Ken Jeong bares his soul - and body - in Hangover 3
Though he stole all audience attention away from every other actor in his brief scene as Dr. Kuni in Knocked Up, no one was ready for Ken Jeongs intro in The Hangover. He leaped out of a car...
View ArticleThe return and reboot of General Zod
In real life, Michael Shannon can be an imposing figure, especially when all 64 of him is standing tall. But the slow-talking 38-year-old actors natural voice is soft, and his eyes are kind of...
View ArticleMovie review: This Is the End a perfect blend of comedy and horror
Its not too often that you get a bunch of well-known, not quite A-list actors playing themselves in a movie. This movie is brimming with them. Its probably less often that you get a film thats so...
View ArticleBook Notes: The Names of Our Tears
The Names of Our Tears: An Amish-Country Mystery, by P.L. Gaus. A Plume Book, New York, 2013. 240 pages. Paperback. $15.Sometimes setting trumps plot. P.L. Gaus newest Amish mystery, The Names of...
View ArticleAn interview with Ron Perlman
Ron Perlman has made a pretty good living as an actor, even though for a big part of it, no ones been able to recognize him. He was covered by makeup as far back as when he played Vincent in Beauty...
View ArticleAn interview with Guillermo del Toro
Filmmakers dont get much busier than Guillermo del Toro. The native Mexican who now calls L.A. his home gained notice with his first feature Cronos an odd little horror film about eternal life ...
View ArticleBook Notes: At the Dying of the Year, by Chris Nickson
At the Dying of the Year: A Richard Nottingham Mystery, by Chris Nickson. Crème de la Crime; Sutton, Surrey, England, 2013.I like an author who dedicates his book to his cat: For August, the best...
View ArticleMovie review: Dont add The To Do List to your to-see list
Im sitting here, moments after returning home from seeing The To Do List, purportedly a high school sex comedy with a feminist sensibility. But Im plagued by all sorts of thoughts: Its not very...
View ArticleMovie review: The Wolverine is a thoughtful action flick
The word Wolverine is only used twice in this riveting entry in the X-Men saga. Im not him anymore, says the man who now just wants to be called Logan (Hugh Jackman) to the very redheaded Yukio...
View ArticleAshton Kutcher talks about role as Steve Jobs
Not many actors get to experience a convergence of real life and working at their craft as perfect as the one Ashton Kutcher went through when he won the part of Apple honcho Steve Jobs.Kutcher, a...
View ArticleMovie review: Jobs
This is not a full-fledged biography of the brilliant inventor-entrepreneur Steve Jobs. Any movie tackling that kind of project would take a week to watch. Instead, in a series of snapshots that focus...
View ArticleMovie review: Kick-Ass 2
Picking up about two years after the story in Kick-Ass ended, Kick-Ass 2 pretty much continues with the ideas of the first film. Thats kind of a problem. Even though its brimming with new...
View ArticleMovie review: Jobs
This is not a full-fledged biography of the brilliant inventor-entrepreneur Steve Jobs. Any movie tackling that kind of project would take a week to watch. Instead, in a series of snapshots that focus...
View ArticleSimon Pegg, Nick Frost talk about Worlds End
British pals Simon Pegg and Nick Frost have been working at the acting game together for a long while first on the English TV series Spaced, later in two films for director Edgar Wright Shaun of...
View ArticleThe Readers Writers: Award-winning romance author Vicki Batman
Texas-born Vicki Batman has worked as a lifeguard, ride attendant at an amusement park, in a hardware store, department store, book store, antique store clerk, as an administrative assistant in an...
View Article2013 Toronto International Film Festival preview
Theres plenty to do in Toronto any time of the year. The largest city in Canada, and fourth largest in North America, and the capital of Ontario, its got Ripleys Aquarium, the Royal Ontario Museum,...
View ArticleBook review: The Kid Who Missed the Bus
Matt McCoy, a former pro hockey player and first-time author, has packaged his experiences into the funny and sometimes uncomfortable autobiographical novel The Kid Who Missed the Bus ($13.95, 226...
View ArticleMovie review: Closed Circuit
You dont really need to know much about the British legal system to get totally involved in the stories and the accompanying tension of Closed Circuit. You dont have to understand the difference...
View ArticleBook Notes: J.K. Rowling goes undercover
The Cuckoos Calling, by Robert Galbraith, aka J.K. Rowling. Mulholland Books/Little Brown and Company, New York. 464 pages, $26.J.K. Rowling keeps us guessing, not just about who wrote The Cuckoos...
View ArticleMovie review: Get away from Getaway
Ethan Hawke is a pretty good actor. Look at the work hes done in, say, the Sunrise-Sunset-Midnight trilogy or Training Day or Gattaca. Given the right material, this guy can shine. Too bad...
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