By Steve Persall , Times Film Critic In Print: Thursday, September 1, 2011 ‘WARRIOR’ In case you haven't heard, these are tough economic times. Wall Street is threatening a double-dip recession in a waffle cone. Meanwhile, theaters are charging higher pr
Price Berkley, the founder, editor and longtime publisher of Theatrical Index, the weekly trade publication that for nearly half a century has been consulted by anyone wanting to produce, finance, write about or possibly avoid a Broadway show, died on Su
“Bucky Larson Born to Be a Star”: Nick Swardson wants to be an adult film star in this comedy written with his buddy — some guy named Adam Sandler.
“Drive”: Ryan Gosling is a stunt driver for films who also does a few real-life heists on the side. He ta
A programming note: I’m finally on the list for movie screenings in the DC area, so expect more reviews. And feel free to treat these reviews both as guidance on whether or not to go see something, and as open threads for discussion over the weekend.
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In more ways than one, David Letterman couldn’t win at the 67th Annual Academy Awards. He was there as a host, not a nominee, which meant he couldn’t win literally, but unrealistic expectations made winning in a figurative sense all but impossible. And s
Arrested Development debuted as a comedy about a grossly dysfunctional family, and hit satirical targets that included corporate cockiness, useless heirs and heiresses, the media, and other big, timeless subjects. As the first season wrapped though, the
This mash-up of 25 great movie moments that were improvised (i.e. not in the script) has been humming across the interwebs this week:
I love improvisation and have much respect for improvisers. Listen! Make "yes-and" statements. Don’t interrogate, block
Plot: Spanning twenty years, every July 15th beginning in 1988, we see two friends wherever they are in their lives.
I didn't realize until I started to research this review that this was based on a 2009 book by David Nicholls. It is similar to Same Ti
Jim Parsons and Johnny Galecki are Emmy's new "Odd Couple," so to speak. In terms of Emmy history, the "Big Bang Theory" actors are only the third set of costars nominated for lead comedy actor, following Jack Klugman and Tony Randall ("The Odd Couple,"
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NEW YORK, Aug. 22, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- How cool! The first stand-up special by Nick Kroll ("The League"), "Nick Kro
The Debt
Because this fall, Helen Mirren’s not playing a purse-lipped queen; she’s playing a pistol-whipping Mossad agent. Aug. 31.
Contagion
Because the trailer for Steven Soderbergh’s viral panic thriller was so bold (and scary) it revealed that Gwyn
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We're looking for reports from tonight's WWE Raw show in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, the Smackdown show in Tacoma as well as tonight's TNA show in Atlanta at the
ONE DAY is exactly the sort of film I wanted to fall in love with. Having been raised by a mother whose favorite film is the Ellen Burstyn/Alan Alda classic SAME TIME, NEXT YEAR – a film that like the originals of today’s other two releases I’ve seen cou
Queens native Josh Kovacs (Stiller) has managed one of the most luxurious and well-secured residences in New York City for more than a decade. Under his watchful eye, nothing goes undetected. In the swankiest unit atop Josh’s building, Wall Street titan
Two years after she made her acting debut in (and scored an Academy Award nomination for) "Precious," Gabourey Sidibe is back.
The baby-faced 28-year-old actress -- who currently stars in Showtime's "The Big C" -- will next be seen in the big-screen flic
Time has been the main character in many great books and movies, forcing the development of feelings to slow down or speed up. What it brings to a plot is uncertainty: You never know when love will begin or end or under what circumstances. And oh, the qu
Image Credit: David Lee For Tower Heist (in theaters Nov. 4), comedy titans Ben Stiller and Eddie Murphy team up for the first time ever as two members of an unlikely group of blue-collar bandits out to snag $20 million from a corrupt Madoff type (Alan A
With the summer movie season finally behind us, it’s time to look ahead to the fall movies. If summer movies are the ones that sell out in an attempt to get as many asses on seats as possible, then the fall season is when things get weird, and people sta
Kicking off with fantastic new footage of it’s US release, Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, the Universal panel maintained the literary vibe with the Edgar Allen Poe-starring trailer for The Raven. Plunging us back to dank days of the 19th century, it’s brimme
“Saturday Night Live” recently announced that favorite host Alec Baldwin would host the 37th season premiere of the famed variety series on Sept. 24. The hosting gig will be Baldwin’s record 16th. Baldwin is not only a personal favorite for the show, but
Gabourey Sidibe walked the red carpet last night in East Hampton for the premiere of Homeland, a psychological thriller Showtime series debuting in the fall, starring Claire Danes.
