Viggo Mortensen gives one of his most haunting and emotional performances in "The Road," the post-apocalyptic tale from the pen of the great American author, Cormac McCarthy, whose book "No Country for Old Men" deservedly won the 2007 Best Picture Oscar.  It may be premature, but I think that Viggo Mortensen's work in this tough, relentlessly grim but ultimately humanistic picture should get a serious consideration comes Oscar time.  

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

"Jennifer's Body," written by Diablo Cody and starring Amanda Seyfried and Megan Fox, is being released September 18, 2009 by 20th Century Fox.


After writing "Juno," which Diablo Cody describes as a warm, sweet, life-affirming movie, she wanted to venture into darker territory. "I wanted to write something that was about my fears, something that was a little edgy and eerie, but also funny," Cody notes. "So I started thinking about what's scary to me, and I decided that girls are scary!"  

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

“Given that Michael's name was attached to the script and that it was planned as a summer release, I knew the movie was going to be huge,” Fox says, “I just had no idea how much of a part I was going to play in relation to the whole thing or what I was in for.”

"The Messenger," one of the best Iraq War movies, opens November 13.

Co-writer Alessandro Camon suggested writing a script about Casualty Notification Officers because no one was looking at the war from that angle at the time, no one was shining a light on the home front from the perspective of the messengers who bring the consequences of war to the families, to the people who pay a direct, intimate and everlasting price for the decision to go to war. It's an impossible, horrible job, and yet it's as real as it gets. I was also excited by the idea as an indirect way to deal with my own military service demons–Oren Moverman.

 

I've made a positive film about ads. I'd once believed that our systems of commerce might go away, and with them, all unwanted commercial messaging, but they haven't yet, and won't soon. Advertising, in fact, may actually be an innately human act itself. But like all creative endeavors (books, paintings, movies, architecture) most of it is mediocre. Ultimately, I hope “Art & Copy” inspires artists and writers to strive to make more meaningful, more entertaining, or more socially uplifting ads. With so much advertising surrounding us these days, it would be great to get that 2% figure a bit higher–Doug Pray.