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
Gigantic
Running time 98 minutes
Written by Matt Aselton and Adam Nagata
Directed by Matt Aselton
Starring Paul Dano, Zooey Deschanel
Matt Aselton’s Gigantic, from a screenplay by Mr. Aselton and Adam Nagata, is burdened with a fanciful narrative that ranges from the ridiculous to the surreal. For starters, I have no idea what Read More
Gigantic
Running time 98 minutes
Written by Matt Aselton and Adam Nagata
Directed by Matt Aselton
Starring Paul Dano, Zooey Deschanel, Edward Asner, Jane Alexander, John Goodman
The professionals no longer know how to make the kinds of movies we used to go to the movies for, so the amateurs are taking over. Read More
Our favorite Upper East Side teenagers were in rare form last night during a particularly jam-packed episode of Gossip Girl. But jokes about crashing airplanes to dispose of adversaries, conversations about purchasing anthrax on the black market, a near rape and the ripe potential for student-teacher sex (Dan Humphrey, you dirty rascal!) didn’t really faze Read More
When Zoe Kazan walked in to audition for the role of Maureen Grube in Sam Mendes’ adaptation of Revolutionary Road, the tragic Richards Yates novel about 1950s suburban angst, the casting director gave her a swift, appraising glance and declared her too young.
After all, Ms. Kazan—with her big hopeful blue Read More
At the New York Public Library’s Library Lions benefit on Monday, Nov. 3, most guests were eager to get home at a reasonable hour—since polls around the city were scheduled to open at 6 a.m. the next day, and as several guests pointed out, open bars at benefits tend to make it difficult to get Read More
“The first time we did a read-through with all of us, I was looking forward to it, but I was actually overcome with emotion,” said Josh Hamilton, the 38-year-old theater vet and indie movie star, who was discussing his role as Teddy in The New Group’s production Things We Want, directed by Ethan Hawke and Read More
“I’m totally getting my ass kicked,” said Paul Dano, the 23-year-old actor known as the silent-oath-taking, Nietzsche-obsessed older brother in last year’s Academy Award-winning hit Little Miss Sunshine. He was discussing his current role as Charlie, a heartbroken college dropout, in the Ethan Hawke-directed, Off Broadway play Things We Want, currently in previews at the Read More
“I’m totally getting my ass kicked,” said Paul Dano, the 23-year-old actor best known as the brooding, Nietzsche-obsessed older brother in last year’s Little Miss Sunshine. “But in a very good way,” he added, discussing his role as Charlie, a heartbroken college dropout, in the Ethan-Hawke directed, off-broadway play Read More
