MUNICH Review III
Mathieu Kassovitz, Eric Bana in Munich
MUNICH Review: Part II
A seriously miscast Eric Bana doesn’t help matters any. Bana may look great with his shirt off, but he fails to convey both Avner’s dedication to the fight and his ever-multiplying inner demons. While hunting his targets, the actor seems as hapless as Inspector Clouseau, and each time he gets to kill someone, he looks as squeamish as if he were going to clip his victim’s really dirty fingernails. Worse yet, there’s the accent problem.
As in Schindler’s List, the casting of English-speaking actors as continental Europeans and Israelis robs Munich of some much-needed authenticity. Bana and a horrendously over-the-top Geoffrey Rush (as Mossad officer Ephraim), both Australians, come up with grating imitations [...]
by Andre Soares | December 21, 2005
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Tags: Eric Bana, Film Reviews, Geoffrey Rush, Gila Almagor, Marie-Josée Croze, Munich, Omar Metwally
SAG Awards 2005
2005 SAG Awards
2005 Screen Actors Guild Award winners: Shrine Exposition Center in Los Angeles on February 5, 2005
("*" denotes the winner in each category)
Sandra Oh, Thomas Haden Church, Virginia Madsen, Paul Giamatti in Sideways
FILM
Male Actor in a Leading Role
Don Cheadle, Hotel Rwanda
Johnny Depp, Finding Neverland
Leonardo DiCaprio, The Aviator
* Jamie Foxx, Ray
Paul Giamatti, Sideways
Female Actor in a Leading Role
Annette Bening, Being Julia
Catalina Sandino Moreno, Maria Full of Grace
Imelda Staunton, Vera Drake
* Hilary Swank, Million Dollar Baby
Kate Winslet, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
Male Actor in a Supporting Role
Thomas Haden Church, Sideways
Jamie Foxx, Collateral
* Morgan Freeman, Million Dollar Baby
James Garner, The Notebook
Freddie Highmore, Finding Neverland
Female Actor in [...]
by Andre Soares | February 5, 2005
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Tags: Cate Blanchett, Film Awards, Geoffrey Rush, Glenn Close, Hilary Swank, Jamie Foxx, Jennifer Garner, Jerry Orbach, Morgan Freeman, SAG Awards, Sideways
PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN: THE CURSE OF THE BLACK PEARL – Johnny Depp
Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl (2003)
Direction: Gore Verbinski
Screenplay: Ted Elliott and Terry Rossio; from an original screen story by Stuart Beattie and Jay Wolpert
Cast: Johnny Depp, Geoffrey Rush, Orlando Bloom, Keira Knightley, Jack Davenport, Jonathan Pryce, Lee Arenberg
WHEN KEITH MET ZASU
Pirate films were a popular Hollywood staple for about three decades, from the mid-1920s (The Sea Hawk, The Black Pirate) to the mid-1950s, when the genre, by then relegated to mostly B films, began to die down. Sporadic resurrections in the last two decades have been disastrous (Pirates, Cutthroat Island), something that didn’t bode well for Disney’s "film adaptation" of one of their theme-park rides. However, Neptune and assorted sea gods have apparently been in [...]
by Andre Soares | October 21, 2004
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Tags: Adventures Movies, Film Reviews, Geoffrey Rush, Gore Verbinski, Hans Zimmer, Johnny Depp, Keira Knightley, Orlando Bloom, Oscar 2003, Oscar Movies, Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl, Three-Star Movies, Three-Star Oscar Nominees