Gabby, who stars in Showtime's The Big C, will next be seen in Tower Heis
American cable network Showtime has produced a number of genre-busting black comedies, among them Nurse Jackie,Weeds and United States of Tara. What they have in common is half-hour formats and prickly female protagonists who are played by admirable acto
Ben Stiller and Eddie Murphy lead an all-star cast in Tower Heist, a comedy caper about working stiffs who seek revenge on the Wall Street swindler who stiffed them. After the workers at a luxury Central Park condominium discover the penthouse billionair
Falling in love with Anne Hathaway isn't the hardest challenge British actor Jim Sturgess has faced. But proving they had chemistry -- pretty much instantly -- well . . . that was tougher."It's horrible -- they call it a 'chemistry read,' " says Sturgess
Throughout the course of our marriage, Marlboro Man has noted–and has teased me regularly–that I have a tendency to watch cheatin’ movies.
Let me defend myself: I don’t set out to find cheatin’ movies. I don’t seek out the message of cheatin’ movies. It
It’s been one year since former ABC Entertainment president Stephen McPherson shocked the industry by abruptly leaving ABC days before the network was due to present its slate at the Television Critics Association press tour. Since then, McPherson has ke
"We could not be happier that Eddie Murphy will star as Phooey," said Johnson and Kosove in a statement. "There is no overstating his contributions to cinema, and to such enduring stars of family entertainments such as ‘Shrek’ and ‘Dr. Doolittle.’ We loo
TAKE ME TO YOUR LEADER ABC-1964 -- Two aliens from Venus come to earth, meet an inventor, and go into business with him selling to unknowing earthlings products created for another planet.
13 THIRTEENTH AVENUE CBS-1983 – Similar to one of yesterda
There’s a lot going on in the trailer for the upcoming Brett Ratner action comedy Tower Heist : Jay-Z and Lenny Kravitz songs, Alan Alda as a Bernie Madoff-like villain, Gabourey Sidibe doing a Jamaican accent (while hitting on Eddie Murphy ), Ben Stille
I received a thought provoking call from a very close girlfriend last night who I will call Lisa. Actually, she left a message. She lives in the geographic region of the country I quickly abandoned shortly after my train wreck mid 2009. In Lisa’s voice
Friday August 5, 2011
to have a specialist, a thoracic surgeon, assigned to the 4077th; hence the arrival of Hawkeye Pierce.
I saw the movie, "M*A*S*H" the other day. Not the TV series with Alan Alda and Mike Farrell, but the movie. It starred Elliot Go
In my book, "Growing Up Laughing," Alan Alda tells me about performing this famous routine with his dad when he was a little boy. It made me want to take another look - and you know what? It STILL makes me laugh. –MT
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Tony Award-winning director Michael Mayer directs, and devised the new plot. The Tony Award-nominated score by Burton Lane (music) and Alan Jay Lerner (lyrics) is enhanced by classics from their film 1970 score for the same property, and their score from
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1. Elizabeth Montgomery starred in which TV sitcom from
1964-1972?
2. Which two actors shared the role of advertising executive
Darrin Stephens?
3. Which 1950s sitcom focused on Ralph and
Universal Pictures has just released a sneak peek at exclusive on set images of "The Tower Heist" . The new comedyfeatures a star studded cast including Ben Stiller,Eddie Murphy,Matthew Broderick Ben Stiller, Eddie Murphy, Casey Affleck, Alan Alda, Matth
If you've ever wondered what Freaky Friday would have been like with toilet humor and frequent uses of the F-word, then The Change-Up is a movie for you.
For everyone else, once you get past the film's adult content - it definitely earns its "R" rating -
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"Comedy is tragedy plus time," Alan Alda's character says in Woody Allen's "Crimes and Misdemeanors."
With the Senate finally voting this afternoon to raise the debt ceiling, enough time has proba
You do not see quite as many films actually directed by Brett Ratner as you used to, but he has the distinction of being one of those directors “considered” for many a high-profile franchise project. As in, “Following the director’s decision not to retur
Wednesday August 3, 2011
who created them the characters.
BRATTLEBORO -- Local author Archer Mayor is always happy to expose Vermont’s seedy underbelly to the rest of the world.
It’s true, Mayor admits, that the belly may not be as seedy as other bellie
I have some reservations here, particularly the plot device of a bunch of pasty white boys hiring a black man to advise them in how to commit felonies, which I thought, even with a twist, was the weakest part of Horrible Bosses. But on the whole, I’m act
I’d like to introduce you all to a staple of my baseball world ESPN’s Baseball Today podcast. For those of you unfamiliar with the show it’s approximately 30 minutes in length and with new shows available Monday to Friday during the regular season; it mo
Brattleboro, Vt., is a bucolic town — pricked with picturesque church steeples — and home to a vibrant arts community. So it's an unlikely setting for gruesome murder and gritty crime, but that's just what goes on in Archer Mayor's Brattleboro-based Joe
