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While I was watching Rock of Ages, director Adam Shankman’s film adaptation of the 80s-set off-Broadway production, something strange happened to my face. As the story of Sherrie (Julianne Hough), a small town gal living in a lone-lee world began to unfold and a star-studded cast sang anthems from the decade that taste forgot while [...]

This sad, sweet, enormously moving biopic of TV producer Barney Panofsky features front and centre a career best performance from Paul Giamatti, who scales back his trademark neurosis for a more nuanced and varied portrayal that was unforgivably snubbed at this year’s Academy Awards. Helmed by long time TV director Richard J. Lewis and adapted [...]

Clearly inspired by Spike Jonze’s fiercely imaginative fantasy drama Being John Malkovich – but with all the fun sucked out of it – Cold Souls presents Paul Giamatti playing a version of himself as a neurotic Oscar-nominated mope experiencing a dearth of creativity and inspiration. After reading a New Yorker story about the services of [...]