Warner Bros. Says A New Installment Of ‘The Fugitive’ Is Currently In...
[spins giant reboot/reunion/sequel wheel of movies from the 1990s] [waits for wheel to begin slowing down] … Demolition Man… Tombstone… … … Hey, The Fugitive! Yup, according to a report from Deadline,...
View ArticleRelive ‘Captain America: The First Avenger’ With These Quotes
Marvel In 2011, Chris Evans traded in the ability to burst into flames for a nearly indestructible shield and switched from one blue bodysuit to another in Captain America: The First Avenger. Steve...
View ArticleMatt Damon Will Face Off Against Tommy Lee Jones In The Next ‘Bourne’ Film
Getty Image Because there are never enough old men behind a nasty government conspiracy, Matt Damon’s Jason Bourne will reportedly next take on Tommy Lee Jones. Sure, Damon left his amnesiac spy behind...
View Article‘Criminal’ Is A Redemption Movie With An A-List Cast And A Dark Heart
Summit Westerners have killed the concept of reincarnation far too many times. The new sci-fi thriller Criminal, in which modern science gives a bad dude another crack at life, isn’t openly spiritual...
View ArticleJason Statham Takes Ass Kicking To Ridiculous New Heights In The ‘Mechanic:...
Why wait for a Spy sequel when you can see what’s playing in the head of Rick Ford at all times? Jason Statham‘s Spy alter-ego would likely be over the moon the moment he came in contact with the...
View ArticleVin Diesel Claims That The Rock’s ‘Fast And Furious’ Role Was Originally...
Universal If the rivalry between Vin Diesel and The Rock is a reality following the filming of Fast 8, you wouldn’t know it from Diesel’s side of things. The Fast And Furious star has nothing but kind...
View ArticleWarner Bros. wants ‘The Fugitive’ to go on the run once again
There is a purity to the concept of “The Fugitive” that I admire. When the original four-season series ended, almost half of the available audience tuned in to see whether or not Richard Kimble would...
View ArticleOn this day in pop culture history: Marilyn Monroe’s iconic ‘flying skirt’...
Sixty-one years ago today, this iconic image was born: Marilyn Monroe, laughing as the skirt of her white cocktail dress is blown up by the air from a subway vent. Monroe had her famous skirt moment...
View ArticleSally Field disses her ‘Amazing Spider-Man’ role
Sally Field was the big guest on Monday's episode of The Howard Stern Show, where the two-time Oscar winner offered up candid insights on her 50-plus years in showbusiness. From Smokey and the Bandit...
View ArticleExclusive Clip: Kevin Costner endures head games in ‘Criminal’
Kevin Costner is a bad man…or is he? In the upcoming film Criminal, Costner plays Jericho Stewart, a death row inmate who has had the skills of a deceased CIA operative (Ryan Reynolds) implanted in...
View ArticleWatch some new clips from ‘Jason Bourne’
Universal Pictures has been mostly tight-lipped about Jason Bourne, the upcoming installment in the Bourne movie franchise but recently released three new clips to help get audiences pumped for the...
View ArticleHow Alicia Vikander got to be not totally terrified of ‘Bourne’ co-star Tommy...
Veteran actor Tommy Lee Jones has managed to garner a reputation as a curmudgeon. The gruff demeanor of both his characters and what we see of him IRL could be pretty intimidating for a young actor....
View ArticleAn ode to the women of the ‘Bourne’ movies
Glance at promotional photos from the Bourne films, and you'll see something like this: Photo credit: Universal Studios And this: Photo credit: Universal Studios Those production stills may lead you...
View ArticlePug Divas, Fake Graffiti, And Other ‘Men In Black’ Facts You May Not Know
Columbia Pictures Back in 1997, Will Smith was on the cusp of being a superstar following The Fresh Prince of Bel Air, Bad Boys, and Independence Day, and Men In Black put him over the top. It seems...
View ArticleFrotcast 329: Matt Ufford, The United Incident, ‘Big Little Lies’
HBO, etc https://filmdrunk.podbean.com/mf/download/yry7ig/Frotcast_329__Matt_Ufford_United_Guy_Big_Little_Lies.mp3– Listen on the player above, or download as an mp3 here (right-click, save as). You...
View ArticleIndiana Film Journalists Association goes its own way, crowns ‘Safety Not...
Well if you were looking for someone, anyone, to just go the least bit against the grain, the Indiana Film Journalists Association is here to save the day. After announcing nominees last week, the...
View Article‘Lincoln’ finally wins a critics award for Best Picture, from Dallas-Ft. Worth
After sitting idly by and watching films like “Zero Dark Thirty” and “Argo” reap most of the critics’ Best Picture awards, Steven Spielberg’s “Lincoln” finally has one of its own, from the Dallas-Ft....
