Sean Penn

Sean Penn It's a long way from stoner surfer Spicoli in 'Fast Times at Ridgemont High' to 'Milk' and the Oscar. But Sean Penn is proving to be the male version of Meryl Streep -- even when he's less than perfect (see his stab at being mentally-challenged in 'I Am Sam'), he's better than the rest....

By ANON Almost four months later, he died of starvation near Denali National Park and Preserve. Inspired by the details of McCandless’s story, author Jon Krakauer wrote a book about his adventures, published in 1996, entitled Into the Wild. In 2007, Sean Penn directed a film of the same title.

By Marshall Fine It's been more than two years since Sean Penn cast Hal Holbrook in Into the Wild - but Holbrook is still singing his praises. "Sean... It's been more than two years since Sean Penn cast Hal Holbrook in Into the Wild - but Holbrook is still singing his praises.

By Roberta Robin Wright Penn moved her family out of Hollywood after witnessing Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt’s daily struggle with photographers. Robin Wright Penn moved her family out of Hollywood after witnessing Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt’s daily struggle with photographers...

By cmrok93 With an all-star cast — featuring Sean Penn, George Clooney, Nick Nolte and Adrien Brody — director Terrence Malick’s lyrical and beautiful retelling of James Jones’s novel about the 1942 battle for Guadalcanal was nominated for seven Oscars. With narration by Pvt. Witt (Jim Cavaziel),...

By Monika Bartyzel Remember when Sean Penn decided to back away from Hollywood to tend to his family? Well, that didn't seem to go too well. Only a short time later in August, Robin Wright Penn filed for divorce. So much for finding familial focus. With all that freed time, one might think he'd chill with his kids,...

By cmrok93 Tragedy reunites childhood friends Sean (Kevin Bacon), Dave (Tim Robbins) and Jimmy (Sean Penn) when they’re linked together in the Boston-based murder investigation of Jimmy’s teenage daughter. But while detective Sean works the case, Jimmy launches his own quest for the truth.

By cmrok93 This is a very different movie from any of other Nicholson’s. He’s more serious and more quiet in another film feature from Sean Penn, yes the actor too. The Pledge isn’t as much a thriller as it is a journey inside the mind of this aging retired cop’s head.

By Elisabeth Rappe Adjust your calenders, and don't hold your breath for Terrence Malick. (If you ever hold your breath for Malick, that is. His latest opus, The Tree of Life, starring Brad Pitt and Sean Penn,was given a tentative release date of December 25, 2009. But it won't be making that date, according to A...

Marital Phases The two, who had been together since 1989 and got married in 1993, stopped the divorce proceedings in April 2008. The same day the court clerk dismissed the petition at their request, they were seen together at an Eddie Vedder concert in San Francisco.

By James Wallace After Sean Penn dropped out of THE THREE STOOGES, the role was vacant for a Larry in The Farrelly Brothers’ big screen version of the classic short film and TV series that chronicled the misadventures of a trio of knuckleheads. Now it would appear that Paul Giamatti is stepping in to play the...

By Kaiser Natalie Portman is denying all of those romance rumors between her and Sean Penn. The rumors have been swirling for about two months. Allegedly, Sean and Natalie were making out around the weekend of the Oscars. When Sean formally filed for separation from Robin Wright Penn in April, gossip...

Allen Coulter, the award-winning TV director (The Sopranos, Damages) who made his feature debut with Hollywoodland in 2006, is directing the film and Nick Osborne and Trevor Engelson of Underground Films (License To Wed) are producing.

By Sean Penn I know President Chavez well. Whether or not one agrees with all his policies, what is certainly true of Chavez is that he is a warm and friendly man with a robust sense of humor. To treat such a man coldly is akin to spitting on him. As a country we've done enough of that. Say what you will, but it has o...

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By Tom Gregory Just a few days ago I bought a suit Sean Penn wore during his Academy Award winning performance in MILK. For the highest bid to two charities (Variety, The Children's Charity of Southern California and New York's Hetrick-Martin Institute, home of Harvey Milk High School), I won the covete...

 CA This past weekend, 26 years after Sean Penn played a surfer dude, he won the Best Actor Academy Award for playing a gay dude. No offense against Penn’s slick portrayal of Harvey Milk, but the nonchalance of Jeff Spicoli is a bit more appealing to this ...

