“Prisoners” is the most maddening kind of failure: an abrasively portentous thriller that, in spite of its copious flaws, manages to startle the audience a handful of times. Because director Denis Villeneuve regards screenwriter Aaron Guzikowski’s cut-and-dry kidnapping story as an ultra-serious treatise on torture, and because the superb cast (Hugh Jackman, Jake Gyllenhaal, Paul Dano, Terrence ... more >
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Prisoners
From the director of "Incendies"
Jake Gyllenhaal and Melanie Laurent
Directed by Denis Villeneuve
VIOLA DAVIS, JAMES FRANCO AMONG NEW HOLLYWOOD HALL OF FAME INDUCTEES
And now the search begins for sponsors and financing
Actors Javier Bardem, Helen Mirren, James Franco, Viola Davis (pictured) and Olympia Dukakis, as well as the singer Janis Joplin, have been selected by the Hollywood Chamber of Commerce to get their star on Hollywood’s Walk of Fame in 2013. Several hundred candidates had applied to join the long list of artists whose stars are trampled daily by thousands of tourists on Hollywood Boulevard and ... more >
The help
Change begins with a whisper
Emma Stone, Viola Davis and Octavia Spencer
Directed by Tate Taylor
Tate Taylor’s adaptation of Kathryn Stockett's The Help filled me with a wonder similar to that I felt watching—and relishing—Mad Men. There, the three-martini lunch, the 1960 men and women boozing and smoking themselves to death had me aghast. Same here. This was Jackson, Mississipi, fifty years ago? It’s beyond racism, unless racism means considering people so far below you that no one would ... more >