The Brothers Bloom (movie)

In "Looper," Joseph Gordon-Levitt plays a hitman in the near future whose targets have been sent back in time; one day, the man who turns up turns out to be an older version of the assassin. To bring the premise to life, Gordon-Levitt had to look (and...

I've been struck by how willfully eccentric the roles Adrien Brody has selected since his Oscar have been — lending his distinct profile and talent to such intriguing films as “Hollywoodland” and “The Jacket,” taking a...

Adrien Brody is on the hunt for a new career chapter with his action-hero duty in "Predators," which hits theaters Friday. Amy Kaufman caught up with the Oscar winner to discuss aliens and alienation. This is a longer version of......

The 44th Chicago International Film Festival runs from Thursday, Oct. 16 through Wednesday, Oct. 29. Opening night will be include a showing of The Brothers Bloom at the Harris Theater. Tickets - Phone: Call (312) 332-FILM no later than 48 hours in...

Every year about this time aspiring filmmakers head to Utah to show their work. Hoping to launch their career or at least make that next important contact, they flock to a festival that emphasizes scrappy self-reliance, low-budget creativity and the...

"The Brothers Bloom" are relocating. Summit's con-man picture is being moved from its Dec. 19 limited-release drop date to May 15, according to The Hollywood Reporter. While mid-May is packed with big-budget movies, a spokesman says that should allow the...

Ben Stiller will step in for Mark Ruffalo as lead of the drama "Greenburg." Ruffalo had been expected to lead the comedy-drama, according to the Hollywood Reporter. Presumably his brother Scott's death during a game of Russian roulette had a role in the...

In a move that feels almost as weird as casting Jack Black in "The Manny Ramirez Story," Variety is reporting that Adrien Brody will play a heroic mercenary who battles alien hunters in "Predators," 20th Century Fox's new reboot of......

When Adrien Brody gave Halle Berry that infamous kiss onstage at the 2002 Academy Awards, he may have caught her Oscar curse. Since then the surprise lead-actor winner for "The Pianist" has failed to find the right role to contend again, just as Berry...

Patrick Goldstein at our sister blog, The Big Picture, was deeply puzzled by the news that Oscar winner Adrien Brody is taking on the lead role in "Predators," producer Robert Rodriguez's revisiting of the alien-hunter franchise. Here's an excerpt: The......

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The jaunty, energetic first 10 minutes of "The Brothers Bloom" are easily the best first 10 minutes of any film I've seen recently. And while the succeeding hour and 43 minutes doesn't hold up to the movie's opening scenes, the whole endeavor is still...