The Good, The Bad & The Badass: Sam Shepard

Posted 9 years ago

Chris Sam Shepard Sam Shepard’s death was a major blow. His struggle with ALS was fought outside the public eye, and most of his fans never knew he was sick. In fact, Shepard’s career seemed to be going better than...

The Right Stuff & Black Hawk Down actor Sam Shepard has passed away

Posted 9 years ago

Oscar-nominated actor and Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Sam Shepard passed away on July 27 after complications of ALS, public relations firm Boneau/Bryan-Brown confirmed today. He was 73. The multi-talented actor/writer/director/playwright won a Pulitzer Prize for Drama back in 1979 for the...

The Good, The Bad & The Badass: Scott Glenn

Posted 9 years ago

Chris Scott Glenn Scott Glenn has been in some pretty outstanding films. One of his earliest was Robert Altman’s NASHVILLE, and he also turned up in a small (but important) part in Francis Ford Coppola’s APOCALYPSE NOW, leading to his...

AMC brings The Right Stuff back to select theaters in honor of John Glenn

Posted 9 years ago

Given the recent loss of aviator/engineer/astronaut John Glenn, select AMC theaters in the US will be screening Philip Kaufman's space travel drama, THE RIGHT STUFF. The film follows the story of the original Mercury 7 astronauts and their seat-of-the-pants approach...

Mireille Enos suspects she’s being stalked in You Were Never Here

Posted 9 years ago

Former performance artist Camille Thoman has made her narrative feature directorial debut with the psychological thriller YOU WERE NEVER HERE, which uses "the mysterious performance art world of New York City as an atmospheric backdrop". Thoman also wrote the screenplay...

Top 10 Filmmakers You Should Know

Posted 10 years ago

Every year, a new crop of young directing talent breaks out from the independent scene and hits it big. We are all familiar with names like Ava Duvernay, Rian Johnson, Colin Trevorrow, Josh Trank, Ryan Coogler, and J.C. Chandor, but...

Review: Midnight Special

Posted 10 years ago

PLOT: A man and his young son – who possesses special powers – are on the run from those who may seek to take advantage of the boy and his gifts. REVIEW: There is a quiet intensity in the new...

Interview: Midnight Special’s Michael Shannon, Kirsten Dunst & Joel Edgerton

Posted 10 years ago

Not unlike last week’s 10 CLOVERFIELD LANE, Jeff Nichols‘ MIDNIGHT SPECIAL is a sci-fi movie sure to divide many genre fans. Some will see it as lacking in big, splashy action sequences and/or scares, while others will dig its methodical...

The Good, The Bad & The Badass: Michael Shannon

Posted 10 years ago

Chris Last week, we took a look at the career legendary character actor George Kennedy. This week's subject is more contemporary character actor and one of the brightest talents of his generation… Michael Shannon I've been covering films on JoBlo.com...

Rosamund Pike joins Christian Bale in Scott Cooper-directed western Hostiles

Posted 10 years ago

Deadline has learned that the lovely Miss Rosamund Pike (GONE GIRL, THE WORLD'S END) will star opposite Christian Bale in HOSTILES, a planned western from Bale's OUT OF THE FURNACE director Scott Cooper. The 1892-set epic will follow "a legendary...

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