What is going to happen to Michael Cera’s career when he really grows up? This is one of the things I found myself wondering about when my attention started wandering during Scott Pilgrim Vs. The World. (Also: How can a movie so clearly directed at an audience with generational ADD drag on so? Read More
Milk
Running time 128 minutes
Written by Dustin Lance Black
Directed by Gus Van Sant
Starring Sean Penn, Josh Brolin, James Franco, Alison Pill
Gus Van Sant’s Milk, from a screenplay by Dustin Lance Black, is certainly as timely as ever, inasmuch as amid all the euphoria over the election Read More
Milk
Running time 128 minutes
Written by Dustin Lance Black
Directed by Gus Van Sant
Starring Sean Penn, Josh Brolin, James Franco, Emile Hirsch, Alison Pill, Diego Luna, Victor Garber, Denis O’Hare
In real life, Harvey Milk was an unexceptional Jewish boy, as plain as a matzo, but with extraordinary courage, as challenging to homophobic Read More
Calling fans of Hard Candy (the pedophile movie starring Ellen Page and Patrick Wilson, not the makeup): Variety reports today that David Harrower will be adapting his harrowing play Blackbird, which was put on by the Manhattan Theater Club last year with Jeff Daniels and Alison Pill, for the big screen. The Read More
Neil LaBute will make his long overdue Broadway debut with Reasons to Be Pretty, a play starring the glorious Alison Pill, Piper Perabo, Thomas Sadoski and Pablo Schreiber. All the actors, currently performing at the Off Broadway Lucille Lortel Theater, will return for the move to the Rialto next year, with performances slated to Read More
Alison Pill, the gal we dubbed "glorious" last October, has been cast in Neil LaBute’s new play reasons to be pretty, set for a June 2 opening night at the MCC Theater. According to The Observer‘s Lizzy Ratner, Ms. Pill has played "a scrappy girl terrorist in Martin McDonagh’s The Lieutenant of Inishmore—a Read More
Each night, when Alison Pill slips into the lead role of Theresa Rebeck’s new Broadway play, Mauritius, she must endure what can only be described as a theatrical gauntlet. She gets tossed about the stage like a three-ounce rag doll. She has to hold her own against F. Murray Abraham—the F. Murray Abraham—and newer delights Read More
