Drama

Director of Hero Riding Alone For Thousands of Miles

It’s easy to forget that Zhang Yimou (Raise the Red Lantern, Ju Dou) was critically acclaimed for his touching dramas, long before the success of action gods House of Flying Daggers and Hero. Before his next action epic arrivesd, he brings us Riding Alone For Thousands of Miles the story of a Japanese father who travels to China’s Yunnan province in the place ….

Tideland Trailer

Director Terry Gilliam. What can he be called but a mad genius (Monty Python & the Quest for the Holy Grail, Fear, Jabberwocky, Loathing in Las Vegas). Of course there was the aptly titled The Brothers Grimm. But he continues to challenge and experiment, while many in the film industry create for a supposed audience they may or may not ….

Phillippe Goes to War

According to Hollywood Reporter, Ryan Phillippe, fresh off his success in Crash, is currently in negotiations to star in the film Stop-Loss, to be directed by Kimberly Peirce, who also helmed Boys Don’t Cry, which won Hillary Swank an Oscar and co-star Chloe Sevigny an Oscar nod. Stop-Loss is about a soldier (played by Phillippe) who returns home to Texas, only to be called to duty again in Iraq through ….

The Painted Veil Update

The Painted Veil is a drama set in London in 1922 about a restless wife named Kitty Fane (Naomi Watts) who, after cheating on her conservative bacteriologist husband Walter (Edward Norton) with a local playboy (played by Watt’s real life bo Liev Schreiber), embarks on a journey to the Far East to battle cholera. The journey becomes an odyssey of sadness and ….

Dreamgirls Movie Updates

I watched the Broadway play Dreamgirls when I was 11 years old. My family made it tradition to watch Broadway shows every year, at least 3 times a year, as a family unit. Up until that time, I honestly wasn’t very impressed with Broadway in general. It just wasn’t my thing. I would have rather been home ….

Road to Gauntanamo Trailer

The Road to Guantánamo is part drama, part documentary. It focuses on the trio nicknamed the Tipton Three; three British Muslims who were held in Guantanamo Bay for two years until they were released without charge. The film will begin a limited release on June 23, 2006. Watch the trailer for one of the scariest films ….

Smith ‘Gains’ New Projects

According to The Hollywood Reporter, Will Smith is attached to star in the upcoming film Seven Pounds for Columbia Pictures and will produce the film alongside his Overbrook Entertainment partner James Lassiter.  Seven Pounds was written by Grant Nieporte, and tells the story of a man who inadvertently falls in love with a woman while attempting to kill himself. Sort of a depressed Hitch, I guess. ….

The Namesake Trailer

The Namesake focuses on American-born Gogol, who is trying to break away from his Indian heritage, by doing things like dating a blond and shaving off his hair. However, his very traditional family shows him some things he may have overlooked about himself, which begins the journey to find and accept himself. The Namesake is directed by ….

Michael May Comes Into the Light

Fox 2000 and producer Gil Netter are teaming up with Oscar-winning screenwriter Bruce Joel Rubin (who wrote the Oscar-winning script for Ghost) to adapt the book Into the Light. The film will be based on Robert Kurson’s upcoming book, which was based on an Esquire article, according to the Book Standard. Into the Light tells the true story of Michael May, a blind athlete who, among other accomplishments, holds the ….

Freeman and the Feast of Love

According to Variety, Morgan Freeman is in talks to star in the drama The Feast of Love for Lakeshore Entertainment. The Feast of Love will be based on a Charles Baxter novel about a community of friends in Oregon and the sometimes painful incarnations of love. Freeman would play a philosophy professor named Harry Scott. Director Robert Benton (who won an Oscar for Kramer vs. Kramer) recently ….

The Lake House Trailer

I have posted new photos and both of the new trailers for the Lake House, in the Film Library. The Lake House is about a lonely doctor who once occupied an unusual lakeside home begins exchanging love letters with its newest resident, a frustrated architect. Or does he even exist at all? The strange mystery begins on June ….

The Assassination of Jesse James Film Trailer

The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford, chronicles Robert Ford (Casey Affleck) as he joins Jesse James’s (Brad Pitt) gang, only to become resentful of the legendary outlaw and formulate a plan to kill the fastest gun in the West. The film stars Brad Pitt, Casey Affleck, Sam Shepard, Mary-Louise Parker, Jeremy Renner, Paul Schneider, Sam Rockwell and Zooey Deschanel and ….

All The King’s Men Trailer Online

Below are links to the brand new trailer for All The King’s Men. The film is directed by Steven Zaillian (A Civil Action, Searching for Bobby Fischer) and stars Sean Penn, Jude Law, Kate Winslet, Patricia Clarkson, James Gandolfini, Mark Ruffalo and Anthony Hopkins. All The King’s Men is based on a novel by Robert Penn Warren. that details the life of populist Southerner Willie ….