Rama's Screen

Just the other day, LA TIMES reported that Ben Stiller is replacing Eddie Murphy for the TOWER HEIST formerly known as Trump Heist, which will be directed by Brett Ratner (Rush Hour movies). It was supposed to be a black version of Ocean’s Eleven with Dave Chapelle, Chris Rock, Chris Tucker as the stars but now it’s either Stiller would be the only white folk in the gang or the formula has completely changed because Roger Friedman is now saying that Noah Baumbach (The Squid And The Whale, Fantastic Mr. Fox), who directed Stiller’s upcoming dramedy GREENBERG, has been hired to do a rewrite.. Read the rest of this entry »

And writer/director Noah Baumbach is back! Well, he helped pen the adapted screenplay of Fantastic Mr. Fox but this Baumbach’s return as a director since The Squid And The Whale (2005) which was excellent and smart in my book, Jeff Daniels should’ve been nominated for his performance, and the not so great Margot At The Wedding (2007) starring Jack Black and Nicole Kidman.
With GREENBERG, Ben Stiller stars as a man who chooses to do nothing for a while and is ok with it. We’re going to relearn Baumbah’s sense of humor and possibly understand the lesson behind the story but it’s refreshing to encounter a character who doesn’t seem to worry about love and life at all, or does he? And this could be Stiller’s actual decent performance in a long time, one that doesn’t require him to get chased by a skeletal dinosaur or pissed off by a mariachi band. Watch the trailer after this jump… Read the rest of this entry »