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Ozon's Cat-and-Mouse 'In the House'
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Surprises in 'Gatsby' (Review)
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Two Other Gatsbys, Two Better Nicks
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Mira Nair's 'Reluctant Fundamentalist'
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Watch Obama & Conan's Comedy at WHCD
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Affleck in Malick's 'To the Wonder'
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Ricky Gervais' Hilarious, Awful Music Video ...
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Danny Boyle's 'Trance'
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Ryan Gosling in "Place Beyond the Pines"
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Brandon Cronenberg's 'Antiviral'
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Black Comedy 'It's a Disaster'
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Brilliant Melissa McCarthy on SNL (Video ...
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'Room 237,' Kubrick & Malkovich
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Colbert Asks Franco: Are You A Fraud?
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Justin Timberlake's Latest SNL (Video)
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Watch Ricky Gervais in 'The Office Revisited' ...
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'Downton Abbey' Kills Off You-Know-Who
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'Downton' Does 'Breaking Bad' (Video)
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James Franco's Risk-Free 'Oz'
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'Downton Sixbey': Lady Hedith's Answer
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Smart Middle East Doc 'The Gatekeepers'
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'Downton Abbey' Season 3 Review
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Bad Title,Good 'Silver Linings Playbook'
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Foxx,Washington On 'Django' & Race (Vide ...
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Keira Knightley's Chilly 'Anna K.'
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'Skyfall': An Older, Better-Written Bond
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A Boy and His Tiger: 'Life of Pi'
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Brad Pitt, SNL on Chanel:Which Is Real?
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SNL's Lost Bond Girls
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Hugh Laurie,Catherine Keener on 'Oranges ...
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'The Master': Egotists and Cultists
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Jimmy Fallon Sings 'Romney & Bain'
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Fincher, Others in 'Side By Side' Extras
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Watch "Andrew Sarris: Critic in Focus"
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Amy Poehler on Sex, Music (Video)
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Fallon Does "Downton Sixbey, Part 2"
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Ewan McGregor On "Beginners"
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Jimmy Fallon Does Downton Abbey -
Edgy Obama At WH Correspondents Dinner -
Keanu Reeves' New Doc (Trailer) -
Daniel Radcliffe As Casey Anthony's Dog
Monthly Archives
Caryn James
Ricky Gervais Returns As Globes Host; Celebrate With This Liam Neeson Video
- By Caryn James
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- November 16, 2011 5:32 PM
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Hard to believe, but now that Ricky Gervais has been announced as the returning host, The Golden Globes are much more relevant than the Oscars – in the worlds of media and television if not film. Bringing Gervais back after his irreverent turn last time was always an inspired idea, but coming so soon after the Oscar-host debacle, the choice highlights just how out of touch the Oscars are. Brett Ratner as producer and Eddie Murphy as host was never very promising, but replacing them with Billy Crystal is the esssence of safe, timid television, or a bad flashback.
George Clooney In Alexander Payne's Brilliant, Touching "Descendants"
- By Caryn James
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- November 16, 2011 10:13 AM
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Watch George Clooney as he runs around a corner in The Descendants, shot from a distance. If he had a little more weight he might waddle, but that flat-footed run -- in boat shoes and shorts and a golf shirt - is enough. This is the way a middle-aged guy moves, and the character, Matt King, is no movie star. He’s a family man racing to ask his best friends to give him the name of the Other Man his critically injured wife had been sleeping with.
TV's Big Interviews: Giffords and Husband, Cain's Deluded Wife, Penn State's Scandal
- By Caryn James
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- November 14, 2011 11:47 PM
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You needed more than one DVR to keep track of the three high-profile interviews appearing at the same time last night, each irresistible for wildly different reasons, each dramatic enough to sound like a long-running series. There was Gabrielle Gifffords’ remarkable, touchingly partial recovery shown in all its tough reality and hope, as she and her husband, Mark Kelly, talked to Diane Sawyer on ABC’s 20/20. Meanwhile, loyal Gloria Cain appeared with Greta Van Susteren on Fox News to deny those sexual-harassment charges against her husband, Herman. And NBC’s magazine Rock Center had its first major coup with the kind of interview that makes you want to scream and run as much as watch: Bob Costas did a tough, stomach-churning phone interview with Jerry Sandusky, the former Penn State coach accused of molesting small boys amid a devastating university coverup.
