James Franco

The Disaster Artist

By Chris Gore | May 2020

Movies about making movies are always tricky. There’s the constant danger that the final result might come off as pretentious–yet another exercise…

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Movies about making movies are always tricky. There's the constant danger that the final result might come off as pretentious--yet another exercise in...

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James Franco currently has 183 titles listed on his IMDB page. That’s an average of nine films per year since circa 2000. One certainly can’t fault the...

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Vikar (James Franco) goes to Hollywood to find the movies but finds only the people who make them. Ain’t that a shame. On the back of his head is a...

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At the edge of the Salton Sea, the abandoned 1950’s resorts are slowly melting into the desert. The few people who live there scratch a living out of the...

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Usually, when I’m going into a new film, especially one for which I’m writing a review, I try to go in knowing as little as possible. This was...