Me and Orson Welles

Orson Welles is alive and well and residing in the body of British actor Christian McKay! McKay is simply stunning here as Welles - the look, the eye-brow, the mannerisms, the bounce, the voice - never have i seen Welles, as... Full review

Very high expectation to see Zac Efron's new flick,out of Disney movies. *Me and Orson Welles* should be a nice one. Zac is young but great on the performance. Really can not wait to see it.... Full review

When I saw that Richard Linklater had a new film at the Toronto International Film Festival and that it took place during Orson Welles' run at the Mercury Theatre, I was very interested. Me and Orson Welles is based off a... Full review

The career of Richard Linklater has proved one of the most delightfully eclectic in the film industry, veering between works as diverse as teenage subculture films (Dazed and Confused) to philosophical romances (Before Sunrise) to drug-addled paranoid thrillers (A Scanner Darkly)... Full review

I just got to say before I write this review, I am not the type of person who is impressed by someone like Zac Efron, I would actually refrain from seeing a movie with an actor like this, but this film... Full review

He has nailed every vocal nuance that contributed to Welles' acting performances and larger-than-life personality. Through Richard's eyes we watch the show take shape in its last week, moving from near catastrophe to artistic victory while its director and star (Welles played Brutus) throws off brilliant though often contradictory ideas, sneaks off to trysts with willing actresses and assistants, continues the radio show that pays the bills and never apologizes for his raging ego. ... Full Review

another actor may have been better....because Me and Orson Welles is actually a nicely-made, warmly-shaped story of life upon the wicked stage....Welles is a brilliant artist, a top-notch bastard and a world-class skirt-chaser;.... ... Full Review

The film does analyze his artistic process and his perhaps already damaged psyche with a degree of hindsight, giving him a speech of self-assessment the real Orson would have been incapable of in 1937. He's nailed every vocal nuance that contributed to Welles' acting performances and larger-than-life personality. ... Full Review

Christian McKay rightly dominates the film....A robust specialist release should allow Linklater to reach an older, well-heeled demographic who have little knowledge of his slacker movie past.....They have found such an actor in Christian McKay who gives a superlative performance.....It is an experience that shows him the best and worst of an actor's life.... ... Full Review

I really like Zac's look with his hair off his forehead although he looks great either way. So glad Zac and Vanessa are åble to branch out and add different roles to their careers. ... Full Review

In Me and Orson Welles, Zac Efron plays a scrappy young actor who manages to get on Orson Welles' good side and earn himself a part in Welles' stage production of Julius Caesar. ... Full Article

Woo-hoo! Zac Efron is back, baby! Here is the brand-ew, US trailer for Zefron's new flick, Me and Orson Welles . In the flick, which also stars Claire Danes , Zac plays Richard Samuels, a teenage boy cast in the... ... Full Article

I have never been ashamed of the fact that I'm somewhat in love with Zac Efron, and maybe with the help of Richard Linklater, I'll never need to be. ... Full Article

By Gregg Kilday LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - Richard Linklater's "Me and Orson Welles," which premiered at last year's Toronto International Film Festival, will be released theatrically in the U.S. on November 25. ... Full Article

You'd think a film by Richard Linklater would be a slam dunk to get distribution, but for some reason his latest Me and Orson Welles has been stuck on a shelf somewhere going nowhere. ... Full Article

A promo trailer for Richard Linklater's Me and Orson Welles showed up online yesterday and seems entertaining enough and with Zac Efron should be able to draw a few wandering pop culture eyes and for those of you that remember... ... Full Article