THE PBAR STRIKES BACK

There’s so many diverging paths in Green Zone that it bursts at the seams and never congeals back together.

Gary Ross, the writer and director of Seabiscuit and Pleasantville, has signed on to direct an adaptation of Evan Thomas’ Robert F. Kennedy biography His Life.

For any 13-year-old actress, shooting your first major feature film has to be daunting, but just imagine the anxiety that must arise from said debut being a Coen Bros. remake of a classic John Wayne picture, True Grit, starring Matt Damon, Jeff Bridges and Josh Brolin. Well, how many 13-year-olds truly comprehend the levity of such [...]

Contagion, possibly the viral outbreak film to end all such genre entries (cast-wise, at least), now has a home. Steven Soderbergh’s action thriller, which was announced less than two weeks ago, has been picked up by Warner Bros. for distribution, reports Deadline Hollywood, with Participant Media already involved to co-finance the production’s $60 million budget. The [...]

The words “a new film about an outbreak of a deadly virus” most likely induce yawns and indifference, and understandably so. By now, Hollywood has fished this well so many times that you might as well peg on ‘post-apocalyptic” and call it a day. Every now and then, however, an addition to such a tired [...]

The delightful Anne Hathaway got up early this morning to announce the nominees for the Academy Awards and already Oscar season head scratching has begun. Can Avatar halt The Hurt Lockers march on claiming what seems like every single award in the Western world? Can Clooney oust Freeman for a second little gold man? Does having two [...]

What’s more interesting is the notion that Damon wants this prequel to be an interim film while Greengrass and a script come back into the fold for Bourne 4.

By now, the Bourne films have been reviewed and rated to death, so what did I think of each entry in general?

In the maelstrom of awards talk, one film that’s been largely overlooked is A Serious Man, the inconspicuous you-can’t-beat-fate dark comedy from Joel and Ethan Coen. The film, anchored by a terrificly nuanced Michael Stuhlbarg, is one of those layered and intricate works dependent on multiple viewings, and, for reasons seeming to stem from mixed [...]