View ArticleNevada critics go for ‘Argo,’ John Hawkes, Helen Hunt
The Nevada Film Critics Society has added one more notch to “Argo”‘s tally of Best Picture wins. The group tied Ben Affleck with “Zero Dark Thirty” helmer Kathryn Bigelow for Best Director and went in...
View ArticleOff the Carpet: Academy members have numerous tight races to mull over this...
As members of the Academy hurry through the last screeners they need to see before committing an opinion on the year’s best (for those who bother trying to get as deep into the stack as possible, that...
View Article‘Argo’ wins with Houston film critics
After “Lincoln” led the way with nominations from the Houston Film Critics Society last month, it was “Argo” that took the prizes for Best Picture and Best Director. Steven Spielberg’s film did win...
View Article‘Lincoln’ dominates North Texas film critics awards
The North Texas Film Critics Association has thrown another log on the fire for Steven Spielberg’s “Lincoln,” the film’s second critics Best Picture prize of the season. The film also won Best...
View Article‘Lincoln’ wins with Iowa critics
“Lincoln” has picked up a third Best Picture critics prize, landing the Iowa Film Critics Association award for the year’s best film. Steven Spielberg, Daniel Day-Lewis and Tommy Lee Jones were also...
View ArticleTommy Lee Jones is Grumpy Cat, Grumpy Cat is Tommy Lee Jones
My God, it’s uncanny! All credit in the world to Josh Rowntree for discovering this amazing similarity between Tommy Lee Jones and Grumpy Cat, aka Tard the Grumpy Cat (supposedly short for “Tardar...
View ArticleGolden Globes Supercut: Just The Tina Fey And Amy Poehler Parts (Plus More GIFs)
Earlier today Josh gathered the best GIFs of Tina Fey and Amy Poehler at the 2013 Golden Globes. Now we have an excellent supercut of just the Tina Fey and Amy Poehler parts of the Golden Globes....
View ArticleMeme Watch: Grumpy Tommy Lee Jones Wants You To Get Off Of His Damn Lawn
The year: 2014 The movie: Summersault The stars: Tommy Lee Jones and McKayla Maroney The plot: Former-Olympic hero Summer “Salt” Streets (Tommy Lee Jones) plays the husband of a fed-up gym co-owner,...
View ArticleRoundup: On Leonardo DiCaprio’s odd Oscar history
The word “snub” is one we all abuse on occasion — I prefer “not nominated,” since it doesn’t imply active antagonism — and I’ve seen it used a lot lately about Leonardo DiCaprio. It doesn’t seem...
View ArticleTRAILER: Tommy Lee Jones is General MacArthur in ‘Emperor’
Coming off his awards-nominated turn as dark meat-loving abolitionist Thaddeus Stevens in Lincoln, professional Grumpy Cat Tommy Lee Jones stars as General Douglas MacArthur in Emperor, a film set...
View Article‘Argo’ stuns for second-straight day this weekend at the SAG Awards
John Shearer/Invision/AP I’ve been out most of the evening but some quick thoughts on tonight’s SAG outcome… “Argo” is the story of the weekend, clearly. After coming out victorious at the PGA Awards...
View ArticleOscar Guide 2013: Best Supporting Actor
Warner Bros. Pictures (Welcome to the Oscar Guide, your chaperone through the Academy”s 24 categories awarding excellence in film. A new installment will hit every weekday in the run-up to the Oscars...
View ArticleOscar Talk: Ep. 107 — Final stabs in the dark
Welcome to Oscar Talk. In case you’re new to the site and/or the podcast, Oscar Talk is a weekly kudocast, your one-stop awards chat shop between yours truly and Anne Thompson of Thompson on...
View ArticleNate Silver predicts ‘Argo,’ Spielberg, Lawrence for Oscar glory
AP Photo/Nam Y. Huh There are three ways to predict the Oscars. The first is to go strictly on facts, stats and precedents. The second is to use a mixture of sentiment and psychological projection. The...
View ArticleHailee Steinfeld joins all-star cast of Tommy Lee Jones’s ‘The Homesman’
AP Photo/Matt Sayles We haven’t seen anything from Hailee Steinfeld since she scored a Best Supporting Actress Oscar nomination two years ago for her (leading) role in the Coen Brothers’ “True Grit” —...
View ArticleDeniro & Luc Besson continue to not really give a sh*t in ‘The Family’
After becoming known as the director of classics like The Professional and The 5th Element, Luc Besson has had a sort of second life as the producer of… about a million different things. Now Besson’s...
