Based on the highly publicized Kenneth Waters case in Massachusetts, Conviction chronicles the series of events between his 1983 arrest and life sentence up to the 2001 overturn of his conviction. With Oscar hungry performances by Sam Rockwell, Hilary Swank, Minnie Driver, and Juliette Lewis, this tale of unwavering faith and devotion hits theaters this Friday.
Check out the review below…
A couple of weeks ago we learned that Kevin Smith’s upcoming film Red State would star a familiar face attached to an unrecognizable name. The guy is Michael Parks, and he’s just one of the many actors who’ll be involved with the film. According to The Wrap, 90 percent of Hollywood is talks to co-star in State including Dermot Mulroney or is it Dylan McDermott? No, we’re pretty sure it’s Dermot Mulroney.
Elisabeth Shue is back in action… and crazy as ever! Writer/director Jake Goldberger’s dark-comedic-thriller, Don McKay about a crazy woman who lures a man in to get him to murder someone stars the lovely Shue alongside, with Thomas Haden Church and Melissa Leo. Aside from Shue’s amazing appearance as herself in Hamlet 2 it’s been a while since we’ve seen her on the big screen but hopefully she will return with a bang. She also has another appearance in Piranha 3-D, which will be coming out in August, which looks like it might be horrible but it has a decent cast as some fun bloody photos so you never know!
The cast for David O. Russell’s The Fighter is shaping up to be one talent filled ensemble. The cast currently includes Mark Wahlberg and Christian Bale as half-brothers, and Oscar nominee Melissa Leo as their mother. Now according to THR, Amy Adams is nearing a deal to join the cast.
The Fighter is a boxing flick that stars Bale as Dicky Eklund, the brother of Wahlberg’s ”Irish” Mickey Ward. After kicking a bad drug habit, Eklund turns his life around and helps his brother to win the world lightweight championship. Adams will come on board to as Charlene, “a tough, gritty bartender and former college high-jumper from Massachusetts who ends up dating Mickey.”
A while back we told you about an underdog boxing film called The Fighter. It’s being directed by David O. Russell and stars Mark Wahlberg and Christian Bale. Bale will star as Dicky Eklund, the brother of Wahlberg’s ”Irish” Mickey Ward. After kicking a bad drug habit, Eklund turns his life around and helps his brother to win the world lightweight championship.
According to RopeofSilicon this boxing family just got a little bigger with the addition of Melissa Leo.
Ugly Betty star America Ferrera will be stepping away from the innocent, naive role that she plays on TV to star in an independent drama. According to THR, the Emmy and Golden Globe winning actress will star in a war drama entitled, The Dry Land. The feature will be the directorial debut for Ryan Piers Williams, who also wrote the film’s screenplay.
Find out more on The Dry Land after the jump.
This year’s categories for Best Actor and Actress are, without a doubt, comprised of Hollywood’s elite. Despite predictions, with such an outstanding group of artists – how do you decide who’s performance merits the award every actor dreams of?
Kate Winslet, Anne Hathaway, Meryl Streep, Melissa Leo, and Angelina Jolie represent some of the most powerful women in the film industry. But with an incredibly successful year starring in both Revolutionary Road AND The Reader, from her bathroom mirror with a shampoo bottle in place of a golden statue, to the stage at the Kodak Theatre in Los Angeles…
The MUCH deserved Oscars goes to: Kate Winslet!
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Starring: Josh Brolin, Elizabeth Banks, Richard Dreyfuss, James Cromwell and Jeffrey Wright
This is a movie that a lot of people skipped. Probably because they were worried that Oliver Stone would give some sort of ultra-biased conspiratorial expose of the President, that many were sick of at that point. The film couldn’t be more the opposite. In fact, it’s barely a movie at all – it’s simply a collection of scenes from Bush’s presidency with no sort of bias whatsoever – sort of an acted-out documentary. Yes there is an attempt to explore Bush’s daddy issues, but really this movie is nothing more than a docudrama.
