Quo auction fetches 100,000 Nov 7, 2008
The event, which marked the 40th anniversary of Status Quo's first hit Pictures Of Matchstick Men, saw the launch of a new retrospective album entitled Pictures: 40 Years Of Hits. Status Quo are due to take their tour to Europe on Friday, with a concert in Hanover. (BBC News -- Entertainment)
'Bangkok Dangerous': Thai Die, By Kurt Loder Sep 6, 2008
Anyone who's seen him in such memorable films as "Leaving Las Vegas," "Matchstick Men" and "The Weather Man" has to be baffled. Why, why. (VHI.com -- Music News)
Shawn Ryan, Michael Chiklis Ride Shields Final Season Aug 30, 2008
Mr. Ryan is working on the project with Ted Griffin, who wrote Matchstick Men and Oceans Eleven. . (TVweek.com)
Con Artist Redemption Apr 15, 2008
Other recommended movies about con men and scams: Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, Shade, The Sting, Matchstick Men, The Usual Suspects. Source: Email from Sarah Hammermill, Information Officer of the Federal Bureau of Investigation. (Suite101.com)
An unpredictability you can rely on Mar 21, 2008
Whether he's playing comic relief (Galaxy Quest), a villain (The Green Mile, Charlie's Angels) a sidekick (Matchstick Men) or unpredictable leading man (Confessions of a Dangerous Mind) - or even a two-headed president (The Hitchiker's Guide to the Galaxy) - you just never know where he's going to take you. Rockwell got his breakthrough in Tom DeCillo's Box of Moonlight (1996). (Globe and Mail -- Entertainment)
The man with the big picture Jan 11, 2008
What other director could have made Alien, Blade Runner, Thelma & Louise, Gladiator, Hannibal and Matchstick Men. Scott, who also paints, knows his art. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Entertainment)
Movie Review Nov 13, 2007
Scott knows how to make an interesting and entertaining film ("Gladiator," "Matchstick Men"), but his punches miss with "Gangster." The film is visually interesting, but the concept seems to rely too much on realism. If you want to watch a dry, naturalistic representation of crime in the '70s, "American Gangster" might be enough of a diversion. (University News, MO)
American Gangster recalls the late 60's drug trade Nov 3, 2007
Not since Thelma and Louise (1991) has Scott successfully gotten to the heart of his characters (with the exception of the underappreciated Matchstick Men), and here he fails to give us anyone to care about. Although Washington makes his character likeable, there's no mistaking that Lucas is a murderous, dope-smuggling war profiteer who deserves to fall. (Hillsdale Independent, NY)
Better the denim you know Nov 3, 2007
They became friends, but Parfitt didn't join the band until they recorded Pictures Of Matchstick Men ... In the 60s, their management convinced them that psychedelia was the way ahead, so they wore their gaudy colours and had a hit with the haunting Pictures Of Matchstick Men. (Guardian Unlimited)
'Joshua': Ill-Omened, By Kurt Loder Jul 7, 2007
Brad Cairn (Sam Rockwell, of the underrated "Matchstick Men" and "Confessions of a Dangerous Mind") and his wife, Abby (Vera Farmiga, of "The Departed"), are a wealthy New York couple living in a luxe apartment overlooking Central Park. Their little boy, Joshua (movie first-timer Jacob Kogan), seems like a model kid: polite, brainy, plays the piano. (VHI.com -- Music News)
Ghost Rider to Cage's Rescue Feb 20, 2007
look at Cage in Matchstick Men. The movie over all didn't do so good. (E! Online)
'Breach': Souled Out, By Kurt Loder Feb 17, 2007
") And while he doesn't drink, he does like to suck up jellybeans out of a martini glass. These arbitrary quirks don't rise to the level of funny even if you stack them on top of one another, which the movie does. And Johnny's offbeat superpower he turns into a skeleton and erupts in flames whenever there's evil around is so haplessly computer-generated, it's little more than a cartoon. Why does a skilful actor like Cage, so memorable in underrated films like "Matchstick Men" and "The Weather... (MTV.com)
'Breach': Souled Out, By Kurt Loder Feb 17, 2007
Why does a skilful actor like Cage, so memorable in underrated films like "Matchstick Men" and "The Weather Man," lower himself to appear in pop junk like "Ghost Rider". The director appears to have no facility for guiding actors, and so Cage is reduced to horror-face bellowing in some scenes, and in others to croaking out lines like "I am speaking to the fire element within me." He's also been burdened with a ratty black hairpiece that sits on his head like a crow on a phone pole. (VHI.com -- Music News)
Timberlake, Lohan And That Dakota Fanning Flick: Sundance 2007 Preview Jan 10, 2007
The first trailer, which has been making the rounds on the Internet lately, looks like "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" meets "Matchstick Men." Not a bad mix. Why we're intrigued: "Thirteen" star Wood, now 19 years old, seems ready to take things to the next level. (VHI.com -- Music News)
Talk of Our Town | Miami Beach grad assembles dream cast Jan 3, 2007
Among Zane's casting credits: Ocean's Twelve ( Brad Pitt, Catherine Zeta-Jones, George Clooney, Julia Roberts); The Terminal ( Tom Hanks); Matchstick Men ( Nicolas Cage), Road to Perdition (Hanks, Paul Newman); Traffic ( Michael Douglas); American Beauty ( Kevin Spacey, Annette Bening), and Patch Adams ( Robin Williams). She also cast Clooney, Pitt, Garcia, Matt Damon, Ellen Barkin and Al Pacino in Ocean's Thirteen, set for a June release. (The Miami Herald)
