'Die Hard,' 'Home Alone' And More Of Our Favorite 'Secret' Christmas Movies Dec 3, 2008
John Cusack in "The Ice Harvest" (Focus Features) ... "The Ice Harvest" (2005) ... Of course, "Ice Harvest" was too complex to market, too smart for mainstream audiences and too twisted to be remembered as a "Christmas movie." But as the film moves along, this John Cusack/ Billy Bob Thornton crime thriller continues unwrapping its characters until they give us some satisfying, memorable Christmas gifts. (VHI.com -- Music News)
John Cusack talks about War Jun 13, 2008
War, Inc. Martian Child 1408 Grace Is Gone The Ice Harvest Must Love Dogs Runaway Jury Identity Serendipity America's Sweethearts High Fidelity Being John Malkovich Cradle Will Rock Pushing Tin The Thin Red Line Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil Con Air. Grosse Pointe Blank The Road to Wellville Bullets Over Broadway Money for Nothing Bob Roberts Roadside Prophets Shadows and Fog True Colors The Grifters Fat Man and Little Boy Say Anything. (SheKnows.com)
Being John Cusack Jun 4, 2008
For most of his 25 years as a movie star (the son of actor Dick Cusack, he was 17 when he appeared in his first film, Class, and had been performing in Chicago's Piven Theatre Workshop for years before that), Cusack's output has tended to fall into one of two categories: romantic comedies that showcase his appeal as a thinking girl's dreamboat (The Sure Thing, Say Anything, High Fidelity) and weird, dark flights of fancy that allow him to serve as the poker-faced traveler in a thoroughly insane... (Slate)
'Grace Is Gone' Feb 21, 2008
This is not the Cusack of "1408," "The Ice Harvest" or even last year's "Martian Child," in which he played a tender father. Stan is an average guy with nondescript clothes and haircut, outdated eyeglasses and a belief system that is more sincere than eloquent. (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, PA)
Black-Man: Year One Jun 5, 2007
We chat with the filmmaker of The Ice Harvest. Onto the second disc we go with updated impressions. (IGN FilmForce)
Off into space Feb 27, 2007
" No, he isn't. But his career is full of just about everything else. In the decade since "Sling Blade" was released, he's played a sleazeball president of the United States ("Love, Actually"), a blackmailing barber ("The Man Who Wasn't There"), a Southern prison guard battling his inherited racism ("Monster's Ball"), a strip-club owner ("The Ice Harvest"), even a hard-drinking Little League baseball coach (the 2005 remake of "The Bad News Bears"). True, that may not be the most family-friendly... (AZCentral -- Entertainment)
