This is one of those affirming instances in which our beloved hip-hop culture stands tall in the eyes of practitioners of more traditional and widely accepted art forms. Award winning actor and filmmaker Adrien Brody may have unintentionally acted as a l
Here's what we know: Back in April, Adrien Brody read a poem at a poetry reading, and the footage went viral this weekend. The "poem" was Biggie's "10 Crack Commandments." That hat is the worst (ZING).
What we don't know: Why Adrien Brody did this, and
Adrien Brody walks around the deck of the Hugo Boss yacht on Friday (May 27) in Monte Carlo, Monaco.
Last month, the 38-year-old actor participated in Poetry & the Creative Mind, a benefit event at NYC’s Lincoln Center where celebs and artists performed
Woody’s alter ego Gil Pender (Owen Wilson) in this film magically explores his love of Paris that Woody shares with us. The photography is breathtaking and makes you feel that you are walking along the streets of the Champs- Elysees or the river Seine. T
"The Beaver" is the film to beat as the bummer of the summer.
We know: “Hangover 2” and “Kung Fu Panda 2” inhaled more than 7,500 screens this weekend and created the biggest Memorial Day box office in history. That said, the indies have already seen som
The dialogue about hiphop and poetry continues...to bore me, most of the time. The flap about Common at the White House a couple weeks ago smacked of old-school Tipper Gored PMRC haterism, and will likely lead to some boring couplets on Com's next Starbu
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A look at the week ahead in the movies and on TV:
Midnight in Paris (PG-13) Woody Allen is overdue for a good movie, and his latest comedy exudes a fresh, promising vibe. A family travels to Paris for business, and, naturally, marita
Here’s a look at some of the movies now being screened in the area .“The Hangover Part II” t’s hard to imagine a more half-assed attempt at cashing in a second time. Seriously, it feels like the script was pieced together with the
Jon Hamm, who stars in AMC's "Mad Men" as Don Draper, has signed on to direct the drama's fifth season premiere.
"The wheels have officially been set in motion to make that happen," Hamm told TVLine. "It's a very exciting challenge that I'm looking forw
More Sharks! BAIT Releases Trailer
One of my top 100 films of all time is HIGHLANDER and it just so happens that the director of said masterpiece, Russell Mulcahy is set to release a rather interesting movie based on a very strange premise: A freak Tsun
Only a week after she flashed her backside in Cannes, it looks like Michelle Rodriguez is doing it again.
The American actress was suffering from a case of 'builder's bum' as she sat on the quayside in Monaco.
Currently in Monte Carlo ahead of the Grand
Courtesy PhotoHello, Harry: Daniel Radcliffe plays Harry Potter, Emma Watson is Hermione Granger and Rupert Grint is Ron Weasley in "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2," the final film in the series.
Here be a quest for hugeness.
Thus is the s
Averaged out, a new Terrence Malick flick hits the silver screen every seven trips we take around the sun, each one a masterpiece in its own way. So today's release of The Tree of Life starring Brad Pitt and Sean Penn is cause for celebration (it's alrea
Splice, the sci-fi horror film starring Sarah Polley and Adrien Brody, won the Golden Box Office award on Thursday for being the highest-grossing Canadian film of 2010.
The prize was awarded to Doug Taylor and his co-writer Vincenzo Natali, who also dire
Roger Arpajou/Versitil Cinema & Gravier Productions, Courtesy of Sony Pictures Classics Owen Wilson, left, is Gil, who travels back in time to 1920s Paris, and Marion Cotillard is Adriana, a fictional mistress of Picasso's who catches Gil's eye. More Pho
As an American in Paris with delusions of nostalgic grandeur, Owen Wilson goes out walking after midnight, out in the moonlight, finding the Lost Generation instead of his hotel room in writer/director Woody Allen’s latest cinematic soufflé.
