‘The Class' hits all the right notes
McClatchy Newspapers
2/20/2009, by Rafer Guzman
Newsday (MCT) - With the intimacy of a documentary and the tense pacing of a drama, Laurent Cantet's "The Class" blurs the line between both genres to chronicle a year in the life of an inner-city Parisian high school. The film's star and co-screenwriter, Francois Begaudeau, once was the kind of ...
Horror gets its groove back with ‘Friday the 13th' remake
McClatchy Newspapers
2/16/2009, by Rene Rodriguez
McClatchy Newspapers (MCT) - In the almost 30 years since he first leapt out of Crystal Lake at the end of 1980's "Friday the 13th," the hockey-masked killer Jason Voorhees has spawned 10 sequels, been struck by lightning and become a zombie, been to hell and back, visited Times Square and flown ...
Which road will Oscar take? ‘Benjamin Button,' ‘Slumdog' travel on two distinct paths
McClatchy Newspapers
2/16/2009, by Duane Dudek
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel (MCT) - New Orleans is 8,870 miles from Mumbai, India, as the crow flies. The Academy Award nominees for best picture set in those cities _ "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button" and "Slumdog Millionaire" _ are a world apart as well. There are three other contenders for ...
DISNEY’S HIGH SCHOOL MUSICAL 3: SENIOR YEAR
McClatchy Newspapers
2/12/2009
The worldwide blockbuster that thrilled kids of all ages is now the entertainment event of 2009 when Disney’s 'High School Musical 3: Senior Year –Extended Edition' arrives on Blu-ray and DVD from Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment.
America’s favorite Wildcats (Zac Efron, Vanessa Hudgens, ...
How Kate Winslet outdid herself to garner an Oscar nomination
McClatchy Newspapers
2/12/2009, by Mark Caro
Chicago Tribune (MCT) - Kate Winslet always was going to land a best actress Oscar nomination this year. That was understood. Otherwise, Vanity Fair wouldn't have put her on the cover alongside the quote, "Do I want an Oscar? You bet your (bleepety bleep) I do."
But the assumption was that the ...
‘Confessions' of an actress: ‘Shopaholic' star Isla Fisher
McClatchy Newspapers
2/12/2009, by Rick Bentley
McClatchy Newspapers (MCT) - Acting is like dancing. Some lead. Some follow. Until now, Australian actress Isla Fisher has been following the lead of the likes of Vince Vaughn in "Wedding Crashers" and Ryan Reynolds in "Definitely, Maybe." Her comedy and acting skills kept her in step.
Now, she ...
‘The Class'
McClatchy Newspapers
2/11/2009, by Colin Covert
Star Tribune (Minneapolis) (MCT) - "The Class," the marvelous Paris schoolroom story that won the Palme d'Or at Cannes last year, has a different title at home. In France, it's called "Between the Walls," which suggests the pressurized environment inside which Mr. Marin (Francois Begaudeau) ...
Henry Poole is Here
Catholic Media Review
2/9/2009, by Julie Davis
Dallas (Catholic Media Review) -
"Do you ever feel like things happen for no reason?
Like you're just along for the ride?"
So speaks Henry Poole who is without hope or faith and is trying to avoid any and all human contact. Henry has moved into a neighborhood where he is unknown only ...
Fast chat with ‘Coraline'/'Push' star Dakota Fanning
McClatchy Newspapers
2/6/2009, by John Anderson
Newsday (MCT) - If a Hollywood movie has needed a young female actress, one who can actually act, the default response for the past few years has been "Dakota Fanning." You need someone to play Tom Cruise's spunky daughter in "War of the Worlds" (2005)? "Dakota Fanning." Kurt Russell's horse-loving ...
Paul Blart: Mall Cop
Catholic Media Review
2/3/2009, by Denise Lapachet
WASHINGTON (Catholic Media Review) - The movie opens with a line up of the latest recruits for the New Jersey State Troopers. They have one more test: the obstacle course.
Paul Blart (Kevin James) is shorter--and considerably heavier--than the rest of the gang. But he climbs, crawls, jumps, and ...
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