Bob Balaban

Date of Birth

1945-08-16

Place of Birth

Chicago, Illinois, USA

Known for

80 for Brady, Ghost World, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Jakob the Liar, Midnight Cowboy

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2010: The Year We Make Contact – The Best Movie You Never Saw

Posted 3 years ago

As far as sequels to classics go, Peter Hyams 2010: The Year We Make Contact, an underrated sequel to 2001: A Space Odyssey, isn't bad.

M. Night Shyamalan prefers Lady in the Water over The Sixth Sense

Posted 5 years ago

M. Night Shyamalan burst onto the scene in a big way with his 1999 supernatural horror film, The Sixth Sense. The film was nominated for six Academy Awards, including Best Director, Best Original Screenplay, and Best Picture, and it was...

Parents (1989), Randy Quaid, Horror Comedy- Best Horror Movie You Never Saw!

Posted 5 years ago

In the latest episode of our Best Horror You Never Saw video series, we take a look at the 1989 dark horror comedy Parents (OWN IT HERE / WATCH IT HERE), directed by Bob Balaban (My Boyfriend's Back), and starring Randy Quaid (Independence Day)...

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Wes Anderson’s next movie has reportedly started shooting in France

Posted 8 years ago

Wes Anderson’s recent stop-motion movie ISLE OF DOGS got the usual abundance of praise his films often do and is currently riding a wave to an Oscar nomination, but the director isn’t slowing down to bask in the glory. The...

Oscars: 25 films have officially been submitted for Best Animated Feature

Posted 8 years ago

Animation fanatics rejoice, for the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has unveiled a list of 25 films that have been submitted for consideration with regard to the Animated Feature Film category for the 91st Oscars. As you take a...

Review: Isle of Dogs

Posted 8 years ago

PLOT: In hopes of finding his loyal guard dog Spots, a young boy travels to an island inhabited only by the sickly dogs who were banished from their homes in Japan. While on the search, he is helped by a group...

SXSW 2018: Isle of Dogs Interviews with Bill Murray, Jeff Goldblum & More!

Posted 8 years ago

SXSW has been a wild ride this year and no better way to close it out than with a new Wes Anderson film. His latest venture is a stop motion adventure set in Japan called ISLE OF DOGS. We had...

Check out the stop-motion interviews with the cast of Isle of Dogs

Posted 8 years ago

Wes Anderson's last dip into the world of stop-motion animation was FANTASTIC MR. FOX, which was, well, fantastic, and fans have eagerly been awaiting Anderson's return to the stop-motion realm for close to a decade. Thankfully, next week will see...

First Isle of Dogs clip finds canines fighting it out over delicious garbage

Posted 8 years ago

Bryan Cranston is retiring … from signing autographs

Posted 8 years ago

Earlier this afternoon, BREAKING BAD actor Bryan Cranston announced to all of his fans that he's done signing autographs, from here on out. The personal message comes via Cranston's official Twitter account, which you can see for yourself below: Friends, After...

Wes Anderson’s Isle of Dogs lands a PG-13 rating

Posted 8 years ago

The MPAA has made some silly rating decisions over the years, giving R ratings to movies with a couple bad words, yet letting movies with an absurd level of violence skate by with a PG-13. Now they’ve made one of...

Wes Anderson throws fans a bone with a new Isle of Dogs poster

Posted 8 years ago

Today, acclaimed filmmaker Wes Anderson has given us all a break from the never-ending onslaught of Star Wars-related news by sharing a new poster for his upcoming stop-motion animated feature ISLE OF DOGS. The poster depicts the animation's main character,...

Wes Anderson takes us to the Isle of Dogs in first trailer

Posted 9 years ago

With tons of modern classics under his belt – like GRAND BUDAPEST HOTEL, FANTASTIC MR. FOX, THE LIFE AQUATIC and more – Wes Anderson can seemingly do no wrong. His new movie, ISLE OF DOGS, will take him back to...

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