The New York Observer (Free subscription) | 07/10/2008
FLASH OF GENIUS RUNNING TIME 119 minutes WRITTEN BY Philip Railsback DIRECTED BY Marc Abraham STARRING Greg Kinnear, Lauren Graham, Alan Alda, Dermot Mulroney Equally sincere but without much entertainment value, Flash of Genius is another of those movies about honest, ordinary citizens fighting the powerful system of corporate corruption. This time little David is Dr. Robert Kearns, a professor of...
Seattle Times (Free subscription) | 06/10/2008
The awarding of the Nobel Prize in medicine on Monday writes a postscript to a bitter scientific dispute in the 1980s over who deserved credit for discovering HIV and the resulting test to screen blood for it.
Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Free subscription) | 06/10/2008
The awarding of the Nobel Prize in medicine on Monday writes a postscript to a bitter scientific dispute in the 1980s over who deserved credit for discovering HIV and the resulting test to screen blood for it.
Alliance of Women Film Journalists (Free subscription) | 05/10/2008
The passing of Paul Newman, at age 83, is, in a way, the passing of a generation. The Stewarts and Astaires and Hepburns (Katharine) of Hollywood’s Golden Age are gone. So, too, are most of the Pecks and Hestons and Hepburns (Audrey) who followed. And now Newman, who started out a scoundrel, a rogue and a heartbreaker in [...]
The Telegraph (Free subscription) | 04/10/2008
Never invest your money in anything that eats or needs repainting. BILLY ROSE If stock market experts were so expert, they would be buying stock, not selling advice.NORMAN R AUGUSTINEThere are three principal ways to lose money: wine, women and engineers. While the first two are more pleasant, the third is by far the more certain. BARON EDMOND DE ROTHSCHILDWealth is like sea-water; the more we drink,...
Contactmusic Ltd (Free subscription) | 03/10/2008
Did you ever wonder who fine-tuned the technology behind the intermittent windshield wiper? Neither did I until I caught Marc Abraham's Flash
atHome Top Story (Free subscription) | 03/10/2008
Thunk-thunk. Pause. Thunk-thunk.
Philadelphia Inquirer (Free subscription) | 03/10/2008
If timing is everything, there's no better time for "Flash of Genius" and its story of the Little Guy getting ripped off by Big Business.
New York Post (Free subscription) | 03/10/2008
GREG Kinnear, one of the most underrated utility players in contemporary Hollywood, shines with an awards- caliber glow as an inventor fighting the system in "Flash of Genius." Currently in first-rate form as a sarcastic spirit in the comedy...
filmcritic.com Movie Reviews (Free subscription) | 03/10/2008
Did you ever wonder who fine-tuned the technology behind the intermittent windshield wiper?Neither did I until I caught Marc Abraham's Flash of Genius, a sober biopic with a surprisingly destructive core that recounts how casual inventor Bob Kearns deciphered how one could pause a perpetually sweeping wiper blade, then fought the Ford Motor Company for proper credit.Greg Kinnear does his best aw-shucks...
Comedy Central Insider (Free subscription) | 02/10/2008
It might surprise you that Bill O'Reilly gets angry and stays that way for a really, really long time. The Hater tells us that in his memoir, Shit I've Been Really Mad About that Normal People Would Let Go, also...
Philadelphia Inquirer (Free subscription) | 02/10/2008
If timing is everything, there's no better time for "Flash of Genius" and its story of the Little Guy getting ripped off by Big Business. In the fact-based "Flash of Genius," the man against the system is Robert Kearns, a professor/inventor who designs and builds the first intermittent windshield wiper back in the '60s.
BuddyTV (Free subscription) | 29/09/2008
Now that the fourth season of Weeds is over, production has settled down to take a break from the tumultuous season that ended with Nancy Botwin revealing that she is pregnant with what we assume is Esteban’s baby. More intrigue...
In Theaters This Week (Free subscription) | 29/09/2008
Starring Greg Kinnear, Lauren Graham, Dermot Mulroney, Alan Alda, Bill Smitrovich, Tim Kelleher, Jake Abel
MediaBistro.com (Free subscription) | 26/09/2008
Next year, a star-studded cast--James Franco, Alan Alda, Jeff Daniels, Mary-Louise Parker and Paul Rudd--will dramatize the literary life and times of Allen Ginsberg in the biopic, Howl . After a summer dominated by superhero blockbusters, it seems somewhat quixotic to make movie heroes out of poets and literary critics. The film also faces the daunting task of getting the Internet generation excited...