 GA With Robert De Niro, Sean Penn, Robin Wright Penn and John Turturro. R (profanity, violent images, sexual content and drugs) (CC) THE HAUNTING OF MOLLY HARTLEY 1.5 stars (20th Century Fox, '08) $29.99. 85 mins. It's not her new school that is troubling ...

By The Huffington Post News Team Penn, in Giorgio Armani, also perfectly matched his wife, Robin Wright Penn. Vanessa Hudgens, in a black Marchesa gown with black and white tulle flowers on the bodice and dangling platinum, diamond and vintage coral earrings by Cathy Waterman, and Zac Efron, in Dolce & Gabanna, wer...

By brocknroll Sean Penn ended up winning for “Best Actor”, poor Mickey. Even Sean himself seem dissapointed that Mickey wasn’t up there holding the award instead of him, ’cause Sean gave him a shout out at the end of his speech. Sean Penn deserves it though ’cause he is an amazing actor as well as he is an a...

By Brad Balfour GVS: I've done a few films [with] gay characters, but not super-positive gay characters. I heard about this project through Rob Epstein, [the director of the electric, Oscar-winning documentary, The Times of Harvey Milk,] who had heard that [director] Oliver Stone was no longer going t...

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By kymberg NETFLIX SYNOPSIS:   Sean Penn (in an Oscar-nominated role) stars in this fact-based drama about Harvey Milk, the openly gay activist and San Francisco politician who was murdered along with mayor George Moscone (Victor Garber) by disgruntled city employee Dan White (Josh Brolin, in...

By The Huffington Post News Team Ledger's supporting-actor prize for his sociopathic reinvention of Batman bad guy the Joker put the late actor a step closer to becoming just the second performer to win a posthumous Academy Award. The first was Peter Finch, the best-actor recipient for 1976's "Network."

By kyle At the somewhat dullish New York Film Critics Circle Awards last night, Josh Brolin gave a catankerous and hilarious speech that nearly had me snorting wine out my nose. Brolin, who won Best Supporting Actor honors for “Milk,” playing a role that was originally meant for Matt Damon, may ha...

By rss@youtube.com (revision3) Sean Penn stars in this new movie. Should you go see it? This in-depth review helps you decide Author: revision3 Keywords: Milk movie Penn review reviews Sean Added: December 30, 2008

By Celebitchy After his December 23 appearance on David Letterman, Rourke told someone backstage that he was surprised that so many people seemed to think that Penn was his Oscar competition since “I’m not even sure he’ll get a nomination.” “It’s a shame,” says one veteran Hollywood lawyer. “Mickey sho...

By Steve Ralls In Gus Van Sant's film Milk, Sean Penn, portraying the slain San Francisco Supervisor, asks a young Cleve Jones (played by Emile Hirsch in the... In Gus Van Sant's film Milk, Sean Penn, portraying the slain San Francisco Supervisor, asks a young Cleve Jones (played by Emile Hirsch in the film...

By Ryan Tate Travelling in the company of Douglas Brinkley, the noted actor, and Christopher Hitchens, the world-famous hedge-fund executive and philanthropist, Penn was the invited guest of President Hugo Chávez, of Venezuela, well-known as an advocate for the Social Gospel, and of Raúl Castr...

By Ryan Tate Travelling in the company of Douglas Brinkley, the noted actor, and Christopher Hitchens, the world-famous hedge-fund executive and philanthropist, Penn was the invited guest of President Hugo Chávez, of Venezuela, well-known as an advocate for the Social Gospel, and of Raúl Castr...

By Kyle Drennen HARRY SMITH: Actor James Franco who's starring in 'Milk' with Sean Penn, getting rave reviews. He'll be here to talk about his big role this morning as well. SEAN PENN: Who invited you in? JAMES FRANCO: Yeah, you need some- SEAN PENN: Can I just tell you- SMITH: Right. And making movies.

Linson, whose many production credits include The Untouchables, Fight Club, and Into the Wild, is certainly qualified to have an insider's view of Hollywood, and his story is probably more accurate than many in Hollywood would care to admit. Nevertheless, that didn't deter many top nam...

