If there’s one force that can affect social change, it’s a bunch of tech types ripped away from their computers and interfacing with one another. Inspired, perhaps, by the monumental leaps forward the TED conference has given our society, the Social Good Summit, presented by web concern Mashable, overlaps with the United Nations’s General Assembly Read More
Lee Daniels, director of Precious, is currently in Cannes promoting the thriller The Paperboy, but he’s already planning his next film, an adaptation of a Washington Post article on a long-serving black White House butler who lived to see the election of Barack Obama. Early reports indicate that the butler, Eugene Allen, Read More
Where the Wild Things Are
Running time 100 minutes
Written by Dave Eggers and Spike Jonze
Directed by Spike Jonze
Starring Max Records, Catherine Keener, James Gandolfini, Lauren Ambrose, Paul Dano, Catherine O’Hara, Forest Whitaker, Chris Cooper
I’m the first to admit that I went into Where the Wild Things Are with Read More
FRAGMENTS
Running time 100 minutes
Written by Roy Freirich
Directed by Rowan Woods
Starring Kate Beckinsale, Guy Pearce, Dakota Fanning, Forest Whitaker, Jennifer Hudson, Jeanne Tripplehorn
Fragments is aptly titled. In style and format, it’s another connect-the-dots movie cut from the same bolt of cinematic fabric as Crash, 21 Grams, and Babel. Read More
Sweaty BALLS! Is it time yet to empty our checking accounts (of course we don’t have any investments, real estate or 401(k), ya big silly) and flee to, eek, Quebec? Or better yet—Pompeii? Or should we just close our eyes, pretend nothing is happening and drop a couple thou on a Read More
HBO’s taking on the $46 million herbal weight loss industry with a new pilot, Fat Sells. The network just greenlit the Forest Whitaker-produced show, which will follow a fat cat in the industry whose life begins to unravel once the FDA begins investigating the company’s claims, according to Variety.
The magazine also reports Read More
VANTAGE POINT
Running Time 90 minutes
Written by Barry Levy
Directed by Pete Travis
Starring William Hurt, Sigourney Weaver, Dennis Quaid, Matthew Fox and Forest Whitaker
First, the good news: Vantage Point is a nonstop thrill ride with no emergency cord to allow you to slow down or get off. Read More
Even Money
Running Time 108 minutes
Directed by Mark Rydell
Written by Robert Tannen
Starring Kim Basinger, Ray Liotta, Forest Whitaker
Small wonder that Even Money is the most rewarding new film of the week. For one thing, it is directed by Mark Rydell, a real director instead Read More
Jeff Lipsky’s Flannel Pajamas, from his own screenplay, demonstrates for one of the very few times in film history that physical chemistry—even ecstatically compatible sexuality—cannot guarantee a successful marriage. Indeed, Justin Kirk’s Stuart Sawyer and Julianne Nicholson’s Nicole Reilly have so much going for them as a couple, from their first meeting on a blind Read More
One of the pervasive themes this year in Toronto was suburban angst—festering, invisible seeds of erosion diminishing the human spirit in an atmosphere of fear, doubt and insecurity. The houses are identical, the neighbors are jealous, the lives are unfulfilled, the children are confused, and the American Dream is six feet under.
Little Read More
