John Cusack might be my favorite actor ever, but lately he's given me little reason to cheer him on. Duds like War Inc.,
Hot Tub Time Machine
, and 2012
are not worthy of the star of High Fidelity
and a bunch of my favorite films of the 80s and 90s. Brighter things could be on the horizon, with his starring in The Raven as Edgar Allen Poe, but really I'm not sure that's the type of thing he's best at. We'll just have to wait and see, but I kinda like the sound of the move he's just made, signing on to replace Tobey Maguire in The Paperboy, directed by Lee Daniels(Precious
).
Matthew McConaughey, coming off a surprisingly strong turn in The Lincoln Lawyer
I'm still a little perplexed by how Daniels will handle the material, which had been developed by Spanish filmmaker Pedro Almadovar for something like a decade. The two couldn't be more different, but recent reports suggest that Almadovar may be more closely involved in the film now than I thought, which could only help.