The latest film from Edward Burns focuses on a couple, Buzzy and Katie (Burns and Caitlin Fitzgerald), who receive an unexpected visit from Buzzy’s sister Linda (Kerry Bishe). The fight-less chemistry of the two newlyweds is tested by Linda’s reckless behavior. At the same time, Buzzy and Katie witness the crumbling marriage of their two [...]
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Jake’s Takes: ‘Martha Marcy May Marlene’ interview with Elizabeth Olsen
Martha Marcy May Marlene Directed by: Sean Durkin Cast: Elizabeth Olsen, Sarah Paulson, John Hawkes, Hugh Dancy Running Time: 2 hrs Rating: R Release Date: November 4, 2011 (Portland) PLOT: Martha (Olsen) leaves a cult and its leader (Hawkes) and stays with her sister (Paulson) and her husband (Dancy). She’s haunted by painful memories and [...]
Jake’s Takes: ‘Puss In Boots’ interviews with Antonio Banderas and Salma Hayek
Puss In Boots Directed by: Chris Miller Cast: (voices of) Antonio Banderas, Salma Hayek, Zach Galifianakis Running Time: 1 hr 30 mins Rating: PG Release Date: October 28, 2011 PLOT: Puss in Boots (Banderas) is a sword-fighting cat. He and Humpty Dumpty (Galifianakis) are in pursuit of a golden goose, in order to clear their [...]
Jake’s Takes: ‘Real Steel’ interviews with Hugh Jackman and Sugar Ray Leaonard
Real Steel Directed by: Shawn Levy Cast: Hugh Jackman, Evangeline Lilly, Dakota Goyo, Anthony Mackie Running Time: 2 hrs and 7 mins Rating: PG-13 Release Date: October 7, 2011 PLOT: In the future, boxers are robots. Now Charlie, a former boxer, manages a string of failures, but when his son Max (Goyo) is back in [...]
Jake’s Takes: ‘The Three Musketeers’ interviews with Logan Lerman, Orlando Bloom and Milla Jovovich
The Three Musketeers Directed by: Paul W.S Anderson Cast: Logan Lerman, Matthew Macfadyen, Luke Evans, Ray Stevenson, Milla Jovovich, Christoph Waltz, Orlando Bloom Running Time: 1 hr 50 mins Rating: PG-13 Release Date: October 21, 2011 PLOT: When a royal necklace is stolen from the Queen of France, the Musketeers (Macfadyen, Evans, Stevenson) and the [...]
TSR interviews the real Sam Childers and writer Jason Keller for ‘Machine Gun Preacher’
Along with his interview with Gerard Butler, Nick Allen interviewed Machine Gun Preacher’s title subject, Sam Childers, and the screenwriter who brought his life story to the medium, Jason Keller. You can read his interview with Butler, who plays Childers in the film, here. Check out the true side of Machine Gun Preacher below. I [...]
Jake’s Takes: ‘The Ides of March’ interviews with Ryan Gosling, Paul Giamatti, Evan Rachel Wood and Jeffrey Wright
The Ides of March Directed by: George Clooney Cast: Ryan Gosling, George Clooney, Paul Giamatti, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Evan Rachel Wood, Marisa Tomei, Jeffrey Wright Running Time: 1 hr 41 mins Rating: R Release Date: October 7, 2011 PLOT: Based on a play by Beau Willimon, while assisting the campaign manager (Hoffman), Stephen (Gosling) gets [...]
Jake’s Takes: ‘Machine Gun Preacher’ interviews with Gerard Butler and Michelle Monaghan
Machine Gun Preacher Directed by: Marc Forster Cast: Gerard Butler, Michelle Monaghan, Michael Shannon Running Time: 2 hrs and 7 mins Rating: R Release Date: September 30, 2011 PLOT: The story of Sam Childers (Butler), a former drug-dealing biker tough guy who found God and became a crusader for hundreds of Sudanese children who’ve been [...]
