Art, or at least real art, is all about suffering. An artist has to cut open their soul and pour it onto a canvas or hammer it into a sculpture, but the art connoisseur sometimes must suffer as well. They have to smear the painting directly onto their eyes, try to swallow a sculpture whole, or—as an Italian man at the…
Leonardo DiCaprio finally won his Oscar in 2016, but he may have had a shot at it a decade earlier if he had taken a role in Brokeback Mountain. Speaking with IndieWire, Gus Van Sant says that when he was developing an adaptation of Annie Proulx’s original story—before Ang Lee came along and made the movie with Heath…
Filming has begun on Quentin Tarantino’s latest, Once Upon A Time In Hollywood, and this morning star Leonardo DiCaprio posted our first official look at the film on his Instagram:
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After a rocky few months—made only harder by the ongoing self-destruction of the director’s long-time collaborators at The Weinstein Co.—Quentin Tarantino’s latest feature finally has a starring cast, and a name. Variety reports that Brad Pitt and Leonardo DiCaprio have both signed on to star in the director’s new…
Showing the same resilience of a reanimated corpse, a sequel to 2013's World War Z is still kicking around. This, despite an onslaught of bad news, including preproduction squabbles between Brad Pitt and the screenwriters, departing directors, as well as the film’s removal from Paramount’s upcoming releases. But fear…
Bad acting is sometimes more memorable than good acting. Everyone remembers The Room, but nobody remembers, like, Lions For Lambs. A new video from Looper collects some of Hollywood’s most legendarily terrible performances, with examples running the gamut from teen dreck (Twilight) to prestige indies (Dazed and…
Lord Buckethead may not be a household name here in the United States, but that’s only because our political system isn’t quite as crazy as whatever they’ve got going in the United Kingdom. As we learned earlier this month, Lord Buckethead is an absurdist fixture in British politics who tends to mysteriously pop up…
Deadline reports that Tommy Lee Jones and Brad Pitts are headed to space, with both actors close to signing on to James Gray’s new film, Ad Astra. The plot kind of sounds like a darker, more Joseph Conrad-y version of the parental space drama of Interstellar, with Pitt as an astronaut trying to figure out what…
Late night welcomed a new forum this week, when The Jim Jefferies Show debuted on Comedy Central. It’s too early to tell just how the Australian comic turned host will fit in with his satirical talk show neighbors. But so far, the former Legit star’s hallmarks appear to be slouching while sending up the latest…
The nicest thing one can say about David Michôd’s maladroit, Netflix-produced Afghan War satire War Machine is that despite the high statistical likelihood of its existence (A-list star, bestselling source material, obvious political angle, semi-established writer-director), nothing in the movie suggests that it was…
Stephen Colbert’s been hyping Brad Pitt’s upcoming appearance on The Late Show With Stephen Colbert recently, and with good reason. Pitt doesn’t do a lot of talk shows, and, even with a new movie coming out on May 26 (on Netflix, but still), seeing the press-shy Pitt on a late night couch is a rarity. (While all the…
When last we heard from Brad Pitt, he was “sculpting, vaping, and listening to Bon Iver” in a Los Angeles studio owned by British artist Thomas Houseago. Now, if this new GQ profile of Pitt is to be believed, he’s currently living the life we all imagined Bon Iver was when he recorded For Emma, Forever Ago. That…
Lured in by his long-time collaborator Brad Pitt, it sounds like David Fincher might soon be going from Gone Girl to gnawed flesh, with Variety reporting that the Oscar-nominated director is close to finalizing talks to direct World War Z 2.
At one point, Brad Pitt was supposed to star in historical drama The Lost City Of Z for director James Gray. But Pitt ended up just taking on a behind-the-scenes role as an executive producer while Charlie Hunnam assumed the part of explorer Percy Fawcett. However, according to Gray, he and Pitt are going to…
It looks like Cable’s going to have an, um, big part in Deadpool 2, if that Logan pre-show teaser is any indication. The characters did share a comic title at one point, after all. Casting speculation has abounded since the sequel was green-lit, with everyone from Kyle Chandler to Jon Hamm rumored to be stepping into…
There’s a new Terrence Malick movie in theaters this week. Not long ago, that news would have hit cinephiles like a ton of bricks. Malick, a reclusive giant of American cinema, used to put long stretches of time between each release, taking big breaks after completing projects (like the 20 years that separate Days Of…
Brad Pitt’s got a knack for gregarious, heavily accented military men, and another one is on display in this teaser for War Machine. Animal Kingdom’s David Michôd directs this Netflix adaptation of Michael Hasting’s book The Operators: The Wild & Terrifying Inside Story of America’s War in which Pitt is playing a…
Well, here’s something Suicide Squad did right! Today Google released its most searched-for terms in a gamut of fields, including movies, actors, memes, politics, and more. The results are intriguing, working as a reliable index of what we’re interested in online. Interestingly, the most searched movies show the DC…
If you missed Terrence Malick’s Voyage Of Time: The IMAX Experience, or if you saw it and just thought the Brad Pitt voiceover was really annoying, you’re in luck. According to Variety, Malick is releasing an “Ultra Widescreen” version which will screen with a 3.6:1 aspect ratio. It will play on 21 screens—none of…
