Timothy Hutton Gaining His Leverage by Jay S. Jacobs It’s a huge honor but also a big responsibility when in your first film role you end up winning an Oscar. Timothy Hutton knows this all too well. He had grown up around show business, his father Jim Hutton was a well-known character actor in the … Continue reading
THE KARATE KID (2010) Starring Jaden Smith, Jackie Chan, Taraji P. Henson, Han Wenwen, Wang Zhenwei, Yu Rongguang, Luke Carberry, Wu Zhensu, Harry Van Gorkum and Wang Zhiheng. Screenplay by Christopher Murphy. Directed by Harald Zwart. Distributed by Columbia Pictures. 140 minutes. Rated PG. The Karate Kid is a pretty perfect primer in how to totally … Continue reading
Alyssa Jacey Everything is Better in Blue by Jay S. Jacobs Alyssa Jacey popped on our radar about four years ago after she contacted us when she read an interview, I had done with a high school friend, singer Tristan Prettyman. Jacey had recently moved from Los Angeles – where she was both a professional … Continue reading
WHEN IN ROME (2010) Starring Kristen Bell, Josh Duhamel, Anjelica Huston, Danny DeVito, Will Arnett, Jon Heder, Dax Shepard, Alexis Dziena, Kate Micucci, Don Johnson, Peggy Lipton, Luca Calvani, Keir O’Donnell, Bobby Moynihan, Lee Pace, Kristen Schaal, Judith Malina, Natalie Joy Johnson, Brian Golub, Efren Ramirez, Shaquille O’Neal, Lawrence Taylor and Ghostface Killah. Screenplay by … Continue reading
THE CRY OF THE OWL (2010) Starring Paddy Considine, Julia Stiles, Caroline Dhavernas, James Gilbert, Gord Rand, Karl Pruner, Phillip MacKenzie, R.D. Reid, Constantine Alex Karzis, Marcia Laskowski, Krista Bridges and Charlotte Sullivan. Screenplay by Jamie Thraves. Directed by Jamie Thraves. Distributed by Myriad Pictures. 100 minutes. Rated R. The Cry of the Owl doesn’t quite … Continue reading
KILLERS (2010) Starring Katherine Heigl, Ashton Kutcher, Tom Selleck, Catherine O’Hara, Katheryn Winnick, Kevin Sussman, Alex Borstein, Lisa Ann Walter, Casey Wilson, Rob Riggle, Martin Mull, Mary Birdsong, Letoya Luckett, Michael Daniel Cassady and Usher Raymond IV. Screenplay by Bob DeRosa and Ted Griffin. Directed by Robert Luketic. Distributed by Lionsgate Films. 93 minutes. Rated … Continue reading
IRON MAN 2 (2010) Starring Robert Downey Jr., Gwyneth Paltrow, Don Cheadle, Scarlett Johansson, Mickey Rourke, Sam Rockwell, Samuel L. Jackson, Garry Shandling, Clark Gregg, John Slattery, Jon Favreau, Kate Mara, Leslie Bibb, Olivia Munn and Adam ‘DJ AM’ Goldstein. Screenplay by Justin Theroux. Directed by Jon Favreau. Distributed by Paramount Pictures. 125 minutes. Rated … Continue reading
Brooke Elliott Return of the Drop Dead Diva by Jay S. Jacobs It’s not easy to win the lead role in a television series. This is particularly when you have done very little television or film. Add to that not fitting into the box of traditionally Hollywood beautiful and being a little bit quirky. This … Continue reading
April Bowlby It Takes a Smart Actress to Play a Dumb Character by Jay S. Jacobs April Bowlby has somehow latched onto a very odd specialty as an actress. It was nothing she was looking for or planning to pursue, it just sort of happened. The former model has become noticed for playing sweetly naïve … Continue reading
STARSTRUCK (2010) Starring Sterling Knight, Danielle Campbell, Maggie Castle, Brandon Mychal Smith, Chelsea Staub, Beth Littleford, Dan O’Connor, Lauren Bowles, Ron Pearson, Matt Winston, Toni Trucks, Alice Hirson, Abbie Cobb, Hugh Dane, Sunkrish Bala and Harry Perry. Screenplay by Barbara Johns and Annie DeYoung. Directed by Michael Grossman. Distributed by Walt Disney Home Video. 85 … Continue reading
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