Jake’s Takes: ’50/50′ interviews with Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Seth Rogen
50/50 Directed by: Jonathan Levine Cast: Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Seth Rogen, Bryce Dallas Howard, Anna Kendrick Running Time: 1 hr 39 mins Rating: R Release Date: September 30, 2011 PLOT: Adam (Gordon-Levitt) thinks he is happy and healthy until the 27-year-old is diagnosed with a rare cancer that has a 50 percent survival rate. His dysfunctional [...]
Jake’s Takes: ‘Abduction’ interview with Taylor Lautner
Abduction Directed by: John Singleton Cast: Taylor Lautner, Lily Collins, Alfred Molina Running Time: 1 hr 46 mins Rating: PG-13 Release Date: September 23, 2011 PLOT: A young man (Lautner) needs to find the truth about his life after finding his baby photo on a missing persons website. Jake’s take on his interview with Taylor [...]
Jake’s Takes: ‘Moneyball’ interview with Jonah Hill
Moneyball Directed by: Bennett Miller Cast: Brad Pitt, Jonah Hill, Chris Pratt, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Robin Wright Running Time: 2 hrs 13 mins Rating: PG-13 Release Date: September 23, 2011 PLOT: Based on the true story of the Oakland A’s general manager Billy Beane (Pitt) and his success when he puts together a baseball club [...]
Jake’s Takes: ‘Dolphin Tale’ interview with Morgan Freeman
Dolphin Tale in 3D Directed by: Charles Martin Smith Cast: Nathan Gamble, Harry Connick Jr., Ashley Judd, Morgan Freeman Running Time: 1 hr 53 mins Rating: PG Release Date: September 23, 2011 PLOT: A boy (Gamble) makes a strong connection with a dolphin named Winter, whose tail was lost. Jake’s take on his interview with [...]
Jake’s Takes: ‘Contagion’ interview with Matt Damon
Contagion Directed by: Steven Soderbergh Cast: Matt Damon, Kate Winslet, Jude Law, Gwyneth Paltrow, Laurence Fishburne Running Time: 1 hr 45 mins Rating: PG-13 Release Date: September 9, 2011 PLOT: A woman (Paltrow) gets a new disease on a business trip and brings it back to the States. When it begins to spread, the entire [...]
Jake’s Takes: ‘Warrior’ interviews Tom Hardy, Joel Edgerton and Nick Nolte
Warrior Directed by: Gavin O’Connor Cast: Tom Hardy, Joel Edgerton, Nick Nolte, Jennifer Morrison Running Time: 2 hrs 19 mins Rating: PG-13 Release Date: September 9, 2011 PLOT: Tommy (Hardy) is back from the Marines, and decides to start fighting again. His brother Brendan needs money to keep his family’s house, so he starts fighting [...]
‘Higher Ground’ interview with actress/director Vera Farmiga
Oscar-nominated actress Vera Farmiga speaks in winding contemplative sentences, and sometimes even ends her thoughts with a bashful dismissal of her own thoughts. When discussing omnipotent subjects like spirituality, she seems to answer to her questions with more questions. Fitting it should be that Farmiga’s debut as a director, Higher Ground, should offer never-ending questions, [...]
Flicks on 6: Jeff Bayer interviews Helen Mirren, Jessica Chastain and Sam Worthington from ‘The Debt’
The Debt Directed by: John Madden Cast: Helen Mirren, Sam Worthington, Tom Wilkinson, Jessica Chastain Running Time: 1 hr 54 mins Rating: R Release Date: August 31, 2011 PLOT: Retired Mossad agents Rachel (Mirren), Stefan (Wilkinson) and David (Hinds) look back on a mission they undertook in 1966 when they tried to track down a [...]
Jake’s Takes: ‘Conan the Barbarian’ interview with Jason Momoa
Conan the Barbarian Directed by: Marcus Nispel Cast: Jason Momoa, Rachel Nichols, Stephen Lang, Ron Perlman, Rose McGowan Running Time: 1 hr 52 mins Rating: PG-13 Release Date: August 19, 2011 PLOT: Conan (Momoa) is a barbarian hell bent on revenge for the death of his father. Jake’s take on his interviews with Jason Momoa [...]
