What’s Out This Week? – May 3, 2013
Tag: Pierce Brosnan
Fellow Filmmakers Call For Polanski Release
A group of filmmakers are calling for the release of Roman Polanski. Woody Allen, Martin Scorsese and David Lynch are among the directors who signed a petition asking for the release of director Roman Polanski. Polanski was arrested this past weekend in Switzerland in connection with the 1977 rape charge that led to his fleeing …
DVD Review: Mama Mia!
Islands in drama have always been mystical, mysterious places. From the islands in Shakespeare’s “Tempest,” to Robert Louis Stevenson’s “Treasure Island,” every island seems to be rife with a lot of things that might not be found on the mainland. Add to the list director Phyllida Lloyd’s film version of the hit stage musical, “Mama …
Cast Announced for Polanski’s ‘Ghost’
Roman Polanski has cast Nicholas Cage, Tilda Swinton, and Pierce Brosnan, for his next film “The Ghost,” an adaptation of a political thriller by Robert Harris. The film is about a ghostwriter (Nicholas Cage) hired to finish the memoirs of a former British prime minister (Pierce Brosnan), after the first writer turned up dead. The …