julia roberts

The Good, The Bad and the Badass: Meryl Streep

Posted 12 years ago

Chris Last week we took a look at the incredible career of master director Martin Scorsese, easily one of the greatest filmmakers that’s ever lived. This week’s subject is another icon whose career in front of the camera has spanned...

Review: August: Osage County

Posted 12 years ago

PLOT: After their family patriarch goes missing, the estranged Weston family reunites at the home of matriarch Violet (Meryl Streep)- a cantankerous woman with an acid tongue. Her daughters, Barbara (Julia Roberts), Karen (Juliette Lewis) and Ivy (Julianne Nicholson) all...

Check out the massively talented cast populating the trailer for potential Oscar front-runner August: Osage County

Posted 13 years ago

Playwright Tracy Letts is one hell of a talent. Three of his plays have been made into movies, two of which were favorites of many fans of this site. First was the William Friedkin directed BUG starring Michael Shannon and...

Girl With the Dragon Tattoo director Niels Arden Oplev to remake Flatliners

Posted 13 years ago

I completely forgot that Columbia Pictures had plans to remake 1990’s FLATLINERS. The last update we had on this was fall of 2011 when I wrote about the initial news. Now it seems that the studio has hired a director...

Movie Jail: This week’s defendant is…Julia Roberts!

Posted 13 years ago

Welcome to Movie Jail, a facility like any other, only its inmates are Hollywood writers, directors, actors and producers. This column will serve as a Movie Jail trial. We will put one defendant on trial; lay out arguments for the...

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Set Visit: Riding scooters with Tom Hanks on the set of Larry Crowne!

Posted 15 years ago

A beautiful morning on the Cal State Dominguez Hills campus in Carson, CA set the stage for our visit to the set of LARRY CROWNE, Tom Hanks’s first feature directorial effort since 1996’s THAT THING YOU DO!. Little did I...