Featured
Guy Pearce
Sugar Editorial Picks
Movie Preview: The Hurt Locker
"If The Hurt Locker is not the best action movie of the summer, I'll blow up my car." — A.O. Scott, New York Times.
Movie Preview: The Road
It must be Highly Anticipated Trailer Day today or something: First we got a glimpse of Nine, and now we have the film adaptation of Cormac McCarthy’s novel The Road. The movie stars Viggo Mortensen as a man coping emotionally and physically in a post-apocalyptic world and trying to defend his family.
The book uses an apocalyptic scenario as a way to meditate on themes of humanity, and the effect is stirring.
Movie Preview: Winged Creatures
I watched the trailer for Winged Creatures before I knew the full cast list. I already knew that it included Forrest Whitaker and Jennifer Hudson and was surprised to find a whole slew of other amazing actors involved, including Jackie Earle Haley, Guy Pearce, Kate Beckinsale, and Big Love's Jeanne Tripplehorn. In addition, there's Dakota Fanning as a real, live teenager — not a precocious little kid.
Movie Night: The World of Dark Knight Director Christopher Nolan
Christopher Nolan is a director who initially made a huge splash with a little budget and not much celebrity star power. He's the director of The Dark Knight and the man responsible for resuscitating the Batman franchise. Not so long ago, he was an independent filmmaker, but after this weekend he'll probably be seen as one of the most influential creative forces in Hollywood.
Movie Preview: Traitor
If the always-amazing Don Cheadle weren't in this new movie Traitor, I probably would have greeted its trailer with a big old "meh." But while the preview makes it look like another one of those run-of-the-mill espionage thrillers Hollywood churns out regularly, the talent involved suggests that I shouldn't necessarily be so quick to judge.
In addition to Cheadle, the movie co-stars the terrific (and handsome) Guy Pearce (of Memento and an odd movie that no one's promoting with Catherine Zeta-Jones), as well as Jeff Daniels.
Movie Preview: Death Defying Acts
Hmm. . .
Buzz News Roundup, 7/11
- Kevin Spacey is all set to reprise his role as Lex Luthor in the next Superman movie — though the film won't go into production until director Bryan Singer completes his movie based on the life of Harvey Milk, says Variety.
- According to Hollywood Reporter, Guy Pearce and Don Cheadle will star together in an espionage thriller called Traitor.
- "The Knights of Prosperity" will return to TV for its final four episodes in August, writes the Futon Critic.
- Bruce Springsteen is planning to release another album with the E Street band, Fox News reports.
- Claire Danes is set to play Eliza Doolittle in a stage production of Pygmalion, the play that inspired the musical My Fair Lady, Variety reports.
- Peter Berg will adapt his cousin Buzz Bissinger's Barbaro story into a movie, Zap2it reports; a similar arrangement between Bissinger and Berg spawned the Friday Night Lights movie.
- Breakout hip-hop star T.I. is dominating the music charts, according to Billboard.
- The AP reports on a new James Bond novel titled Devil May Care, written by Sebastian Faulks and due to come out in 2008.
- TV Guide tells us that Tuesday's premiere of "The Singing Bee" was the most-watched network program in six weeks, ever since the "House" season finale.
First Snow: Quietly Chilling
"I chose this road. A man makes his destiny, right? Nothing makes the gods laugh harder."
Movie Preview: First Snow
In First Snow, Guy Pearce plays Jimmy Starks, a slick salesman who gets an ominous reading from a psychic that makes him paranoid. Thus, the smooth-talking guy who screwed over most of the people in his life becomes nervous and hunted, and he starts to question whether or not he's in charge of his own path.
Director Mark Fergus co-wrote the screenplay for Children of Men, but First Snow marks his directorial debut.
Movie Preview: Factory Girl
After weeks upon weeks of speculation and controversy — concerning both Bob Dylan's outrage over the film and Sienna Miller behaving like a child in general — Factory Girl is finally set to open nationwide this Friday, February 9. Sienna Miller plays Edie Sedgwick, muse to artist Andy Warhol (played by Guy Pearce) during the Factory's heyday in the 1960s.
I'm a little torn on this one; the costumes, the freewheeling '60s vibe, and Pearce's performance look really spot-on.
More on BuzzSugar
Fall Award Season
Top Brands
Lowie
Beyond The Valley
Just Cavalli