Scarlett Johansson

Jeffrey M. Anderson's 400 Screens 400 Blows - Small Summer Movies  CA - May 3, 2008 In 2001, Terry Zwigoff's Ghost World showed a different side of summer: two friends (Thora Birch and Scarlett Johansson) leaving high school and slowly, ...

By Erik Davis By now you're probably wondering who made their list. Well, noticeably absent is Angelina Jolie (who I would've thrown on there, if only for that ultra-sexy Tomb Raider outfit). Earlier ladies include Mae West, Jane Russell, Marilyn Monroe, Dorothy Dandridge, Elizabeth Taylor, Jayne M...

By Patrick Walsh Filed under: Drama, Romance, CastingI know, I saw "Scarlett Johansson" and "Jenna Jameson" in the same sentence, and so much blood rushed away from my brain I nearly passed out. If Miss Jameson's name doesn't ring a bell, perhaps you've seen her...performances...in such films as I Love Lesbian...

By Erik Davis If this rumor (and, right now, it's only a rumor) turns out to be true, Bloom will play Marcus Attilus Primus; a Roman engineer who is sent to Pompeii to help repair "the greatest aqueduct in the Roman Empire." However, while there, he must deal with all kinds of corrupt government types and a...

By Kim Voynar Queenan goes on to enumerate Johansson's string of box office (and acting) failures, including in that list her BAFTA and Golden Globe-nommed performance in The Girl With the Pearl Earring ("listless and vacant"), The Island ("hopelessly miscast"), Match Point ("passive and useles...

By Jeffrey M. Anderson Brian De Palma arrives in the final third of 2006 with one of his best films, and yet no one will realize it for years to come. De Palma's work is routinely ignored and undervalued for the very simple reason that he makes cinema. He hasn't shown much interest in making socially significant film...

By Ryan Stewart Woody Allen returns this weekend as Sidney Waterman, an aging Borscht Belt magician with a silly stage handle -- Splendini -- and props that seem more like fire hazards than things one might use to make a living. Don't wait around for the prestige in Splendini's act -- you'll be waiting a lon...

By Ryan Stewart It may have been bad memories of Celebrity that kept Woody Allen away from this weekend's press junket for his latest film, a London-based feather-weight who-done-it comedy in the vein of Manhattan Murder Mystery called Scoop. Allen, along with star Hugh Jackman, was conspicuously abs...