Long tired
Based on the true story of a Kenyan man who goes to school for the first time at age 84, this drama hits all the feel-good notes you expect it to hit. Adversity is overcome and forgiveness is granted, lessons are learned and hearts are warmed. But strong
Like the daydreaming, time-traveling hero of Woody Allen's latest film, Midnight in Paris, fashion is prone to fits of nostalgia. Different designers hearken back to different periods and different places, but few would disagree that the 1920s were onto
Woody Allen has directed so many movies – about one a year, since the 1970s – that they tend to blend together. This is especially so since he often retreads the same material, albeit with enough twists to cover his tracks.
His latest film – or should I
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Marion Cotillard as Adriana and Owen Wilson as Gil in Woody Allen's 'Midnight in Paris.
In Woody Allen's beguiling and then bedazzling new comedy, nostalgia isn't at all what it used to be—it's smarter, sweeter, fizzier and ever so much funnier.
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Owen Wilson turns out to be the best Woody Allen surrogate by far in the Woodman's "Midnight in Paris," a lightly amusing fantasy about a hack screenwriter who gets to hobnob with artistic legends in the City of Light of the 1920s. This riff on one of Wo
Inez (Rachel McAdams) and Gil (Owen Wilson) are an engaged couple who both meet new love interests on a trip to Paris.
Inez (Rachel McAdams) and Gil (Owen Wilson) are an engaged couple who both meet new love interests on a trip to Paris.
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Eva Mendes often turns up on the silver screen as some sort of incendiary device, so it's interesting to see how she plays it on the subtle side in Last Night. Her character is a serious business woman whose seductive tricks include intellect, independen
With the Cannes Film Festival now underway, and our anticipations high, we've recently been reflecting on some of the festival highlights from years past. Year after year, some of the most high profile directors premiere their latest projects at Cannes,
Woody Allen's charming new film, Midnight in Paris, is set in a Paris that Allen visually captures in the same way as he has Manhattan, London, and Barcelona. The film focuses on Gil, a successful but unfulfilled Hollywood writer (Owen Wilson), who takes
Having sampled London and Barcelona in recent films, Woody Allen continues his grand tour of European cities with Midnight in Paris , an ingratiating, tourist-oriented exercise in nostalgia for a city that doesn't exist. One could argue that Allen's belo
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Woody Allen’s “Midnight in Paris,” which fittingly opened this year’s Cannes Film Festival, is a love letter to the city, high art and his signature brand of bitter-sweet romantic come
The ladies who love Chanel feted its new Bergdorf Goodman boutique over lunch on Wednesday.
For the first time in three years, IMG is upping the costs of spaces at the Lincoln Center site by an average of 8 percent.
On Tuesday night, the director screene
The Associated Press, None | - AP In this film publicity image released by Disney, Johnny Depp portrays Captain Jack Sparrow, left, and Geoffrey Rush portrays Hector Barbossa in a scene from, "Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides." (AP Photo/Disne
Owen Wilson is the leading male of this romantic comedy directed and written by none other than Woody Allen. Rachel McAdams from the Notebook is reunited with Wilson who together were last seen together in Wedding Crashers. I expect both of them to make
As the world now knows, William and Catherine are honeymooning in the Seychelles, which I correctly revealed in my HuffPost blog on April 10 as the most likely of all the rumored honeymoon destinations. Like the newly-minted Duke and Duchess of Cambridge
By Joe Barrett An Iowa judge on Tuesday sentenced Minnesota film producer Wendy Weiner Runge to 10 years in prison, the stiffest penalty yet meted out in a scandal over the state's "half-price filmmaking" program. The program was shut down in September 2
Everyone has visited a new city and had the same fleeting but exciting thought: if I lived here, I could be a different person, and everything would be better. Woody Allen's newest film takes that vacation fantasy and goes a step further, allowing a schl
I've always said that Woody Allen on a bad day is better than everybody else on Sunday. Since he makes more movies than anyone else-and turns them out faster than procreating gerbils—this adage has become a reality. But Mr. Allen is an artist brimming wi
Taking her new film from Cannes to the States, Rachel McAdams was the belle of the ball at The Cinema Society & Thierry Mugler screening of 'Midnight in Paris' in New York City on Tuesday night (May 17).
