James Gandolfini Articles

Kristen Stewart as a pole dancer/sex worker in Jake Scott’s Welcome to the Rileys Kristen Stewart’s WELCOME TO THE RILEYS: My Own Private Controversy: Part I @Puaena: I have an idea why it is underperforming. I think Kristen fans showed up as much as they could but the middling reviews probably didn’t bring in anything to build on that base. It didn’t really have a [...]

Kristen Stewart, Welcome to the Rileys JACKASS 3D Passes $100 Million, RED Matches Budget, HEREAFTER Down Nearly 50%: Box Office Reviews for Jake Scott’s Welcome to the Rileys have been mixed. Among Rotten Tomatoes’ "top critics," this Ken Hixon-written psychological drama starring James Gandolfini, Kristen Stewart, and Melissa Leo has a mediocre 41% "fresh" score. That sort of critical reception has clearly affected Welcome to [...]

Kristen Stewart as Mallory in Jake Scott’s Welcome to the Rileys The most curious Welcome to the Rileys commentary among those listed below belongs to The [New Jersey] Star-Ledger’s Stephen Whitty, who compares Jake Scott’s psychological family drama to Martin Scorsese’s psychological social drama Taxi Driver, and James Gandolfini’s grieving middle-class Midwesterner to Robert De Niro’s taxi-driving sociopath/New Yorker. Now, Kristen Stewart’s teen sex worker [...]

James Gandolfini, Kristen Stewart, Welcome to the Rileys Directed by Jake Scott, Welcome to the Rileys, which opened at the 2010 Sundance Film Festival, has been greeted by mixed-to-lukewarm reviews. For the most part, reviewers have faulted Ken Hixon’s screenplay about a grieving couple (James Gandolfini, Melissa Leo) whose marriage has all but crumbled following the death of their young daughter. During a trip to [...]