Rose Byrne, the classically beautiful 34-year-old Australian, does not mind being called a character actor. “Oh gosh, my favorite actors are essentially character actors,” says Byrne when asked if she minds that designation. “That’s really how I’ve seen myself for a long time. I’m far more interested in doing that than whether that character happens […]
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When we were growing up (those of us born in the ’50s and ’60s, that is), we were promised a tomorrow filled with flying cars, high tech toys, and robotic servants. Even as we debated concepts like creating life where none existed before, we always envisioned the end result as a benefit to our world, […]
In the summer of 1983 I was 19 years old, and my best friend Gordon worked as an usher at the local multiplex. What a deal: I saw fifteen summer flicks, and I never paid a cent! Looking back after 30 years, I remember Tom Cruise’s Ray-Bans, Roy Scheider’s tan, and scary computers. Roger Moore […]
Today, comedy and horror are like peanut butter and chocolate. We can’t remember a time when the two weren’t part and parcel of each other’s make-up, and everyone is convinced they go great together. But not too long ago, fear and fun were barely on speaking terms, the laughs left to efforts that specifically went […]
It goes without saying that Roger Ebert, who died yesterday from cancer at the age of 70, was America’s movie critic. It also goes without saying that there will never be another like him, especially not in these media-atomized times. No other critic was better known or (arguably) more listened to; at least as much […]
Sure, true art requires inspiration. Just look at the mediocrity coming out of the Hollywood hack machine every single week. When a filmmaker is truly taken with something, unable to live or breathe without bringing it to the big screen, we all benefit from their muse. But there are at least ten directors who have […]
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