The adorable actress joined up with director Woody
In its three years, NoMa Summer Screen has shown films about the future, music and even James Bond. But perhaps no theme is more appropriate for a film series in this neighborhood north of Union Station than this year’s “Trains!” That’s right, every Wedn
Owen Wilson has been coasting for too long.
Texan Owen Wilson at Cannes, where 'Midnight in Paris' was a hit. Woody Allen tweaked his lead character, who was originally a Manhattan intellectual, to better suit Wilson.
Texan Owen Wilson at Cannes, where '
Sarah Jessica Parker is "terrified" of what people will think of her new movie.
The 46-year-old star is best known for her portrayal of Carrie Bradshaw on the hit HBO television series Sex and the City, for which she has won a host of awards, includin
And more from our Liz: Jennifer Love Hewitt — can she subdue the perps on “SVU”? … Kara Goucher — tips on running from track and field’s glamour girl
“EROTICA IS using a feather. Pornography is using the whole chicken,” said Isabel Allende.
OH, BLOODY ch
Woody Allen's new movie "Midnight in Paris" has a convoluted scenario. It pictures Paris' generational heyday with Cole Porter music and names like Ma tisse, Picasso, Toulouse-Lautrec, Kathy Bates as Gertrude Stein, Adrien Brody as Salvador Dali coming t
Owen Wilson’s hair is a damp mop, his much-broken nose wanders at the tip, his manner is rushed and then hesitant; he frequently seems an unfinished man, always yearning to be something other than what he is. The part of Gil Pender in Woody Allen’s “Midn
Sarah Jessica Parker admitted to a few nerves as she and Harvey Weinstein gave VIPs a sneak peek of footage from their upcoming picture, "I Don't Know How She Does It," in Cannes Friday night. SJP, who was at the festival, told guests Adrien Brody and Ka
Woody Allen would love to meet his heroes, although only if they were as he’d imagined them to be.
The veteran moviemaker unveiled his latest romantic comedy Midnight in Paris at the Cannes International Film Festival last week, with the movie paying tri
The month of May is pretty special – and, hence, hectic – for all the cinematography, glamour and celebrity lovers in the world. It’s the month when the French Riviera gets over-flown by paparazzi, fashion moguls, local Europeans on yachts and the showbi
After only a handful of films, it's a little early to judge, but this year's dominant theme could well be necrophilia. Woody Allen's opener was about a man who meets the ghosts of Paris's literary past and falls in love with one of them. Gus Van Sant is
When Prince William struggled to fit the ring on his bride’s finger at the Royal Wedding, most of the two billion people watching probably put it down to nerves.
But the real reason for those awkward few seconds was that Kate had asked for her ring to be
Sharon Stone enjoyed a day in the park with son Quinn, 4, in Los Angeles Calif. on Saturday (May 14).
Sharon looked stylish in her lime-green mini and stiletto boots.
Those couldn't be easy for walking in the sand.
Casino actress also has two older son
Scheduled to open May 26 is Kung Fu Panda 2, a sequel to the hit 2008 computer-animated action comedy movie LITTLE ROCK It’s tent-pole time, the season for big-budget spectaculars designed to prop up the bottom line of movie studios much as the pole lif
Things to watch for? The gradual degeneration of my happiness as I witness Adrien Brody bringing some gawky blonde bitch as his ‘guest,’ Rachel McAdams looking more and more beautiful as the days go by, Angelina Jolie molesting a panda bear, Dustin Hoffm
Terrence Malick is the Wizard of Oz of American filmmakers, a reclusive genius who lays low for years on end, only to emerge with a new movie that zaps us right between the eyes. Then he vanishes once again into obscurity. (Among his limited output are s
The Feb. 11 headline in the Hawaii Reporter called it "Shock and Awe." The day before, former President Clinton had submitted a letter endorsing a plan by Relativity Media and partner Shangri-La Industries (founded by Steve Bing) to build what he called
By Anthony Kaufman Getty Producer and Co-Chairman of the Weinstein Company Harvey Weinstein in March. At Cannes’ Martinez Hotel, Harvey Weinstein held court at a party for his company’s production and distribution slate, confirming his upteenth return to
Does the Manhattan auteur's homage to the City of Light hold a candle to his classics? Richard Porton on the Cannes premiere of Midnight in Paris.
