Biography

A Mighty Heart Blu-ray review

A MIghty Heart is based on Mariane Pearl’s account of the riveting and unforgettable story of her husband, Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl’s life and death. Director Michael Winterbottom crafts a film that captivates, intrigues, saddens and angers us, even though we know the outcome of events before watching.

Sean Penn, Jim Carrey and Benicio Del Toro circling Three Stooges roles

MGM and the Farrelly brothers are close to casting The Three Stooges film, according to Variety. Sean Penn is already attached to play “Larry” Fine, and the studio is negotiating with Jim Carrey to play Curly, and with Benicio Del Toro to play “Moe” Howard. According to the report, Carrey is already making plans to ….

New trailer for Steve McQueen-directed Hunger

Steve McQueen directs Michael Fassbender, Stuart Graham, Helena Bereen, Larry Cowan, Liam Cunningham, Dennis McCambridge, Liam McMahon, Laine Megaw, Brian Milligan, Rory Mullen and Lalor Roddy, in the U.K. drama Hunger. Hunger revolves around the last six weeks of the life of Irish Republican activist Bobby Sands, who held a prison hunger strike, in an ….

Steve McQueen biopic on the way

Producers Michael Cerenzie and Christine Peters are developing a Steve McQueen biopic, according to The Hollywood Reporter. The team have acquired rights to the Marshall Terrill’s biography Steve McQueen: Portrait of an American Rebel. The new film will primarily focus on McQueen’s Hollywood career, which began in 1956 when the Indiana native got his break ….

Into The Wild Blu-ray review

Who is Alexander Supertramp? He is a mythological figure who brought enlightenment to all he touched. Who is Alexander Supertramp? He walked among us and synthesized his pain into energy. Who is Alexander Supertramp? Christopher McCandless asked himself that same question everyday. The film Into the Wild is so amazingly brilliant, I was left asking ….

Forest Whitaker to direct and star in Louis Armstrong biopic

Variety reports that Forest Whitaker will direct and star in the film What a Wonderful World, a biopic on musician Louis Armstrong. Paris-based Legende, the company behind La Vie en rose, is producing the film, alongside Edward R. Pressman, and Oscar Cohen, executive of the Armstrong estate and the Louis Armstrong Educational Foundation. Ron Bass ….

Gus Van Sant’s Milk trailer

Below is the trailer for the new Gus Van Sant film, Milk, which looks like a moving biography of the life of California’s first openly gay elected official, Harvey Milk (played by Sean Penn), who was assassinated, along with Mayor George Moscone, by San Francisco Supervisor Dan White (played by Josh Brolin). Milk will be ….

Frida film review

Year: 2002 The Life of Mexican Painter Frida Khalo Selma Hayek turns in an unforgettable performance as the Mexican bisexual feminist/painter plagued throughout her life by poor health and unrequited love. In concert with Frida’s paintings, director Julie Taymor conceives her life as a sensuous collage, with Frida forever adrift, driven in her quest for ….

Tom Cruise biography

TOM CRUISE has achieved unprecedented success as an actor and producer in a career spanning two decades. He is a three-time Academy Award nominee whose films have earned in excess of six billion dollars worldwide. In addition, while continuing to explore new artistic challenges, Cruise has utilized his professional success as a vehicle for positive ….

The Last King of Scotland Co-Stars Interview Each Other

The last film (which has always stayed with me) I remember watching about Idi Amin, was 1981’s Amin: The Rise and Fall. It was a brutal portrait of Amin, containing rapes, mass murder and the utter degradation of his own people. Sharad Patel directed the film almost as a B movie horror, but with a better script. Some of the incidents ….

Catch A Fire Trailer

Shot on location in Johannesburg, Cape Town, and Mozambique, the political thriller Catch A Fire is based on the real-life story of Patrick Chamusso. The film takes place in South Africa, spanning from the country’s turbulent and divided years in the 1980s to the present day. Patrick (played by Derek Luke) is an oil refinery employee and soccer player who is ….

The Last King Of Scotland Trailer

In an incredible twist of fate, a Scottish doctor (played by James McAvoy) on a Ugandan medical mission becomes irreversibly entangled with one of the world’s most barbaric figures: Idi Amin (played by Forest Whitaker). Impressed by Dr. Garrigan’s brazen attitude in a moment of crisis, the newly self-appointed Ugandan President Amin hand picks him as his physician. Whitaker is getting ….