The great A.V. Club, audiovisual offshoot to The Onion, has just posted two new reviews of The Perfect Host by bloggers Nathan Rabin and Noel Murray. While they feel, like a lot of early reviews, that the movie has perhaps a twist too far, they agree that David is pretty fun to watch.
Noel Murray: One summer I got hooked on the movie Deathtrap and watched it about a dozen times on HBO, enjoying all the twists and turns of its plot about two men with secrets, each trying to kill the other. Writer-director Nick Tomnay’s debut feature The Perfect Host isn’t as good as Deathtrap, but I enjoyed it for much the same reasons: it makes good use of a limited set and characters, and it keeps introducing new surprises. Clayne Crawford plays a bank robber who’s looking for a place to lay low, and cons his way into the home of dapper aesthete David Hyde Pierce. But Pierce, as it turns out, is more than a little nuts, and before long it’s impossible to say who’s really in control of the situation. Tomnay introduces flashbacks to fill in the blanks of Crawford’s story, and he introduces a left-field twist about Pierce in the last 15 minutes that brings the various threads of the movie together in a fairly ridiculous way. But it’s a fun kind of ridiculous, and Pierce plays his wacked-out dinner party host with such gusto that it almost doesn’t matter if all the characters are cartoons. Grade: C+ Read the rest of this entry »
Here’s a new interview with The Perfect Host‘s main stars – DHP, Nathaniel Parker and Clayne Crawford – by Campus MovieFest. Lots of advice for aspiring filmmakers there! And nice to see an interview with Nat Parker!
Check out this gorge recitation of Shakespeare’s Sonnet 29 at hitRECord.org. hitRECord is owned by brilliant (500) Days of Summer actor (and David’s Powers That Be co-star, back in the day) Joseph Gordon-Levitt.
Slash Film have an early review of The Perfect Host by David Chen up at their site – along with a video interview with DHP, Nick Tomnay and Clayne Crawford. The review is a mixed one, the general consensus being that the film is quite deranged – David, though, is deranged in a good way.
I loved the premise of The Perfect Host: a bank robber (Clayne Crawford) talks his way into the house of a well-to-do man named Warwick (David Hyde Pierce) by pretending to be the friend of a friend, only to find that Warwick is far more dangerous than he seems. So how was the film’s execution? Read the rest of this entry »
Yet another blog interview about how un-Nilesy David’s Perfect Host character is – this time at CNN’s Marquee blog!
David Hyde Pierce is probably best known for his Emmy-winning role as Dr. Niles Crane, the uptight brother on the long-running sitcom, Frasier. So it shouldn’t be a surprise that his character in his first feature film-starring role in the psychological thriller The Perfect Host, starts out as very Niles-like. Read the rest of this entry »
There’s a new interview with David at the Reuters Fanfare blog. Visit the blog for a short video clip of him talking The Perfect Host!
Usually, actors will do almost anything to avoid being typecast, or too closely associated with a particular character they’ve played in the past (Mark Hamill as Luke Skywalker, we’re looking at you here, among many). But sometimes having that extra baggage can be useful for an actor. Read the rest of this entry »
Here’s an interesting three-way chat between the director and two stars of The Perfect Host from Slash Film. Accompanying the vid is a review which we will post momentarily!
Here’s a roundup of photos of David hobnobbing over the first weekend of the Sundance Film Festival. First, here he is interviewing at the Variety studio with Nick Tomnay: Read the rest of this entry »
Here are some more wonderful Matt Carr portraits of the Perfect Host cast at Sundance. We’ve also added these babies to the gallery. Ah, the raised eyebrow look … a classic. Read the rest of this entry »
In a new interview with BlogTalkRadio (click the link to listen), David mentions many interesting things about shooting The Perfect Host … and also indicates his next project might be a play in London.
It’s all unconfirmed as yet, though. Still – UK fans, watch this space! (Thanks to Louise from the forum!)
The great A.V. Club, audiovisual offshoot to The Onion, has just posted two new reviews of The Perfect Host by bloggers Nathan Rabin and Noel Murray. While they feel, like a lot of early reviews, that the movie has perhaps a twist too far, they agree that David is pretty fun to watch.
In a new interview with 
