Ken Jeong talks stunts, breaking tropes and the evolution of Mr. Chow in “Hangover 3″
David Cross and Portia de Rossi describe Lindsay and Tobias’s “trajectory of sadness” in “Arrested Development” season 4
Chris Gethard gets greasy at his favorite New Jersey diner
Jessica Walter winks suggestively and describes Lucille Bluth’s “dire straits” in “Arrested Development” season 4
For months now, Kevin Smith has seemed like an angry guy: angry at critics who didn’t care for his last movie; angry at distributors for their wasteful release strategies; (rightfully) angry at Southwest Airlines for unfairly kicking him off a plane. So even though it doesn’t look like something by the writer/director of “Clerks” and…
You need two things to be a great boxer: technique and heart. Knowing how to throw a punch won’t get you very far if you also don’t know how to take one. Acting is the same way: all the technical proficiency in the world will get you nowhere if you can’t use it to move…
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If the “Twilight: Eclipse” premiere was the tough ticket of this year’s L.A. Film Festival, drawing roughly 5,000 fans from all corners of the U.S. in order to get a glimpse of Robert Pattinson and Taylor Lautner at the Nokia Theater, then “Welcome to the Rileys” proved to be damn near impossible. Kristen Stewart fans…
If there’s one thing jurors Hope Davis, Aaron Eckhart and Cheryl Hines can agree on, it’s that the German drama “When We Leave” deserved many accolades at this year’s Tribeca Film Festival, where Feo Aladang’s drama about one woman’s daring decision to escape her husband in Turkey with their five-year-old son for her family in…
Now is the early spring of our discontent. Every year around this time, many of the films clotting theaters are the indies no one thinks will secure an Oscar nomination or the big-budget features studios don’t have the faith will score sweet summer box-office numbers. Admittedly, these movies can turn out to be real gems…
I really didn’t care for Courtney Hunt’s feature debut “Frozen River” when I caught it at Sundance, but others did, to the point where it won the Grand Jury Prize, was picked up by Sony Pictures Classics, opened New Directors/New Films and now, in theatrical release, is receiving mostly praise, while star Melissa Leo’s name…
By Stephen Saito When Melissa Leo went home for Christmas last year, she took a copy of “Frozen River” to show her family. It was a month before the film would go on to pick up the Grand Jury Prize for drama at Sundance, but those closest to Leo wasting no time in observing that…