Film festivals, like religious holidays and ceremonial banquets, rely on various soothing rituals to ensure
Robert De Niro and Uma Thurman, both on the Cannes film festival jury, share a laugh during opening ceremonies in the city in southern France.
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CANNES, France -- Woody Allen's Midnight in Paris provided just
The world's premier film festival has commenced, and the late 1960s Jerry Schatzberg photograph of Faye Dunaway at the center of this year's festival poster gazes down on all of us pasty mortals, visitors to this resort town overrun by people with screen
U.S. film director Woody Allen (C) poses with actors Adrien Brody (L), Owen Wilson (2nd L), Lea Seydoux, French Culture Minister Mitterrand, actors Rachel McAdams and Michael Sheen as they arrive for the screening of their film " Midnight in Paris" and f
Adrien Brody's prayers were answered when he made Hump Day Hunk
There’s just something about this skeevy bastard that I like. Maybe it’s that he’s a winning rally driver. Maybe it’s that he looks so intellectual, and dresses so Pool Shark. Maybe it’s tha
CANNES, France - In the never-ending search for a movie that captures the essence of a film festival, it's probably fitting that Cannes opened Wednesday night with Woody Allen's Midnight in Paris. It's Woody's umpteenth return to Cannes - last year he br
When he [Woody Allen] was asked in a press conference if he’d dream of
casting the Queen of England he said he’d rather cast me, which made me
happy and a lot of my artist friends – actors of actresses of which have
many – jealous.
Lady Gaga and he
Cast member Adrien Brody poses during a photocall for the film "Midnight In Paris" by director Woody Allen at the 64th Cannes Film Festival May 11, 2011. (Xinhua/Reuters Photo)
Hollywood veteran Woody Allen kickstarts the Cannes Film Festival tonight with a screening of his new film, Midnight in Paris.
Some of the film’s stars including Owen Wilson, Rachel McAdams, Adrien Brody and Michael Sheen are expected to walk down the re
Woody Allen has scored big time this morning with “Midnight in Paris.” His new film is clever, beautiful, and profound. It’s a simple idea, too: the struggle to deal with the present while romanticizing the past. The film is cast perfectly as Owen Wilson
Stepping out for a media appearance, Rachel McAdams was spotted at a photo call for “Midnight in Paris” in Cannes, France today (May 11).
The “Notebook” actress was joined by costars Adrien Brody, Michael Sheen, and Owen Wilson and director Woody Allen a
Image Credit: Roger Arpajou With 21 career Oscar nominations, Woody Allen can certainly be considered an Academy favorite. But in the five years since he scored a Best Original Screenplay nod for 2005′s Match Point , he hasn’t been invited back to the bi
Has it really been 4 years since we've witnessed some Wes Anderson action?
Well if we don't count his stop motion animated adaptation of Fantastic Mr. Fox then it sure is.
We can now look forward to an all star cast in his next project 'Moonrise Kingdom'
By DAVID GERMAIN AP Movie Writer CANNES, France (AP) - The Cannes Film Festival is like Rick's Cafe Americain, Humphrey Bogart's nightclub in "Casablanca" about which one character proclaims, "Everybody comes to Rick's." For film professionals, entertain
The silver-screen dreams of Rory Markham haven't dulled his desire to fight, and the welterweight veteran will soon get a chance to do just that.
Markham (18-6) has been booked to meet Rudy Bears (12-7) at Titan Fighting Championships 18, which takes pla
Thought to be a part of the Bellator 45 fight card set to close out the fourth Bellator season, former UFC fighter Rory Markham has chosen to go a different direction.
