What’s the perfect corrective to the now-in-the-Farmers’-Almanac Oscar Season? How about This Had Oscar Buzz, a blog compiling all those movies that the punditocracy–or the publicistarati, or just Harvey Weinstein–told you were guaranteed Oscars? It’ll make the mere fact that any The King’s Speech gets to the Oscars seem miraculous once you consider how Read More
The Informers
Running time 100 minutes
Written by Bret Easton Ellis and Nicholas Jarecki
Directed by Gregor Jordan
Starring Jon Foster, Billy Bob Thornton, Kim Basinger, Mickey Rourke, Winona Ryder
A rancid load of swill called The Informers, from a depraved 1994 book by Bret Easton Ellis, is, like The Soloist, a Read More
While She Was Out
Running time 88 minutes
Written and directed by Susan Montford
Starring Kim Basinger, Lukas Haas
Susan Montford’s While She Was Out, from her own screenplay, based on the short story by Edward Bryant, begins as a crisis-laden contemporary Christmas story with Kim Basinger’s housewife being yelled at Read More
O.K., so we watched a movie for this week’s Third Stringer called While She Was Out. It stars Kim Basinger and Lukas Haas, and was executive-produced by Guillermo del Toro. Sounds promising, right? After all, who doesn’t remember how awesome Ms. Basinger was in L.A. Confidential, The Natural and Batman? (Not to mention the way 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
Somewhere around Los Angeles, Alec Baldwin was taking a hike and panting.
“I don’t want to go all over the map here, but where is the protest against this war when almost on a daily basis, someone is dying over there?” he said between labored breaths. “Right when you would want to question the motives Read More
Kim’s Career Is Cursed!
Kim Basinger never struck me as an easy pushover willing to do anything just to keep her career afloat. But here she is in Bless the Child , a turgid, pretentious religious thriller that is anything but thrilling. Why would an actress who finally proved to the doubters she could act Read More
Kim Basinger, African Queen
Weaned on Technicolor adventures about the Dark Continent like King Solomon’s Mines and Mogambo , I’ve always had a weakness for movies about the challenges of Africa. Lions and tigers and crocs, oh my! So I am pleased to report that I Dreamed of Africa fulfills my lust for danger and Read More
Things are gloomy at Mason’s Tennis Mart. The sign above the front door is missing an “N.” The store, which has been located on Seventh Avenue at 58th Street for 24 years, has lost its lease (a caviar shop is moving in) and will soon be moving to East 53rd Street. But what really frustrates Read More
