Based on the best-selling novel by Richard Price, Freedomland is a highly charged and gritty mystery of a carjacking, a missing child and a torn neighborhood.Producer Scott Rudin optioned the film rights to Freedomland, a novel about the investigation of a carjacking, when Price was only about halfway through writing the book.
Rapture: What Inspired Michael Tolkin
January 5, 2006 by
When Michael Tolkin wrote The Rapture, he hardly thought he was following a trend. This rigorous non-studio movie about a lost woman (Mimi Rogers) who finds happiness (for a time) through discovering God stirred up controversy at the recent Telluride Film Festival.
Desperado: Interview with Star Antonio Banderas
December 30, 2005 by
Antonio Banderas, who's rapidly becoming one of the hottest international sex symbols, stars as the mariachi without a name in Desperado, the eagerly-awaited follow-up to the critically acclaimed l992 hit, El Mariachi, a movie that “came out of nowhere” and cost practically nothing.
Jarhead: Sam Mendes’ Underestimated Movie–Interview
October 13, 2005 by
When I first read the book, what I responded to was the fact that the was was viewed through the prism of a very specific kind of person, Anthony Swofford (played by Jake Gyllenhaal) one who was trying to deal with and discover who he was.I was enthralled by the mixture of machismo, comedy, surrealism and, wry observation. It was a war book like no other; abut a war like no other that might possibly be a war movie like no other.
Good Night, And Good Luck: Clooney Vs. Senator McCarthy
September 1, 2005 by
There's an opportunity that one in a hundred young kids actually might learn who Murrow is and have some discussion and have some understanding of how dangerous a democracy can be, if fear is used as a weapon.”
