Dinner theatre – August: Osage County review

By Simon Miraudo December 17, 2013 Tracy Letts is doing the Lord’s work. Or is it the Devil’s? (Which one is responsible for all the fun stuff again?) He adapts his Pulitzer Prize winning play, August: Osage County, for the big screen, just in time for the holidays, administering the perfect antidote for all the […]

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Poster Debut: August: Osage County

The poster for the John Wells directed adaptation of August: Osage County has been released, highlighting how star studded its cast is. The film, adapted from Tracy Letts’ Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award winning play, stars Meryl Streep and Julia Roberts as mother and daughter alongside Ewan McGregor, Chris Cooper, Abigail Breslin, Benedict Cumberbatch, Juliette […]

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Their first crime was being stupid – Killer Joe review

Killer Joe – Starring Matthew McConaughey, Juno Temple, and Emile Hirsch. Directed by William Friedkin. Rated R. By Simon Miraudo. Their first crime was being stupid. The subjects of Tracy Letts’ play Killer Joe give trailer trash a bad name. They are trailer effluvia; fortunate enough to have taken human form, but lacking all the […]

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Abigail Breslin joins Streep and Roberts in August: Osage County

Abigail Breslin is the latest to join the star-studded cast of August: Osage County, Deadline reports. Breslin will appear opposite Meryl Streep, Julia Roberts, and Juliette Lewis in the John Wells directed adaptation of Tracy Letts’ Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award winning play. Streep has been cast as Violet Weston, the pill popping matriarch of an unstable […]

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