Tag: Pleasantville

  • Reese Witherspoon Boards Netflix Rom-Coms ‘Your Place or Mine’ and ‘The Cactus’

    Reese Witherspoon Boards Netflix Rom-Coms ‘Your Place or Mine’ and ‘The Cactus’

    Netflix has signed Reese Witherspoon to star in two upcoming romantic comedies called “Your Place or Mine” and “The Cactus.”She will also produce the projects through her Hello Sunshine company. Witherspoon has a lengthy feature comedy resume including “Sweet Home Alabama,” “Election,” “This Means War,” “Pleasantville,” “Home Again” and the “Legally Blonde” films.“Your Place or…

  • John Lindley Elected President of International Cinematographers Guild

    John Lindley Elected President of International Cinematographers Guild

    “Field of Dreams” cinematographer John Lindley has been elected at the new national president of the International Cinematographers Guild, a month after Lewis Rothenberg resigned from the post.The news was announced Sunday following an online meeting of the national executive board. He will serve for the remaining two years and two months of Rothenberg’s term.…

  • Toronto Film Review: ‘Beneath the Blue Suburban Skies’

    Toronto Film Review: ‘Beneath the Blue Suburban Skies’

    You never see the color blue in “Beneath the Blue Suburban Skies,” an unassuming slice-of-life family drama in brittle black and white. But Edward Burns still dares you to imagine the soothing shade stretching over the nearly identical middle-class homes of a commuter town outside of New York, symmetrically assembled with unexceptional yards rubbing shoulders…