Charlize Theron might have to draw on some of her previous Aeon Flux talents to fight the cannibals with Viggo Mortensen in the bigscreen adaptation of Cormac McCarthy’s bestselling novel The Road. Her part is small and mostly played in flashback, but Ms. Theron is apparently a big fan of the book and wanted Read More
The actor Viggo Mortensen was so ticked off by the exclusion of Dennis Kucinich from last night’s debates that he got on the red eye to New Hampshire. He stood on a table with the Democratic candidate in the storefront headquarters in Concord, N.H., this afternoon, and spoke softly about the debates. “You have four Read More
Sly Stone’s long-in-the-works Edgar Allen Poe biopic is making progress, according to Cinema Blend.
Viggo Mortensen, who showed his junk in David Cronenberg’s hit Eastern Promises, was presented with a "Rolling R" award for the best "Russian" performance by a Hollywood actor by RUSSIA! magazine. The official citation commends Mortensen for his "sensitive, multifaceted and authentic" portrayal of Nikolai, a morally conflicted thug in Mr. Cronenberg’s movie. Read More
It looks like Resident Evil: Extinction (#1) will not be following its own advice. After a $24 million dollar opening weekend, the Sony franchise based on a video game looks like it is here to stay. And it appears New Yorkers are just fine with that: the movie grossed a very respectable $337,000 at 9 Read More
“Htory of Violence kind of worked like a long preparatory experience for Eastern Promises. Like a dress rehearsal,” said Viggo Mortensen, via phone from the Toronto Film Festival where last Saturday the new David Cronenberg-directed movie won the audience prize for best film. The 48-year-old actor’s performance as an enigmatic Russian mobster-in-training is drawing deserved Read More
EASTERN PROMISES
Running Time 96 minutes
Directed by David Cronenberg
Written by Steve Knight
Starring Viggo Mortensen, Naomi Watts
David Cronenberg’s Eastern Promises, from a screenplay by Steve Knight, is the 64-year-old Mr. Cronenberg’s second film with Viggo Mortensen. The first, A History of Violence, made the top of my ten-best Read More
In one of the many (many) startling scenes in the new HBO drama Tell Me You Love Me, which debuted Sunday night, a young, attractive married couple sit side by side on a sofa, watching a boxing match on TV. The wife unbuckles her husband’s pants, and after some noisy kissing, she pulls away and Read More
Boys Do Cry
At 5:19 on this week’s warm Monday night, the Charles Street home of Hilary Swank and Chad Lowe was deserted. A few sad Christmas wreaths still hung from the doorways of neighboring West Village townhouses. The shittiest car on the street was an old white Acura, weirdly guarded by the Club. The Read More
David Cronenberg’s A History of Violence, from a screenplay by Jack Olson, based on the graphic novel by John Wagner and Vince Locke, may go down in movie history as the suspenseful thriller in which the bedeviled-by-his past, virtually schizophrenic hero, Tom Stall/Joey Cusack (played magnificently by Viggo Mortensen), makes Batman, Spider-Man and Superman look Read More
