the express

Drunken Dialects of the South, With Your Guide Dennis Quaid

6:40AM STV | Dennis Quaid completed publicity rounds for The Express last night with a visit to Conan O’Brien, who veered a ways off the script with a shout-out to Quaid’s sultry 1987 potboiler The Big Easy. We had forgotten until that moment how mesmerizingly awkward his New Orleans detective’s bastardized Cajun accent was, but with the aid of his unfailing actor’s recall and an apparent nip or eight of green-room white lightning, the one-time King of Mardi Gras stunned the audience silent with a garbled scat that makes his Express turn look cardboard in comparison. “That was kind of schizophrenic,” concluded the rattled O’Brien. Sure — that’s one word for it. [Late Night with Conan O'Brien] More »

‘Express,’ ‘Quarantine’ Climb Into Multiplex Over Leo’s Dead ‘Body’

2:00AM STV | Welcome back to Defamer Attractions, your regular guide to everything new, noteworthy and potentially hideous this week at the movies. Today we see another fistful of titles tossed on the fall-release glut, none of which may have the stamina to outlast Disney’s purse dog in a three-day race at the box office. We also have our refined eye on the weekend’s most disappointing opening as well as our official art-house underdog, plus a few cherry-picked new DVD titles for the shut-ins among you. You know how this works by now: Our opinions are our own, but with free, near-gemological precision like this, why go anywhere else?