Interview: Ben Mendelsohn (Killing Them Softly). By Simon Miraudo. Ben Mendelsohn has long been one of Australia’s favourite actors, alternately playing adorable romantic leads, comic imbeciles, and chilling villains. Though he can’t boast an Oscar nomination like his Animal Kingdom co-star Jacki Weaver, the success of that 2010 crime drama has seen his shares skyrocket, […]
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Blood money – Killing Them Softly review
October 9, 2012 
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Killing Them Softly – Starring Brad Pitt, Scoot McNairy, and Ben Mendelsohn. Directed by Andrew Dominik. Rated MA. By Simon Miraudo. Killing Them Softly is a caustic commentary on America’s chilly economic climate, and writer-director Andrew Dominik is unafraid of underlining that point repeatedly throughout his movie’s taut 97-minute runtime. The point is made, and […]
Continue readingTrailer Debut: Killing Them Softly
August 6, 2012 0 Comments
The first trailer for Andrew Dominik‘s Killing Them Softly – formerly Cogan’s Trade – has arrived online, offering equal measures of humour and horrific violence. The picture stars Brad Pitt as Jacki Cogan, a professional enforcer investigating the theft of a high-stakes poker games by a couple of low level thugs (Ben Mendelsohn, Scoot McNairy). The cast also includes James Gandolfini, Ray Liotta, Richard […]
Continue readingMichael Haneke’s Amour wins Palme d’Or at Cannes
May 28, 2012 0 Comments
Michael Haneke has claimed his second Palme d’Or, taking home the top prize at the 65th Cannes Film Festival for Amour. Haneke was previously awarded the trophy in 2009 for his black-and-white examination of festering evil in The White Ribbon. The 2012 jury – headed by Italian director Nanni Moretti – did not reach a unanimous […]
Continue readingFirst look at Brad Pitt in Cogan’s Trade
February 17, 2012 0 Comments
The first official images from Andrew Dominik‘s upcoming thriller Cogan’s Trade have popped up – of all places – on Russian website Kinopoisk. The film stars Brad Pitt as Jackie Cogan, a professional enforcer investigating the theft of a high-stakes poker game. He previously collaborated with Dominik on The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert […]
Continue readingBen Mendelsohn joins Brad Pitt in Cogan’s Trade
February 22, 2011 1 Comment
Jacki Weaver isn’t the only Animal Kingdom star making waves in America. According to Variety, Ben Mendelsohn has joined the cast of Andrew Dominik‘s upcoming crime flick Cogan’s Trade. Mendelsohn and newly-announced Scoot McNairy (replacing Casey Affleck) will play “two young junkies who perpetrate a heist that takes place during a high-stakes poker game held […]
Continue readingMonsters star joins Brad Pitt in Cogan’s Trade
February 18, 2011 1 Comment
Scoot McNairy will star alongside Brad Pitt in Cogan’s Trade, Deadline New York reports. We reported in January that Pitt would headline the cast of Andrew Dominik’s adaptation of the George V. Higgins novel of the same name. Now McNairy will take his first major role since 2010’s hit low-budget film Monsters. Monsters has proven […]
Continue reading>Pitt joins Affleck in Cogan’s Trade
January 4, 2011 0 Comments
>Brad Pitt will star in Andrew Dominik’s adaptation of Cogan’s Trade, according to Scene Louisiana. While there were rumours in November last year of Pitt reuniting with the director of The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford and his co-star in that film, Casey Affleck, Scene confirms that he will play the […]
Continue readingSee Naomi Watts as Marilyn Monroe
May 19, 2010 0 Comments
Thanks to happy-snappers over at the Cannes film festival, we have our first glimpse of Naomi Watts as Norma Jean/Marilyn Monroe in the upcoming biopic Blonde. No, that’s not it. Sadly, the image of Watts as Monroe is a little less hi-res (Thanks to AlloCine for the snap regardless). Check her out below. Blonde is […]
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