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Martin Scorsese’s 2004 Best Picture nominee The Aviator is the next feature in the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences‘ "Great To Be Nominated" series. The handsome but vapid Howard Hughes biopic will be screened on Monday, July 28, at 7:30 p.m. at the Academy’s Samuel Goldwyn Theater in Beverly Hills. Following the screening, cast members Alec Baldwin, Jacob Davich, J.C. Mackenzie, and Amy [...]

Colin Farrell as Alexander the Great, Alexander ALEXANDER Review Pt.2: Colin Farrell, Angelina Jolie, Val Kilmer That is the casting of Colin Farrell, who lacks the necessary charisma to make one believe that all those men would follow him for thousands of miles to risk life and limb in a fight against a much more powerful enemy, Darius’ Persian Empire. Farrell looks particularly out of [...]

Angelina Jolie, Val Kilmer, Colin Farrell, Alexander ALEXANDER Review Pt.1. [Photo: Colin Farrell as Alexander the Great.] Alexander begins with an homage to Citizen Kane, in which a ring falls from the hand of the dying emperor. The similarities to Orson Welles‘ analysis of another deeply flawed historical figure end there. Fast forward several decades to Alexandria, Egypt, where Ptolemy (a mechanical Anthony Hopkins), self-proclaimed [...]

ALEXANDER (2004) Director: Oliver Stone Cast: Colin Farrell, Angelina Jolie, Val Kilmer, Jared Leto, Anthony Hopkins, Rosario Dawson, Jonathan Rhys Meyers, Christopher Plummer, Gary Stretch, Neil Jackson, Raz Degan Screenplay: Oliver Stone, Christopher Kyle, and Laeta Kalogridis Colin Farrell, Alexander Two-time Academy Award winner Oliver Stone is no stranger to controversy. His latest polemic comes courtesy of the director’s first historical epic, Alexander, the story [...]