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Interviews
Gary Oldman, Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy
“I’m going through my next phase as I go into my 60s, where I play characters who don’t move very much.”
Michael Fassbender and director Steve McQueen, Shame
“It was important to me that the film’s not about a dude in a raincoat with sweaty hands, it’s about an everyday guy on the street that we all know, and in some ways we’re all a part of him.”
“It’s pretty much kismet at this point. I don’t have that much control over my career, so it’s where the offers are taking me. I wish I could say that I’m planning it.”
Director Mike Mills, Beginners
“I’m so glad that in the film there’s my real dad, and there’s Christopher Plummer, and there’s the fictional character of Hal. From the get-go, I knew it was going to be this strange, mongrel, hybrid thing.”
Seth Rogen and writer Will Reiser, 50/50
“Even when Will was sick, he would complain about not having sex so much more than the fact that he could die in two months.”
Director Nicholas Winding Refn, Drive
“Ryan Gosling’s a unique actor–he has a God-given gift that very few actors get to have; you can count them on one hand. And the test is always if they didn’t have to say anything, would you still want to be with them?”
Reviews
You come to laugh at the hippy in the orange Crocs and end up wishing you could be more like him.
The Tree of Life andA Guide to The Tree of Life
What filmmaking should be: big, daring, packed with imagery and meaning, and delivered with mesmerizing craft and artistry.
Milne’s characters are so lovingly crafted they hold up beautifully, passed along (like a treasured stuff animal) from parents to children for 85 years now. Not bad for a silly old bear.
Zombie 101: 5 Things You Need to Know about The Walking Dead
Rich with authenticity, Winter’s Bone is a descent into a Midwestern county where the menace of crank has replaced family blood ties.
An exhilarating plunge into the maelstrom, where art and beauty swirl alongside horror and madness.
DVD Round Ups
Incendies, In a Better World, Winter in Wartime, Of Gods and Men, Biutiful
The Mechanic, The Other Woman, Holy Rollers, Breakdown, Conviction
Lesser-Known Action Films at Redbox
Attack the Block, Hanna, Broken Trail, Legend of the Millennium Dragon, The Warriors Way
10 Great Overlooked Movies at Redbox this Fall
Humor
Despite being the best ninja anyone had ever not seen, Korean Pop Star Rain left the clan when it turned out he really didn’t believe in cold-blooded killing for money. Which is kind of like having a unicorn that hates rainbows.
The Redbox Quiz: Are You a Loser or Just Expendable?
The Losers or The Expendables? Not sure which swaggering, team of highly destructive social rejects is best for you?
Twilight Vampire Movie Theater
PALE BOY: I am your darkest desire and your worst nightmare.
PALE GIRL: You’re a chocolate pony filled with algebra?
Shark Night at the Apollo — A Shark Night/Apollo 18 Script Mash-up<
These are Moon sharks. No egg-heads or chatroom trolls can say, “Hey, sharks don’t act like that,” ‘cause how the hell do we know how Moon sharks act? We don’t. No one does. They are a total mystery.
How to Recreate Christian Bale’s Oscar-Winning Performance in The Fighter
Washington Post Film Column
Wrote an installment of the Post’s ongoing film survey feature.