"Drive" begins extremely well and ends in a muddle of ultraviolence, hypocrisy and stylistic preening, which won't be any sort of deterrent for those who like its looks. Director Nicolas Winding Refn's avenging-angel thriller premiered at this year's Cannes Film Festival, where Refn won the directing prize, and every supersaturated image is designed for hushed adoration. ...
A film about a Jewish hero being produced by Mel Gibson, the actor who went on a public anti-Semitic tirade in 2006, drew sharp criticism on Friday from Jewish leaders who felt it was a slap in their faces. Gibson's company, Icon Productions, is developing the movie about Judah Maccabee in collaboration with the Time Warner ...
Mel Gibson has courted controversy with a planned film about Jewish icon Judah Maccabee. The Lethal Weapon star, who has been accused of anti-semitism in the past, is set to star as the religious leader in the as-yet-untitled heroic drama scripted by Basic Instinct writer Joe Eszterhas, reports Deadline. The story would focus on Judah's triumph over ...
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 ...
The calm is what's so startling in "Contagion" — the cool precision with which Steven Soderbergh depicts a deadly virus that spreads throughout the world, quickly claiming millions of victims. There's no great panic in his tone, no hysteria. Soderbergh has amassed a dazzling cast of Oscar winners but this is not like those '70s disaster ...
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