Winona Ryder, seemingly absent for the better part of a decade, has a featured role in the giant Oscar-bait extravaganza that is Black Swan. This qualifies the icon of a bygone era as glossy mag comeback-profile fodder; the feature in this month’s GQ, “Winona Forever,” compares her to Robert Downey, Jr.
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Monday: The Bachelorette
We justify watching this show by pretending to be engaged in a sociological experiment: Why is it just so much more weird and squirmy when it’s the woman who has to choose from a bunch of dudes as opposed to some blockhead picking among a gaggle of silicone? We haven’t figured 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
At 8:30 p.m. on Monday, September 8, the bi-annual paparazzi bloodbath had already started outside the Marc Jacobs show. Gawkers and cameramen lined Lexington Avenue, which was clogged with town cars, while security guards admitted guests to the Lexington Avenue Armory, a sign that the designer intended to start on time-at 9 p.m. (who could Read More
SEX AND DEATH 101
Running Time 116 minutes
Written and Directed by Daniel Waters
Starring Simon Baker and Winona Ryder
With a stinker called Sex and Death 101, you tremble going in. Not from the title. I mean, this jejune junk was written and directed by the same Daniel Waters who went Read More
SEX AND DEATH 101
Running time 100 minutes
Written and Directed by Daniel Waters
Starring Winona Ryder and Simon Baker
Daniel Waters’ Sex and Death 101, from his own screenplay, reunites the screenwriter of Michael Lehmann’s Heathers (1989) with its then-teenage star, Winona Ryder. Now, almost 20 years later for Mr. Waters Read More
Robin Wright Penn, who has played a Princess Bride and Forrest Gump’s best friend, will play a meth addict in the film adaptation of Rebecca Miller’s The Private Lives of Pippa Lee, according to the Hollywood Reporter. Wright Penn will play Pippa Lee, with Julianne Moore and Winona Ryder co-starring.
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“We just thought the Ten Commandments were a great thing to hang a bunch of stories on,” said David Wain of the new feature film The Ten, which he directed and co-wrote. Hey, that’s what Cecil B. DeMille said!
Mr. Wain’s version, a comedy, consists of 10 stories, each loosely corresponding Read More
Radical Chiclets
“It’s the time to do something right here and right now,” said the artist Robert Wilson. He was outside the Guggenheim sharing a cigarette with his friend, Winona Ryder, and talking about cracking the art scene wide open, again.
“His name should become an adjective, you know, like: That’s really Wilson,” said Ms. Read More
