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Adrien Brodyand Keanu Reeveshave both seen their careers surge over the past decade. For Brody, he's up for his second Best Actor nomination at this year's Academy Awards due to his stirring performance in The Brutalist. For Reeves, he's become a cornerstone of major film franchises with films like John Wickand Sonic the Hedgehog 3. With all their success, film fans are probably thinking: "It's only a matter of time until those two star in a film together." Those fans will be pleased to know that Brody and Reeves did share the screen in a little known '90s film called The Last Time I Committed Suicide.

Welcome to The B-Side, from The Film Stage. Here we talk about movie stars! Not the movies that made them famous or kept them famous, but the ones that they made in between.

And today we are fortunate enough to speak with Adrien Brody himself about his new film Clean, along with some of the more memorable B-Sides from earlier in his career. These highlights include Love The Hard Way, Detachment, and Cadillac Records (currently on Netflix as we publish this! Watch it!).

We dive into all of the work that went in to getting Clean made and into movie theaters, Brody’s deep bench of B-Side movies, and the enduring New York City setting in Love The Hard Way.

Clean is currently in theaters and everywhere you rent and buy movies.

For more from The B-Side, you can find every actor/director and the films discussed in one place here.

After being rejected by her crush, Chihiro, a young school girl turns to online dating service where she meets Makoto. Makoto is investigating a series of suicides that he believes to be linked to a mysterious online persona. Bearing a resemblance to Makato’s girlfriend who committed suicide and knowing two of the other schoolgirls who jumped to their death, Makoto attempts to force himself into her life. As the couple gets to know each other, they become romantically involved, but Chihiro still has lingering thoughts of a past romance and her friend’s suicide.

The Suicide Chain is available from Pink Eiga

Faced with internal conflict being fed by admiration for her friend who committed suicide, Chihiro herself starts struggling with suicidal ideation. Makoto begins to piece things together, realizing that there may be an external force pushing these young girls to suicide. He focuses his attention on saving...

Recently, the intrepid co-hosts of Sound on Sight radio asked me to help host a podcast devoted to Keanu Reeves. I had been hoping for a long time that they would have just such a podcast, and I wanted to take this opportunity to explain a little bit more about why I find Reeves to be such a fascinating figure, and why I have spent so many hours of my life thinking about him and enjoying his films. It’s already fairly common knowledge that Reeves is a pretty spectacular human being. In terms of recounting his personal awesomeness, this article (http://www.ranker.com/list/the-7-greatest-_true_-keanu-reeves-stories-ever-told/joanne) does a better job than I ever could. Give it a glance. But being an amazing human hasn’t necessarily won Keanu the accolades he deserves in the artistic world. And so, in terms of arguing for his value as a film star,...

The release of M Night Shyamalan's The Last Airbender has reminded me that, with few notable exceptions, most movies with 'last' in the title are really bad

M Night Shyamalan's latest release is always aggressively advertised as "An M Night Shyamalan Film" – perhaps to preclude the public's confusing it with "An F Night Shyamalan Film" or "A Film by Tilda Night Shyamalan". This is a generous, conscientious act on the part of the producers, but it is also a cunning ploy from the consumer protection standpoint, because it means that moviegoers who have voluntarily paid to see daft offal such as The Village or The Happening or Unbreakable or Lady in the Water can't turn around and say: "Hey! Why didn't someone warn me that The Last Airbender was an M Night Shyamalan film?" The minatory phrase "An M Night Shyamalan Film" is like a brightly lit road sign reading: "Serious Accident Ahead.

Adrien Brody would be "disappointed" if gay men did not flirt with him.

The Oscar-winning actor - who plays a homosexual in 1997's "The Last Time I Committed Suicide" - insists he doesn't mind attracting attention from other men.

When asked if guys still hit on him in an interview by gay magazine The Advocate, the star answered: "I guess I'd be disappointed if they didn't."

Adrien - who has also starred in movies including "The Pianist" and "King Kong" - also revealed he sometimes hangs out in gay bars.

Stephen Kay has come aboard to direct Senator International's horror project Boogeyman for Ghost House Pictures, Senator's genre label headed by Sam Raimi and Rob Tapert. Production is due to begin in the spring in New Zealand. Screen Gems will distribute domestically. Mehdi Norowzian was attached to direct the project but is no longer on board. Boogeyman is described as a classic horror project about a young man traumatized by memories of terrible events in his childhood bedroom. Years later, he reluctantly returns home to face his fears. Raimi and Tapert will produce from a script by Eric Kripke, Juliet Snowden and Stiles White. Steve Hein and Gary Bryman are executive producing. Kay, repped by ICM, directed the MTV telefilm Wasted, starring Nick Stahl and Summer Phoenix, as well as Get Carter, starring Sylvester Stallone. He also wrote and directed the indie feature The Last Time I Committed Suicide. Senator International is fully financing and handling worldwide rights to all pictures produced under the Ghost House banner, with Senator executive vp motion pictures Nathan Kahane and creative executive Jim Miller overseeing the daily creative operations.