Joaquin Phoenix

By Kyle Buchanan Joaquin Phoenix, j'accuse! Sure, films like Ladder 49 and The Village were egregious. But, faking the funk (and faking out the Funkmosphere)? This, we simply cannot support. Joaquin Phoenix (dressed like The Dude) debuts rap career at Dam-Funk's Funkmosphere [Stones Throw]

By STV The Oscar-winning actress [...] acknowledged some of her recent films had not been a great success, saying she had "quirky taste." Stars walk the red carpet for 'Australia' premiere [Reuters] Nicole Kidman says she's unsure about future acting [Reuters] Baz Luhrmann's Australia is good,...

By STV It's a far more graceful exit strategy than that of her contemporary Joaquin Phoenix, if only for its intelligibility and lack of knuckle-writing, but all the more jarring for her anticipation of her grandmother years. We'd heard Maddox is precocious and everything, but come on. That's g...

By STV The Hollywood Reporter notes that Russell Crowe and Mel Gibson were among the names once circling the project, a nifty batshit tandem we hope remains viable so many years on. (We share another writer's disappointment that newly retired Joaquin Phoenix won't be around to join them.) Peter...

By Kyle Buchanan We've been vexed, terribly vexed by Joaquin Phoenix's slurred proclamation to Extra that he planned to give up acting to follow in the illustrious, thesp rock footsteps of The Bacon Brothers and 30 Odd Foot of Grunts. Was he seriously quitting the business, or was it all a ruse for some forl...

By STV With the minor exception of missing out on Jim Toback's documentary on Mike Tyson (which will screen here this fall anyway — we can wait), the only regret we have so far about sitting out the Cannes Film Festival is our absence at the mini-riot that preceded the press screening of director J...

· So we're at the Coldplay concert at the Pond on Tuesday (2/7) with fairly decent floor seats 918th row). My husband asks, "hey, isn't that Joaquin Phoenix?" as this short, kind of frumpy guy walks by and I think, "no, an Oscar nominee could surely afford better seats." Then we saw all sorts of...

By Mark I remember this knocking on the passenger window," said Phoenix. "There was this German voice saying, 'Just relax.' There's the air bag, I can't see and I'm saying, 'I'm fine. I am relaxed.' Joaquin Phoenix Pulled from Car Wreck by Director Werner Herzog [LAT]Previously: Joaquin Phoenix Ri...

By Seth Us Weekly reports that #1 Folsom Prison pin-up hunk Joaquin Phoenix survived a car crash today: Us Weekly has learned exclusively that actor Joaquin Phoenix was involved in a serious car accident in Los Angeles earlier today. "His brakes went out and the car flipped over," the actor's pub...

By Seth The much publicized Joaquin Phoenix appearance and screening of the Johnny Cash biopic Walk the Line at Folsom Prison took place Tuesday; after the movie was shown, Phoenix performed some Cash songs for a select group of inmates, as the rest of the 4,000 prisoners watched on closed circu...

By Seth At last night's AFI Fest premiere of hotly-buzzed about Johnny Cash biopic Walk the Line, star Joaquin Phoenix fielded scores of red carpet questions about his uncanny, 'yes-that's-him-playing- and-singing' transformation into the Man in Black. But with one AP reporter, Phoenix get...