As she hosted the Breast Cancer Research Foundation’s annual luncheon, actress Julianna Margulies was holding space for her grandmother, Henrietta, in her heart.
“We shot some stuff that we stole going up the West Side Highway. I don’t know if there’s any cops here,” Will Arnett told the audience following a press and industry screening of Is This Thing On? at the New York Film Festival, “But one point we’re driving up the West Side Highway and Bradley’s on the dash shooting me…and I’m like ‘cop, cop, cop!'”
Where do you go from here when you’re trying to rebuild a “Tron” franchise — one that honors the original while breaking free from its successor?
“How many people are in therapy?” Rebecca Zlotowski asked the audience, following the premiere of “A Private Life,” prompting hand raises and knowing laughter.
Not every music biopic needs to chronicle an entire life, and Scott Cooper’s Springsteen: Deliver Me From Nowhere doesn’t attempt to depict The Boss in such a way. Bruce Springsteen’s catapult to fame? Skipped over. Instead, the film trades Springsteen’s hits for the moodier tracks of his sixth studio album, Nebraska. With a focus on this particular chapter of his life, the film sidesteps some biopic clichés — only to trip over others.