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Casting HBO’s TV Adaptation Of The Corrections

Casting HBO's TV Adaptation Of The Corrections
Dianne Wiest as Enid
Chris Cooper as Alfred
Patrick Wilson as Gary
Laura Linney as Caroline
Colin Farrell as Chip

It’s official, the film adaptation of Jonathan Franzen‘s novel The Corrections will air as a series on HBO. Hooray – I love that book so much! Dianne Wiest and Chris Cooper are already cast as the matriarch and patriarch of a dysfunctional family, but who will play the other characters? Like annoyingly rebellious academic Chip? Or chef Denise, who’s exploring her sexuality? Here’s my dream cast — take notes, HBO. More »

The First Poster for Diablo Cody’s Young Adult Parodies Every YA Book You Ever Read to Pieces

The First Poster for Diablo Cody's Young Adult Parodies Every YA Book You Ever Read to Pieces

Diablo Cody knows where she fits in best: Profiling the familiar faces from every high school. You had the self-possessed outcast in Juno, the killer prom queen in Jennifer’s Body, and now the woman who’s stuck in high school. Paramount just released the first poster for Diablo’s latest project Young Adult, where Charlize Theron plays a failed teen lit writer who returns to her hometown to stalk her ex-boyfriend (Patrick Wilson)… who happens to be married and have a baby. More »

Liv Tyler Plays Weak Female Characters, Which Is Apparently What We Need Right Now

Liv Tyler Plays Weak Female Characters, Which Is Apparently What We Need Right Now

The last two movies I’ve seen Liv Tyler in, she’s been the central female character, and a weak one at that: A former drug addict who’s been rescued by a sweet man but finds herself easily falling under the control of a controlling yet seductive jerk thanks to her docile personality. That counts for both Super and The Ledge. (And That Thing You Do! and Armageddon, now that we think about it.) Obviously there’s a formula Tyler’s got in her head. But why would she want to follow it — in both films, her character is meek and lost, hardly speaking above a murmur and terrified of the man who holds her in check.

According to Carina Chocano, this is a good thing. More »

Interview: Matthew Chapman Is Darwin’s Great-Great Grandson, an Atheist, and the Devil’s Spawn

Interview: Matthew Chapman Is Darwin's Great-Great Grandson, an Atheist, and the Devil's Spawn

I had a ton of fun talking with Matthew Chapman, the great-great grandson of Charles Darwin and writer-director of The Ledge. Though he’s written two books grappling with faith versus reason, this is his first feature film; the thriller sympathizes with atheist Charlie Hunnam, who steals fundamentalist Patrick Wilson‘s wife Liv Tyler. A UK native who’s lived both in Los Angeles and New York, Chapman might be considered someone who lives on the fringes of Hollywood, but he’s had enough experience to judge Tinseltown’s relationship to religion.

It’s always exciting when an interview turns into an actual intellectual discussion, as when Chapman and I talked about the labels of “atheist” versus “agnostic,” the concept of original sin, and unforgivable acts. He was also just really funny. But then again, I’m biased since I’m agnostic. More »

What ‘Insidious’ Borrowed from ‘Saw’ and ‘Paranormal Activity’

What 'Insidious' Borrowed from 'Saw' and 'Paranormal Activity'

I really wanted to like Insidious becuase of its excellent pedigree — written by Leigh Whannell and directed by James Wan, the team who brought us the first (and still best) Saw movie; and produced by Oren Peli, who produced the unexpected success Paranormal Activity. Unfortunately, Insidious is poorly executed, with its only real scares coming from the incredibly cheap trick of characters leaping out of dark corners. More »

Juliette Lewis Upstages Jennifer Aniston At ‘The Switch’ Premiere

Juliette Lewis Upstages Jennifer Aniston At 'The Switch' Premiere

There’s a faraway glaze in Jennifer Aniston‘s eyes; it’s because she has been upstaged by Juliette Lewis and her Smurf-y blue hair. Nah, she just looks bored. Over the red-carpet thing. Fun fact: Juliette Lewis dated Brad Pitt in the ’90s. So she and Jen have that in common. Also in the movie/shot: Jason Bateman, Patrick Wilson (or rather, his Madame Tussaud’s wax figure) and a cute little kid named Thomas Robinson (who we suspect might share DNA with Robert Downey Jr.) More »

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