Joe Wright’s The Soloist will be making its North American premiere as the opening night film of the 2008 AFI Fest in Los Angeles. In the film, Jamie Foxx plays Nathaniel Ayers, the true-life musical prodigy who succumbed to schizophrenia and ended up homeless on the streets of Los Angeles. Robert Downey, Jr. plays the [...]
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On paper, this thing stinks of Oscar bait and there are glimmers of that in the trailer, but damnit it worked on me. Damn you Downey, Jr!
The Soloist opens November 21.
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UK tabloid based rumors swirled over the weekend that Russell Crowe would play Watson opposite Robert Downey Jr.’s Sherlock Holmes in the upcoming Guy Ritchie film based on the Arthur Conan Doyle characters. That’s all well and good, but it’s another tabloid lie. Ritchie himself tells Empire “I don’t have a Watson.”
Meanwhile, Cinematical puts to rest [...]
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It’s late so I’ll spare you the story of the drunk guy form Michigan at the Arclight bar who tried to share the secret of The Secret with me (”I’m not gay but you have amazing, mystical green eyes.” Wah??!) and I’ll pass up the trailers to get right to the weekend’s movies.
LiC’s first rule [...]
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Penelope Cruz is neither Vicky nor Cristina in Vicky Cristina Barcelona
You can almost feel summer winding down and the fall movie season arriving, can’t you? Here’s what’s on tap this weekend:
Vicky Cristina Barcelona. Woody Allen’s tale of two American women, the sensible one (Rebecca Hall) and the adventurous one (Scarlett Johansson), who travel to Barcelona [...]
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Michael Cieply reports in the New York Times that several groups representing people with disabilities are expected to announce a boycott of the new comedy Tropic Thunder as early as Monday. At issue is the frequent use of the word “retard” in the film, a Hollywood satire about the filming of a war picture.
Special Olympics [...]
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