Woody Allen is the director of "You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger." which stars Josh Brolin, Naomi Watts, and Anthony Hopkins. The film is being released by Sony Pictures Classics on September 22.
Considering the self-professed bleakness of his vision, why does Woody Allen continue to make films, most of which have been critical failures or at best moderate successes?“It’s a distraction that has its own little challenges and consequently keeps my mind off morbid thoughts.”
Despite three wide releases crowding the weekend's domestic box office, Focus Features thinks there's still life in "The Kids Are All Right," expanding the pic nationwide this week from 201 to 847 engagements.
Review: The story of an unconventional family torn by sexual politics and complicated personal dynamics, Lisa Cholodenko’s “The Kids Are All Right” is timely, funky, open-minded, well-acted, deeply entertaining screwball farce.
More sharply written than helmed or acted, George Gallo’s “Middle Men" is a mildly amusing, intentionally rude and gross chronicle of the early days of Internet Porn.
"Cats & Dogs: The Revenge of Kitty Galore," the sequel to the 2001 "Cats & Dogs," is a mildly entertaining live-action caper-comedy, in which humans play secondary, if not entirely irrelevant, roles to the rich, secretive world occupied by the critters.
There is strong chemistry between Steve Carell and Paul Rudd in the intermittently comedy "Dinner for Schmucks," a loose remake of Francis Veber's French farce, "Le Diner de Cons."
Aaron Schneider makes a promising feature directing debut in "Get Low," a uniquely American folktale, grounded in some fact, featuring Robert Duvall in one of his strongest performances in years.
The third feature of Burr Steers is another of his ambitious attempts to subvert and transcend the standard forms about alienated teenagers. The movie is colored in big ideas, ruminating on guilt and loss, but it's also inchoate and feels closer to a pastiche that collects different parts of other forms than registering as a fully realized work on its own.
More sharply written than helmed or acted, George Gallo’s “Middle Men" is a mildly amusing, intentionally rude and gross chronicle of the early days of Internet Porn.
One day, a curious idea struck me: what would it be like if "Blood Simple" was made as a Chinese story? That was how "A Woman, A Gun and a Noodle Shop" began to take shape--Zhang Yimou
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