Word: hollywoodized
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Hollywood royalty from different generations - Clint Eastwood, 78, as director-producer and Angelina Jolie, 33, as star - strike an agreeable but uneasy artistic entente in the period drama Changeling. When the movie had its world premiere at the Cannes Film Festival this May, the two were instantly dubbed Clangelina, and they looked quite the handsome couple on the red carpet. But this bustling, complex picture is hobbled by something neither an Academy Award-winning director nor a seductive star can overcome: miscasting...
...ensemble piece, with a dozen or so character actors carrying the storyline. Finally, Changeling - like most Eastwood movies - is exactly as good as its makings. In its purposeful accumulation of depravities, both individual and institutional, the director's non-style has an honorable payoff that's rare in modern Hollywood cinema: the story's weight could come close to burying you in despair...
...think the election will turn out? Well, I am now a member of the Hollywood elite. I have seen the final script, and I don't want to give you any spoilers, it's going to be pretty exciting. It turns out that one of the candidates is a hobo...
...Thorne - want you to think of their effort as less video game than film noir. Or a Woo noir, since the picture owes a lot to the visual grit and zazz of John Woo, the Hong Kong director (A Better Tomorrow, The Killer, Hard Boiled) who made good in Hollywood with the crackerjack Face/Off. Surly men in overcoats trudge through a nightscape with very busy meteorology: when it isn't pouring rain there are snowflakes everywhere, like the residue from an Olympian pillow fight. And down these gaudily monochromatic streets a strong, scarred man comes into closeup: Max Payne, renegade...
...road film is a Hollywood tradition. From “Easy Rider” to “Harold and Kumar” to “Little Miss Sunshine,” these movies have a definite appeal as the viewer falls in love with characters who find themselves on a journey filled with allegorical obstacles. Too bad, then, that “Sex Drive,” the new movie from director Sean Anders, is the road trip as we know it in real life—the kind where you could care less about the drive. It?...