Joel and Ethan Coen’s adaptation of TRUE GRIT starring Jeff Bridges has been announced for Christmas 2010
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Ok then. With production scheduled to begin on True Grit in Texas and New Mexico on March 20 (it’s not a remake goddamnit, it’s Joel and Ethan Coen’s re-adaptation of Charles Portis’ original novel) and with several of the major roles filled by the likes of Jeff Bridges (Rooster Cogburn), Matt Damon (La Boeuf) and [...]
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Josh Brolin and Matt Damon are in talks to join Jeff Bridges in Joel and Ethan Coen’s redo of TRUE GRIT. Outstanding
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Woody Allen’s latest comedy-drama starring Josh Brolin, Antonio Banderas, Anthony Hopkins, Naomi Watts, Gemma Jones and Freida Pinto is going to be titled ‘You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger’
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This short film from Joel and Ethan Coen was produced in 2007 as part of For Each His Own Cinema (Chacun son cinéma), a collection of 3 minute films from famous directors commissioned for the 60th Anniversary of the Cannes Film Festival. It stars Josh Brolin, actor-turned-producer-turned-director of Men Who Stare at Goats Grant Heslov, [...]
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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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Sally Hawkins and Alexis Zegerman in Happy-Go-Lucky
It was kind of an interesting if not altogether successful movie-going weekend at LiC.
First up was Mike Leigh’s Happy-Go-Lucky, a hard to categorize little number starring Sally Hawkins as Poppy, an eternally and somewhat irrationally optimistic London schoolteacher. When her bicycle is stolen, she’s forced into driving lessons with [...]
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Josh Brolin and Elizabeth Banks in W.
Somehow, Oliver Stone’s W. manages to live up to my best hopes and fall victim to my worst fears all at once. When Stone first announced he was planning a film about our sitting president, his intentions for it were unclear. Being too late for effective satire yet too [...]
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Hark. I hear the cannons roar. Is it the weekend approaching? It is. Let’s take a look at the new movie lineup.
W. Generally lukewarm reviews aren’t doing much to give me hope for Oliver Stone’s treatment of George W. Bush, but I still want to see some of the performances, especially Josh Brolin’s.
The Secret Life [...]
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As the crap really begins to fly in yet another depressing American presidential campaign (my guy is pulling ahead and yet the whole thing is leaving a bad taste in my mouth…how sad is that?), Oliver Stone’s W. has finally been seen by journalists and the word so far is mixed.
Variety’s Todd McCarthy calls it [...]
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