Sean Penn

This Must Be the Place

Bracing aesthetic and gentle humanity despite risking absurdity at times

19 Mar 2012

(15) 119min There is a strong sense of the baroque running through the films of Paolo Sorrentino, not least his bravura portrait of former Italian Prime Minister Andreotti in Il Divo. His first English language venture This Must Be The Place neither…

Director Paolo Sorrentino discusses the Sean Penn-starring This Must Be the Place

The drama merges themes of America, rock music and the Holocaust

19 Mar 2012

The protagonist at the heart of Paolo Sorrentino’s This Must be the Place isn’t your typical Nazi-hunter. Endearingly played by Sean Penn, Cheyenne is a retired rock star, now living in Dublin, whose mental and physical faculties have been impaired by…

The Tree of Life

Terrence Malick's sprawling epic a sermon urging re-engagement with spirituality

17 Jun 2011

(12A) 138min Terrence Malick often seems to be the last apostle of rugged individualism still at work in the American film industry. He painstakingly crafts films that are symphonic in structure with the character of poetic, intensely personal…

Fair Game

Thriller based on a true story, starring Sean Penn and Naomi Watts

2 Mar 2011

(12A) 107min The CIA leak that effectively ended CIA operative Valerie Plame’s career, and the subsequent fallout that revealed a line of corruption leading all the way from Republican low-lives Karl Rove and 'Scooter' Libby to the Whitehouse…

Sean Penn charged

Celebrity Gossip

20 Feb 2010

Sean Penn has been charged with attacking a photographer. The 'Milk' actor could be jailed for up to 18 months if found guilty of criminal battery and vandalism in relation to an incident last October. The 49-year-old star was detained by police…

Sean Penn's son arrested

Celebrity Gossip

4 Nov 2009

Sean Penn's teenage son was reportedly arrested last week. 16-year-old Hopper - the Oscar-winning actor's son with estranged wife Robin Wright Penn - was allegedly taken into custody by the Los Angeles County Sheriff's department after offices…

Sean Penn accused of kicking snapper

Celebrity Gossip

5 Oct 2009

Sean Penn has been accused of high-kicking a photographer. Cameraman Jordan Dawes filed a police report for battery against the 'Milk' actor saying he was assaulted on Friday (02.10.09) in Los Angeles. Jordan told E! News: "He made a beeline for…

Crossing Over

9 Jul 2009

Seven stories involving immigration and customs enforcement officials are awkwardly fused together in this well-meaning but compromised drama in the Crash/Babel mode. Writer/director Wayne Kramer graduates from promising lightweight B-movies Running…

Sean Penn takes career break

Celebrity Gossip

17 Jun 2009

Sean Penn has pulled out of two films because he wants to take a break from Hollywood. The Oscar-winning 'Milk' star has decided against appearing in 'The Three Stooges' and crime thriller 'Cartel', so he can focus on his family. The actor's…

Sean Penn's moustache kiss

Celebrity Gossip

9 Feb 2009

Sean Penn's fake moustache fell into his co-star's mouth during a gay kiss scene in new movie 'Milk'. The actor - who plays Harvey Milk, California's first openly gay elected official in the film - couldn't help giggling when his facial hair slipped…

Milk

22 Jan 2009

BIOPIC Gus Van Sant’s fairly conventional biopic of the first openly gay elected politician in the United States succeeds in overcoming genre limitations to create a powerful, compassionate film that’s up there with the director’s best work. We…

Sean Penn's gay request

Celebrity Gossip

1 Dec 2008

Sean Penn asked for more gay sex scenes to be written into new movie 'Milk'. James Franco - who stars alongside Sean in the film, which tells the story of Harvey Milk, California's first openly gay elected official - was surprised when he found the…

Sean Penn's 15 million house

Celebrity Gossip

15 Aug 2008

Sean Penn is selling his house for $15 million. The actor has put the 1933 Spanish-style property, in Marin County, California, he shares with wife Robin Wright Penn, who he recently reunited with, on the market. The impressive 10,000 sq ft home…

Madonna's love for Penn

Celebrity Gossip

16 Jul 2008

Madonna's brother Christopher Ciccone claims her ex-husband Sean Penn was "the love of her life". The 'Material Girl' singer - who was married to 'Mystic River' actor Sean from 1985 to 1989 - says she has never truly got over her split from…

Sean Penn back with wife

Celebrity Gossip

19 May 2008

Sean Penn and estranged wife Robin Wright Penn are reportedly back together. The Oscar-winning actor and the 'Forrest Gump' actress - who announced their separation last year - attended a party in Cannes, France, on Saturday night (17.05.08), which…

Indiana Jones premieres at Cannes

24 Apr 2008

The line-up for this year's Cannes Film Festival has been announced, and the most widely-anticipated premiere isn't even in competition. Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull will receive its first screening at the festival, with…

Sean Penn wants wife

Celebrity Gossip

28 Mar 2008

Sean Penn is reportedly "desperate" to win back estranged wife Robin Wright Penn. The 'Into the Wild' director - who split from his wife of 11 years last December - has allegedly been pestering the 41-year-old actress with late-night phone calls, it…

Petra Nemcova's Penn friendship

Celebrity Gossip

26 Feb 2008

Petra Nemcova has denied she is romancing Sean Penn. The pair fuelled speculation they are a couple when they arrived arm-in-arm for Elton John's annual AIDS Foundation post-Oscar party on Sunday (24.02.08). However, the 28-year-old model claims…

Into The Wild

1 Nov 2007

TRUE STORY/DRAMA (15) 140min Sean Penn steps behind the camera once more, to write and direct this robust yet freewheeling adaptation of journalist John Krakauer’s non-fiction book about the extraordinary experiences on the road of young American…

DVD Round-up

15 Jan 2007

‘January, sick and tired, you’ve been hanging on me.’ Yes, it’s that cruelest of months where our bank accounts are empty and the sofa becomes our best friend. Good thing really because it turns out there are actually some superb DVD releases and…