Amelia
Running time 111 minutes
Written by Ron Bass and Anna Hamilton Phelan
Directed by Mira Nair
Starring Hilary Swank, Richard Gere, Ewan McGregor, Cherry Jones
When Amelia Earhart, the world’s most famous aviatrix, disappeared in midair on July 2, 1937, somewhere over the Pacific between New Guinea and a Howland Island refueling station, Read More
Now here’s a movie that we’re going to see! Ewan McGregor, Jeff Bridges and Oscar-winner Kevin Spacey are in negotiations to star opposite George Clooney in the new film The Men Who Stare at Goats, based on the book by the same name. Mr. Clooney is producing the film, while his long-time partner, actor Read More
Ewan McGregor has just signed on to be the romantic lead opposite Jim Carrey in I Love You Phillip Morris, a dark comedy/love story about two cellmates in prison.
Carrey signed earlier in the fall to star in the fact-based tale as Steven Russell, a married father whose conman ways introduced him Read More
Like many Manhattanites who have fled downtown for Brooklyn, I was desperately seeking to escape the hustle and bustle of the city, to carve out a living space far from the madding crowd. What I found in the cluster of modest streets radiating from the Metropolitan Avenue–Graham Avenue intersection was better than I’d dreamed: an Read More
Up to here with aliens, action-comic heroes, chocolate factories and pimps who want to be rap stars, I guess the main thing I find missing from the worst summer of movies I can remember is a good old-fashioned love story. And so I bid welcome to Must Love Dogs, a romantic Hollywood scrapbook that chronicles Read More
David Mackenzie’s Young Adam , based on the novel by
Alexander Trocchi, was well underway before I realized I was watching a period
film. It’s set in the years following World War II, when the British economy
was moribund, particularly in perpetually depressed Scotland. Most of the action
takes place on the waterways around Glasgow Read More
Peyton Reed’s Down with Love , from a screenplay by Eve Alhert and Dennis Drake, turned out to be much more amusing and incisive than I had anticipated when I managed to catch an early-morning screening, along with a scattering of other paying customers, at the Clearview Beekman Theatre. The studio publicists had earlier sent Read More
Aw, shucks-I really wanted to like Down with Love. Considering how rock-bottom-in-the-slag-pit today’s movies have sunk, a little taste of the harmless, entertaining sexual politics in glossy Ross Hunter sex comedies like Pillow Talk could be not only appealing, but downright restorative. But Renée Zellweger and Ewan McGregor as Doris Day and Rock Hudson? Are Read More
