TED (2012) Starring Mark Wahlberg, Mila Kunis, Joel McHale, Giovanni Ribisi, Jessica Barth, Patrick Warburton, Sam Jones, Matt Walsh, Aedin Mincks, Bill Smitrovich, Bretton Manley, Ralph Garman, Alex Borstein, John Viener, Laura Vandervoort, Robert Wu, Ginger Gonzaga, Jessica Stroup, Melissa Ordway, Norah Jones, Tom Skerritt, Ryan Reynolds and the voices of Seth MacFarlane and Patrick … Continue reading
LAWLESS (2012) Starring Shia LaBeouf, Tom Hardy, Jason Clarke, Jessica Chastain, Mia Wasikowska, Guy Pearce, Gary Oldman, Dane DeHaan, Noah Taylor, Lew Temple, Bill Camp and Bruce McKinnon. Screenplay by Nick Cave. Directed by John Hillcoat. Distributed by The Weinstein Company. 110 minutes. Rated R. Once upon a time the good guys and bad guys … Continue reading
THE ODD LIFE OF TIMOTHY GREEN (2012) Starring Jennifer Garner, Joel Edgerton, CJ Adams, Odeya Rush, Shohreh Aghdashloo, Rosemarie DeWitt, David Morse, M. Emmett Walsh, Lois Smith, Dianne Wiest, Common, Michael Arden, James Rebhorn, Rhoda Griffis and Lin-Manuel Miranda. Screenplay by Peter Hedges. Directed by Peter Hedges. Distributed by Walt Disney Picture. 100 minutes. Rated … Continue reading
Wayne White’s Playhouse by Ronald Sklar http://www.popentertainment.com/waynewhite.htm The brilliant creative mind behind Pee Wee’s Playhouse and other cultural landmarks continues to pop our eyes. You may not know him by name, but you know him as that guy behind the scenes responsible for blowing your mind. Wayne White is an artist, art director and puppeteer … Continue reading
VAMPS (2012) Starring Alicia Silverstone, Krysten Ritter, Dan Stevens, Wallace Shawn, Justin Kirk, Richard Lewis, Kristen Johnston, Malcolm McDowell, Sigourney Weaver, Zak Orth, Nestor Carbonell, Scott Thomson, Todd Barry, Natalie Gal, Meredith Scott Lynn, Gael García Bernal and Marilu Henner. Screenplay by Amy Heckerling. Directed by Amy Heckerling. Distributed by Anchor Bay. 93 minutes. Rated … Continue reading
Chimpanzee’s Filmmakers Tell A True Tale of Loss and Bonding by Brad Balfour While Marvel’s The Avengers is tentpole cinema’s paean to superhero glory, DisneyNature salutes a different sort of heroics through the true primate story told in Chimpanzee. British directors/producers Alastair Fothergill and Mark Linfield have fashioned this rousing drama out of three hard … Continue reading
Led Zeppelin Just Want To Celebrate by Jay S. Jacobs There are very few opportunities that a music journalist will jump at quicker than the opportunity to see the three surviving members of the legendary (and legendarily squabbling) rock group Led Zeppelin together on the same stage. Even if you are not the band’s biggest … Continue reading
http://www.popentertainment.com/10years.htm 10 Years The high school reunion is one of those odd rites of passage that is alternately fascinating and depressing. Who got married? Who got divorced? Who got skinny? Who got fat? Who got rich? Who is unemployed? Who still looks amazing? Who looks even better? Who got bald? Who had kids? Who … Continue reading
Jeffrey Donovan Puts Us All On Burn Notice by Jay S. Jacobs When we last saw Michael Westen – the super spy played by Jeffrey Donovan in the popular series Burn Notice, he and his friends were stuck behind enemy lines in Panama with his mentor at the CIA dead set on exterminating all of … Continue reading
BRAVE (2012) Featuring the voices of Kelly Macdonald, Billy Connolly, Emma Thompson, Julie Walters, Robbie Coltrane, Kevin McKidd, Craig Ferguson, Sally Kinghorn, Eilidh Fraser, Peigi Barker, Steven Cree, Steve Purcell, Callum O’Neill and John Ratzenberger. Screenplay by Mark Andrews & Steve Purcell and Brenda Chapman & Irene Mecchi. Directed by Mark Andrews and Brenda Chapman. … Continue reading
