Word: hollywoodized
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...producer of genius, and not just in his self-marketing - which, don't knock it, is a boon to someone who's essentially an independent auteur. He chooses provocative projects, gets big stars when he needs them, makes vigorous, good-looking films and does it on half a Hollywood budget...
...Saturday Night Live (Seth Meyers, Andy Samberg) and the Harold & Kumar movies (John Cho). But this film doesn't need the validation of older comics; it's got winning stars in their early 20s who are true both to this moment and to old star quality. In the 1930s, Hollywood had The Thin Man, with the married couple Nick and Nora Charles as the epitome of Manhattan swank. Though this Nick and Norah have a lot more angst, they're just as worth watching, admiring and cuddling...
Track, Willow, Trig, Bristol, Piper. Meet the Palin brood! Apparently liberal Hollywood celebrities are not the only ones who like to give their children offbeat names (in order: a thing you run on, an 80's George Lucas film, a field of mathematics, a town in Connecticut, and a type of plane...
...western like Appaloosa, never takes a while to come. The best thing about the picture, which Harris also directed and co-wrote, is its respect for the strengths of a film form that dominated Hollywood 50 years ago but today is made only when a pedigreed actor like Harris (or Kevin Costner or Tommy Lee Jones) insists...
...keep moviegoers flocking to the cinema in these times of emptying wallets and waning summer days? Hollywood seems to think it has a surefire recipe with “Righteous Kill.” Take two aging but legendary actors of ye olde gangster cinema, mix in rappers, guns, and badges, add a healthy portion of serial-killer storyline, and top it off with a dash of cheap twist ending. But if I really wanted to draw out this clichéd food metaphor, this Al Pacino/Robert De Niro tag-team event would have to be more of a reheated...