Martin Scorsese and Paul Schrader We’re Looking at Taxi Driver by Brad Balfour When directors-screenwriters Paul Schrader and Martin Scorsese came to the Director’s Guild Theater in Manhattan recently to discuss their ride with the groundbreaking film, Taxi Driver, it was an incredible moment in cinematic history. Their story of how this film took form and … Continue reading
THE DESCENDANTS (2011) Starring George Clooney, Shailene Woodley, Amara Miller, Nick Krause, Judy Greer, Matthew Lillard, Beau Bridges, Robert Forster, Barbara L. Southern, Rob Huebel, Mary Birdsong, Laird Hamilton, Karen Kuioka Hironaga, Carmen Kaichi, Celia Kenney, Matt Reese, Scott Michael Morgan and Patti Hastie. Screenplay by Alexander Payne, Nat Faxon and Jim Rash. Directed by … Continue reading
FRIENDS WITH KIDS (2012) Starring Jennifer Westfeldt, Adam Scott, Maya Rudolph, Kristen Wiig, Jon Hamm, Chris O’Dowd, Edward Burns, Megan Fox, Lee Bryant, Kelly Bishop, Cotter Smith, Brian d’Arcy James, Derek Cecil, Ilana Levine, Owen Bento, Steven Weisz, Michael Dean, Rekha Luther, Mila McConaughey and Minka McConaughey. Screenplay by Jennifer Westfeldt. Directed by Jennifer Westfeldt. … Continue reading
YOUNG ADULT (2011) Starring Charlize Theron, Patrick Wilson, Patton Oswalt, Elizabeth Reaser, Collette Wolfe, Jill Eikenberry, Richard Bekins, Mary Beth Hurt, Kate Nowlin, Jenny Dare Paulin, Louisa Krause, Elizabeth Ward Land, Brian McElhaney, Hettienne Park, John Forest, Brady Smith, Emily Meade, Rightor Doyle and the voice of J.K. Simmons. Screenplay by Diablo Cody. Directed by … Continue reading
Jennifer Westfeldt and Adam Scott That’s What Friends Are For by Jay S. Jacobs A while back actress and screenwriter Jennifer Westfeldt and her long-time boyfriend, Mad Men star Jon Hamm, noticed something odd happening in their lives. Many of their friends, people who they used to go out with all the time, were now parents. Slowly, … Continue reading
IMMORTALS (2011) Starring Henry Cavill, Mickey Rourke, Luke Evans, Stephen Dorff, Freida Pinto, John Hurt, Isabel Lucas, Kellan Lutz, Joseph Morgan, Peter Stebbings, Robert Maillet, Steve Byers, Mark Margolis, Corey Sevier, Stephen McHattie, Alan Van Sprang, Greg Bryk and Danny Blanco Hall. Screenplay by Charley Parlapanides and Vlas Parlapanides. Directed by Tarsem Singh Dhandwar. Distributed … Continue reading
Joel McHale and Dan Harmon It Takes a Community by Jay S. Jacobs After an extended winter break, the crazy students and faculty at Greendale Community College are back on campus – and you know what that means, new episodes of the cult fave must-see sitcom Community. A few days before the show returned with a rash of new spring … Continue reading
Gillian Jacobs and Jim Rash Community Theater with a Surreal Bent by Jay S. Jacobs They call Community “the little show that could,” so it comes as little surprise that the cult-favorite series was renewed by NBC for at least 13 episodes in a fourth season. The wonderfully surreal situation comedy – which has made something of … Continue reading
Jessica Chastain Has The Help to Get Her Award Noms by Brad Balfour When actress Jessica Chastain attended the Sundance Film Festival more than a year ago, making the rounds for the film Take Shelter, she spoke on a panel for The Creative Coalition. The focus was squarely on her co-star Michael Shannon, who had been … Continue reading
FOOTLOOSE (2011) Starring Kenny Wormald, Julianne Hough, Andie MacDowell, Dennis Quaid, Miles Teller, Ziah Colon, Kim Dickens, Ray McKinnon, Patrick John Flueger, Ser’Darius William Blain, Maggie Jones, Mary-Charles Jones, Jayson Warner Smith, Jason Ferguson, Benjamin Davis, Reece Thomas, Ivey Lowe and Anna Marie Dobbins. Screenplay by Dean Pitchford and Craig Brewer. Directed by Craig Brewer. … Continue reading
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