GAME NIGHT (2018) Starring Jason Bateman, Rachel McAdams, Kyle Chandler, Billy Magnussen, Sharon Horgan, Lamorne Morris, Kylie Bunbury, Jesse Plemons, Michael C. Hall, Jeffrey Wright, Danny Huston, Chelsea Peretti, Camille Chen, Zerrick Deion Williams, Joshua Mikel, RF Daley, John Francis Daley, Michael Cyril Creighton, Brooke Jaye Taylor, Charlotte Hazzard and Jonathan Goldstein. Screenplay by Mark … Continue reading
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Gone Girl (A PopEntertainment.com Movie Review)
GONE GIRL (2014) Starring Ben Affleck, Rosamund Pike, Neil Patrick Harris, Tyler Perry, Carrie Coon, Kim Dickens, Patrick Fugit, Casey Wilson, Missi Pyle, Sela Ward, David Clennon, Lisa Banes, Lola Kirke, Scoot McNairy, Casey Wilson, Emily Ratajkowski, Boyd Holbrook, Lee Norris, Kathleen Rose Perkins, Jamie McShane, Lynn Adrianna, Cyd Strittmatter and Leonard Kelly-Young. Screenplay by … Continue reading
Waifish Rooney Mara Reveals Some of Herself in Ain’t Them Bodies Saints
Waifish Rooney Mara Reveals Some of Herself in Ain’t Them Bodies Saints by Brad Balfour Against the backdrop of 1970s Texas Hill Country, Ain’t Them Bodies Saints tells a gothic American tale of three characters straddling various sides of the law – outlaw Bob Muldoon (Casey Affleck), his wife Ruth Guthrie (Rooney Mara), and local … Continue reading
Craig Marks Wants His MTV!
Craig Marks Wants His MTV! by Jay S. Jacobs Legend tells us the MTV blasted off on television on August 1, 1981 with the Buggles’ “Video Killed the Radio Star” – a song that was like a shot off the bow of the staid music world and became the channel’s own personal mission statement. However, … Continue reading
Jesse Eisenberg Creates a Zuckerberg Profile For The Social Network
Jesse Eisenberg Creates a Zuckerberg Profile For The Social Network by Brad Balfour The hit film The Social Network may not have as profound an effect as the social network, Facebook, itself. But the cinematic version has lots of important things to say about the kind of people who make game-changing ideas into a reality and how … Continue reading
Elias Koteas – Lets Us In … On His Acting Technique
Elias Koteas Lets Us In … On His Acting Technique by Brad Balfour What makes Canadian-born actor Elias Koteas so fascinating is that he doesn’t like to play it safe. In his latest film, the vampiric Let Me In, he plays the policeman who discovers the true nature of the mysterious 12-year-old killer Abby (Chloë Grace … Continue reading
The Social Network (A PopEntertainment.com Movie Review)
THE SOCIAL NETWORK (2010) Starring Jesse Eisenberg, Andrew Garfield, Justin Timberlake, Armie Hammer, Max Minghella, Josh Pence, Brenda Song, Rashida Jones, Rooney Mara and Aaron Sorkin. Screenplay by Aaron Sorkin. Directed by David Fincher. Distributed by Sony Pictures. 121 minutes. Rated PG-13. There are very few things in the world that I can think of … Continue reading
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (A PopEntertainment.com Movie Review)
THE CURIOUS CASE OF BENJAMIN BUTTON (2008) Starring Brad Pitt, Cate Blanchett, Taraji P. Henson, Julia Ormond, Jason Flemyng, Mayershalalhashbaz Ali, Jared Harris, Elias Koteas, Phyllis Somerville, Tilda Swinton, Lance Nichols, Rampai Mohadi, Elle Fanning and Madisen Beaty. Screenplay by Eric Roth. Directed by David Fincher. Distributed by Paramount Pictures and Warner Bros. 168 minutes. … Continue reading
Zodiac (A PopEntertainment.com Movie Review)
ZODIAC (2007) Starring Jake Gyllenhaal, Mark Ruffalo, Robert Downey Jr., Anthony Edwards, Brian Cox, John Carroll Lynch, Chloe Sevigny, Candy Clark, Elias Koteas, Donal Logue, Dermot Mulroney, James LeGros, Pell James, Philip Baker Hall, John Mahoney, Adam Goldberg and Tom Verica. Screenplay by James Vanderbilt. Directed by David Fincher. Distributed by Paramount Pictures. 157 minutes. … Continue reading
Panic Room (A PopEntertainment com Movie Review)
PANIC ROOM (2002) Starring Jodie Foster, Forest Whittaker, Dwight Yoakam, Jared Leto, Kristen Stewart, Ann Magnuson, Ian Buchanan, Andrew Kevin Walker and Patrick Bauchau. Screenplay by David Koepp. Directed by David Fincher. Distributed by Columbia Pictures. 112 minutes. Rated R. In a college fiction class, my professor said that the most difficult stories to write … Continue reading