I think you’d have to really do some searching to find someone who slept with Frank Sinatra AND Woody Allen, so it was a special day when I had the chance to meet Mia Farrow. Obviously what defines Farrow isn’t her hard to pin down taste in men but her acting, including in a string … Continue reading
I get to Times Square about once a week. It isn’t by choice, but rather the nature of Manhattan’s screening rooms in relation to the subway. I had always assumed that Times Square, which during the last decade has morphed into the opening of Blade Runner, would be the place where I would see the … Continue reading
In the original 1976 The Omen, Father Brennan meets Robert Thorn in a park to deliver to him a message about the infernal heritage of his son, Damien. When the two split up, Brennan is left alone and the wind rises. Soon the trees are shaking as the wind howls, and lightning bolts are spitting … Continue reading
Last year I flipped for Kontroll, the debut film from Hungarian filmmaker Nimrod Antal (my review is here), and I’ve been waiting for his follow-up. It turns out that ol’ Nimrod is going to be traveling to the USA for his next film, a thriller called Vacancy, starring Sarah Jessica Parker and Luke Wilson. In … Continue reading
When fratboy director Len Wiseman got the nod for the fourth Die Hard movie, many of us assumed that it was because John McTiernan was up to his neck in legal troubles as part of the Pelicano case, where he had been lying to the FBI (oops!). It turns out that might not be the … Continue reading
The Loews Motor Speedway is enormous. It’s humongous. It’s gigantic. It’s even approaching vast. For some of my dear readers this is not news, but I’m an inveterate New York City boy, and I never even imagined that I would ever watch a NASCAR race on television, let alone visit one of the tracks where … Continue reading
A Prairie Home Companion, opening this Friday, is a really wonderful film, a movie that makes you think maybe the Academy was a year premature when they gave Robert Altman that honorary Oscar – he could legitimately have won it for this movie. Today was the press junket for the film here in New York … Continue reading
The Loews Motor Speedway is enormous. It’s humongous. It’s gigantic. It’s even approaching vast. For some of my dear readers this is not news, but I’m an inveterate New York City boy, and I never even imagined that I would ever watch a NASCAR race on television, let alone visit one of the tracks where … Continue reading
The usual routine for a junket is to assemble at some glitzy hotel, where rooms are cleared out and beds are replaced with tables. For Pixar’s Cars junket, though, we went to North Carolina, to the Loews Motor Speedway (for more on that, click here). The interviews were done in the skyboxes maybe five or … Continue reading
I have to admit that I first became aware of Liev Schreiber in Scream. I probably should have been on the ball sooner – he’s turned into one of the great American actors, on screen and on stage. He’s also recently tried his hand at directing with Everything is Illuminated, the #12 film on my … Continue reading