Tag: A Time to Kill
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Samuel L. Jackson Sounds Off On A Time To Kill Cutting An Oscar-Worthy Scene
For a time in the 1990s, a film adaptation of a John Grisham novel was guaranteed to turn a tidy profit at the box office, if not mushroom into a full-on blockbuster. “The Firm,” “The Pelican Brief” and “The Client” all made loads of money off of a built-in audience that just had to see…
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Samuel L. Jackson Says ‘A Time to Kill’ Cut Scenes Robbed Him of ‘Getting an Oscar’: ‘Really, Motherf—ers? You Just Took That S— From Me?’
Samuel L. Jackson told The Times last year that he deserved to win the Oscar for best supporting actor over Martin Landau (“Ed Wood”) at the 1995 Academy Awards. In a new interview with Vulture, the actor said he was robbed of a second chance to win an Oscar just a couple years later with…
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Samuel L. Jackson’s Best Rant of All Time Wasn’t in ‘Pulp Fiction’
There aren’t many performers who have mastered the craft of a well executed bout of profanity better than Samuel L. Jackson. Jackson has one of the longest filmographies of any actor working today, but the sheer quantity of projects that he’s in should not detract from his range as an actor; anyone that’s judged him…
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Matthew McConaughey’s Contact Role Seemed Hand-Crafted For Him
Science and religion make for strange bedfellows, but in “Contact,” we see two characters who personify them in bed together, anyway. One of them is Jodie Foster’s atheistic protagonist, Dr. Ellie Arroway. The other is Matthew McConaughey’s unconventional “man of the cloth, without the cloth,” Palmer Joss, who got his “master’s in divinity” before dropping…
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The 10 Best Sandra Bullock Movies, from ‘Gravity’ to ‘Miss Congeniality’
Breaking through at 50 miles per hour, Sandra Bullock hasn’t slowed down since “Speed.” Although the veteran performer’s first acting credit belongs to a minor part in the 1987 thriller “Hangmen” (which she’d follow up with a handful of straight-to-video releases and TV projects), Bullock didn’t become a household name among movie lovers until the…
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Matthew McConaughey Eyes HBO Return After ‘True Detective’ with ‘A Time to Kill’ Sequel Series
Matthew McConaughey is attached to star in a series for HBO based on “A Time for Mercy,” John Grisham’s follow-up to “A Time to Kill” (via Variety). The 1996 film version of “A Time to Kill” starred the young McConaughey as attorney Jake Brigance, the main character in the Grisham trilogy that includes bestsellers “A…
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Matthew McConaughey Says He Owes His Career to Joel Schumacher (Exclusive)
In response to Joel Schumacher’s death on Monday, Matthew McConaughey says his career wouldn’t have taken off if the late director hadn’t cast him as the lead in the 1996 film “A Time to Kill.”McConaughey was relatively unknown before starring as Jake Brigance in the courtroom crime drama. He had small roles in “Dazed and…