Thursday, October 20, 2011 10:34PM - By angelbaker
First time feature length director, J.C. Chandor’s Margin Call has all the trappings of a big hit: it’s star-studded and ominous; its topic is potent and relevant, especially in the “Occupy Wall Street” days. But Margin Call is lacking one critical factor: consequence. No one truly fails in this film. Sure, executives lose their jobs but with their severances the tragedy of termination is more like winning the lottery. We never see the outcome of the bloodbath. What Margin Call does well, however, is intimately portray some very wealthy people sweat, chew steak, and justify their position with cleverly worded speeches.
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Thursday, July 7, 2011 6:00PM - By Damon Houx
Halfway between the “put the camera down and let them riff” style of Judd Apatow productions, and the “tight and visually stylized” Todd Phillips aesthetic, Horrible Bosses takes a high concept premise but then lets its actors play in this dark and funny comedy. The film stars Jason Bateman, Charlie Day and Jason Sudekis as men tormented by their employers, who drunkenly decide that homicide is justified in their cases. As director Seth Gordon told us, it’s a relate-able premise. Find out more below…
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Tuesday, March 15, 2011 3:22PM - By Damon Houx
In a bold move for the rental outfit Netflix, their company is now in the lead to pick up the series House of Cards, according to Deadline Hollywood. The show is set to be produced by David Fincher and Kevin Spacey, with Fincher helming the pilot and with Spacey in the lead role of a political mastermind with his eye on becoming the British Prime Minister. Netflix is in the lead to distribute the show because they’ve supposedly commited to a two year, twenty-six episode deal. Based on the novel by Michael Dobbs, the book was previously turned into a British mini-series.
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Wednesday, January 26, 2011 7:31AM - By Mali Elfman
Jason Reitman showed us both the business and human(e) side of lay-offs, showing us the state of the average worker, yet somehow managing to give us hope. W. showed us the ridiculousness of the Bush administration while George W. Bush while still in office. Fair Game showed us in a thriller how the truth is often lost in big corporations… And many more followed, all making statements about the problems in our country, many of them while the events in the film are still being played out or discussed in real life. So where does J.C. Chandor’s Margin Call fall?
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Thursday, December 16, 2010 5:15PM - By Mali Elfman
Abramoff must be as happy as an inmate can be right now because, thanks to producer/star Kevin Spacey and director George Hickenlooper’s final film, Casino Jack, he’s finally made it to the big screen… and in a comedy that seems to empathize with him none-the-less. I remember seeing the documentary Casino Jack and the United States of Money writing down the following on my notepad, “though this is a good documentary, I feel like like story of Casino Jack would have been better off being turned into a fictional story based on facts.
My wish has been granted! Here we go…
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Wednesday, December 15, 2010 4:00PM - By Mali Elfman
Jack Abramoff is back in theaters thanks to producer/star Kevin Spacey and director George Hickenlooper‘s final film, Casino Jack. Only this time they’re not damning him in a documentary, but showing the “fun” side corruption in a non-fictional (though based on facts) comedy starring the big man himself, Spacey.
We had a chance to sit down with Spacey and talk to him a little bit about bringing this film to fruition, the political agenda behind it and why he and George thought that comedy was the best way to tell Jack’s story…
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Friday, October 22, 2010 12:49PM - By Mali Elfman
Not long ago, Alex Gibney’s documentary Casino Jack and the United States of Money shocked audiences at the Sundance Film Festival and never really made its way to audiences. Since documentaries don’t always get the audiences they deserve, director George Hickenlooper has created a comedy about the man who helped our country into debt and created a film with at least a shorter title, Casino Jack!
Check out the trailer below…
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Wednesday, August 18, 2010 9:33AM - By Mali Elfman
HBO has confirmed that Tony and Oscar winning actor Kevin Spacey is up to star in a new HBO series, “The Crux.” The script has been caught up in a bidding was for the past few days with Showtime and other cable networks, but HBO seems to be the ones closing the deal with writer of the series Rod Lurie (Commander in Chief). If it all goes according to Lurie’s plan he’ll not only be writing, but also directing Spacey as the lead on his show.
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Tuesday, May 11, 2010 1:03PM - By Mali Elfman
Deadline is out at this years Cannes Film Festival and have just come up with a new casting exclusive. One of the latest reports from the festival has to do with long time thespian Kevin Spacey and recent Spock-sensation, Zachary Quinto with a new first time director. Apparently Spacey is almost done with his theater run in London and Quinto’s Spielberg production that was in the works just fell through as the director decided to take on The War Horse instead, so the two will be teaming up for a film about the recession entitled, Margin Call.
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