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Ad Astra marked the first significant difference between critics and audience scores in Brad Pitt's career. Despite positive reviews for its visuals, storytelling, and Pitt's performance, the film was a box office bomb. Ad Astra's unoriginal plot, pace, and deviation from trailers left audiences disappointed, contributing to its box office failure.

Brad Pitt is one of the most profitable actors of his generation, but that hasnt saved him from some divisive projects, and one, in particular, divided critics and audiences the most. Brad Pitt has explored a variety of genres throughout his acting career, starting with drama in 1988s The Dark Side of the Sun, his first leading role. Pitt rose to fame in 1991 thanks to his role in Ridley Scotts Thelma & Louise, but his big break arrived three years later with Neil Jordans gothic horror movie Interview with the Vampire.

Since then, Pitt has made...

Brad Pitt is best known for his roles in all types of movies, mostly drama ones, but he has also served as a producer in a variety of projects, and he even appeared in some of them. Brad Pitt’s career in the entertainment business began in the late 1980s with roles in the TV shows Another World, Growing Pains, Head of the Class, Freddy’s Nightmares, and Dallas, and that same year, he had minor, uncredited roles in the movies Hunk, No Way Out, No Man’s Land, and Less than Zero. Pitt’s first leading film role arrived in 1988 in the American-Yugoslavian drama The Dark Side of the Sun, though it wasn’t released until 1997, and in 1988, he also made a guest appearance in the TV series 21 Jump Street.

After more supporting roles in film and guest appearances on TV, Pitt gained wider recognition with another supporting role: J.D....

For the past few months, New Yorkers have been treated to some great programs of rarely-screened films by major Japanese filmmakers at Japan Society. In the monthly film series "The Dark Side of the Sun: John Zorn on Japanese Cinema," avant-garde composer and musician John Zorn curated screenings (one with live musical accompaniment) of rare and overlooked Japanese films. The films were quite an eclectic bunch: a silent classic (Kinugasa Teinosuke's Crossroads); pink films (Inflatable Sex Doll of the Wastelands and Top Stripper); and a cult monster movie (Godzilla director Honda Ishiro's Matango aka Attack of the Mushroom People). (You can read Peter Gutierrez's nice piece on Crossroads and Inflatable Sex Doll of the Wastelands here.)The series wraps on February 20 with rare work by...

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If you're even just a little familiar with the music of John Zorn, the films he's curated for his monthly series, The Dark Side Of The Sun, at Japan Society, shouldn't come as too much of a surprise. Alternately bold and subtle, and somehow relentlessly experimental while remaining within the context of the traditional, even the sentimental, these are movies that combine high art and hard fun in unforgettable ways. At least that's the case with Inflatable Sex Doll Of The Wastelands (1967), which screens this Saturday, and Crossroads (1928), playing November 15. Regarding the latter, you should know that Kinugasa Teinosuke's silent will be accompanied by a live shamisen-and-percussion performance... but, trust me, even when viewed completely soundlessly the film's imagery carries its own...

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Always lending a helping hand, Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie were spotted visiting Bosnian refugees at the former Yugoslav republic of Montenegro on Tuesday (April 6).

The "Curious Case of Benjamin Button" star knows Montenegro from when he shot "The Dark Side of the Sun" there in 1988. The owner of the Splendid hotel near Budva explained, "Brad Pitt told me that he had wanted to show Montenegro to Angelina as he had nice memories of Perast, Sveti Stefan and Kotor where he had shot one of his first movies, at the beginning of his career in 1980s. He told me they could bring the kids here for a vacation as they like it and the nature is nice."

The couple was in Bosnia on Monday and spent time visiting internally displaced Bosnians that continue to live in the collective centers that still have horrific conditions, even 14 years after the end of the war.