Neil Burger
  • 'Limitless'

    ...gift. Abbie Cornish , Anna Friel ("Pushing Daisies") and Johnny Whitworth also star for director Neil Burger. DVD extras: two "making-of" documentaries ; alternate ending. *** (PG-13 and unrated versions......

  • Movie Review: 'The Lucky Ones'

    ...family and leave the Army for civilian life. Right away in "The Lucky Ones" you feel director and co-writer Neil Burger struggling to arrange all the narrative furniture. Circumstances contrive to get these three to share a rental car......

  • Shia LaBeouf Explores 'Dark' Places

    ...LaBeouf has landed the lead in "Dark Fields," a techno- thriller from Universal. According to Variety, Neil Burger ("The Illusionist") will direct the project, which Leslie Dixon ("Hairspray") adapted from the 2002 novel by......

  • 'How to Eat Fried Worms'

    ...a somewhat hip production team. His cinematographer, Richard Rutkowski, shot "Interview with the Assassin" for Neil Burger ("The Illusionist") and the score is by Mark and Bob Mothersbaugh of Devo. Still, "Worms" has a crass, would......

  • 'The Illusionist'

    ...Steven Millhauser's haunting, yet nearly plotless, short story "Eisenheim the Illusionist," writer-director Neil Burger's "The Illusionist" comes off as, if anything, excessively plotted. Burger captures the feel of Vienna on the......

  • 'The Illusionist' Has Biel Appeal

    ...that she was never princess-crazy, it must have been something beyond the corsets and tight bodices that led her to Neil Burger's film. "I was really interested in this woman who, in my opinion, was stuck, this modern woman stuck in 1900......