MOVIES: Scene Stealers: Nick Krause
Melena Ryzik chats with Nick Krause, the laid-back teen from “The Descendants,†about his first leading role.
February 2, 2012
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Melena Ryzik chats with Nick Krause, the laid-back teen from “The Descendants,†about his first leading role.
Kenneth Branagh discusses his role in “My Week With Marilyn” at the Screen Actors Guild awards.
James Cromwell, Beth Grant and Malcom McDowell discuss their supporting roles in “The Artist†at the Screen Actors Guild awards.
Highly Recommended THE FILM: Please Note: The images used here are promotional stills and are not taken from the Blu-ray edition under review. What a fitting, masterful close to an illustrious, impassioned, and cheeky career is the late Ra l Ruiz’s last film, Mysteries of Lisbon ! The expatriate Chilean filmmaker, who left his homeland after the fascist Pinochet coup in 1973 and worked in Europe …
Recommended THE MOVIE: Hmmm, I wonder what could have prompted HBO Home Video to upgrade their 1995 TV movie The Tuskegee Airmen for a Blu-ray release? Looking at their slate for January, we see that it’s being accompanied by the new performance film Thurgood (starring Airmen ‘s Laurence Fishburne) and their acclaimed 1991 film The Josephine Baker Story ; some kind of pre-Black History Month …
Melena Ryzik looks at the trend toward Hollywood nostalgia in this year’s Oscar race, and talks to the stars of Hugo and The Artist.
A. O. Scott looks at structure and craft in Quentin Tarantino’s seminal film.
The trailer for “In Darkness,” a drama based on the true story of Jews in Poland who escaped the Nazis by hiding in sewers.
A scene from “My Piece of the Pie,” Cédric Klapisch’s film about a businessman who hires a housekeeper.
Rent It The Movie: Originally intended to be directed by Brett Ratner, 2011’s Conan The Barbarian wound up being helmed by Marcus Nispel, the same man who brought us remakes of The Texas Chainsaw Massacre and Friday The 13th . When the film begins after some narration from Morgan Freeman, a Cimmerian warrior named Corin (Ron Perlman) helps his wife give birth to their baby boy right there on the …