The Heist movie genre is filled with a number of great films, and usually a solid premise. Enacting a plan and following through – regardless of the unforseen complications – is inherently gripping, whether it’s perpetrated by heroes or anti-heroes. But Ben Stiller, Matthew Broderick, Michael Pena, Casey Affleck, Gabourey Sidibe and Eddie Murphy in the Tower Heist looks like heroes, and Alan Alda looks a fairly repellent bad guy with a big safe. Well, the real bad guy may be director Brett Ratner if he blows a great cast and what appears to be the best material he’s worked with. Take a look at the trailer…

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Ray Liotta is doing legitimate film work again. The Goodfellas star has been cast in Andrew Dominik’s upcoming feature Cogan’s Trade. The drama is headlined by Brad Pitt and several other actors who are more than a little familiar with the director. We’re talking about Casey Affleck and Sam Rockwell (who’ve both been confirmed).

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Is Matt Damon ready to take a step behind the camera? According to close friend, fellow actor, and director Ben Affleck he is. Affleck recently sat down with MTV to promote his latest film The Town and spoke about another joint project him and his younger brother Casey have been working on. It’s called The Trade, and the siblings wrote the script and they want Damon to direct it.

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I’m Still Here is Casey Affleck’s directorial debut and a documentary about a lost year in the life of actor Joaquin Phoenix. Phoenix, who’s also Affleck’s brother in law, engaged in more than his fair share of outlandish behavior while in front of the camera, so much so, that people have concluded that it had to be fake — it just had to. Well, according to Affleck it is…

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Lets gets down to it. The film just premiered at The Venice Film Festival and much like the people there, the real reason you’re going to watch I’m Still Here is to try and figure it out for yourselves, not because I tell you the score or the cinematography is so good. The question we’ve been asking ourselves since we heard the rumor that Joaquin Phoenix was quitting acting and then humiliated himself on Letterman is, is this real or not? Well, that all depends on what you believe is “real”.

I’m Still Here, takes many of the moments that have been displayed in pop culture of Phoenix’s “life-style choice” for the past year or so and shows us how they came to be and the effects they caused on our dear specimen, Joaquin. Though some of the events that we saw take place (ie. the Letterman interview) were most likely staged, it appears that the story behind the lie is in fact genuine.

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***Update: Read full I’m Still Here review now!***

Besides Black Swan, the most talked about film at this year’s Venice Film Festival has been Casey Affleck’s documentary, I’m Still Here. It chronicles a (lost) year in the life of actor turned aspiring hip hop artist Joaquin Phoenix as he steps outside of his comfort zone to try something new. The reviews are in, and here’s a bit of what everyone is saying about the actor, the director, and the film.

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Do you remember when Joaquin Phoenix was a young, talented, and handsome Oscar nominated actor whose career was on the incline? If so you must also vividly remember when all that went to crap after he stopped shaving, combing his hair, or exercising in any capacity. His new disgruntled look was only mirrored by his equally strange behavior and on the outside none of us had any idea what he was doing.

The big question surrounding the drastic shift in Phoenix’s career and personality will hopefully be answered with his documentary, I’m Still Here. It chronicles the actor-turned-rapper’s life during this tumultuous period and the first teaser trailer for it as been released. Take a look…

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Do you remember when Joaquin Phoenix was a respected up and coming actor? Do you remember when he received an Oscar nomination for his amazing performance as a psycho emperor in Gladiator? Most importantly do you remember when he went batshit crazy, started dressing like a hobo, and acting like he was under the influence of some serious drugs? That last moment in his life was chronicled in a film by Casey Affleck entitled I’m Still Here and it’s been confirmed to hit theaters this fall.

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The latest movie from prolific but patchy Michael Winterbottom, The Killer Inside Me, is faithfully adapted from a novel by black-hearted pulp writer Jim Thompson. It features a stand-out performance by Casey Affleck as the cold-blooded psycho of the title, but with walk-outs and angry reactions at Sundance earlier this year (listen to them here), it is already the subject of some controversy for the vicious beatings meted out to its two female stars, most notably the extended pummelling of Jessica Alba’s sweet and pretty phisog.

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