'Maps to the Stars' Trailer: David Cronenberg Examines Our Celebrity-Obsessed...
Julianne Moore is nominated for two Best Actress Golden Globe awards this season: one for her performance as a woman struggling with early onset Alzheimer’s disease in ‘Still Alice,’ and the other for...
View Article'Love and Mercy' Trailer: Paul Dano and John Cusack Are Beach Boys
The first trailer for Love and Mercy has arrived, in which Paul Dano and John Cusack take on the role of music legend and Beach Boys frontman Brian Wilson. Love and Mercy generated some positive word...
View ArticleThe 25 Best Comedy Movies of the Last 25 Years
April Fools’ Day is an occasion marked by silliness. Many websites choose to celebrate by tricking their readers with goofy pranks. But for every one of these hoaxes that’s funny, there are ten more...
View Article'Love & Mercy' Trailer: God Only Knows How Paul Dano and John Cusack Both...
I know Brian Wilson, the genius behind the great pop group the Beach Boys, had a tough decade or two after the collapse of his band. But to transform from Paul Dano to John Cusack in the span of a...
View Article10 'Breaking Bad' Facts Cooked Up to Prove You Are The One Who Knows
Breaking Bad successfully turned Mr. Chips into Scarface, but did you know that AMC wanted Matthew Broderick or John Cusack for the role of Walter White? Or that Jesse was supposed to die in Season 1?...
View Article'Chi-Raq' Trailers Introduce Spike Lee's Bold Retelling of an Ancient Greek Play
We’ve been blessed with not just one, but two new Spike Lee films this year, both retellings of established stories, and both very different kinds of movies. Following the release of Da Sweet Blood of...
View Article'Cell' Trailer: Samuel L. Jackson and John Cusack Reunite For Another Stephen...
Based on the Stephen King novel from 2006, Cell went into production a couple of years ago, but languished in post-production for so long that it’s understandable if you forgot that it exists. The...
View ArticleRobert Pattinson Reteams With Director David Cronenberg For 'Maps to the Stars'
There are some directors who seem to be able to summon great casts with a simple snap of their fingers and the great David Cronenberg is one of them. His latest film, 'Maps to the Stars,' has not only...
View ArticleSee the Cast of 'Better Off Dead' Then and Now
The 1985 black comedy 'Better Off Dead' tells the tale of a high school student (John Cusack) who falls into a deep depression after his girlfriend dumps him. The film got good reviews, performed...
View Article'The Frozen Ground' Trailer: Nicolas Cage Hunts a Serial Killer
The true crime serial killer movie is about as played out as any genre in movie history, but nothing seems to be stopping 'em. The latest "ripped from the headlines" movie is 'The Frozen Ground,' which...
View Article'Grand Piano' Review
Renowned pianist Tom Selznick (Elijah Wood) comes out of retirement for one night only to play a classical concert in honor of his late mentor. What is already a pressure-filled evening for the stage...
View ArticleSee the Cast of 'Say Anything…' Then and Now
Released in 1989, Cameron Crowe's 'Say Anything...' starred a baby-faced John Cusack as Lloyd Dobler, an average high school student who falls for lonely valedictorian Diane Court (Ione Skye), and the...
View ArticleSee the Cast of 'Being John Malkovich' Then and Now
Released in 1999, Spike Jonze's 'Being John Malkovich' starred John Cusack as a struggling puppeteer who finds a portal into actor John Malkovich's brain. The clever meta-fantasy dramedy was a hit, and...
View Article'Say Anything' 25th Anniversary: How Lloyd Dobler Scarred Me For Life
‘Say Anything’ scarred me for life. I’ve been aware for a few weeks that the 25th anniversary of ‘Say Anything’ was approaching and I’ve kind of gone out of my way to ignore it – even though there’s no...
View Article'Maps to the Stars' Trailer: David Cronenberg Goes to Hollywood
The first trailer for David Cronenberg's 'Maps to the Stars' has arrived online, reuniting the director with his 'Cosmopolis' stars Robert Pattinson and Sarah Gadon, as well as Cronenberg newbies like...
View ArticleTIFF 2014: 'Maps to the Stars' May Be a Bad Movie, But It's at Least Interesting
‘Maps to the Stars’ is not a very good movie – but there’s a difference between a bad movie and an interesting bad movie. ‘Maps to the Stars’ is the latter. It is certainly interesting. And it’s...
View Article'Maps to the Stars' Trailer: David Cronenberg's Dank, Dark World Behind Stardom
After the film made the rounds at TIFF this year, with our own Mike Ryan calling it an "interesting bad movie," a new 'Maps to the Stars' trailer has debuted. It's pretty apparent from the footage that...
View ArticleTIFF 2014: John Cusack Has Good Vibrations as Brian Wilson in 'Love & Mercy'
‘Love & Mercy’ – which premiered this week at the Toronto International Film Festival – isn’t the first movie to try to explore the life of Brian Wilson and the Beach Boys. There was the 1990...
View Article'Say Anything' TV Series: Cameron Crowe "Trying to Stop" NBC Sequel – UPDATED
Now more than ever we've seen TV looking to classic films of the '80s and '90s for the next great small screen series idea, whether by reboot or sequel, but a proposed 'Say Anything' TV sequel may have...
View Article'Dragon Blade' Trailer: John Cusack Goes Old School Epic With Jackie Chan
Do you buy John Cusack as a Roman soldier who teams up with Jackie Chan in an epic battle film that takes place in the year 48 BC? Yeah, neither do we, but that’s what the first trailer for ‘Dragon...
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