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11 May 2012 7:38 AM, PDT | The Guardian - Film News | See recent The Guardian - Film News news »

He could have been another Brad Pitt. Instead he's doing one-man stage shows. Is it time for a rescue plan?

For some time now, I have belonged to a secret society known as the League of Rueful Val Kilmer Enthusiasts. It consists of men of a certain age who adore Tombstone and Heat, and who also have a soft spot for The Doors and The Ghost and the Darkness. And, of course, Top Gun. What unites the members of the league is our affection for the actor himself, mingled with regret that Kilmer did not become the intergalactically famous star we wanted him to be. We also resent the fact that he did not make more movies like Heat while he was young and athletic enough to pull it off.

Because now it is too late. Kilmer has reached the point in his career where he is performing in a one-man show called Citizen Twain, »

- Joe Queenan

23 April 2012 6:48 PM, PDT | Scott Feinberg | See recent Scott Feinberg news »

By Samuel Negin

The idea for today’s post came up during a conversation I had over dinner with film blogger Scott Feinberg. We were talking about the upcoming awards season and how some people seem to crop up again and again whether they deserve to or not, while, at other times, some deserving people couldn’t catch a break if they tried. In particular, Angela Lansbury came up as a prime example. On screen, she has given some of Hollywood’s most beloved performances, in such classic films as National Velvet, Gaslight, The Manchurian Candidate, The Picture of Dorian Gray, Bedknobs and Broomsticks and Mrs. ‘Arris Goes to Paris. She also spent 12 seasons on television playing Jessica Fletcher on Murder, She Wrote, and made guest appearances on a number of big time TV shows like Law & Order: Svu.

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- Kailyn Corrigan

12 March 2012 3:06 AM, PDT | The Guardian - Film News | See recent The Guardian - Film News news »

In 1947 the former English professor, drama critic and leading MGM producer Albert Lewin wrote and directed a fascinating version of Maupassant's 1885 novel Bel Ami about the upward progress of the charming, untalented journalist Duroy (nicknamed "Bel Ami") in a corrupt late-19th-century Paris where the press are in cahoots with the politicians. George Sanders (who was Lord Henry Wotton in Lewin's The Picture of Dorian Gray in 1945) was marvellously suave (though somewhat too old) in the title role. Robert Pattinson, of current Twilight fame, plays Duroy in the fabulous-looking but oddly tepid movie debut of Declan Donnellan and Nick Ormerod, the joint founders of the Cheek by Jowl theatre company. Pattinson doesn't dominate the movie as one fancies a young Alain Delon would have done 50 years ago under the direction of, say, Roger Vadim. But the women he exploits with increasing confidence – Uma Thurman, Kristin Scott Thomas, Christina Ricci – are excellent, »

- Philip French

7 March 2012 7:21 PM, PST | SneakPeek | See recent SneakPeek news »

Sneak Peek more new images from director Tim Burton's upcoming gothic horror feature "Dark Shadows".

"Dark Shadows" stars Johnny Depp, Michelle Pfeiffer, Helena Bonham Carter, Eva Green, Jackie Earle Haley, Jonny Lee Miller, Bella Heathcote, Chloe Moretz and Gulliver McGrath :

"..."In the year 1752, 'Joshua' and 'Naomi Collins', with young son 'Barnabas', set sail from Liverpool, England to start a new life in America.

"But even an ocean was not enough to escape the mysterious curse that has plagued their family. Two decades pass and Barnabas (Depp) has the world at his feet-or at least the town of Collinsport, Maine.

"The master of 'Collinwood Manor', Barnabas is rich, powerful and an inveterate playboy, until he makes the grave mistake of breaking the heart of 'Angelique Bouchard' (Green).

"A witch, in every sense of the word, Angelique dooms him to a fate worse than death: turning him into a vampire, »

- Michael Stevens

1 March 2012 4:59 PM, PST | SneakPeek | See recent SneakPeek news »

Sneak Peek another new image of actor Johnny Depp in director Tim Burton's upcoming feature "Dark Shadows".

"Dark Shadows" co-stars Helena Bonham Carter, Eva Green, Jackie Earle Haley, Jonny Lee Miller, Bella Heathcote, Chloe Moretz and Gulliver McGrath :

"..."In the year 1752, 'Joshua' and 'Naomi Collins', with young son 'Barnabas', set sail from Liverpool, England to start a new life in America.

"But even an ocean was not enough to escape the mysterious curse that has plagued their family. Two decades pass and Barnabas (Depp) has the world at his feet-or at least the town of Collinsport, Maine.

"The master of 'Collinwood Manor', Barnabas is rich, powerful and an inveterate playboy, until he makes the grave mistake of breaking the heart of 'Angelique Bouchard' (Green). A witch, in every sense of the word, Angelique dooms him to a fate worse than death: turning him into a vampire, and then burying him alive. »

- Michael Stevens

12 January 2012 8:17 PM, PST | SneakPeek | See recent SneakPeek news »

Sneak Peek a new image of actors Johnny Depp and Michelle Pfeiffer, in director Tim Burton's upcoming feature "Dark Shadows".

"Dark Shadows" co-stars Helena Bonham Carter, Eva Green, Jackie Earle Haley, Jonny Lee Miller, Bella Heathcote, Chloe Moretz and Gulliver McGrath :

"..."In the year 1752, 'Joshua' and 'Naomi Collins', with young son 'Barnabas', set sail from Liverpool, England to start a new life in America. But even an ocean was not enough to escape the mysterious curse that has plagued their family. Two decades pass and Barnabas (Depp) has the world at his feet-or at least the town of Collinsport, Maine.

"The master of 'Collinwood Manor', Barnabas is rich, powerful and an inveterate playboy, until he makes the grave mistake of breaking the heart of 'Angelique Bouchard' (Green). A witch, in every sense of the word, Angelique dooms him to a fate worse than death: turning him into a vampire, »

- Michael Stevens

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