View ArticleFirst look: Michelle Pfeiffer and Robert De Niro in mob comedy ‘The Family’
Mob movie veterans Michelle Pfeiffer and Robert De Niro have been pulled back into “The Family” A new trailer and 2 new photos from the comedy were released this week. In “The Family,” De Niro plays...
View ArticleOscar-nominated composer Marco Beltrami on navigating his way through ‘World...
POZNAN, POLAND-Oscar-nominated composer Marco Beltrami recently found himself in a rather unenviable position, caught between “World War Z”s” producer/star Brad Pitt, director Marc Forster and...
View ArticleReview: Luc Besson’s ‘The Family’ an action-comedy misfire
Relativity Anyone holding out hope for French director Luc Besson to return to his heyday of “La Femme Nikita” and “The Professional” is in for a letdown with the wan action-comedy of “The Family.”...
View ArticleTommy Lee Jones and Hilary Swank ride the high country in first trailer for...
EuropaCorp I love that Tommy Lee Jones is carrying a torch for the western genre. He gave us “The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada” nearly a decade ago and 10 years prior, his directorial debut was...
View ArticleCannes Check 2014: Tommy Lee Jones’‘The Homesman’
EuropaCorp Welcome back to Cannes Check, In Contention's annual preview of the films in Competition at this year's Cannes Film Festival, which kicks off on May 14. Taking on different selections every...
View Article11 big questions we want answered at this year’s Cannes Film Festival
The 67th Festival du Cannes is only a day away and as the last rain shower sweeps through the small French seaside town, the sun is ready to shine on the global film community's annual pow wow. There...
View ArticleTommy Lee Jones’‘The Homesman’ settles down with Saban Films
Saban Films When Greg and I recently discussed the Oscar-season potential of the films we've seen thus far at the Cannes Film Festival, we were muted on the prospects for Tommy Lee Jones' western “The...
View ArticleWatch Tommy Lee Jones Get Back In The Saddle Again In ‘The Homesman’
Every few years I find my self rocking back in forth in my rocking chair, nervously bouncing my leg and clenching my fists until I scream out loud, “When the F**K is Tommy Lee Jones gonna make another...
View ArticleSteven Spielberg encouraged Tommy Lee Jones during the making of ‘The Homesman’
Saban Films TELLURIDE – I didn't quite know what to say or think about Tommy Lee Jones' “The Homesman” after catching up with it Sunday afternoon, but I was pretty sure I loved it. Gorgeously shot by...
View ArticleTommy Lee Jones and Hilary Swank are a western odd couple in new ‘Homesman’...
Becoming a man of “true grit” earned John Wayne his only Oscar back in 1970. Could the same broken heroism push Tommy Lee Jones into the Oscar conversation? Adapted from Glendon Swarthout's novel and...
View ArticleOff the Carpet: So let’s talk about that crowded Best Actor Oscar race
Sony Classics Let's start with a broad assessment that may or may not be true, but can be taken as close enough for the purposes of this column: there are four Best Actor slots spoken for. What are...
View ArticleJim Carrey Explains How Much Tommy Lee Jones Hated Him During ‘Batman Forever’
Jim Carrey went on The Howard Stern Show yesterday to promote Dumb And Dumber To and relay odd stories about seeing things in the desert and method acting as Andy Kaufman. But more importantly, he...
View ArticleSee the giant guitar (and other instruments) Marco Beltrami built for “The...
Roadside Attractions Marco Beltrami”s soundtrack for “The Homesman” is like an old photograph. Stare long enough at an 19th century relic and the memories start reverberating through space and time...
View ArticleHilary Swank says recruiting Tommy Lee Jones to direct ‘The Homesman’ was easy
Like a number of actors still in the awards season mix, Hilary Swank has been talking about her contender along with films from Sundance or Cannes for a long time. In fact, she's been promoting Tommy...
View ArticleLadies Day with Reese and Jenny and Julianne and Swank
Rolled out of bed and started in with films, fresh off the stack, in whatever order they were piled in there. And in order, I watched “Wild” with Reese Witherspoon, Jenny Slate in “Obvious Child,” the...
View ArticleMarco Beltrami on crafting another western score for Tommy Lee Jones’‘The...
In a very open Oscar race for Best Original Score, Marco Beltrami's compositions for Tommy Lee Jones' western “The Homesman” may well find themselves in the final five. He has earned two previous...
View ArticleSony Just Confirmed That The ‘Jump Street’/’Men In Black’ Crossover Is...
Sony In the midst of last year’s Sony hack, one rather interesting snippet of news concerned the possible merging of the Jump Street and Men in Black film franchises. Seriously, I’m not kidding. Jump...
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