Jessica Chastain

Film+TV
May 16, 2013
With Star Trek Into Darkness, J.J. Abrams Boldly Goes Back to Khan
Film+TV
April 11, 2013
Terrence Malick's To the Wonder Is Gorgeous and Ridiculous
Blogs
February 18, 2013
Writers Guild Awards 2013: Behind the Scenes
Last night, men and women who are more used to working at home in their pajamas donned black tie attire for the 2013 Writers Guild Awards at the J.W. Marriott Los Angeles L.A. Live -- and it seemed like a surprisingly number of media didn't really care. (Except us, of course.) With a red carpet th ... More >>
Film+TV
December 20, 2012
Kathryn Bigelow's Zero Dark Thirty Is a Thrilling Manhunt
Film+TV
August 30, 2012
Lawless Review: Shia LaBeouf Goes Bootlegging
Blogs
May 19, 2012
Cannes Film Festival: Lawless, Laurence Anyways, Beyond the Hills
As a major festival like Cannes wears on, my notebook accumulates more scrawl than I can translate into full blog posts. So, behold! The first of likely several notebook dumps, with thoughts on John Hillcoat's bootleggers-with-hearts-of-gold vs. sexually-ambiguous-evil-fed and weak-ass local lawmen ... More >>
Film+TV
December 22, 2011
2011 Village Voice/L.A. Weekly Film Critics' Poll
Parsing the data
Film+TV
October 13, 2011
Texas Killing Fields Review
Film+TV
September 29, 2011
Take Shelter Review
Mental and financial meltdown in Jeff Nichols' latest
Film+TV
May 26, 2011
The Tree of Life: Better Than a Masterpiece
Terrence Malick's big-budget experimental film
Blogs
May 16, 2011
Cannes 2011: Terrence Malick and Brad Pitt's The Tree of Life Gets Irate Boos Followed by Thin Applause
Brad Pitt in The Tree of Life CANNES, FRANCE -- Much improved since I last posted, the Cannes Film Festival celebrated its midpoint in train-wreck fashion, its wagon to hitched to The Tree of Life. The first screening of Terrence Malick's long-awaited new movie, three years in the editing, ... More >>
Film+TV
November 4, 2010
JOLENE
Stage
May 4, 2006
Boy Snubs Girl, Girl Beheads Boy
Al Pacino goes Wilde