With the Academy Awards set for Sunday night, you might assume that Hollywood would keep the schedule light this weekend to avoid any possible conflicts of interest. But no! Two films hit theaters today, and one (the 3-D extravaganza Alice in Wonderland) is sure to siphon millions from what could wind up being the Best Read More
Brooklyn’s Finest
Running time 140 minutes
Written by Michael C. Martin
Directed by Antoine Fuqua
Starring Richard Gere, Don Cheadle, Ethan Hawke, Wesley Snipes
2.5 Eyeballs out of 4
The opening scene of Brooklyn’s Finest features a conversation between a maybe crooked cop and a definitely crooked career criminal about the Read More
Rumor has it that fashion label, Heatherette, is no more as Richie Rich may start his own line or move out to Los Angeles (gasp!) to pursue music and television projects. [N.Y. Daily News]
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Brigitte Roüan’s Post Coitum (Post-Coïtum, Animal Triste in France), from a screenplay by Ms. Roüan, Santiago Amigorena, Jean-Louis Richard, Guy Zilberstein and Philippe Le Guay, begins as a series of writhing catlike spasms expressing the unsatisfied sexual hunger of a 40-year-old book editor for a man half her age. This would seem to be a Read More
Mike Figgis’ One Night Stand , from a screenplay by Mr. Figgis, does not exactly shatter the Hollywood mainstream taboo against a black male kissing or even touching a white female, much less engaging in even simulated carnal congress with said female. For one thing, Mr. Figgis can hardly be described as mainstream in Hollywood Read More
