Hey guys, Tom Cruise is making a movie!
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April 23, 2008 – 10:30 am
An attempt to salvage the reputation of that movie where Tom Cruise wears an eye patch, which isn’t finished and won’t even be released for another nine months, seems like a protest too much.
Uh-oh! Brian Singer’s Tom Cruise-tries-to-kill-Hitler-with-an-eye patch drama Valkyrie has been pushed from prestige season to dumping season. The already much-mocked film was previously pushed down the pipe from July to October 2008; with re-shoots still looming, it’ll now open in February 2009.
Benderspink, the agency that packaged Juno, has a new gambit for luring teen girls [...]
The Death of Film Criticism, Chapter Twelve.
By the time you read this, that Roman Polanski doc will already have completed its secret Oscar qualifying run.
Movies that make Yankee fans mad.
Slavoj Zizek + Telluride
On our podcast: Iraq fatigue and Wholphin.
Josh Hartnett stars in the movie no one on the internet is willing to admit that they’re [...]
It could be the actor’s best performance ever.
March 28, 2008 – 11:01 am
You have to wonder how a story like this generates at the Wall Street Journal. Basically, Tom Cruise and Sumner Redstone––the Paramount chief who very noisily severed Cruise’s deal with that studio––had lunch. Cruise wouldn’t comment. Redstone did, rather extensively. So are we to assume that Sumner Redstone got home from lunch and started calling [...]
Thanks to the luck of the Irish, you may be spared a ruined day courtesy of Orson Welles. Too bad I’m not Irish and am suffering.
January 31, 2008 – 8:40 am
Cloverfield is getting a sequel, even as the trades collude in obscuring the word-of-mouth disaster of the first film. Plus, Tom Cruise invies a Scientology buddy to move in.
January 29, 2008 – 2:17 pm
Did MAGNOLIA anticipate Tom Cruise’s future weirdness, or has Tom Cruise become a parody of a character that was intended as a departure?
January 16, 2008 – 10:20 am
Jesus Christ –– or, Xenu? (And is that a valid Scrabulous word? The mind reels…)
If you’re one of the 85,039 hippest people in the universe (as of this writing), you’ve probably already seen the Defamer-hosted, Tom Cruise-starring Scientology indoctrination video. But if you haven’t … enjoy! We’re en route to Park City and [...]
