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This week he attends an interview with director Lee Daniels and revieviews his new film. Lee Daniel's latest feature is by far his most experimental, and perhaps even his most shocking. Known most widely for 2009's Precious: Based on the novel Push
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A lurid wallow in tacky bad taste, "The Paperboy" is easily one of the craziest movies to wash ashore in recent memory. This almost guarantees an audience for it, however small and puzzled it might be. "The Paperboy" is based on a novel by Pete
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In director Lee Daniels' jacked-up bayou melodrama The Paperboy , taken from the comparatively sane 1995 potboiler by Pete Dexter, charismatic actors do their damnedest not to turn into overactors in the service of a lurid Florida gothic tale. But
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Filmmaker Lee Daniels originally wanted Oprah Winfrey to portray a masturbating maid in his upcoming film " The Paperboy ," but he wound up casting Macy Gray instead. The film centers on a man (John Cusack) convicted of killing a seedy sheriff who is
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Precious director Lee Daniels ' scored a big thumbs up from us by casting Zac Efron to dance around in his underwear in The Paperboy , but it turns out he wanted another one of our favorite people to star as well Oprah Winfrey !...The director
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Was it a shot of Zac Efron's body gliding through a pool, losing its hard fixed shape through the watery prism...Was it Macy Gray smoking, staring dully just off center of the camera...Lee Daniel's third movie is a mad undisciplined mix of just these
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If there were ever a genre referred to as "film maudit hot mess," movies so irrepressibly wrong as to be irresistibly right, the work of Lee Daniels would be filed on that shelf. Not many filmmakers would follow a success like "Precious: Based on the
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The Paperboy can't decide whether to be an unfunny sex comedy, a half-hearted detective story or a woeful race drama so it decides to be all three, then becomes yet another movie (a swampy Heart of Darkness) in the final act. The only conceivable
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Precious' Director Daniels Flocks To Controversy October 4, 2012 October 4, 2012 Director Lee Daniels is best known for his provocative 2009 movie, Precious . Now he's out with The Paperboy , starring Matthew McConaughey, about a reporter
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Anne Marie Fox/Millennium Entertainment Matthew McConaughey and Zac Efron in "The Paperboy," directed by Lee Daniels. Anne Marie Fox/Millennium Entertainment Nicole Kidman in "The Paperboy."...In the hands of Mr. Daniels who directed Precious Based
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