If you only know Ricky Jay from his side career -- as a character actor looming like a sinister talisman in the films of David Mamet, and in other work requiring an enigmatic and sometimes menacing presence -- then you don't know the man at all.
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Susanne Bier, the Danish director who emerged from Lars von Trier's militantly minimalist Dogma school, is hardly known for her rom-coms. Damaged war veterans, paralyzed accident victims, dark family secrets ... not exactly a laff riot.
And so, ...
AFTER EARTH (PG-13): The once-formidable director M. Night Shyamalan ("The Sixth Sense") tries to regain his cred with this science-fiction thriller about a father and son (played by Will Smith and his son Jaden) who crash land on Earth 1,000 ...
There are times when I wish the French hated Jerry Lewis.
If they didn't love him so much, perhaps Americans would love him more.
But many Americans have a knee-jerk reaction to anything French. If the French love something, there must be ...
ALLENTOWN, Pa. -- Jonathan Davis, lead singer of nu metal band Korn, says over the phone that he's "in vocal hell" -- in the studio in California, left by the rest of the band to complete his parts on a new album to be released by the end of ...
CANNES, France -- Writer-director Alexander Payne has been nominated for three screenplay Oscars and has won two. So what did the man responsible for films including "Election," "Sideways" and "The Descendants" feel about working with someone else...