Reese Witherspoon
It's 2 AM and you awake with a jerk, alone in your fully-lit apartment and still on the couch. On TV, the credits of some movie you've already seen a billion times are scrolling by. It feels like rock bottom. And we know, because we're just like you: single. Need a movie to keep you company until you literally can't keep your eyes open? Join us tonight when we pass out to Cruel Intentions [starting... READ MORE»
It looks like Terrence Malick isn’t the only director who wants to play with advanced CGI technology.... READ MORE»
If you think roughly three-quarters of Hollywood's output arrives between now and Christmas day, that's probably because it does. Or at least it seems like it does. Thanksgiving marks the official kick-off of the holiday season, and there's something at the box office for everyone in your family. Here's a handy guide to the Thanksgiving weekend new releases. Four Christmases What's the story: Whither Vince Vaughn? The last two movies the patron saint of fraternities has... READ MORE»
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Rex Reed | November 25, 2008 | 2:02 pm
Four Christmases Running time 82 minutes Written by Matt Allen, Caleb Wilson, Jon Lucas and Scott Moore Directed by Seth Gordon Starring Vince Vaughn, Reese Witherspoon, Sissy Spacek, Robert Duvall, Mary Steenburgen, Jon Voight O.K., go ahead and make fun of Christmas. Every year, somebody does. Like the people in Beverly Hills in the verse to Irving Berlin’s legendary song who gave up dreaming of a “White Christmas,” I long ago gave up hoping for another holiday classic... READ MORE»
By | August 6, 2008 | 9:20 am
Paris Hilton has filmed a mock campaign ad responding to John McCain's references to her in his latest campaign ad. In it, she calls the Republican candidate "the oldest celebrity in the world. [NY Daily News] Writer Jay McInerney says John Edwards's reported mistress, Rielle Hunter, is "a nice girl"; she was the inspiration for the character of Alison Poole in Mr. McInerney's 1988 novel Story of My Life. [P6]... READ MORE»
Yawn. What? Right. Here's the gossip round-up for Nov. 23, 2008, Thanksgiving Friday and possibly the slowest news day ever. An eight-months-pregnant Nicole Richie and her friend, the society disc jockeyess Samantha Ronson, volunteered at a Hollywood soup kitchen yesterday.... READ MORE»
Robert Duvall will join Reese Witherspoon and Vince Vaughn in the holiday romp, Four Christmases, set to start production in December. Mr. Vaughn is trying extra hard to get on Santa's good list this year (Fred Claus, now Four Christmases?) Variety reports: Vaughn and Witherspoon also are producing the pic, in which a couple struggles to visit all four divorced parents on Christmas... READ MORE»
Fresh-out-of-the-package lovebirds Reese Witherspoon and Jake Gyllenhaal ran into a little paparazzi action last night while celebrating boo-day with Ms. Witherspoon’s wee tots. Hard as he may have tried, Mr. Gyllenhaal didn’t fool the camera-toting celeb-stalkers with his full-body gorilla suit. The Rendition star’s decidedly less-hairy girlfriend was much easier to spot, however, in a costume that looks something like a marriage of vampire slater Anne Rice and My Fair Lady. Who’s the Gorilla?... READ MORE»
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Rex Reed | October 16, 2007 | 1:15 pm
Move over, Meryl! Reese steals scenes from Streep in this timely political thriller about the government’s overzealous treatment of suspected terrorists.... READ MORE»
By | September 7, 2006 | 2:06 pm
A missive has just arrived from Sara Vilkomerson, our envoy to the Toronto Film Festival. 1. Air Canada section of La Guardia was overrun by douchebags talking about "projects." 2. The Suri Cruise Vanity Fair was sold out at all the newstands. (See above.) 3. I talked to a charming girl named Tracy, age 24. Her job is airport coordinator for the Toronto Film Festival. Her accent is nuts. She said that Brian DePalma and Carrie... READ MORE»
While I was trying to decide how I would introduce my customary list of the past year’s achiev... READ MORE»
At the New York Film Critics Circle awards at Cipriani on Sunday night, an evening considered to be ... READ MORE»
By | December 1, 2005 | 7:32 am
The Transom has seen a whole hell of a lot of movies this year and is a know-it-all and a total busy-body and sometimes pretends to be psychic at parties. So, why not jump in the Oscar pool? Best Actress Felicity Huffman beats out Judi Dench and Reese Witherspoon and Naomi, improbably, Watts. Maybe, maybe a nom for Renee Zellweger, who was awful good in that awful bad Ron Howard movie. Best Actor Philip Seymour Hoffman squeaks past... READ MORE»
David Cronenberg’s A History of Violence, from a screenplay by Jack Olson, based on the graphi... READ MORE»
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Rex Reed | September 12, 2004 | 8:00 pm
Reese Witherspoon is as modishly contemporary as a Palm Pilot with a Duracell battery.... READ MORE»
