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Clooney's Best & Worst Movie Roles

By Tom Roston (Subscribe to Tom Roston's posts), Posted Nov 4th 2009 2:30PM
Filed under: Features
In the early '90s, TV star George Clooney transformed himself from sideline dud/e on 'Roseanne' to 'ER's' hunk of wood with one visual expression -- that tilt of the head accompanied by furrowed brow that exuded a jaded yet benign sense of superiority -- to becoming that rare thing, an empathetic movie star who can act.

With three films -- 'Up in the Air,' 'The Men who Stare at Goats' and 'Fantastic Mr. Fox' -- rolling out in theaters this fall, we figured it was high time to look at the highest highs and lowest roles of this bona fide movie star.
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The Original Movie Monsters

By Tom Roston (Subscribe to Tom Roston's posts), Posted Oct 29th 2009 5:45PM
Filed under: Features, Halloween
'Twilight,' 'Vampire Diaries,' 'True Blood,' 'Cirque du Freak.' We're drowning in blood! If we have to see another iteration of the vampire saga, we're going to scream. No, not like a good, horrified scream. But an I'm-sick-of-this kind of scream.

With that in mind -- and Halloween arriving this weekend -- let's go back, like way back to some of the original movie monsters that scared audiences-for the first time. They may seem quaint and kind of cute now, but they scared the dickens out of audiences in their day.
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A Brief History of Vaughn & Favreau Collaborations

By Tom Roston (Subscribe to Tom Roston's posts), Posted Oct 9th 2009 5:00PM
Filed under: Hot Topic
Abbot and Costello. Martin and Lewis. Favreau and Vaughn?

Cinematic buddies have always been a treat; and even before 'Swingers' -- back to 1993's 'Rudy,' when Vince was Vincent -- Jon Favreau and Vince Vaughn have been making movie magic together. And, this weekend, they collaborate once again for 'Couples Retreat,' a movie they both star in and co-wrote. To celebrate 16 years of the duo's wisecracking and relationship-resolving teamwork, we take a look back at these icons of the metrosexual modern man.
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Good Actors ... Bad Casting

By Tom Roston (Subscribe to Tom Roston's posts), Posted Oct 7th 2009 6:30PM
Filed under: Features
The recent news that Adrien Brody is being cast as the action lead in a new 'Predator' franchise has us a little bit worried. Brody has a unique combination of cool and edge, along with the requisite acting chops that made him great in 'The Pianist' and 'Summer of Sam.' And he's not so bad with a gun, as he displayed in 'The Thin Red Line' and 'King Kong.'

But jumping six neck sizes to take Arnold Schwarzenegger's place as an exterritorial-battling badass? Hmmm. Check out 10 other good (or even great) actors who ended up in the wrong place at the wrong time.
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