trailer break: ‘Brighton Rock’
Carey Mulligan was all set to star here till she dropped out to do Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps…
Wall Street Money Never Sleeps
question of the day: Can Shia LaBeouf be saved?
Shia LaBeouf has put himself, in recent years, in a place where the Shia LaBeouf Experience is one of big loud dumb noises in which he runs around yelling. A lot. This is what Hollywood has trained us to accept from LaBeouf, and it’s not exactly the best place for a serious actor to find himself. Not if he wants to be taken seriously.
cinematic roots of: ‘Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps’
In Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps, Gordon Gekko (Michael Douglas) returns to slime his adorably retro evil high finance all over a new generation of hotshot young MBAs, including Shia LaBeouf. This flick sprang from (among other films)…
Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps (review)
It’s sort of adorable and sort of terrifying to look at Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps and see the ultimate 80s icon of sharky, sociopathic greed — Gordon Gekko — reduced to an object of quaint amusement, for both the characters onscreen and for us in the viewing audience.
female gazing at: Frank Langella
While he’s still a striking man today, Frank Langella was a major hottie when he was younger…
trailer break: ‘Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps’
The presence of Shia LaBeouf as Shia LaBeouf makes me wonder if giant alien robots will show up to stomp on the New York Stock Exchange…
retro trailer: ‘Wall Street’
Remember when wrecking companies and trading on inside information was merely cool, instead of something that gets a CEO bailed out by the federal government using taxpayer money? Good times, good times.
omg: Shia LaBeouf takes the blame for sucky movies
Not all sucky movies, of course. And not even all the blame for the sucky movies he’s been involved with. But since when do Hollywood types ever admit to screwing up? The L.A. Times blog 24 Frames quotes the actor from a press conference at Cannes, discussing Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal … more…
