CANNES - Eric Packer, the disaffected, boy-billionaire anti-hero of “Cosmopolis,” has an asymmetrical prostate. We’re told this no fewer than three times in David Cronenberg’s highly garrulous ...
If your idea of a fun vacation is touring the quarantined ruins of a world famous nuclear fallout zone, you're asking for trouble. And trouble predictably finds the idiot tourists at the center of the horror-thriller ...
In "The Paperboy," Efron and Matthew McConaughey investigate a dubious crime which landed a man (John Cusack) on death row. Kidman plays a femme fatale named Charlotte Bess. It's based on the 1995 novel by P...
CANNES - Here are a few things you should know about "The Paperboy," the humid, lurid and exuberantly ludicrous new thriller from Lee "Precious" Daniels -- that is, if the swarm of dumbfounded Twit...
What if an intimate uplifting dramedy based on the real life bond between a rich quadriplegic and an ex-con on welfare became such a phenomenon that it out-grossed "Avatar"?
That's what happened when &quo...
CANNES - "The only people that interest me are the mad ones," mumbles Sam Riley's Sal Paradise on more than one occasion in "On the Road" -- directly lifting, of course, one of the most quoted line...
CANNES - The last time I saw the name "Leos Carax" onscreen was as part of the anthology film "Tokyo!", where he was one of three directors including Bong Joon-ho and Michel Gondry. His segme...
The 2011-12 network TV season officially ends tonight at 11, right after the closing credits for "Revenge" and "Law & Order: SVU" have rolled. So for the next few months, the television business goes all "Freaky Frida...
The film, adapted from Jack Kerouac's legendary Beat novel, premiered at the festival Wednesday. It was directed by Walter Salles ("The Motorcycle Diaries").
CANNES - Many filmmakers have attempted to adapt Jack Kerouac's seminal novel "On The Road" over the years, but Walter Salles is the guy who finally wrestled it up onto the screen. It is a largely succ...
