Andie MacDowell's latest feature, As Good as Dead, is a relatively radical departure in the model-turned-actress's nearly three-decade career: As Helen, the vengeful widow of a powerful white supremacist, MacDowell literally limps into New York City on the hunt for the man who ambushed her family in the South years earlier. Burned and scarred over exactly 54 percent of her body, Helen and her grown son join a ruthless killer (a scene-stealing Frank Whaley) in tormenting Ethan (Cary Elwes), a photographer who may or may not know who attacked whom that fateful day -- and who should pay.
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You may recognize Maryland-born actor Shawn Hatosy for his roles in The Cooler, Outside Providence and Alpha Dog but you would probably have a hard time pegging him to Dexter. Not because you haven't seen Showtime's serial killer drama series, but because Hatosy was completely unrecognizable as Boyd Fowler, an offbeat sociopath who collects roadkill for the Department of Sanitation by day, and tortures, electrocutes and disposes of young women by night.
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Lately, it seems that whenever music and comedy need to be mingled, Craig Robinson is there. As Daryl on The Office, he frequently tickles the ivories of his keyboard (look for him to accompany Ed Helms during tonight's all-new episode), while in Hot Tub Time Machine, he led a bar sing-along of "Let's Get It Started." This isn't surprising, of course: Robinson is an accomplished musician and was even a music teacher before becoming famous. The Office star and frontman for The Nasty Delicious rang up Movieline on the way home from the gym to discuss where the hit series can go without Steve Carell, why fans should be excited to see his band perform live next month, and just what it's like to work for Tyler Perry.
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If it seems like Chuck has been on-the-bubble since premiering in the fall of 2007, that's probably because it has been. Like NBC stablemate Parks & Recreation, Chuck is a fan-adored, critically lauded television show that simply has trouble breaking through to larger viewership. For once though, things are looking slightly less eleventh hour: NBC picked up the backend of Chuck's fourth season yesterday, ensuring that fans will get a total of 24 episodes between now and May. Then the waiting starts all over again. Co-star Ryan McPartlin is used to this, but that doesn't make him any less excited at the prospect of more Chuck. The man who plays Captain Awesome rang up Movieline on the day of the full season order to discuss the good news, his thoughts on the season thus far, and, of course, fantasy football.
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"My movie is not about Vietnam," Francis Coppola once famously noted about his epic Apocalypse Now. "My movie is Vietnam." And now you, too, can have Vietnam -- or, rather, Apocalypse Now -- in your own home with more bells and whistles than ever thanks to this week's new three-disc Full Disclosure Edition, which boasts stunning Blu-ray presentations of both the movie and its longer "Redux" re-release, the feature documentary Hearts of Darkness, new interviews with actor Martin Sheen and screenwriter John Milius, a never-before-seen Roger Ebert interview with Coppola from the 2001 Cannes Film Festival, the 1938 Orson Welles Mercury Theatre radio production of Heart of Darkness, and scads more goodies. On the eve of this new set's release, Coppola spoke with Movieline about making movies like Apocalypse Now in the pre-CGI era -- and packaging them today for home video.
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Upon meeting Sam Rockwell for a chat this week, I probably shouldn't have been surprised to find the actor not in his seat, but rather doing a series of stretches in his Soho hotel room. Rockwell has always given the impression of being a guy bursting with energy, whether it be the manic mannerisms of Chuck Barris in Confessions of a Dangerous Mind or his dance moves as Justin Hammer in Iron Man 2. Even in his latest film, Conviction, it doesn't take long before there's a scene of Rockwell dancing with frenzied energy onstage -- nude, I should add.
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If you don't know Michael Cristofer from Rubicon, you may be familiar with him as a Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright and occasional screenwriter (The Witches of Eastwick, The Bonfire of the Vanities). But if you do know Michael Cristofer from Rubicon, then he'll forever be Truxton Spangler -- the aloof, Corn Flakes-eating head of the American Policy Institute intelligence agency. Oh -- and also the guy who, in last week's episode, helped destroy the oil supply of the United States.
