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'The Disaster Artist' Is The Best Movie About A Bad Movie

5:13pm December 01, 2017

by Bob Mondello

Tommy Wiseau's The Room has inspired a cult following, a video game and a "making-of" memoir. Now, the memoir has been turned into a movie, directed by and starring James Franco. It's called The Disaster Artist.

Arts

Delusions Of Grandeur Take Center Stage In James Franco's 'Disaster Artist'

4:23pm December 01, 2017

by David Edelstein

Critic David Edlestein says Franco sends audiences into hysterics as the director and star of a new biopic about Tommy Wiseau, an oddball filmmaker with vision and drive — but very little talent.

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Sally Hawkins and Octavia Spencer play cleaning ladies Elisa and Zelda in The Shape of Water.

Arts

Guillermo Del Toro Says 'Shape Of Water' Is An Antidote For Today's Cynicism

5:04am December 01, 2017

by Tori Whitley

In the Mexican director's latest film, a mute cleaning lady befriends a sea creature who is able to communicate without words. "The movie is about connecting with 'the other,' " del Toro says.

Nothing's Gonna Tear Them Apart, Lisa: Greg (Dave Franco) and Tommy (James Franco) wait for the lights to go down in The Disaster Artist.

Arts

'The Disaster Artist' Is 'The Room' Where It Happened

5:00pm November 30, 2017

by Scott Tobias

Director/star James Franco fondly — and hilariously — chronicles the making of the cult-movie fiasco The Room, evincing a deep understanding of the unhinged ambition at its core. (Go figure.)

Kate Winslet as Ginny, a 1950s waitress on the verge of spinning out, in Wonder Wheel.

Arts

Woodyland In Bad Decline: 'Wonder Wheel'

5:00pm November 30, 2017

by Andrew Lapin

Woody Allen's film about an unhappily married woman in 1950s Coney Island strains to evoke Eugene O'Neill. Critic Andrew Lapin says Wonder Wheel "isn't merely a bad movie but a laughable one."

Sherwan Haji as Khaled, a young Syrian refugee in Helsinki.

Arts

'The Other Side Of Hope': Finding Haven — And Hamachi — in Helsinki

5:00pm November 30, 2017

by Mark Jenkins

Finnish writer/director Ali Kaurismaki follows up his 2011 film The Havre with a darker, but still comic, variation on a similar theme — a character fleeing bloody conflict gets taken in by a group of outcasts.

Jim Nabors, in a 1964 episode of Gomer, U.S.M.C., getting chewed out by Frank Sutton as Gunnery Sgt. Vince Carter.

Jim Nabors, Who Played Affable Klutz Gomer Pyle, Dies At 87

2:46pm November 30, 2017

by Colin Dwyer

The actor and singer starred as Pyle for years — first in The Andy Griffith Show, then in Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C. Nabors parlayed the stardom of the beloved goof into a long career on stage, TV and film.

Gorgeous And Lyrical 'Shape of Water' Doesn't Quite Hit Its Mark

1:32pm November 29, 2017

by Justin Chang

Director Guillermo del Toro's new film is both a stylized vision of Cold War paranoia and an old-school monster movie. Reviewer Justin Chang says he wanted to love The Shape of Water more than he did.

James Franco And Seth Rogen Remake A Cinematic Disaster

5:05am November 28, 2017

by David Greene

In 2003, a film called The Room was released in Los Angeles. It became a cult hit. James Franco and Seth Rogen have made their own movie based on The Room — it's called The Disaster Artist.

Dan Stevens as Charles Dickens and Christopher Plummer as Ebenezer Scrooge in The Man Who Invented Christmas.

Books
Arts

Bookseller's Foray Into Hollywood Is A Dickens Of A Tale

4:38pm November 27, 2017

by Lynn Neary

Mitch Kaplan runs Books & Books in Miami, and helped start the popular Miami Book Fair. Now, he's making movies based on books, like the new Charles Dickens biopic The Man Who Invented Christmas.