Jeremy Irons

Appaloosa
114 Minutes
WRITTEN BY Robert Knott and Ed Harris
DIRECTED BY Ed Harris
STARRING Viggo Mortensen, Ed Harris, Renée Zellweger, Jeremy Irons, Timothy Spall

In most movie westerns, an appaloosa is a horse. But the title of his new revisionist oater, Ed Harris’ first outing in the director’s chair since Pollock, refers to a town where, as one wag at last week’s dull Toronto International Film Festival observed, “men are men and women are … Renée Zellweger.” It went over with a thud there, but in retrospect, considering all the pretentious bores surrounding it, it’s beginning to look good.  read more »

Joan Allen and Jeremy Irons are coupling up for a return to Broadway. The Tony winners (and experts in aging gracefully) will get back on stage together in the world premiere of Impressionism, a new American play by Michael Jacobs (Cheaters), according to BroadwayWorld.com. The production, about a jet-setting photojournalist and a New York gallery owner who fall for each other and discover the "art to repairing broken lives," will come to Broadway in Spring 2009. BWW.com reports that this play will mark Ms. Allen’s first return to Broadway since The Heidi Chronicles in 1989, and Mr. Irons’ first time on Broadway since The Real Thing in 1984.