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Solitary Man, Girlfriend Experience Duo to Adapt Neil Strauss’s Pick-up Tome The Game

Posted on July 8, 2011 by | Leave a comment

According to The Hollywood Reporter, MGM will team up with A Solitary Man writer Brian Koppelman and director David Levien to bring Neil Strauss’s dating how-to book The Game to the big screen. Others have tried before to make Strauss’s best-selling pick-up tome into a film, but maybe Koppelman and Levien are the right guys for the job; after all, they gave Michael Douglas a great vehicle playing a skeevy womanizer in A Solitary Man . Maybe they can do the same for magician-turned-pick-up artist Mystery?

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Score: The Hockey Musical Opens TIFF With Jaw-Dropping, Head-Scratching Slap Shot

Posted on September 9, 2010 by | Leave a comment

Considering the dull thud with which last year’s opening-night film Creation landed here, the Toronto Film Festival decided to go more traditional with tonight’s fest opener. And while Score: A Hockey Musical is quite possibly the most distinctly Canadian product I’ve seen since, well, ever , there is no denying that this one also throws tradition under the Zamboni. It’s more like a hockey opera — and yes, that really is Theo Fleury doing his own singing.

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On DVD: Michael Douglas, an American Icon of Male Menopause

Posted on September 9, 2010 by | Leave a comment

The new-to-DVD indie Solitary Man is a sharp-witted, resonant portrait of an aging all-American bird-dogger approaching his autumn years, and it’d be fine even without Michael Douglas, but with him, it has the tone of a social elegy. Not many actors grow careers with themes attached, but Douglas has — it only took him a while to find his subject. He acted for years, doing TV in his 30s, and had a medium hit with Romancing the Stone when he was 40. But he was nothing much of interest then, and could have been swapped out for any number of other actors. What changed?

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Attractions: Battle of the SNL All-Stars

Posted on May 21, 2010 by | Leave a comment

Welcome back to Movieline Attractions, your regular guide to everything new, noteworthy and/or franchise-ending at the movies. This week an ogre says goodbye, an SNL semi-hero says hello, and a real legend quietly sneaks into the art house. And: Fearless box-office prognostications! Tell me I’m wrong after the jump.

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The Verge: Imogen Poots

Posted on May 17, 2010 by | Leave a comment

There’s a bit of cognitive dissonance that happens when you watch Imogen Poots in Solitary Man : she’s utterly convincing as a confident Manhattan teenager who sexually entangles herself with the boyfriend (Michael Douglas) of her wealthy mother (Mary-Louise Parker), but with a name like “Imogen Poots,” there’s no way she’s actually American. In fact, the 20-year-old Poots is British and, until now, best known for playing one of the young leads in 28 Weeks Later . That should change after the one-two-three punch Poots has coming in Solitary Man , the Cannes drama Chatroom , and the Cary Fukunaga-directed Jane Eyre , where she plays rival to Mia Wasikowska. As Solitary Man sees release this week, Poots called up Movieline to discuss the sitcom that helped her with an American accent, the perils of technology, and the pleasures of working twice opposite Michael Fassbender.