By Greg Hernandez The ArcLight in Hollywood had a midnight showing of "Milk" which I attended with friends.The movie is superb and I'm just going to say it right here and now: Sean Penn will win a well-deserved second Academy Award for best actor for his astounding performance as Harvey Milk, the first openl...

By The Huffington Post News Team He's also drawn from Sean Penn one of the most glorious performances ever in the actor's long and varied career. Van Sant and Penn could have deified this man, who did so much for so many and worked so tirelessly for so long, and paid the ultimate price. And yes, we see all that _ the sacrifice and...

He's also drawn from Sean Penn one of the most glorious performances ever in the actor's long and varied career. Van Sant and Penn could have deified this man, who did so much for so many and worked so tirelessly for so long, and paid the ultimate price. And yes, we see all that - the sacrifice and...

By Rex Reed The film begins with the Stonewall riots on the day of Judy Garland’s death in 1970, when a strong odor of anarchy was blowing in the wind. The smell of adrenalin reached Milk, a bored, 40-year-old insurance salesman, amid actual newsreel footage of police crackdowns, dragging men out of g...

By kymberg REVIEW:  A cute, funny mock biopic - imagine VH1’s What Ever Happened to [X] Rock Star? show and apply it to the second best guitarist in the world (except for Django of course, that French gypsy) played by a very good Sean Penn.  This is one of those films where I thought at the end - d*mn, I keep...

By Christopher Rosen But what intrigues us most about the film is Mr. Eastwood's performance. Surrounded by largely unknowns and non-actors, the star plays yet another in a long line of old and old-timey dudes trying to find their way in a world they no longer understand. It's a part that Mr. Eastwood has been doing...

By Sean Penn Despite recent boasts to the contrary, by the Director of Homeland Security Michael Chertoff, (Bush's key bumbler of the Katrina debacle) our country is not safer. It is not safer from without, and it is not safer from within. The divisiveness brought on by the policies of George W. Bush and J...

By Kevin It took a lot of persistence (more on that in this week’s FilmCouch), but I managed to get an interview with Sean Penn. Penn is here with Into the Wild, which he directed. Based on a book of the same name, the film follows the real life story of a young man’s journey into the heart of the Alaskan wil...

Oscar nominees astonished, speechless, shocked by nominations  SD - What (director Sean Penn) did was very daring." Holbrook, who got the best supporting actor nod, in New York for a few days, called Penn on Tuesday morning. ...

Miche is jazzed from seeing Airborne Toxic Event, and decides to record a show! Miche has a couple of outstanding corrections. The two mixes of "Sometime Around Midnight". Which do you prefer? More strike coverage, and how it's rippling through Hollywood. Sean Penn may just get that direct...

Though Sean Penn and soon-to-be ex-wife Robin Wright remain tight-lipped about the events leading to their breakup, Star Magazine reveals the sordid details of their last weekend together. Allegedly the actor continued to party the night away, while Robin was nowhere to be seen. “When a...

L.A. Economy to Take Hit From Strike If the Writers Guild of America strike continues into next month, film officials have concluded that the Los Angeles economy stands to lose $21.3 million a day, the Los Angeles Times reports. The 1988 strike, which lasted five months, cost the entertainme...

By Norm Schrager Twenty-five years ago, I giggled my way through Fast Times at Ridgemont High, director Amy Heckerling’s all-too-real take on high school life in the 1980s. I was just about to enter high school, so this was damn important stuff. Two-and-half decades later, it remains important (added to t...

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By Chase Whale There are two things I hate about the movie theater: one, when people kick the back of my chair, especially in quiet scenes where everyone around you knows what they are doing (you know what I’m talking about), and two, Sean Penn. Yeah, Sean Penn. I have disowned him from my fanboy status since...

Sean Penn will be receiving The 2006 Christopher Reeve First Amendment Award from The Creative Coalition this evening, December 18, 2006, in New York City, where he will deliver the following speech. Note for later: Non-stop U.S. war in Iraq Health care Education Job training

By Jessica Sean Penn: His Life and Times By Richard T. Kelly Reviewed by Manohla Dargis They Made America From the Steam Engine to the Search Engine: Two Centuries of Innovators By Harold Evans with Gail Buckland and David Lefer Reviewed by Neil Genzlinger