Young Adult‘s Patton Oswalt was the absolute star and the life of the party during last night’s Virtuosos Awards presentation at Santa Barbara’s Arlington theatre. Rise of the Planet of the Apes‘ Andy Serkis took a close second for apperaring on-stage shirtless, and A Better Life‘s Demian Bichir was charming and affable. Dragon Tattoo‘s Rooney Mara seemed politely subdued. The Descendants‘ Shailene Woodley was fine. And moderator Dave Karger was typically smooth and engaging.
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It took me a full month to see Wes Ball and Josh Friedman‘s Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes...
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For me, A Dangerous Method (2011) is David Cronenberg‘s tastiest and wickedest film — intense, sexually upfront and occasionally arousing...
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