Zac Efron
by
Graham Fuller
In Lee Daniels’s “The Paperboy,” set in Florida in 1969, Nicole Kidman gives a sympathetic perfomance as a principled but delusional voluptuary, Charlotte Bless, whose fatalistic attraction to Death Row prisoners, and to John Cusack’s troglodytic Hillary Van...
by
Bryan Hood
While Lee Daniels is prepping his Martin Luther King conspiracy theory movie, the trailer for his latest film, “The Paperboy,” has finally been released. Based on Peter Dexter’s novel of the same name, the film, which competed at this year’s Cannes Film...
by
Graham Fuller
Never quite the bastion of intellectual severity that the Berlin and Rotterdam festivals are, Cannes invariably serves up a little squalor and turpitude for the press to rake over and relish. Lee Daniels’s “The Paperboy,” playing in the main competition this...
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Graham Fuller
The slate for next month’s Cannes film festival was announced this morning at Paris’s Intercontinental Hotel. According to whom one believes, the American presence at the festival will be “strong” (Variety) or “typically slight” (The Guardian). Thierry...








