Tricia Helfer Feeling the Burn by Jay S. Jacobs Tricia Helfer is a busy woman. She wouldn’t have it any other way. The Canadian-born former supermodel has been able to pull off a leap which most in her profession never are able to make – she has become a well-known working actress. She has spent … Continue reading
THE SPIDERWICK CHRONICLES (2008) Starring Freddie Highmore, Sarah Bolger, Mary-Louise Parker, David Strathairn, Joan Plowright, Nick Nolte, Andrew McCarthy, Jordy Benattar and the voices of Martin Short, Chris Parson and Seth Rogen. Screenplay by Karey Kirkpatrick and David Berenbaum and John Sayles. Directed by Mark Waters. Distributed by Paramount Pictures. 101 minutes. Rated PG. Fantasy … Continue reading
INDIANA JONES AND THE KINGDOM OF THE CRYSTAL SKULL (2008) Starring Harrison Ford, Shia LaBeouf, Cate Blanchett, Karen Allen, Ray Winstone, John Hurt, Jim Broadbent, Igor Jijikine, Alan Dale, Joel Stoffer, Neil Flynn, V.J. Foster and Chet Hanks. Screenplay by David Koepp. Directed by Steven Spielberg. Distributed by Paramount Pictures. 126 minutes. Rated PG-13. Twenty-seven … Continue reading
Liv Tyler and Scott Speedman Are No Longer Strangers by Brad Balfour Sometimes there are interview opportunities and then there are interview opportunities. Consider the circumstances that came up with covering this sort-of horror/suspense film, The Strangers. A great trailer suggests a film that ratchets up the personal anxiety through the assault of three strangers … Continue reading
SPEED RACER (2008) Starring Emile Hirsch, Christina Ricci, John Goodman, Susan Sarandon, Matthew Fox, Roger Allam, Paulie Litt, Benno Fürmann, Hiroyuki Sanada, Rain, Scott Porter, Richard Roundtree and Kick Gurry. Screenplay by The Wachowski Brothers. Directed by The Wachowski Brothers. Distributed by Warner Bros. 135 minutes. Rated PG. Speed Racer is a triumph of style over … Continue reading
IRON MAN (2008) Starring Robert Downey Jr., Terrence Howard, Jeff Bridges, Gwyneth Paltrow, Leslie Bibb, Shaun Toub, Faran Tahir, Clark Gregg, Bill Smitrovich and Sayed Badreya. Screenplay by Mark Fergus, Hawk Ostby, Art Marcum and Matt Holloway. Directed by Jon Favreau. Distributed by Paramount Pictures. 126 minutes. Rated PG-13. Iron Man was always sort of a … Continue reading
THE BANK JOB (2008) Starring Jason Statham, Saffron Burrows, Richard Lintern, Stephen Campbell Moore, Daniel Mays, James Faulkner, Alki David, Michael Jibson, Georgia Taylor, Don Gallagher, Keeley Hawes, Peter De Jersey and David Suchet. Screenplay by Dick Clement and Ian La Frenais. Directed by Roger Donaldson. Distributed by Lionsgate Films. 110 minutes. Rated R. Old … Continue reading
Steven Strait An Actor Travels to Civilization in 10,000 BC by Brad Balfour No one ever expected a special-effects laden epic conceived and crafted by producer/director Roland Emmerich to be concerned about gaps in logic or story structure. So it goes with the German-born impressario’s latest faux-legend, the prehistoric 10,000 BC. From his civilization-destroying tentpole pictures … Continue reading
HITMAN (2007) Starring Timothy Olyphant, Dougray Scott, Olga Kurylenko, Robert Knepper, Ulrich Thomsen, Henry Ian Cusick and Michael Offei. Screenplay by Skip Woods. Directed by Xavier Gens. Distributed by 20th Century Fox. 107 minutes. Rated R. Hint to Interpol: when you are tracking down a silent, ruthless contract killer, perhaps you should pay a little … Continue reading
Denzel Washington and Russell Crowe Oppose Each Other in American Gangster by Brad Balfour What a pairing. Actors Denzel Washington (Training Day) and Russell Crowe (Gladiator) play two opposing forces in the struggle between an upwardly mobile black guy and upwardly mobile, distinctly Jewish guy during the ’70s in American Gangster. The black man starts out … Continue reading
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