Jake’s Takes: ‘One Day’ interviews with Anne Hathaway and Jim Sturgess
One Day Directed by: Lone Scherfig Cast: Anne Hathaway, Jim Sturgess, Patricia Clarkson Running Time: 1 hr 48 mins Rating: PG-13 Release Date: August 19, 2011 PLOT: Based on the novel by David Nicholls, Dexter (Sturgess) and Emma (Hathaway) spend the night together after college graduation and then are shown each year on the same [...]
Jake’s Takes: ‘Rise of the Planet of the Apes’ interviews with James Franco, Andy Serkis and Freida Pinto
Rise of the Planet of the Apes Directed by: Rupert Wyatt Cast: James Franco, Andy Serkis, John Lithgow, Freida Pinto Running Time: 1 hr 45 min Rating: PG-13 Release Date: August 5, 2011 PLOT: Dr. Will Rodman (Franco) is on the verge of curing Alzheimer’s with a formula that improves mental capacity in primates. After [...]
Jake’s Takes: ‘Fright Night’ interviews with Colin Farrell and director Craig Gillespie
Fright Night Directed by: Craig Gillespie Cast: Anton Yelchin, Colin Farrell, Imogen Poots, David Tennant Running Time: 1 hr 46 mins Rating: R Release Date: August 19, 2011 PLOT: A teenager (Yelchin) begins to suspect his neighbor (Farrell) is a vampire after kids start disappearing from school. Jake’s take on his interviews with Colin Farrell [...]
Jake’s Takes: ‘The Help’ interviews with Octavia Spencer and Tate Taylor
The Help Directed by: Tate Taylor Cast: Emma Stone, Viola Davis, Octavia Spencer, Bryce Dallas Howard Running Time: 2 hrs 15 mins Rating: PG-13 Release Date: August 10, 2011 PLOT: Based on Kathryn Stockett’s book, the story of one woman (Stone) looking into the ways that white people mistreat their black housekeepers in the segregated [...]
Jake’s Takes: ‘The Change-Up’ interviews with Ryan Reynolds, Jason Bateman and Leslie Mann
The Change-Up Directed by: David Dobkin Cast: Jason Bateman, Ryan Reynolds, Leslie Mann, Olivia Wilde Running Time: 1 hr 52 mins Rating: R Release Date: August 5, 2011 PLOT: A married family man (Bateman) accidentally switches bodies with his single best friend (Reynolds) when they both urinate in a magic fountain. Now they each have [...]
Jake’s Takes: ‘Crazy, Stupid, Love.’ interviews with Steve Carell, Ryan Gosling, Emma Stone and Julianne Moore
Crazy, Stupid, Love. Directed by: Glenn Ficarra, John Requa Cast: Steve Carell, Ryan Gosling, Emma Stone, Julianne Moore, Kevin Bacon Running Time: 1 hr 58 mins Rating: PG-13 Release Date: July 29, 2011 PLOT: Emily (Moore) tells Cal (Carell) she wants a divorce. Now Cal must figure out how to move on, and a ladies [...]
Jake’s Takes: ‘Cowboys & Aliens’ interviews with Daniel Craig, Harrison Ford, Olivia Wilde and Jon Favreau
Cowboys & Aliens Directed by: Jon Favreau Cast: Daniel Craig, Harrison Ford, Olivia Wilde, Sam Rockwell, Paul Dano Running Time: 1 hr 58 mins Rating: PG-13 Release Date: July 29, 2011 PLOT: A gunslinger (Craig) and a tyrant (Ford) have to settle their differences in Arizona, 1873, as aliens have come to town looking to [...]
Jake’s Takes: ’30 Minutes or Less’ interviews with with Jesse Eisenberg, Aziz Ansari, Danny McBride and Nick Swardson
30 Minutes or Less Directed by: Ruben Fleischer Cast: Jesse Eisenberg, Aziz Ansari, Danny McBride, Nick Swardson Running Time: 1 hr 22 mins Rating: R Release Date: August 12, 2011 PLOT: Two small-time criminals (McBride and Swardson) kidnap a pizza delivery guy (Eisenberg), strap a bomb to his chest, and tell him he has to [...]
