled media exposure upon hosting the Cannes Film Festival, an event that literally transforms the resort community into a war zone of star power and flash photography. This year, the festival runs from May 13-24.
Review: The Soloist
Friday, May 1st, 2009The Soloist takes place in Los Angeles and focuses on an L.A Times writer named Steve Lopez (Robert Downey Jr.) who needs something to write about. Lopez is under the added pressure of difficulties with his family and the knowledge that the newspaper industry is doing poorly lately. He stumbles upon a violin-playing homeless man named Nathaniel Ayers (Jamie Foxx). Ayers is mentally ill but claims to have trained at the Juilliard School of Music. Lopez, in desperate need of a story, does a little research and finds out that Ayers did indeed attend Juilliard, but somehow ended up on the street.
In the Bronx, film school is reel ghetto
Friday, May 1st, 2009When student films are featured on E! Channel, IFC (Independent Film Channel), CNN News and The New York Times, you’d probably assume the young up-and-comers attend USC or UCLA, right? Think again. Boasting impressive credentials to match those of any established Southern California institution, Ghetto Film School (GFS) transports the expertise of student filmmaking from the Hollywood hills straight to the heart of New York’s Bronx community.
Robert Pattinson’s Hollywood
Friday, April 17th, 2009Hollywood has a habit of concocting universal fame overnight. Robert Pattinson is no exception. Perhaps the fastest rising young film icon in recent history, Pattinson’s ascendance is the kind that makes aspiring actors sick to their stomachs. Why? Because, until quite recently, Pattinson walked among them.
Do not observe, Swanson reports!
Friday, April 17th, 2009I have grown accustomed to enjoying movies with Seth Rogan. This resplendent comedic star of Superbad, Knocked Up, and Pineapple Express attracted me to his latest film, Observe and Report. Observe and Report, however, expresses a different kind of humor than the above three. It is dark and harsh and will offend a lot of viewers. I liked it more than I wanted to, but many of the jokes in this film definitely weren’t for everyone.
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