Markhan (18-6) decided to sign with Titan Fighting Championship and will face Rudy Bea
Renaissance Hotels celebrated the official grand opening of the much-anticipated St. Pancras Renaissance Hotel in London’s King Cross. The event marks the completion of an impressive £150 million restoration and the rebirth of the original hotel, one of
LOS ANGELES - Movie screens this summer are not entirely booked with superheroes, kiddie fare and goofy buddy flicks. Plenty of mature dramas and comedies about dealing with - or escaping from - the problems of real life arrive alongside the season's big
Woody Allen, long a favorite of the French, is heading to a big success this week. His “Cannes-opener” so to speak, “Midnight in Paris,” opens the Festival on Wednesday with a bang. This highly anticipated film has great buzz, with my sources telling me
The silver-screen dreams of Rory Markham haven't dulled his desire to fight, and the welterweight veteran will soon get a chance to do just that.
Markham (18-6) has been booked to meet Rudy Bears (12-7) at Titan Fighting Championships 18, which takes pl
Landing your first gig as a director often requires treading a bumpy road, but Massy Tadjedin began by throwing some extra stones into her own path.
First, the then-31-year-old screenwriter set out to make her directorial debut, "Last Night," with a genr
The Red Carpet Entrance for Cannes Premiere Gala Screening
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The South of France-set 64th Festival de Cannes, and its companion, Marché du Film (film market), runs from May 11 to 22, 2011. This oceanfront film industry ex
Sean Penn in Terrence Malick's "Tree of Life".
Those who complained about a lack of big stars strutting up and down the red carpet at last year’s festival should be smiling this time around.
Jude Law and Uma Thurman add a double shot of old-style Holl
Theater for the New City (155 First Ave. at 10th St.) will present QUARTET -- four gay-themed one act plays written by Mario Fratti -- with previews beginning June 2 prior to an official press opening June 5. Stephan Morrow will direct.
QUARTET is compri
This week on indieWIRE “The Beaver” finally dropped, Tribeca wrapped, Hot Docs launched and much more.
“This year, Tribeca showed improvement,” wrote Eric Kohn in his wrap up of the 10th Tribeca Film Festival. “While continuing to cope with many of the s
EDITOR’S NOTE: This is the last installment of a three-part series looking at this summer’s films by genre. This story previews films for grown-ups.
Movie screens this summer are not entirely booked with superheroes, kiddie fare and goofy buddy flicks.
January Jones baby-daddy possibilities: Adrien Brody, Jeremy Piven or Becks?!
I get that not everybody is as obsessed with figuring out January Jones’ baby-daddy secrets of doom, but I AM. I think this whole situation is rather fascinating, because I’
If the various seasons of the movie year
were a family, Oscar season would be the brassy aunt and uncle from
Florida or Palm Springs, spring would be the kid brother who never gets
out of bed or irons his shirt, autumn would be the bookish, earnest
s
Bit stumped on how to make this about anything more than simply some celebrity pictures in an old railway station. What's that? We could say the station's haunted by that lovely artist fella who died a couple of years ago? Oh no, you naughty readers. Not
I don’t even have words for much I enjoy Ed Westwick. I actually squealed a little when I saw these new photos of him. He was at some hotel opening or something, and he decided to clothe his smarmy, furry fabulousness in a very loud, plaid suit.
I love
If you listen closely, you can still hear the swooshing of the wide Victorian dresses on women as they walked down the hallways of the St. Pancras Hotel in the 1800s. Built to accommodate the glamor of the time, the unusually wide hallways at the St. Pan
05.05 - Thursday Morning Bird Walks at Sandy Hook Join NJ Audubon Society naturalists from the Sandy Hook Bird Observatory for two hours of birdwatching at some of NJ's migratory hotspots. Call 732.872.2500 for registration and info.
05.05 - Yoga in the
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Three Sea Bright firefighters will face charges stemming from an altercation during the wet-down party for this new fire
Academy Award winner Adrien Brody recently made an appearance at an event held by the Academy of American Poets. Brody decided to honor the late Notorious B.I.G. at the event by reciting the lyrics to Biggie’s “Ten Crack Commandments.”
