After a week of slightly disappointing returns at the box office, Hollywood braces for a rebound with two major genre releases: One for the 10-year-old inside all of us and one for all of our mothers. Five movies hit theaters today, as August gets started in earnest. As we do every Friday, here’s Read More
Julie & Julia
Running time 123 minutes
Written and directed by Nora Ephron
Starring Meryl Streep, Amy Adams, Stanley Tucci and Chris Messina
Nora Ephron loves to cook. Nothing fancy, like pheasant stuffed with pate and truffles in Champagne brandy, but you can order her meat loaf at the Monkey Bar. She also loves Read More
The red-carpet procession at the premiere of Julie & Julia, which stars Meryl Streep as Julia Child and Amy Adams as the blogger Julie Powell, was a big celebrity stew. It included musician Yoko Ono, restaurateur Drew Nieporent, food personality Rachel Ray and fashion designer Rachel Roy, as well as Katie Lee Joel, Steve Buscemi Read More
To give you an idea of how badly things have been going for the people behind Watchmen, allow us to introduce you to the film’s screenwriter, David Hayter. Earlier this week, in an open letter to the fans, he actually resorted to outright begging to get people to see his film, again. Said Mr. Read More
Sunshine Cleaning
Running time 102 minutes
Written by Megan Holley
Directed by Christine Jeffs
Starring Amy Adams, Emily Blunt, Alan Arkin
Christine Jeffs’ Sunshine Cleaning, from a screenplay by Megan Holley, focuses on the relationship of two somewhat underprivileged sisters in Albuquerque, N.M., who hit upon a Read More
Sunshine Cleaning
Running time 102 minutes
Written by Megan Holley
Directed by Christine Jeffs
Starring Amy Adams, Alan Arkin, Emily Blunt
Things are so desperate in today’s job market that anything goes. Cleaning up crime scenes, the subject of a new movie called Sunshine Cleaning, is one career with no Read More
Doubt
Running Time: 104 minutes
Written and directed by John Patrick Shanley
Starring Meryl Streep, Phillip Seymour Hoffman, Amy Adams, Viola Davis
John Patrick Shanley’s Doubt, from his own screenplay, adapted from his own play, left me less moved than querulously dissatisfied despite the impressive performances of Meryl Streep, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Amy Read More
Doubt
Running time 104 minutes
Written and directed by John Patrick Shanley
Starring Meryl Streep, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Amy Adams
In Doubt, the somber, talky movie John Patrick Shanley has written and directed from his own play, Meryl Streep gives the polar opposite of Mickey Rourke’s performance in The Wrestler. From Read More
Good gravy! Here’s another end-of-the-year biggie trailer that looks as though it could be a major contender in award season, It’s Doubt, written and directed by John Patrick Shanley, who also wrote the Pulitzer Prize winning play on which the film is based. Set in 1964, the story centers on a nun who confronts Read More
Noah Baumbach, another 90′s boy who grew up, will probably have more heady examinations of "young urban angst" in Greenburg, his new film starring Mark Ruffalo (doughy animal cracker eating cop in Zodiac) and Amy Adams (Disney heroine in Enchanted, indie princess in Junebug). The Hollywood Reporter has the scoop:
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