Mark Wahlberg's Little White Lie
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Fashion Wire Daily - Even big movie stars have to obfuscate every now and then. Take Mark Wahlberg, the star of the new sports biopic "Invincible," the real-life fairy tale that was NFL star Vince Papale's life story. Wahlberg wanted to play the part so much, he just HAD to dissemble a bit.
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'Little Children' has great actors, but a smirky attitude.
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This agreeable, lightweight movie turns the malaises of a suburban Chinese-American family into bittersweet farce that teeters between cheeky humor and surface pathos.
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Tony GoldwynÂs remake of a popular Italian film is thin and clumsy, but nonetheless unusually candid in its treatment of human sexual misbehavior
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James L. Brooks's new movie treats the subjects of class division, cultural misunderstanding and marital discord with astonishing smugness and dishonesty.
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I met an old friend for coffee in San Francisco yesterday afternoon, and had a few hours to kill before stopping in at the Wired reunion party. I didn't want to drive back to Berkeley because the weather was so crummy, and I was just across teh street from a movie theater and was just in time for the start of a movie that lots of people had been telling me to see. So I went. The movie -- The Diving Bell and the Butterfly, I had no idea what it was about until the movie started, then I remembered hearing a Fresh Air show about it and finding it too painful to listen to. Now here I was in the theater, not just being asked to listen to it, but being asked to live it. Through some very wonderful film-making, you feel as if what is happening to the main character is happening to you. Or more accurately, probably, you get the slightest hint of what it's like to be this person. My immediate impulse, one which I gave serious consideration to, was to pack up my things and leave. Anything would be better than spending three hours living this guy's life.  Two things happen over time: 1. You get over it. 2. They change perspective, and instead of being inside his body, you move outside it.  I think those two things are the story we all live as we mature and learn to live inside our own bodies, with their limits. You learn to step outside and see the humor in your predicament. The main character says he lives in a diving bell because it's as hard for him to communicate with other people as it would be at the bottom of the ocean inside a diving bell. The movie teaches that it's not much easier for the rest of us, even though we can manipulate symbols better. On the other hand, of course it is. The film develops a relationship between the hero and his father, between the hero and his own children, his ex-wife, his lover.  We strive for deeper understanding of ourselves and each other. But it may be ridiculously easy to find the only meaning that exists, without language, without intellect, by just being. The Diving Bell and the Butterfly should probably be the picture of the year for 2007, it's that good. But like all great art it shows you something truthful about yourself, and you may or may not want to see it.
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Two Hollywood films that take up the politics of the Iraq war grew out of the conviction that the American public was not getting the full picture of the violence.
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Global politics, seniors in love, fantastical fairy tales, technical glitches and the Weinstein brothers
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Fashion Wire Daily - Mark Wahlberg had plenty of reasons to smile Thursday night at the premiere of "Shooter," his new action flick based on the popular Stephen Hunter novels that feature ex-Marine sharpshooter Bob Lee Swagger.
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By Cristina Rouvalis, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette  Feb. 18--The camera does lie.   Or at least it compresses the truth, slimming down the  I-wish-I-looked-thinner masses.
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Written and directed by Andrew Bujalski, this wonderful independent film wonÂt save or change your life, but it may make your heart swell. Its aim is modest and true.
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A febrile blend of facts, liberal outrage and emotional manipulation, Robert GreenwaldÂs documentary examines the role of private contractors in Iraq.
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"Nothing exceeds like excess." Perhaps Universal Home Entertainment should pay attention to this odd bit of dialogue, spoken by Michelle Pfeiffer's coked-up character in the movie "Scarface." When it comes to DVD releases of that rags-to-gangster-riches epic starring Al Pacino as drug dealer Tony...
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LOS ANGELES  - Donnie Wahlberg is in  negotiations to star opposite Bobby Cannavale in NBC's '70s cop  drama based on the real-life New York detectives who inspired  the Oscar-winning 1971 feature "The French Connection."
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Groups call the film a whitewash of the man they hold largely responsible for the sexual revolution.
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This Australian film could be described by the story's "Rocky"-like outlines, but there is a gripping, downbeat family drama at the movie's core.
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One film that caught the fancy of just about everyone at the recently