Aaron Tveit and James Franco next to the real Peter Orlovsky and Allen Ginsberg
EW has the first look at James Franco as beat poet Allen Ginsberg in Rob Epstein’s big screen biography Howl. Click the image for a larger look.
The film produced by Gus Van Sant also stars Mary-Louise Parker, Jeff Daniels and David Strathairn. [...]
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The abbreviated Weekend Forecast is rolling out a little early this week because all the new releases are hitting on Wednesday. That’s tomorrow for those of you keeping score at home.
Opening in wide release:
Australia. Baz Luhrman’s epic adventure romance takes place on the eve of World War II as English aristocrat Nicole Kidman travels Down [...]
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Gus Van Sant and his Milk screenwriter Dustin Lance Black have been attached to an adaptation of Tom Wolfe’s The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test for a while now, but the film is now apparently one step closer to reality. Borys Kit reports in THR that Fox Searchlight has picked up the project which tells the [...]
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Gabe Nevins in Gus Van Sant’s moody Paranoid Park
This week’s Movies You May Have Missed features a solid line-up of three films that get 3 1/2 stars from LiC. Since these are all scheduled for DVD release on Tuesday, now is the time to readjust your Netflix queue.
Paranoid Park (2008) *** 1/2
Though I haven’t seen [...]
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Nick Plowman of Fataculture just gave me the heads up that Apple has the first trailer for Gus Van Sant’s Milk starring Sean Penn, James Franco, Emile Hirsch, Josh Brolin and Diego Luna.
From where I sit, it’s a pretty terrific trailer that will no doubt stir up a lot of controversy.
The story of murdered San [...]
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