Golden Globes 2009: Tom Cruise, Jake Gyllenhaal, Emma Thompson

Tom Cruise © HFPA / 66th Golden Globe® Awards

Jake Gyllenhaal © HFPA / 66th Golden Globe® Awards

Emma Thompson, Dustin Hoffman © HFPA / 66th Golden Globe® Awards

Johnny Depp © HFPA / 66th Golden Globe® Awards

Golden Globes 2009: Tom Cruise, Kate Winslet, Penélope Cruz

Kate Winslet, Tom Cruise © HFPA / 66th Golden Globe® Awards

Penélope Cruz © HFPA / 66th Golden Globe® Awards

Martin Scorsese, Steven Spielberg © HFPA / 66th Golden Globe® Awards

Golden Globes 2009: Tom Cruise, Leonardo DiCaprio, Zac Efron

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Leonardo DiCaprio, Tom Cruise © HFPA / 66th Golden Globe® Awards

Hayden Panettiere, Zac Efron © HFPA / 66th Golden Globe® Awards

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MARLEY & ME Again Tops Box Office

Marley & Me topped the North American box office for the second consecutive weekend with $24 million in ticket sales, according to studio estimates Sunday.
David Frankel’s comedy starring Owen Wilson and Jennifer Aniston easily dominated the competition all week long, bringing its domestic total to an impressive $106.5 million after barely two weeks in release.

At No. 2, Adam Sandler’s latest comedy, Bedtime Stories, picked up another $20.3 million, reaching a total haul of $85.3 million. In the film, Sandler plays a hotel handyman whose bedtime stories become true the next day.

Meanwhile, David Fincher’s The Curious Case of Benjamin Button picked up $18.4 million in third place, lifting its cumulative [...]

Marley Beats Brad Pitt, Adam Sandler, and Tom Cruise

David Frankel’s comedy Marley & Me raced to the top of the North American box office this weekend with $37 million in ticket sales, according to studio estimates Sunday.
Starring Owen Wilson and Jennifer Aniston as a couple struggling to keep their dog in check, