Leaves of Grass

LEAVES OF GRASS DVD Review

by Bill Graham    Posted: October 19th, 2010 at 11:11 am

Tim Blake Nelson’s Leaves of Grass is a rousing romp through the juxtapositions of a life of crime and a life of academia that never speaks down to its audience and provides plenty of dark humor and lasting impressions. The film’s veteran cast helps flesh out the background, and the interplay between two Edward Norton’s on screen is delightfully entertaining. Darkness, humor, pot smoking, and plenty of larger-than-life questions permeate this mixture of genres and topics, creating a film that you won’t soon forget. Hit the jump for the full review of the film and the DVD.

Exclusive LEAVES OF GRASS Clip

by Bill Graham    Posted: September 28th, 2010 at 6:10 am

Edward Norton plays twin-brothers in Tim Blake Nelson’s Leaves of Grass, and as we can see in this exclusive clip, the zany part isn’t just seeing two Norton’s on screen but also the wild story. Norton reportedly wanted this role so badly, he took a pay cut to play two characters in a single film. Unlike Fight Club, he actually plays both characters in this film. Check out the exclusive black light clip after the break and a full synopsis.

2010 SXSW Film Festival Line-Up Announced; Includes CYRUS, MACGRUBER, GET LOW, and KICK-ASS

by Matt Goldberg    Posted: February 4th, 2010 at 9:36 am

Not all of the great film festivals are outside of the U.S.  Even if you can’t book a ticket to Cannes or Berlin, you should be able to afford a flight out to Austin, Texas for SXSW, which is a festival for not only movies, but music and video games as well.  Like the years before, the line-up for the 2010 SXSW Film Festival is the goods.  Matthew Vaughn’s Kick-Ass will open up the fest and then there will be other great-looking films throughout including The Duplass Brothers’ Cyrus, SNL’s hard-R adaptation of MacGruber, Tim Blake Nelson’s Leaves of Grass, and Floria Sigismondi’s The Runaways, just to name a few.  If you’re going to this year’s SXSW, let me know so I can steal your identity and go in your place.

The 2010 SXSW Film Festival will run from March 12-20.  Check out the full list of films after the jump.

Unrated Promo Trailer for LEAVES OF GRASS Starring Edward Norton & Edward Norton; Film Opens December 25th

by Matt Goldberg    Posted: November 15th, 2009 at 10:12 pm

With some films shouting their Oscar intentions from the rooftops, Tim Blake Nelson’s Leaves of Grass may be trying to fly in under the radar.  For a comedy-thriller starring Edward Norton in dual roles and co-starring Keri Russell, Melanie Lynskey, Susan Sarandon, and Richard Dreyfuss, we’re only now getting a full (albeit non-MPAA approved) trailer, although another flickered online earlier this year.

Norton plays twin brothers, one a respectable college professor and the other a redneck pot dealer.  Lured under the false pretense of his brother’s death, the professor returns to his home town only to be entangled in a doomed scheme against a local drug lord (Dreyfuss).  It’s described as a stoner-comedy-thriller but don’t start thinking it’s along the lines of Pineapple Express.  The film is apparently “a fiercely original work on par with the idiosyncrasies and layers of the Coen Brothers and not like anything you’ve seen out there in a while.”  The pairing of Nelson and Norton already had me hooked and I like that the trailer makes the tone of the film tough to pin down as opposed to making it seem muddled.  Hit the jump to check it out along with a fuller synopsis of the film.  Leaves of Grass hits theaters on December 25^th.

Susan Sarandon May Play Shia LaBeouf’s Mother in WALL STREET 2: MONEY NEVER SLEEPS

by Matt Goldberg    Posted: August 25th, 2009 at 9:21 pm

Susan Sarandon, has carved out a great niche as a supporting actress (although it certainly speaks to how Hollywood handles its actresses once they can no longer be one the cover of Maxim), and she’ll soon be seen in both “Solitary Man” (starring Mary-Louise Parker and Michael Douglas) and “Leaves of Grass” (starring Edward Norton) at this year’s Toronto Film Festival.  She also co-stars in Peter Jackson’s upcoming film, “The Lovely Bones”.  Now she’s got another supporting role in the works.  Hit the jump to wonder how Susan Sarandon and Shia LaBeouf could be from the same gene pool.

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