The Great Buck Howard

The Great Buck Howard stars John Malkovich as the title character, a socially awkward "mentalist" who hates being called a magician and is hoping his new assistant, played by Colin, can help him mount a comeback. A lot of young actors with a famous relative avoid working together, but both Hankses are nonchalant about it. ... Full Review

The Great Buck Howard is a feel-good movie that doesn't make you feel stupid for feeling good. And I'm very pleased to report that his newest offering, a smoothly, strongly appealing comedy called The Great Buck Howard , is definitely the "big break" that McGinly's been working for. ... Full Review

Just as Troy has had enough of Buck's temper tantrums, along comes Emily Blunt as a press agent from New York, who Buck immediately detests when she takes an immediate liking to Buck's ambitious assistant. Buck is quite a character, his schtick including a trademark arm-flailing handshake, but as much as he creates this instantly likable persona, the real Buck Howard is a temperamental taskmaster who takes out his aggressions on Troy. ... Full Review

Where Buck does fail is in, almost a celebrity clich, personal manners. Buck is a mentalist and his show consists of hypnotism and various guessing games always concluding with his most famous effect, a hide-and-seek amongst the audience to find the money hes being paid for the show. ... Full Review

Beneath the froth, this comedy smartly touches those wellsprings, as well as reveals Buck's end-routine journey to Bakersfield. The Great Buck Howard" is an amiable trek, laced with sly irony and torqued with the wonderful notion that there is still magic in this world. ... Full Review

I'm still recovering from the food coma that was the result of Thursday's Thanksgiving dinner, but turkey wasn't the only thing served up this week. ... Full Article

The Great Buck Howard is a movie that seems constantly on the verge of turning into something. Although its title character is a stage magician (a mentalist, really, he would insist), the movie is like a trick that's all set-up... ... Full Article

He worked two days on the movie - it was a bit of a trip, Colin said of his fathers recently-filmed role in The Great Buck Howard. ... Full Article

Time to play catch up with a couple of indie distribution deals that were completed during the past few days. In the warm afterglow of Cannes, IFC Films acquired one more title to add to their stockpile, according to The ... Full Article

Clint Eastwood's Flags of our Fathers has been selected to open the 19th Tokyo Film Festival , beginning October 21. The WWII epic is one of two films Eastwood is directing based on the famous battle for the island of... ... Full Article