Johnny Depp is Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street
There are a bunch of wide releases this week so I’m rolling out the Weekend Forecast a day early in order to get them while they’re as fresh and hot as one of Mrs. Lovett’s meat pies:

Charlie Wilson’s War. Mike Nichols directs this scrubbed and [...]

Filed under: Upcoming | 25 Comments »

Apparently undaunted by the frosty critical and box office reception of The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford (the superb arthouse Western that bore more than a passing resemblance to a Terrence Malick film),  Brad Pitt is currently in talks to star in Malick’s Tree of Life according to Variety.
 I don’t want [...]

Filed under: News | 7 Comments »