Drama

Dominic West to star in true account of miracle drug developer

Dominic West (The Wire, The Devil’s Whore, The Forgotten) will star as straight-talking Australian scientist Professor Howard Florey in Breaking The Mould for BBC Four, it was announced yesterday. It is widely recognized that Alexander Fleming was the man who discovered penicillin but the truth is a bit more complicated than that – and the ….

Hilary Duff plays a narcissistic seductress in What Goes Up: film snapshot

What Goes Up (formerly titled Safety Glass) is a film about a morally challenged New York reporter, Campbell Babbitt (Steve Coogan), who learns life lessons from a group of dysfunctional students (played by Hilary Duff, Josh Peck, Olivia Thirlby) while covering the hometown hoopla surrounding the first teacher in space. Set in the 1980s, this ….

The Blind Side begins shooting in Atlanta

Principal photography has begun on Alcon Entertainment’s The Blind Side, starring Sandra Bullock, Tim McGraw, Kathy Bates and newcomer Quinton Aaron. Filming started on April 17 on location in Atlanta, Georgia, under the direction of John Lee Hancock (The Rookie). Hancock also adapted the screenplay from the best-selling book by Michael Lewis, The Blind Side: ….

The Soloist film review

Here’s a review of the new Jamie Foxx/Robert Downey Jr. film The Soloist, by long-time contributor Sir Charles Maye. Ok, so this is pretty tricky. This review is kinda like Lindsay Lohan – it goes both ways, so bear with me. The Soloist is about homeless, Julliard-trained cellist/violinist Nathaniel Ayers (Jamie Foxx) who’s suffering from ….

Doubt Blu-ray review

I didn’t watch Doubt in theaters, however watching the film on Blu-ray for the first time didn’t diminish the riveting effect of such powerful writing and acting representations for me. Doubt was a class in great filmmaking from beginning to end. The performances by Oscar winners Meryl Streep and Philip Seymour Hoffman, as well as ….

Marley & Me: Bad Dog Edition Blu-ray review

Marley and Me, based on John Grogan’s bestselling non-fiction book that recounts the author’s life with an uncontrollable Labrador Retriever named Marley, became a runaway hit in theaters, December of last year. Marley’s dizzying behavior had been the focus of Grogan’s Florida newspaper column, winning over readers long before the book came to pass. Now, ….

New Powder Blue trailer

Speakeasy Releasing has released a new trailer for Powder Blue, which revolves around four strangers who cross paths through extraordinary and serendipitous circumstances. The film stars Jessica Biel, Eddie Redmayne, Forest Whitaker, Ray Liotta, Lisa Kudrow, Patrick Swayze, Kris Kristofferson, Alejandro Romero and Sanaa Lathan. Check out the trailer below. Find out more about Powder ….

FilmFetish is giving away two copies of The Curious Case of Benjamin Button on DVD

A thrilling adventure and captivating story of one man’s unusual and enchanted life, director David Fincher’s Academy Award-winning film The Curious Case of Benjamin Button debuts as a two-disc DVD and two-disc Blu-ray on May 5, 2009 from Paramount Home Entertainment. To celebrate the release, I’m giving away two copies of the DVD edition to ….

Do the Right Thing 20th Anniversary Edition coming to DVD and Blu-ray

In 1989, two-time Academy Award nominee and visionary filmmaker Spike Lee (Inside Man) mesmerized audiences with one of the most insightful and provocative films of its time – Do the Right Thing. Universal Studios Home Entertainment celebrates the 20th Anniversary of this provocative drama with an all-new special edition coming to Blu-ray Hi-Def and DVD ….

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.

Sundance winner Five Minutes Of Heaven comes to the small screen

James Nesbitt and Liam Neeson star in award-winning director Oliver Hirschbiegel’s Five Minutes Of Heaven, a unique one-off drama for BBC Two that explores aspects of Northern Ireland’s troubled past and the challenges the future holds in coming to terms with it. The story begins in 1975 when 17-year-old Alistair Little, a member of the ….

Brad Pitt and Natalie Portman grab Important Artifacts

Brad Pitt and Natalie Portman are attached to star in a Paramount Pictures film based on a new Leanne Shapton book titled Important Artifacts and Personal Property From the Collection of Lenore Doolan and Harold Morris, Including Books, Street Fashion and Jewelry, according to Variety. The book looks like a Sotheby’s estate auction catalog, with ….