Ricky Gervais Talks About Globes, Johnny Depp, His New HBO Series
- By Caryn James
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- November 14, 2011 9:29 AM
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Ricky Gevais was interviewed at the 92nd St Y in New York last night by my old New York Times friend and media reporter Bill Carter, and in 90 minutes - which seemed like a blip of time – their sharp conversation covered everything from whether Gevais will be back as host of the Golden Globes, the difference between British and American comedy, and his new HBO series, “Life’s Too Short” (on now in the UK, coming to HBO in February). Gervais sipped a glass of beer during the chat, and close-up, his uniform black pants looked like tuxedo pants worn with a black T-shirt (more stylish than you thought, isn’t he?)
Emma Stone And The Devil On SNL
- By Caryn James
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- November 13, 2011 12:43 PM
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In her second appearance as SNL host, Emma Stone proved that her great performance last time was no fluke. She's funny, game, not locked into her own image. The best sketch from last night's show didn't take her far from what might have been one of her movie roles, though, as office workers have a good cry over the Adele song "Someone Like You." You can watch it at the SNL site; keep an eye out for Coldplay. NBC isn't allowing embeds for the "Sad Song" sketch, but it is for the night's other highlight: Jason Sudeikis as the Devil, horrified at the Penn State scandal. Take a look:
Jimmy Fallon's New Political Ads, Beyond Perry's Brain Melt
- By Caryn James
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- November 11, 2011 1:25 AM
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Jimmy Fallon revealed a new crop of Republican campaign ads last night, just in time to take advantage of Rick Perry's brain-fail. Or, as Fallon put it in his monlogue, "Turned out that George Bush was the smart Texas governor." His forgetful Perry and cash-poor Michele Bachmann are fun, but the sharpest is his dead-on, already hilarious Mitt Romney impression. The non-Fallon Herman Cain ad is pretty shrewd too.
Rick Perry Delivers Top Ten Excuses on Letterman
- By Caryn James
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- November 10, 2011 8:41 PM
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What a difference a brain-freeze makes. Yesterday's news was all about Herman Cain, but after Rick Perry couldn't remember all three of the federal agencies he wants to abolish during last night's Republican debate, he became the big political story for reasons consultants dread. As Perry said in explaining himself: "Oops!" Tonight as part of his damage-control tour (good luck with that), he appeared on Late Show With David Letterman to deliver his Top Ten Excuses.
George Vs. Leo For Best Actor
- By Caryn James
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- November 10, 2011 10:19 AM
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I would still so love to see George Clooney win the Best Actor Oscar for "The Descendants," one of the year’s best films. His performance is witty, touching and as always understated – and I could almost see his chances trickling away with every prosthetic added to Leonardo DiCaprio’s face in "J. Edgar." Here’s what it comes down to: Clooney is great in a lovely, touching, relatively small family drama. DiCaprio is good and nearly unrecognizable in a big, bad film. Hmmm.
A Newsletter Glitch (And Reminder)
- By Caryn James
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- November 9, 2011 4:20 PM
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To anyone who got the James on screenS email update today -- apologies for the glitch. There was a network-wide snafu with all Indiewire blogs, which meant you got a story that wasn't mine and a broken link. (For the record, the story said Eddie Murphy resigned as Oscar host; true enough. My version of the story would have added: they should hire Oprah.)
I'm assured that tomorrow's newsletter will be back to normal, so this is a good time for anyone who is not on the list to please sign up - see the box at the right - and you'll get a daily email with working links to every new story I've posted that day. Thanks for being patient as we all work out the bugs in the new system, including some wonky-big photos.
Leo Plays J. Edgar: What Didn't We Know?
- By Caryn James
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- November 8, 2011 2:21 PM
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J. Edgar Hoover had a fascinating life: wire-tapping unsuspecting Americans, using the dirt on politicians’ personal lives to keep his job as head of the FBI for nearly half a century, reorganizing the Agency and bringing it into the modern age of forensics, being way too close to his Mom -- and those are just the facts, never mind the gossipy details about wearing women’s clothes in private and his murky relationship with his second-in-command in the Agency, Clyde Tolson. So there is absolutely no excuse for "J. Edgar," Clint Eastwood’s disappointingly conventional biopic, to be so yawn-inducing.