Brody prefaced hi
Pirate Jack Sparrow embarks on a new quest. Wizard Harry Potter
comes t o the end of his saga. And swarms of new superheroes come
out swinging.
Add in a third round of giant robots from space, the dawn of a
planet of intelligent apes and an alien invasio
It is a shame that Detachment is
not going to be a popular film. But with the twin forces of genre and
tone lined up against it, this thoughtful film is destined for the
sidelines.
Drama
is not popular these days. It seems like ever since 9/11, the s
The sound of Vin Diesel and his crew vroom-vrooming into theaters this past weekend means it’s that time of year again. This summer’s movie season will be longer and louder than ever before, with big-budget movies full of fast cars, hot tits, and big exp
The Deal: “Fat Girl,” one of Catherine Breillat’s (“Romance”) most controversial (that’s saying something) and acclaimed dramas, finally gets a wide DVD/Blu-ray release courtesy of The Criterion Collection.
The 2001 award-winning film follows two teenage
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Mr. Cupcakes is one of two new cupcake purveyors in Red Bank, making three in total. (Photo by Dustin Racioppi; click to enlarge)
The
In a return to live action films, Wes Anderson ( Fantastic Mr. Fox ) has started production on his next feature, Moonrise Kingdom , starring Bruce Willis, Bill Murray, Ed Norton, Tilda Swinton and Frances McDormand, Focus Features announced Monday. The i
flame and then, on the eve of her wedding to him, may be the victim of a switchback.
What with all the superhero movies scheduled for this summer, things could get confusing. So just to be clear: "Conan 3-D" is a superhero movie; "Conan O'Brien Can't Sto
May is about to offer quite the selection to movie-goers, with twenty-five films listed on indieWIRE’s May calendar. As an extension of our recent summer movie preview, indieWIRE has decided to offer the first of four monthly “must-see” lists to make cin
January Jones arrives at the 67th Annual Golden Globe Awards in BeverlyHills, California / AP Source: news.com.au Who is the daddy ... Actress January Jones is pregnant with her first child. (Photo by Alberto E. Rodriguez/Getty Images) Source: Getty Imag
Superhero movies are big business these days. Major releases like Iron Man and X-Men Origins: Wolverine regularly rake in hundreds of millions of dollars for their respective studios. The Dark Knight alone made Warner Bros. richer than Scrooge McDuck in
On Monday, April 25th, CHANEL hosted the sixth annual CHANEL Tribeca Film Festival Artists Dinner at Odeon in New York. Notable guests included CHANEL-clad actresses Naomi Watts, Rose Byrne and TFF juror Zoe Kravitz, as well as festival co-founders Rober
Yesterday we found out that Channing Tatum is going to play a male stripper in Steven Soderbergh’s movie Magic Mike. The idea for the film was actually Channing’s -- after all, the actor has real-life experience in the field (he worked as a stripper and
With everyone partying, who’s doing the coverage? Arianna Huffington, Rupert Murdoch, Wendi Deng Murdoch and Mayor Michael Bloomberg at Graydon Carter’s Vanity Fair cocktail reception Saturday night. This was the most potent time capsule of Hollywood, D.
Jim Carrey and Adrien Brody were both out with luscious blondes last week. Carrey was spotted canoodling on a couch at Rose Bar with an Eastern European beauty named Anastasia on Thursday. A few nights earlier, Brody brought his girlfriend, curvy model P
June is the month summer blockbusters start piling up in theatres. Check out a great movie or two this month!
There are some must-see movies coming out this June!
Beginners - Ewan McGregor and Christopher Plummer star in this story of a man who is trying
January Jones is pregnant. The 'Mad Men' actress, whose relationship with 'Saturday Night Live' star Jason Sudeikis ended in January after around: six months of dating, is due to give birth to her first child in the autumn, though she has not disclosed w
A group of superheroes, a boy wizard, pirates, robots, apes, cowboys, and aliens all walk into a bar.
What sounds like the beginning of a really bad joke is actually part of the line-up for the 2011 summer movie season, which is shaping up to be anything
