Even as I was in the act of writing a recent article about Paul Greengrass’s new film “Green Zone,” I couldn’t help but call bs on myself. After all the quote at the heart of the article was from film co-star Jason Isaacs, who told MTV News that the flick didn’t really use a script, that Greengrass changed his direction every take, that the bulk of the movie was made up of a sort of guerilla style, high-octane game of improv.

That couldn’t possibly be right, could it?

“Yes I would say that Jason nailed it pretty nicely there,” “Green Zone” Greg Kinnear said of Isaac’s observations, which included lines like “[Paul] just throws you into the deep end.” Read more...

I’ll admit: I love reading comments on my stories. I devour them, scour them, argue them, and use them. But very rarely do they throw me for a loop. That’s exactly what happened, though, when I broke the news last year that Greg Kinnear and Lauren Graham were starring together in a movie about Bob Kearns, the inventor of the intermittent windshield wiper. One comment came from a personal acquaintance of Kearns’. Another from a friend of his son’s. Another still from his own daughter, Kathy.

As self-evident as it should have been, it hit me only after reading those comments: This guy was actually a real person who, for better or worse, waged a nearly unwinnable battle, profoundly messing up his children in the process.

If I felt that way reading a comment from his daughter, though, imagine how Greg Kinnear must have felt playing the man in “Flash of Genius” and having the daughter right there! Read more...