Super boring candids of the cast of Oliver Stone’s Wall Street 2: Money Never Sleeps. The only question is: why?

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Nikki Finke has some anonymously sourced details about Oliver Stone’s Wall Street sequel set to begin filming August 10th with a tentative February 2010 release date.
21 years later and fresh out of jail, Michael Douglas’ Gordon Gekko seeks to repair his relationship with his daughter who is engaged to marry young Wall Street trader Shia [...]

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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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The more I see of this movie, the more I’m convinced it might be worth seeing just for Josh Brolin’s performance. He seems to have captured Bush effectively without stooping into caricature. I still doubt the movie will be any good or that it will change anyone’s opinion of our current president, but it might [...]

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Philip Seymour Hoffman and Samantha Morton in
Charlie Kaufman’s Synecdoche, New York
Moving right along with the Fall Forecast. Here’s what’s coming up in October. Once again, all dates are subject to change based on studio whim. LiC’s picks are starred.
October 3
An American Carol. I love Airplane! as much as anyone, but David Zucker’s name hasn’t been attached [...]

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