Siraj Syed reviews Passengers: Window seat at the journey of a life-time
They’ve got it right. Not perfect, but right. Mind-boggling special effects and a mind-toggling emotional narrative. It’s an elusive, coveted recipé, and for once, somebody nailed it. Use state-of-the-art VFX, but blend them with an equally compelling story-line, sometimes shaken, sometimes stirred, and then pray you hit bull’s eye. Passengers is a journey that starts in outer space, but gets you...
On May 17th, the cast of the new Hunger Games film Mockingjay took a break from filming in Paris to experience all that the Cannes Film Festival has to offer. Jennifer Lawrence, Liam Hemsworth, Josh Hutcherson, and newest castmember Julianne Moore posed for photos at the Majestic Barriere Hotel on La Croisette just steps away from the Palais' red carpet.
While the movie still has more to film in Paris and then Berlin, the cast already seemed to be celebrating its success, with a lavis...
by Quendrith Johnson, Los Angeles Correspondent
If the rumors are true, and The Amazing Spider-Man 2 reboot actually nixed Shailene Woodley's cameo, you have to wonder what they were thinking.
She's on the cover of Marie Claire (read: "This is What a Badass Looks Like"), giving workout tips in People Magazine, and breaking big at the box office. In fact, Shailene Woodley, 22, went from George Clooney sidekick in The Descendants to fronting Divergent with bullets to ...
by Quendrith Johnson, Los Angeles Correspondent
In the 1920's, Louise Brooks (Pandora's Box, Diary of a Lost Girl) famously took a 50 percent pay cut to work with German director G. W. Pabst, from $1000 a week to $500 a week, and flew to Berlin to make the best movies of the Kansas-born actor's career. In 2014, Jonah Hill cheerfully admits he accepted scale, around $60,000 USD, for a chance to be directed by Martin Scorsese in Wolf of Wall Street, for which he, along...
