Saturday, March 30, 2013
Los Angeles — Diane Kruger is such a fan of science fiction that she once attended the massive Comic-Con in San Diego wearing a Darth Vader mask so she wouldn’t be recognized. Despite her love of the genre, …
Wednesday, March 27, 2013
Philip Roth is considered one of the great American writers — to some, the greatest. He is also one who is, as the New Yorker’s David Remnick once put it, single-mindedly devoted to his work in a way few artists can match. Now 80 years old, he has …
Saturday, March 23, 2013
Like an anxious parent waiting to hear whether his kid has gotten into a good college, I worry about Admission. I worry that the quirky little film — which stars comedians Tina Fey and Paul Rudd, but is …
Saturday, March 23, 2013
The Stoker house is in mourning. Widow Evelyn (Nicole Kidman) has crawled into a bottle, weeping. Teenage daughter India (Mia Wasikowska), already withdrawn from Mom, pulls further into her sullen shell. She hates to be touched, becomes even more of a loner at school, and loses herself in …
Friday, March 22, 2013
When veteran filmmaker Roland Emmerich was first offered the chance to direct a movie about terrorists taking over the White House, he couldn’t believe his luck. “It’s such a good idea,” Emmerich, the money-minting director of movies such as 2012, said last week at a Culver City editing …
Friday, March 22, 2013
The Method actor, with all his brilliance and maddening self-importance, is the focus of this spring’s film series at the Hopkins Center. The series begins next Friday with Flight, starring Denzel Washington as an alcoholic pilot and concludes …
Friday, March 22, 2013
Taylor Swift says Tina Fey is going to hell; Sarah Palin would probably like to send her. But wait just a second — doesn’t everyone love Tina Fey? We’ll find out today, with the opening of Admission, directed …
Thursday, March 21, 2013
New York — Top of the Lake, which was co-written and partly directed by Jane Campion and began this week on the Sundance Channel, may be the best thing to air on television this year. A dark story of rape and birth and death and trauma, it stars …
Monday, March 18, 2013
Don’t Miss Top of the Lake — Elisabeth Moss of Mad Men delivers an Emmy-worthy performance in this edgy, disturbing and altogether fascinating miniseries mystery from Jane Campion (The Piano). Moss plays a detective from Sydney who is investigating the disappearance of a pregnant 12-year-old among the beautiful, …
Saturday, March 16, 2013
Here’s a safety tip: Next time you’re kidnapped from a mall, thrown into the trunk of a car, and driven off to who-knows-where, make sure you get Halle Berry’s desk when you call 911 on the cellphone you’ve got hidden in your back pocket. She will find you. …
Maggie Cassidy
By Don's Early Light
