Talking to a famous actor or filmmaker at a premiere or event party is, usually, a terrible experience. Here are a couple of examples. There was an event for John Wick 2 around the time New York Comic Con was happening. A publicist I like asked me to stop by.
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It's always interesting to see what a filmmaker makes after winning Best Picture. You know, when that filmmaker is in the best position of their career to make their passion project. But it's doubly interesting with Christopher Nolan, who was already in a position of getting
First of all, "I just fit in with whatever’s going on," is a quote directly from Sam Neill as I tried to give him praise during an interview. At the time I dismissed this as Neill being affable, which he certainly was. But, in retrospect, today, after
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It's ... unusual to get a message from a well known actor that includes a reference about having me killed. I remember exactly where I was when this happened. It was a Friday night and I was waiting for a friend at a local New York City bar that
Today, Harrison Ford was nominated for an Emmy. His second nomination for Shrinking. There was a brief, few months window in late 1986 when Harrison Ford was about to be considered an perennial Oscar nominee. After three Star Wars movies and two Indiana Jones movies, Ford was moving into the
Of anything I've ever written, my attempt to find out what happened to Cocoon is the one I hear the most about from strangers. "What Was Luke's Plan in Return of the Jedi" was the most read, but the Cocoon piece is the one
On the Fourth of July, I like to have movies playing. This is not a situation in which people are sitting around, actively watching movies, so this is more a list of something to have on that is both entertaining, yet doesn't require constant attention. Though, this year
Last June, my girlfriend Kate and I were at a premiere party for a movie you probably don't know, but it was directed by and starred a famous person who has a lot of famous friends and they were all there. At one point, Kate pointed at a
This was a piece that published at Uproxx on August 17, 2018, which has been deleted from the internet. So here it is again. There are two things I remember distinctly about putting this piece together. First, that it took a surprisingly long time, which is a big reason I
A version of this post published on September 3, 2021 on Uproxx, but is no longer on the internet. With this one I did, let's say, tidy it up a little bit. In 2021, we were still very much feeling the affects of the pandemic and I edited
This was a piece that published on February 28, 2018 when I worked at Uproxx. I would just link to it, but Uproxx has removed its archives before 2022, so this piece has been lost to the internet. But, today, I am here to save it. The funny thing about
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Supergirl is, at times, unpleasant. And I expected a polarizing reaction, which I mentioned in my review, imagining parents taking their young daughter to a movie about sex trafficking and a protagonist on a murderous revenge tour. Not exactly a "feel good" offering. But I admire its audacity.
The day I'm typing this is on a Friday. So that's good in that, if you're reading this on Friday, we have all made it another week. Anyway, this post on Bluesky got my attention: Getting past my own neuroticism about assuming I'
It was about 25 minutes into Supergirl, the second film of the new DCU – this one directed by Craig Gillespie; a director whose movies, like I, Tonya and Cruella and Lars and the Real Girl, I like — when I wondered to myself why I was not totally enjoying the Supergirl
I had to get to the bottom of this Charlie Kaufman "Weirder Al" Yankovic comedy sketch. I had to know the details. It took me, literally, years. Okay, let's back up. Quite a few years ago now I spent months working on an oral history of
You posted a story about Tom Cruise that you said "a famous actor" told you at a party. Any chance you can tell me who it was? – Alice Back in April I posted a story about Tom Cruise that I was told at a premiere party and it&
For those of us who have lost a parent, the Mother's Day, Father's Day gauntlet of holidays can be ... fraught. This week is, frankly, one of my least favorite of the year. And, I suspect, I'm not alone. And if you feel this way,
I have lived in New York City for 22 years. This NBA Finals run by the New York Knicks is the most fun this place has been over those 22 years. New Yorkers get a bad rap because I think people are, generally, pretty nice here as long as you
With Steven Spielberg's Disclosure Day (a movie I like) hitting theaters this weekend, everyone is ranking their favorite Spielberg movies. I tried doing this in my head and I failed. I have seen every Steven Spielberg movie, with the least recent being 1941 – a movie I kinda want
Disclosure Day isn't a sequel to Close Encounters of the Third Kind. It's definitely not a remake. But there are certainly echoes and parallels and inverted scenarios that do hearken back to Steven Spielberg's 1977 classic. It's a similar premise, but one
It's Friday, so let's answer some mailbag questions, including one that's been staring at me for a few weeks now but I've been putting off because reliving "worst interviews" isn't really pleasant. I've already written about
A few years ago I, accidentally, created a new movie for Kristen Wiig. She wound up having to address this movie that doesn't exist on a late night television show. In fact, the above image is of Kristen Wiig the exact moment she's being asked, "
So, while reading this, keep in mind that the new Masters of the Universe was, somehow, created in a lab specifically for me. I even said this to a publicist who asked for my opinion after the movie. Which is, I really can't attest how the population at