Melissa Leo Down by the Frozen River by Brad Balfour There was early Oscar® buzz about the work veteran actress Melissa Leo has done in Frozen River ever since the feature won last year’s Sundance Film Festival Grand Jury Prize for director Courtney Hunt (her feature film debut). Now, of course, her first nomination for Best Actress … Continue reading
Tea Leoni and Kyle MacLachlan Have Fun Playing in Manure by Brad Balfour Don’t do it. Don’t let publicists put actress Tea Leoni together with any of her co-stars, because it prompts such an assault on serious answers. But there she was, with her co-star Kyle MacLachlan gabbing about their comic turns in the Polish … Continue reading
Tom Cruise and Bryan Singer With Valkyrie, They Illustrate That Slide Down the Slippery Slope to Fascism by Brad Balfour Though he totally missed the Oscar loop, you have to give some credit to media magnet Tom Cruise for releasing his World War II drama, Valkyrie at the end of 2008 despite the surge of … Continue reading
Viggo Mortensen and Jason Isaacs Address Good and Wax Philosophical about the Nazis by Brad Balfour Originally posted on January 12, 2009. During a snappy roundtable with a few journalists, actors Viggo Mortensen and Jason Isaacs double-teamed to express their thoughts about their disturbing new film, Good, based on the acclaimed British play by CP … Continue reading
Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet Reuniting on Revolutionary Road by Brad Balfour At a recent press conference in New York preceding its premiere, the essential members of the Revolutionary Road cast (Leonardo DiCaprio, Kate Winslet, Michael Shannon and Kathy Bates) and director Sam Mendes answered questions before a small room of journalists. Of course, the big news – … Continue reading
Director John Walter Talkin’ About a Theater of War and Meryl Streep by Brad Balfour While Oscar-winning actress Meryl Streep garners attention for her role as the authoritarian nun in Doubt, another film – the doc Theater of War out now – offers insight into Steep as an actress, and it grapples with the nature of war as … Continue reading
VALKYRIE (2008) Starring Tom Cruise, Kenneth Branagh, Bill Nighy, Terence Stamp, Tom Wilkinson, Jamie Parker, Eddie Izzard, Thomas Kretschmann, Carice van Houten, Christian Berke, Kevin McNally and Tom Hollander. Screenplay by Christopher McQuarrie and Nathan Alexander. Directed by Bryan Singer. Distributed by United Artists. 120 minutes. Rated PG-13. Both director Bryan Singer and star Tom … Continue reading
Kate Winslet Becomes The Reader, Discovers the Nazi Era and Gains Oscar Buzz by Brad Balfour With both Revolutionary Road and The Reader coming into theaters around the world, this has been quite a creative year for 33-year-old British actress Kate Winslet. There’s Oscar®-talk for each film, with Winslet in line for best actress, best supporting actress or both. … Continue reading
Clint Eastwood Becomes a Changeling by Brad Balfour An avowed Republican in Hollywood is nearly as rare as the giant Comodo Dragon — and they’ve had the spiteful bite of one as well. But with Barack Obama’s victory, they’ve made themselves pretty scarce since election day. Hell, even a straight-shooting, no bullshitter like Clint Eastwood — long known as … Continue reading
Sam Rockwell Investigates Sex Addiction and other Compulsions In Choke by Brad Balfour Actor Sam Rockwell, director Clark Gregg and author Chuck Palahniuk have to hand it to David Duchovny. He brings sex addiction to the public’s attention, though it certainly wasn’t his intention. While there are far bigger issues to lay on the common … Continue reading
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