It’s official: Brad Pitt is a Bastard. According to Variety, the actor has signed on the dotted line to star in Quentin Tarantino’s next film Inglorious Bastards as a Tennessee hillbilly who leads a team of eight Jewish soldiers in fighting the Nazis during WWII.
You may remember I resisted this news all along while the [...]

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Javier Bardem and Rebecca Hall in Vicky Cristina Barcelona
Rebecca Hall is turning up everywhere these days. She began appearing in made-for-television BBC productions when she was 12, then disappeared for a decade before reappearing as Sarah in Christopher Nolan’s underappreciated 2006 film The Prestige.
She’ll soon be seen in Woody Allen’s upcoming Vicky Cristina Barcelona (she [...]

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This week’s Forecast starts off with a film that has already been released. Why? Because it’s one of the best movies of the year so far and it’s finally expanding from the two theaters in which it opened. If you’re wondering when I’m going to shut up about Man on Wire, the answer is: don’t [...]

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