Tom Cruise isn’t the only actor heading to the Old West. It seems Natalie Portman is also hopping onto the Western wagon, as the Academy Award-winning actress is set to star in a modern western titled Jane Got A Gun, to be directed by Lynne Ramsay.
Though Natalie Portman kept it busy last year with roles in No Strings Attached, Your Highness and Thor (all coming off of her Oscar win for Black Swan), she recently had a baby and took time off for motherhood. But today, Deadline announced that Portman is not only going back to work, she’ll be appearing in two movies: Knight of the Cups and Lawless. Both to be directed by Terrence Malick.
After making nearly $450 worldwide, Thor was considered successful enough for Marvel to green-light a sequel. But since making that decision, they’ve had a lot of trouble keeping a team together. The latest add-on is screenwriter Robert Rodat (according to Deadline Hollywood), who is reworking the script for director Alan Taylor for Thor 2. The film has a proposed 2013 release date.
Natalie Portman followed her beautiful Oscar winning performance in Black Swan with the casual Emma in No String Attached. The Ivan Reitman film was a financial success, but didn’t get much love from the critics. In a few weeks, Portman’s costar Mila Kunis is following her work in Black Swan with a Will Gluck romantic comedy titled Friends with Benefits. When the Benefits’ trailer hit the web, we had Deja Vu, but Blind Film Critic went the extra mile and created a trailer mashup to show audiences that Friends with Benefits and No Strings Attached are the same film, just made by different studios.
This will actually be my second review of Hesher, and I’m back, because with some good edits, a sound remix and some well places music this movie has officially reached the potential that I saw in it back so Sundance 2010 (read first review review). Prepare for the awesome, well acted, original film that is Hesher. Now let’s see where I went wrong before…
There’s only one word that matters this week on DVD: Bieber. That’s right, everyone’s favorite Canadian Pop Star (non-Bryan Adams division) brings his hit concert documentary Justin Bieber: Never Say Never directly into your house. So lock up your daughters, because otherwise they may run out to buy the DVD and force you to watch it.
For those not in the tween set there’s a couple of R-Rated anti-romances of the very serious (Blue Valentine) and attempted humor (No Strings Attached) sub-genres. All that, plus the complete box set of a classic TV Show!
Check it out below…
Thor may be the trickiest of the big Marvel characters to adapt. Both a Norse God, and an extra-terrestrial being, Thor doesn’t have the “normal person thrust into superpowers” hook – which is both good and bad. And to that end Thor is not really an origin tale, so much as a learning experience for the main character. There’s a lot to do here, on top of director Kenneth Branagh putting a big budget fantasy movie on the shoulders of Chris Hemsworth and Tom Hiddleston, both actors who – at best – had some notable supporting performances previous to this. Did they succeed?
Director Spencer Susser is ready to rock your world, with one of the most bad-ass, hardcore films of the year, Hesher starring Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Devin Brochu, Rainn Wilson, Piper Laurie and actress/producer Natalie Portman. The film was bought out at Sundance in 2010 by Newmarket and has taken its sweet time working its way into theaters, maybe it’s because of Natalie Portman’s recent popularity/winning streak but for some reason it’s finally found it’s way in and I for one say fuck yeah. Check out the trailer below…
If it feels like the internet has been beating up on Thor, it’s probably because the clips that have surfaced have been terrible. But for those looking forward to the film, there’s finally been a featurette to emerge that doesn’t rely on terrible comedy, or the non-presence of Hawkeye to sell the film. In it is footage of Asgard, and comments from director Kenneth Branagh and stars Chris Hemsworth and Natalie Portman. More than anything else recently, this looks good. Take a look…
