By Drew Grant 12/12/12 3:22pm

Django Unchained

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Jamie Foxx and Tarantino and Django Unchained premiere (Credit: Barrett Jones)

Exclusive: Jamie Foxx Raps, Tarantino Talks Cut Scenes at Django Unchained Premiere (Video)

Say what you will about Quentin Tarantino, but that man knows how to hold an audience. Last night at the Ziegfeld Theatre, where Andrew Saffir’s Cinema Society premiered Django Unchained, Mr. Tarantino bounded on stage like a crazed carnival barker and yelled, “Who is ready to see Django? Who is ready to see Django off his CHAIN?! Who is ready to see motherfucking Django off his motherfucking CHAIN?”

As polarizing as his previous works have been, it’s probably safe to say that this film, starring Jamie Foxx as the titular freed slave/white man bounty hunter Django, will be his most controversial work yet, and this is not helped by his gleeful carnival barker’s act while promoting it. Read More

12/10/12 12:51pm

Saturday Night Live

Even Bill Hader kind of looks like Dylan/Dermot

Dylan McDermott or Dermot Mulroney? Saturday Night Live Finally Addresses Nation’s Most Confounding Celebrity Phenomenon

Thank God. That’s all we have to say about this weekend’s Saturday Night Live game show, “Dylan McDermott or Dermot Mulroney?” While almost every other scene from the Jamie Foxx-hosted show congealed in a murky mess around some stale ’90s racial humor (Tyler Perry! How Black Is That! Tree Pimps! Ding Dongs! Bitch, What’s the Answer?), there was one joke that transcended its original premise, that all white guys look the same to black people. Totally on-point, they managed to get the two actors that no one (not even us) can tell the difference between … not even the actors themselves. Read More

By Drew Grant 6/07/12 4:20pm

Django Unchained

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Christoph Waltz and Jamie Foxx in 'Djago Unchained'

Django Unchained: Tarantino’s Tale of Reparations Look a Lot Like Blaxploitation (Trailer)

Quentin Tarantino loves a good revenge fantasy. Besides Kill Bill, his last Academy Award-winning film, Inglorious Basterds, reimagined the death of Hitler and the Nazi regime at the hands of the Jews.

Five years later, we have Django Unchained: the highly-anticipated ode to the spaghetti western in which Southern slave Jamie Foxx and German bounty hunter  Christoph Waltz are on a mission to make Southern plantation owners suffer. Read More

By Christopher Rosen 4/24/09 12:47pm

Opening this Weekend: A Former Oscar Contender, A Pair of Documentaries, Fatal Attraction Part 13, Fighting, and … the Worst Movie of the Year?

It’s quite possible that the only geek sacred cow more overrated than Boba Fett is director Robert Rodriguez. So forgive us if we aren’t tossing bouquets at the news that Mr. Rodriguez plans on reigniting the Predator franchise for 20th Century Fox. Don’t get us wrong: We happen to love the original Predator, but Read More

By Rex Reed 4/21/09 5:21pm

Robert Downey Jr. and Jamie Foxx Make Beautiful Music Together

The Soloist
Running time 109 minutes
Written by Susannah Grant
Directed by Joe Wright
Starring Robert Downey Jr., Jamie Foxx

Robert Downey Jr. was once described by a reviewer as “cinema’s veritable lost puppy.” Pretty good, yes? He is certainly always vulnerable, ready to lick your hand to be liked, slightly off Read More

By Andrew Sarris 4/21/09 4:34pm

Play It Again, Jamie! Foxx Soars as Schizo Virtuoso

The Soloist
Running Time 109 minutes
Written by Susannah Grant
Directed by Joe Wright
Starring Robert Downey Jr., Jamie Foxx, Catherine Keener, Lisagay Hamilton

Joe Wright’s The Soloist, from the screenplay by Susannah Grant, is based on the book The Soloist: A Lost Dream, an Unlikely Friendship, and the Redemptive Power of Music, by Steve Read More