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Filming is currently underway on “Skyfall,” the twenty-third James Bond flick, starring Daniel Craig in his third outing as the iconic spy, Judi Dench, Javier Bardem and others. But while we’ve heard rumors of character deaths, and news about the film’s multiple “Bond girls,” we haven’t really seen all that much of the new movie.…
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Felicity Jones is making a name for herself by being an onscreen persona with some serious relationship issues. The 28-year-old actress just earned a Gotham Award for her performance in the indie hit “Like Crazy” and landed the role of one of Howard Hughes’ love interests in Warren Beatty’s biopic of the eccentric millionaire, and…
Actor Ralph Fiennes has played some powerful men: lords, dukes, the Greek god of the underworld, even the most evil wizard ever. But in his new movie, an adaptation of William Shakespeare’s “Coriolanus,” Fiennes plays his most powerful role to date: film director. When I asked Fiennes how he liked sitting in the director’s chair…
Talk about fortuitous timing. Earlier today at a press conference, Eon Productions officially announced the 23rd James Bond film, “Skyfall,” as well as its full cast list: Daniel Craig, Javier Bardem, Judi Dench, Naomie Harris, Albert Finney, and Ralph Fiennes. A few hours later, I happened to be chatting with Fiennes about “Coriolanus,” his fascinating…
With the success of both “Casino Royale” and “The Quantum of Solace,” there was never any real doubt that Daniel Craig would return to the screen for another James Bond movie, even during studio MGM’s 2010 bankruptcy proceedings. Now, coming out of a press conference this morning, we have new details about the film, including…
Since “Bond 23″ finally got back on track following funding issues far too dry to get into here, it’s been rumored that everyone’s favorite hunky Spaniard, Javier Bardem, would be stepping in as the film’s villain. Now comes reported confirmation that not only will Bardem be in the flick, but that he’ll be joined by…
Years ago when I was talking to Jon Favreau about “Made,” I brought up a scene that he shot in Glendale, a suburb of Los Angeles that serves as the lair of Peter Falk’s lowly kingpin. Favreau barely knew where I was referring to, and I would assume he had lived in Los Angeles since…
Several characters in Martin McDonagh’s “A Behanding in Spokane” spend a good portion of the play handcuffed to the walls, cowering in fear at the feet of Carmichael, a terrifyingly deranged man desperately in search of the hand he lost 47 years earlier. This image also works as a handy metaphor of what it must…
“Clash of the Titans” sits atop the box office with an Easter weekend take of 61.2 million, a record breaker. Yet, apart from the stunning locations like Tenerife in the Canary islands, the film is one colossal, Kraken-sized turd. Nothing more than a vehicle for special effects and hard rock cues with tons of screaming…
The original 1981 “Clash of the Titans,” was an authentic fantasy, what we used to call an epic adventure, before that word was mangled by leet teenagers on the internets. Though It employed stop motion, it still managed to dazzle with it’s special effects at the time, especially where it combined techniques – as it…
Kathryn Bigelow’s long been known as the most bad-ass chick in the action movie boys club, a superbly kinetic filmmaker whose work has ranged from the vampire horror-Western “Near Dark” to the brawny surfer heist cult favorite “Point Break” to the dystopic visions of “Strange Days.” Her new film, “The Hurt Locker,” treads into the…
“The Hurt Locker” is an action movie, which, given that it’s also a movie about the Iraq War, is kind of a revelation. Enough Iraq War films have been made now to enforce the common belief that no one actually wants to watch Iraq War films because they’re “depressing.” Which they generally are. The war…
