Jamie Dornan replaces Hunnam in 'Fifty Shades'
Friday, 1 November 2013, 15:30
Last update: about 12 years ago
Malta Independent
"Fifty Shades of Grey" has its male lead, again. Jamie Dornan has been cast as Christian Grey, the lead role that Charlie Hunnam withdrew from recently. Dornan will star...
George Clooney's 'Monuments Men' pushed to 2014
Thursday, 31 October 2013, 15:29
Last update: about 12 years ago
Malta Independent
George Clooney's World War II drama "The Monuments Men" is being pushed to 2014 and out of this year's awards season. The movie will now be released in the first quarter...
Q&A: Alec Baldwin on 'fetid septic tank' movie biz
Wednesday, 30 October 2013, 15:22
Last update: about 12 years ago
Malta Independent
In "Seduced and Abandoned," Alec Baldwin and James Toback present a portrait of today's movie business and an elegy to what it once was. In person, Baldwin's even more candid,...
A 'Romeo and Juliet' lacking passion
Tuesday, 29 October 2013, 15:16
Last update: about 12 years ago
Malta Independent
It is surely a bad sign for any "Romeo and Juliet" when its most pulse-quickening moments come from Paul Giamatti. This latest adaption of the Shakespeare tragedy of young love...
A stellar Hanks in harrowing 'Phillips'
Tuesday, 29 October 2013, 15:08
Last update: about 12 years ago
Malta Independent
If you saw Paul Greengrass's "United 93," a terrifying depiction of one of the doomed flights on 9/11, you know this director can evoke a harrowing, real-life event like few others. In...
A season of Cumberbatch starts with 'Fifth Estate'
Monday, 28 October 2013, 15:06
Last update: about 12 years ago
Malta Independent
It was the day before shooting began on "The Fifth Estate" when Benedict Cumberbatch, as he was trying on blond wigs for the last time, heard back from Julian Assange, the man he was to...
76 foreign language films to compete for Oscar
Monday, 28 October 2013, 15:04
Last update: about 12 years ago
Malta Independent
The foreign language Oscar competition this year will be wider than it ever has been before. The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences announced Monday that a record 73 countries,...
Spielberg honors Clooney for humanitarian work
Sunday, 20 October 2013, 15:21
Last update: about 12 years ago
Malta Independent
Steven Spielberg and George Clooney go way back in show business. In fact, it was Spielberg who gave Clooney his big break on the TV show "ER," the actor recalls. But the two...
'Sean Saves the World' a funny new sitcom
Saturday, 19 October 2013, 15:15
Last update: about 12 years ago
Malta Independent
Beloved for his supporting role on "Will & Grace," Sean Hayes is back in an NBC sitcom, this time as the leading man whose name is in the title: "Sean Saves the...
'Runner' is uncompelling
Friday, 18 October 2013, 15:12
Last update: about 12 years ago
Malta Independent
A story like that at the heart of "Runner Runner," about a young American gambler who gets sucked way above his head into the criminal doings of a big-time offshore operator, would have...