Viggo Mortensen

Review: 'Everybody Has a Plan' loses its way and energy

2013-03-21 15:40:00

In the Argentine thriller "Everybody Has a Plan," the lure of a new life with old trappings draws restless Buenos Aires doctor Agustin (a Spanish-speaking Viggo Mortensen) into the dingy, threat-laced world of his delta-dwelling twin brother Pedro. But...

Review: 'The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey' lacks a certain ring

2012-12-12 14:41:00

From an artistic point of view, star Mary Pickford famously said, "It would have been more logical if silent pictures had grown out of the talking instead of the other way around." Likewise, it would have been better all around if Peter Jackson's "Lord of...

The Hudson and 'On the Road' are finally in gear

2012-12-08 06:00:00

From inside the rocket-shaped time capsule of a silver 1949 Hudson Super Six, West Hollywood looked astonishingly modern to Brazilian director Walter Salles. Salles, who has devoted the last eight years to adapting Jack Kerouac's "On the Road" for the...

Review: 'On the Road' is achingly romantic

2012-12-20 12:01:00

There are as many visions of "On the Road," novelist Jack Kerouac's vivid anthem to the romance of youthful freedom and the getting of experience as there are readers. It's a book so influential yet so personal that each succeeding generation since its...

Tony Scott dies at 68; a film career in retrospective

2012-08-20 00:08:00

Director-producer Tony Scott, who apparently committed suicide Sunday in San Pedro at age 68, left behind a lengthy filmography. One of the first directors to make the transition from commercials to features, he helmed movies including "Top Gun,”...

Cannes 2012: Kristen Stewart says Kerouac changed her life

2012-05-24 16:38:37

Kristen Stewart in 'On the Road': 'I just want ... a baby' [video]

2012-05-23 16:38:53

'On the Road' adaptation gets distribution from IFC, Sundance

2012-05-08 21:38:31

Dutch? Danish? They do both start with D...

2012-03-13 16:36:18

Oscar voters aren't always who you might think

2012-02-19 00:00:00

Which two of these four entertainment names — Woody Allen, George Lucas, Meat Loaf, Erik Estrada — are members of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences? It'd be understandable if you guessed Allen and Lucas: The directors made such...

Friday's TV talk shows

2012-01-13 00:00:00

David Cronenberg on why the new 'Fly' has been swatted

2011-12-08 16:36:29

Sof�a Gala as Rosa and Viggo Mortensen as Agust�n/Pedro "Everybody Has a Plan."

2013-03-21 14:24:33

We'll tell you everything you would have learned by watching: Hilary Swank had almonds stowed in her purse, Colin Farrell would have made hats if he had not become an actor, and Viggo Mortensen has 43 tattoos. That sounds impossible, yes, but we hear that at least 30 are tattoos of moles.

2013-02-21 01:21:00

The warrior: Lt. Jordan O'Neil (Demi Moore), the first woman recruited to the U.S. Navy Combined Reconnaissance Team, a fictional version of the Navy SEALs. What she's fighting for: O'Neil fights battles on multiple fronts. She fights for women to be recognized as equals in the military.

2013-01-24 11:22:25