If you want to see a vital example of how the indie spirit can interface with Hollywood, check out the spiky and surprising Cyrus. It stars John C. Reilly as John, a big, doofy, slovenly, and lovable middle-aged loser, and Jonah Hill as Cyrus, the blandly hostile and two-faced 21-year-old offspring of John's new girlfriend, Molly (Marisa Tomei) — in other words, the creepy clinging son from hell. The moment they meet, with Cyrus putting on an expert show of bogus politeness, the two men kick off an escalating war of wills.
Since their rivalry is often quite funny, you don't have to squint too hard to imagine the same scenario played out as a synthetically broad and cartoonish mainstream comedy (I can just imagine it with, say, Ben Stiller and Angus T. Jones). The filmmaking team of Jay and Mark Duplass clearly love those comedies. Yet they work with a rhythm and tone, and a psychological fascination, that are altogether more realistic — closer, in spirit, to something the young Roman Polanski might have brought off. Cyrus may on some level be a stunt, yet the Duplasses' slightly sluggish, low-budget, mumblecore style allows this story to flower as both light-fingered lark and drama of suspenseful dysfunction.
Cyrus, who does nothing but hang out and compose spaced-out dance pop, has never outgrown his mom (nor she him), and Hill, with his deadpan parrot stare, makes the kid a brilliantly manipulative head case; he plays Molly's sympathies like a virtuoso. John, who knows that he's lucky to be with a woman this attractive, is in the vulnerable spot, but gradually he regains his power as a man, a journey that's less vengeful than touching. Cyrus cues us to expect it to go over the top, but the film never does. That may be its neatest trick.
She’s always on the go, Jessica Simpson was spotted arriving into LAX International Airport.
Salma Hayek looked seductive in a busty white dress with red heels when she left her N.Y.C. hotel yesterday to attend the premiere of her film "Grown Ups."
In June of 1969, a police raid on a dingy Greenwich Village bar that catered to homosexuals launched the gay liberation movement. The uprising that occurred that night (and over the next few nights) at the Stonewall Inn is now the stuff of legend. But this all-new assemblage of rare home-movie footage, photographs, and gripping testimony from people who were there — including one of the cops who led the raid — allows us to experience a landmark civil rights event in a fresh and fascinating way.
Back in May he was arrested for allegedly having sex with a 16-year-old prostitute, and now Lawrence Taylor has been indicted on rape charges.
Kareena Kapoor has been performing her own dangerous stunts for Golmaal 3, according to reports.
