Just a quick wrap up on some of the film news from the past month. “Waltz With Bashir� won big in France and at the Golden Globes, and the film’s director, Ari Folman, fought off a thief in Paris who tried to steal his Cesar trophy. But “Waltz� failed to receive an Oscar [...]...

Welcome back to Defamer Attractions, your guide to everything new, noteworthy and machete-wielding at the movies. This week: Isla shops, Clive broods, Joaquin departs (we think), and pretty much everyone at Camp Crystal Lake dies. WHAT'S NEW: Want it or not, Michael Bay's reboot machine has spit out...

If you’re looking for a cause for Joaquin Phoenix’s erratic behaviour - other than Joaquin Phoenix’s innate dickery - then you could be in luck. That’s because James Gray - the director of Joaquin Phoenix’s new film - says that he feels responsible for Joaquin Phoenix q...

newVideoPlayer("/gwyneth_no_diet.flv", 506, 423,""); We've already shared with you Joaquin Phoenix's flea-ridden performance art; now, onto the next chapter of Two Lovers ' doomed PR assault, in which Gwyneth "Fuck the Haters!" Paltrow describes for Oprah her dieting regime. From what we can gather,...

So what's up with Joaquin Phoenix? It started when he announced that he was quitting acting to pursue a music career, then got stranger when said music career became a rap album. After we began to prepare ourselves for the new hip-hopped Phoenix, along came word that he and Casey Affleck would be sh...

I take no pleasure in watching this train wreck of a performance on David Letterman. I love Joaquin Phoenix's work in Two Lovers--but the folks marketing the movie should ever have put a guy in the shape that Phoenix is in on national television. He could barely talk. I hope he gets his act together...

Forgiving my ignorance, I only know of three films so deeply anchored in the Brighton Beach area of New York. One is Brighton Beach Memoirs - adapted from the genius Neil Simon play of the same name. The other two are directed by James Gray. Fifteen years ago, Gray wrote and directed Little Odessa s...

If you had any doubts that Joaquin Phoenix will push his hoaxy rapper persona into the depths of career ignominy, let his Two Lovers director fill you in on his insane level of commitment. James Gray has collaborated with Phoenix on three films, and his latest, Two Lovers, is purported to be Phoenix...

Two Lovers Running time 108 minutes Written by Richard Menello and James Gray Directed by James Gray Starring Joaquin Phoenix, Gwyneth Paltrow, Vinessa Shaw, Moni Moshonov, Isabella Rossellini, Elias Koteas On Valentine’s Day, date movies usually proliferate. This year, with so many slasher flicks...

I live in Toulouse, France. It’s a pretty boring place but it has two great features. The first one is that I’m about 2 minutes walking distance from 4 different cinemas and the second one is that a ticket costs 3 Euros (about 4 USD). So I’ve become a movie junky and the cinema is ...