Jay R. Ferguson

'Mad Men' creator talks Don Draper -- not much about the fifth season

2012-03-14 16:37:11

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Film review: 'The Lucky One' never gets the fire started

2012-04-20 15:05:00

Hollywood keeps making adaptations of Nicholas Sparks novels, even though they've never really burned up the box office. Maybe “The Lucky One” will be, well, the lucky one, but it's hard to imagine why. Sparks films have become their own...

The Lucky One

2012-04-20 12:07:00

I’m not sure who has a worse track record with bad movies – Tyler Perry or Nicholas Sparks. Perhaps the edge should go to Perry, since he’s involved in every aspect of his crappy films. And Sparks did give us The Notebook, which wasn&...

'The Lucky One': Nicholas Sparks extends the bland ✭✭

2012-04-19 00:00:00

You don't need a message in a bottle to get the word out: Author Nicholas Sparks knows his audience. Conservative moviegoers (along with plenty of centrists and liberals) take to the latest Sparks adaptation, gratefully. They know they're not going to get...

Film review: 'The Lucky One' predictable Nicholas Sparks romance

2012-04-23 11:58:00

It's probably a good thing that I don't see a lot of movies based on the books of Nicholas Sparks. He's known for super-schmaltzy romance novels that are routinely derided by critics but sell like crazy. Films based on his works include the modest hits...

Actress Taylor Schilling On New Movie 'The Lucky One'

2012-04-19 00:00:00

Based on Nicholas Sparks' bestseller The Lucky One, Zac Efron ("17 Again," "Charlie St. Cloud") stars alongside Taylor Schilling (TV's "Mercy") and Blythe Danner ("Meet the Parents" franchise) in this romantic drama directed by Academy Award�-nominated...

Sun Shines on Good and Bad of 'Sleeper Cell'

2006-12-10 00:00:00

It's Monday, and a merciless late-July sun bounces off white sand and sparkles on rolling surf. The only thing out of place on this perfect Southern California beach day are the tents set up amid the umbrellas and folding chairs, the huge light...

'The Year That Trembled'

2003-09-12 00:00:00

Independent filmmaker Jay Craven's "The Year That Trembled" is an ambitious coming-of-age story set amid the turmoil that beset rural Ohio communities in the wake of the May 4, 1970, shootings at Kent State University, where 28 National Guardsmen fired...

New shows...or are they?

2002-01-08 00:00:00

The best news about NBC's Hank Azaria show is that it's no longer known as "The Hank Azaria Show." Shedding the vanity title, the moderately appealing new sitcom will go before the public Tuesday as "Imagine That," as in, "NBC realized that nobody...

The cast of "The Lucky One" ? Jay R. Ferguson, left, Taylor Schilling, Riley Thomas Stewart, Zac Efron and Blythe Danner ? arrives at Grauman's Chinese Theatre on April 16 to debut the romantic drama based on Nicholas Sparks' novel. The film opens in theaters April 20.

2012-04-16 00:00:00