Rocco Passafuime has written 58 articles for TheCinemaSource.com since 2008.
For most established Hollywood actors, the true test of their craft often involves a larger-than-life personality being able to successfully play either another larger-than-life personality or even the greater challenge of a more ordinary individual on the surface.
Enter 45 year-old Sandra Bullock. Despite having scored plenty of box office success with the Speed films, While [...]
John Cusack is an actor who has been one of the few actors lucky enough to mostly be the sole living, breathing special effect of his films, from Say Anything to Grosse Pointe Blank, Being John Malkovich, and High Fidelity. Now, the 43 year-old Cusack will have to compete with explosions, natural disaster, and destruction [...]
Amanda Peet does not strike one as a traditional leading lady. Throughout her career, she has played supporting roles in countless films ranging from The Whole Nine Yards and its sequel The Whole Ten Yards, Saving Silverman, Something’s Gotta Give, The Ex, and The X-Files: I Want To Believe.
Now, even as the 37 year-old actress [...]
If there is one thing consistent in actor Ben Foster, it’s his intensity, from TV series like HBO’s Six Feet Under to films like The Punisher, Hostage, Alpha Dog, and 3:10 To Yuma. He brings it to what may arguably be his most intense role yet as Staff Sergeant Will Montgomery in the drama The [...]
When an actor has an opportunity to work with a filmmaker of extraordinary caliber, it becomes the potential high point of their career. When such an opportunity becomes also the opportunity to do voice work in an animated film, it’s even more so.
Jason Schwartzman has worked with filmmaking wunderkind Wes Anderson’s Rushmore and The Darjeeling [...]
Wes Anderson has become one of this generation’s most revered filmmakers, both with Hollywood actors and with critics. He’s known mostly for his intimately cast, unusual comedy films like Rushmore, The Royal Tenenbaums, and The Darjeeling Limited.
Anderson’s unique path as a filmmaker has only gotten more so as the most arguably mainstream film of his [...]
From her very first lead film role in The Next Karate Kid, Hilary Swank has had the rare gift of both toughness and vulnerability that has enabled her to always make an emotional impact on audiences with her performances. And her full-bodied performances have paid off big time for the now-35-year old actress with two [...]
John C. Reilly has become the rarity of Hollywood actors only Robin Williams has truly become skilled at, equally adept of playing both comedy and drama. While having mostly been known in recent years for comedies like Talladega Nights: The Ballad Of Ricky Bobby, Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story, and Step Brothers, he’s received [...]
While Salma Hayek has long garnered a reputation as one of Hollywood’s most glamorous modern leading ladies, from the very beginning, she has never been afraid to push the more archaic or traditional conventions of femininity for her art.
Some of Hayek’s less conventional roles has consisted of playing vampire stripper Santanico Pandemonium in Robert Rodriguez’s [...]
2009 will undoubtedly go down as the year of the vampire as the success of the Twilight film has created a chain reaction with two successful TV series, HBO’s True Blood and the CW’s TV adaptation of another young adult book series The Vampire Diaries. Now yet another book series revolving around vampires, The Darren [...]