Sean Penn

Sean Penn To Interview Fidel Castro

source: In Case You Didn't Know

The Mystic River actor has been heavily criticized for his connections to Castro and Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, with a U.S. journalist accusing him of discrediting his good work in the gay community by lending his support to the controversial politicians. Source

Published Mon, Oct 26

Tender Penn disappears inside 'Milk' role

source: Niles Daily Star

  USA So there we are watching Sean Penn, the "Brando of our generation" according to Director Gun Van Sant and four-time nominee, win another Oscar to go with his 2003 Best Actor Academy Award for Clint Eastwood's "Mystic River," written by Dennis Lehane, ...

Published Tue, Jun 2

"Milk" on DVD and Blu-ray Hi-Def to be Released

source: Kansas City infoZine

 MO Two-time Oscar® winner Sean Penn (Milk, Mystic River) and an all-star cast including Josh Brolin (W, No Country for Old Men), Emile Hirsch (Into the Wild), Diego Luna (Y Tu Mama Tambien) and James Franco (Spiderman trilogy) star in this remarkable and ...

Published Wed, Mar 4

Milk: A Review

source: thisgaudygildedstage (WordPress)

This device feeds into our appreciation of Penn’s performance, since it doubles his role — he’s both the present-tense narrator and the past-tense character. Penn is magnificent in this film. He’s already won an Oscar for Mystic River, which I didn’t really are for. (He should have won that...

Published Sun, Dec 14

The Fab Five: What our critics are buzzing about this week

source: Star-Telegram.com

2 Sean Penn’s reputation for inhabiting a character may have reached a zenith playing Harvey Milk, the first openly gay elected politician, slain in San Francisco in 1978. Penn has shed all the ropey muscularity and sociopathic, jittery edge of his Oscar-winning Mystic River character....

Published Thu, Dec 4

Sara Vilkomerson’s Guide To This Week’s Movies: Boys Town

source: New York Observer

How does Sean Penn do it? We’ve seen the man disappear into roles before: the twitchy, frizzy-haired lawyer in Carlito’s Way; death row inmate Matthew Poncelet in Dead Man Walking; a vengeful, grieving father with a Massholeriffic accent in Mystic River. But none of these could prepare y...

Published Mon, Nov 24

The world's greatest wasters

source: guardian.co.uk

 UK - Jun 6, 2008 Forget Mystic River - Sean Penn's most memorable role is as Fast Times At Ridgemont High's heroically dumb surf-stoner idiot, Jeff Spicoli. ...

Published Fri, Jun 6

The world's greatest wasters

source: guardian.co.uk

 UK - Jun 6, 2008 Forget Mystic River - Sean Penn's most memorable role is as Fast Times At Ridgemont High's heroically dumb surf-stoner idiot, Jeff Spicoli. ...

Published Fri, Jun 6