Jason Lee Walking in Memphis by Jay S. Jacobs After a few years of playing the title character in the popular sitcom My Name Is Earl and starring in such kid-friendly comedies as Alvin and the Chipmunks and Underdog, Jason Lee is taking a totally different tack for his return to series television. Memphis Beat is a moody and slightly downbeat, yet … Continue reading
HOMELAND (2008) Starring Max Rhyser, Yifat Sharabi, Penny Bittone, Shalin Agarwal, Radhika Vaz, Laurence Cantor, Ellie Diez, Pia Shah, Shayna Padovano, Anne-Marie Moloney, Bern Cohen, Ed Eldridge, Michael Eldridge, Tracie Jules, Ross Massood and Haythem Noor. Screenplay by Brad Rothschild. Directed by Michael Eldridge. Distributed by New Films International. 93 minutes. Not Rated. The animosity … Continue reading
THE A-TEAM (2010) Starring Liam Neeson, Bradley Cooper, Jessica Biel, Quinton “Rampage” Jackson, Sharlto Copley, Patrick Wilson, Gerald McRaney, Henry Czerny, Yul Vazquez, Brian Bloom, Maury Sterling, Terry Chen and Omari Hardwick. Screenplay by Joe Carnahan, Brian Bloom and Skip Woods. Directed by Joe Carnahan. Distributed by 20th Century Fox. 117 minutes. Rated PG-13. The … Continue reading
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
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