By Rex Reed 9/25/12 8:01pm

movies

Jovovich and List in Bringing Up Bobby.

Famke Janssen Boosts Second-Rate Career with Blue-Chip Directorial Debut in Bringing Up Bobby

Sensitively acted, carefully written and directed with heartfelt compassion, Bringing Up Bobby is an engrossing little independent film made on an austere budget in 22 days. It marks the writing-directing debut of Dutch actress and former Chanel model Famke Janssen, a B-movie actress who specializes in playing tough, sexy, alternative women living in society’s city limits in thrillers (House on Haunted Hill) and action epics like the X-Men franchise. Who knew she had so much hidden talent?  Read More

By Elise Knutsen 6/21/11 7:01pm

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Famke Janssen at the Persol Magnificent Obsessions exhibition opening at Center 548 on June 16, 2011 in New York City. Photo by Berangere.

The Bard, the Park and the Public: The Public Theater’s 2011 Gala

On what could only be described as a glorious midsummer night, the Public Theater celebrated its annual summer gala in Central Park. A sit-down dinner preceded a star-infused performance of All’s Well That Ends Well, one of Shakespeare’s lesser known works, directed by Daniel Sullivan.

Players from the worlds of Broadway, Hollywood and New York’s Read More

By Rex Reed 2/03/09 6:45pm

Dads Gone Wild

Taken
Running time 93 minutes
Written by Luc Besson and Robert Mark Kamen
Directed by Pierre Morel
Starring Liam Neeson, Maggie Grace, Famke Janssen

Liam Neeson was up for—but never got to play—James Bond, and now he’s getting even. In the violent, churning and laughably derivative Read More

By Rex Reed 7/01/08 4:14pm

The Wackness is … Ack! Yes, Even with Sir Ben Kingsley

TheWackness
Running time 110 minutes
Written and directed by Jonathan Levine
Starring Josh Peck, Ben Kingsley, Olivia Thirlby, Famke Janssen, Mary-Kate Olsen

Not the least of the problems facing people who write about movies on a weekly basis is the deadlines. You can’t say, “I think I’d rather go to Read More

By Andrew Sarris 7/01/08 4:07pm

Hip-Hop Hooray

The Wackness
Running time 110 minutes
Written and directed by Jonathan Levine
 Starring Josh Peck, Ben Kingsley, Olivia Thirlby, Famke Janssen

Jonathan Levine’s The Wackness, from his own screenplay, takes place in New York during the summer of 1994, when the newly inaugurated mayor, Rudy Giuliani, was beginning his now notorious crackdown Read More