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We could all use a little more Juliette Lewis in our lives, and now, thank goodness, we're getting it. The actress perhaps best known for Natural Born Killers, Kalifornia and her Academy Award-nominated breakthrough in Cape Fear recently returned from an extended rock-and-roll sabbatical to appear in Whip It, The Switch, the upcoming Due Date and a pivotal, scene-stealing role in this weekend's Conviction.
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John Malkovich has been busy as usual of late -- but maybe not quite where you'd usually expect him to be busy. This week's graphic-novel adaptation Red features the 56-year-old in comic-paranoia mode as Marvin Boggs, a kill-happy CIA alumnus with a firearm fetish and an apparently indefinite acid hangover; together with fellow ex-agents Frank (Bruce Willis), Joe (Morgan Freeman), Victoria (Helen Mirren) and hapless civilian Sarah (Mary-Louise Parker), he embarks on an explode-y, bullet-riddled quest to determine why the current CIA regime wants them dead.
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It's just a fluke of industry timing and economics that Gemma Arterton happens to have opened four films this year in the United States, the last of which -- Tamara Drewe -- begins its run today in limited release. It's stranger still that we won't see Arterton again for at least another year -- just when we'd gotten used to her charm, poise, talent and allure. What gives?
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Three years after delivering No End in Sight -- the definitive, devastating record of America's misbegotten march to war in Iraq -- director Charles Ferguson returns this week with the equally definitive, equally devastating Inside Job. This time around Ferguson takes on the global financial crisis, turning his eye to the mendacity, rapaciousness and thoroughly reckless deregulation that led to worst economic tailspin since the Great Depression. Watch out, Wall Street.
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In Stone, Edward Norton takes on the role of Gerald "Stone" Creeson, a cornrowed, street-wise arsonist who, about to come up before the parole board, is looking to hustle his way out of prison. His parole officer, Jack Mabry (Robert De Niro), is three months from retiring, grappling with a booze problem, and saddled with a shadow of a marriage. Everything appears to be going according to a secret plan concocted by Stone and his sexually predatory wife Lucetta (Milla Jovovich) to release Stone, until the prisoner appears to have something approximating a religious epiphany. But is it real or is it fake?
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If you've seen a mainstream comedy in the last five years, the chances are good you've seen Rob Huebel. From the MTV series Human Giant to I Love You, Man to The Other Guys to Adult Swim's Childrens Hospital, the UCB performer has appeared alongside his fair share of comedy icons. Huebel branches out a bit more this Friday when he co-stars opposite Katherine Heigl and Josh Duhamel in the romantic dramedy, Life as We Know It, and coming soon he'll tackle the biggest part of his career: That of George Clooney's best friend, in Alexander Payne's The Descendants.
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Matt Reeves knew he was going to take some heat for this week's new Let Me In, the English-language adaptation of the beloved Swedish vampire-youth novel Let the Right One In -- a celebrated screen version of which had already been exported to America in 2008. He anticipated an uphill battle with the original film's rabid fan base, in which a denouncement from director Tomas Alfredson wouldn't particularly help matters. But judging by his results (and their response to date), it's safe to say cooler heads prevailed. Movieline spoke to Reeves this morning about the early discord, the period flavor that helps define his film (count 'em, two Culture Club songs) and, yes, the possibility of a much ballyhooed Cloverfield sequel.
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After achieving recognition as one of the premiere stunt actresses in Hong Kong, Maggie Q (née Margaret Quigley) returned to the U.S. four years ago to film her first blockbuster, Mission Impossible: III. Since then, the stunning Jackie Chan protege has kicked ass in a slew of films including Live Free or Die Hard and Balls of Fury, and now you can watch her take names on a weekly basis in the CW's new action-thriller series Nikita.
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