Sep 12

George Clooney Wins Over Critics At Toronto Film Festival

Actor George Clooney smiles during the news conference for the film "The Descendants" at the 36th Toronto International Film Festival

George Clooney's new movie The Descendants is winning over critics and audiences alike during this year's (2011) Toronto Film Festival. Directed by ACADEMY-award winning film maker Alexander Payne the movie sees Clooney playing a father who is forced to rethink his life after his wife suffers a serious accident. Speaking on the red carpet during the ...

Sep 10

Michael Fassbender’s ‘Shame’ Gets Fox Searchlight as U.S. Distributor

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Provocative drama starring Michael Fassbender, "Shame", has found its U.S distributor. During the Toronto International Film Festival on Friday, September 9, Fox Searchlight Pictures have decided to buy the Steve McQueen-directed drama and plan to release it before this year's end. When announcing the deal, Searchlight's Copresident Nancy Utley and Stephen Gilula stated, "Steve McQueen's courageous ...

Sep 08

Clint Eastwood’s ‘J. Edgar,’ starring Leonardo DiCaprio, to open AFI Fest

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Clint Eastwood's upcoming J. Edgar Hoover biopic has already been deemed a best picture contender by a number of Oscar prognosticators. Pundits will officially be able to back up -- or back off of -- those claims at AFI Fest 2011, as event coordinators announced Wednesday that "J. Edgar" will be the opening film at ...

Sep 02

A Dangerous Method movie review

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Talky, cerebral and intensely complex in its depiction of a fraught three-cornered relationship, A Dangerous Method is quite unlike any other film by director David Cronenberg, still widely associated with blood, gore and body parts. Set between 1904 and 1913, it tackles the struggle between Sigmund Freud (Viggo Mortensen) and Carl Jung (Michael Fassbender) to ...

Sep 01

Roman Polanski film cheered for wit at the Venice film festival

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He may have been absent, but Roman Polanski made his presence felt at the Venice film festival on Thursday with his comedy "Carnage," in which Oscar-winner Kate Winslet's projectile vomit prompted the biggest laugh. Some of the adaptation of Yasmina Reza's stage comedy "The God of Carnage" was written by the Franco-Polish film maker while he ...