In battle of stage vs. screen, the play wins
McClatchy Newspapers
1/9/2009, by Chris Jones
Chicago Tribune (MCT) - As movie adaptations of stage plays go, the recently released "Frost/Nixon" and "Doubt" are among the best of recent vintage, not least because the writers of the sourcing play also penned the screen versions. Both contain distinguished performances that deserve to figure in ...
Who will win a Golden Globe? We have our picks
McClatchy Newspapers
1/9/2009, by Rafer Guzmán
Newsday (MCT) - With Seth Rogen, Jennifer Lopez, Drew Barrymore, Sacha Baron Cohen and others on board as presenters, Sunday's Golden Globe awards ceremony is clearly hoping not to be a repeat of last year's disastrous telecast. That show amounted to little more than a press conference as actors ...
Bedtime Stories
Catholic Media Review
1/5/2009, by Denise Lapachet
WASHINGTON (Catholic Media Review) - The movie opens with a voice-over: Marty Bronson (Jonathan Pryce, who played Elizabeth Swan's father in Pirates of the Caribbean) explains how he started the Sunny Vista motel and the reactions of his two children, Wendy and Skeeter. Wendy is a serious and ...
Lena Olin plays two roles and reads between the lines
McClatchy Newspapers
12/31/2008, by Lauren Viera
Chicago Tribune (MCT) - Long before she made her way to Hollywood, Swedish actress Lena Olin honed her skills under the direction of Ingmar Bergman at Stockholm's Royal Dramatic Theatre. After mastering Shakespearean classics onstage and earning starter roles in European films, Olin's breakthrough ...
The good, the bad and the ugly of 2008
McClatchy Newspapers
12/29/2008, by Colin Covert
Star Tribune (Minneapolis) (MCT) - Let me get this painful matter off my chest first: The Worst Films I Saw in 2008. Like back-alley hair plugs, these films made hazardous inroads into my brain. I would rather eat a dozen eggs raw, swim in medical waste or juggle revving chainsaws than see these ...
Best adapted screenplay will be a tough competition at Oscars
McClatchy Newspapers
12/29/2008, by Joe Williams
St. Louis Post-Dispatch (MCT) - The Academy Award for best adapted screenplay used to go to glorified stenographers who had extracted ideas and dialogue from existing novels or plays. Meanwhile, a group of presumably more creative writers would compete for best original screenplay. But in an era ...
Hanging tough with the old master Clint Eastwood
McClatchy Newspapers
12/29/2008, by Rene Rodriguez
McClatchy Newspapers (MCT) - As Gran Torino opens, Korean War veteran Walt Kowalski (played by Clint Eastwood) has just buried his wife _ and with her, his remaining interest in the world around him. An unapologetically racist, judgmental and foul-tempered misanthrope, the only thing Walt cares ...
22 pups, including Clyde, play manic Marley
McClatchy Newspapers
12/22/2008, by Carrie Rickey
The Philadelphia Inquirer (MCT) - Clyde bellies up to the bar at the Franklin Fountain, the throwback ice-cream emporium in Philadelphia, his paws on the marble counter, poised to take a triple-dip sundae in a single lick. Clyde ignores all questions about his "Marley & Me" costars Owen Wilson and ...
Taraji P. Henson on costarring with — and without — Brad Pitt
McClatchy Newspapers
12/22/2008, by Steven Rea
The Philadelphia Inquirer (MCT) - Was that Brad Pitt, or just a guy with a sock on his head? Only Taraji P. Henson knows for sure. In "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button" (opening Christmas Day), Henson is Queenie, a New Orleans retirement-home caretaker who, one night in 1918, discovers what ...
Owen and me: Chatting with the (human) star of ‘Marley'
McClatchy Newspapers
12/22/2008, by Carrie Rickey
The Philadelphia Inquirer (MCT) - Owen Wilson, a golden retriever among actors, admits that he based his slacker dude in "You, Me and Dupree" on Blue, the chocolate Labrador of his boyhood. "Dupree had the personality of a dog. You love him in spite of himself," the actor riffs on the phone from ...
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