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20 July 2008 1:02 AM, PDT | From GetTheBigPicture.net | See recent Get The Big Picture news

At this point, I honestly don't know what to think about Tom Cruise's career. Is it rebounding? Is it headed into a smoking tail spin? Hard to say. What's easy to say, though, is the public really turned on the guy, for reasons we all know. Ever since then, Mission: Impossible 3 didn't do what it was supposed to (although I personally thought it was the best film in the trilogy), Lions for Lambs stiffed, and his Bryan Singer-directed Nazi movie, Valkyrie, has been beset with one problem after another.

Now there are conflicting reports about Cruise's future with another project, Edwin A. Salt, a thriller to be directed by Phillip Noyce. IGN has done a good job collecting the data on this, and it began with Roger Friedman at Fox saying Cruise is no longer in the picture, "and I'm told it's because of money. Apparently, Tom is

Colin Boyd

14 March 2008 5:34 AM, PDT | From wenn.com | See recent WENN news

Oscar winner Chris Cooper hopes his new movie Hurricane Mary gives belief to all parents of disabled kids - because it shows that doctors don't always know best.

Written by the Adaptation star's wife Marianne Leone and based on the real-life battle of a mother who refused to listen to doctors, Cooper feels the film could be the feel-good movie of the year.

And it's a personal triumph for the actor and his wife.

Their son, Jesse, died of causes related to his cerebral palsy battle in 2005. The twins in Leone's movie battle the disease.

Cooper says, "We met Mary (Somosa) through our mutual paediatrician and her twin daughters had varying degrees of cerebral palsy, as did my son (Jesse).

"The film deals with the medical system, who we had to prove wrong. Early on we were told, 'Your son's cortically blind. Are you thinking about having another child?' That suggested, 'Get one that works' to me.

"It also deals with an educational system which doesn't want to deal with children with disabilities... There are all sorts of tricks and I want to expose what the state of New York did to Mary Somosa and her family."

The story has a very happy ending - Somosa's disabled daughters are set to graduate from Georgetown University.

Cooper beams, "One of them is going to be a disabilities lawyer now. They are bilingual, with IQs of 130.

"If Mary Somosa and my wife had taken to heart what the medical establishment thought was gonna be the outturn of these children then their potential would've been destroyed.

"How many children live in a very aware mind trapped in a body, and are just dying to express themselves and they've been given this prediction that this child is of virtually no worth so why invest anything in it."

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7 March 2008 7:15 AM, PST | From ifc.com | See recent IFC news

By Matt Singer

By the end of "Married Life," the characters have caused each other a great deal of harm in order to better their own lives, and they know it. Is it wrong, they wonder, to build one's happiness on the unhappiness of others? If it is, that makes going to the movies one of the most immoral acts you can do. What are movies, after all, if not the vicarious enjoyment of the suffering of others?

There's plenty of suffering here, and thus plenty to enjoy. The film focuses on four people living at the turn of the 1950s and the damage they do to one another. Harry (Chris Cooper) is married to Pat (Patricia Clarkson), but their relationship chilled some time ago. Harry confides to his best friend Richard (Pierce Brosnan) that he wants something more out of a woman than just "the sex" by way of introducing him to his mistress,

Matt Singer

3 articles from 2008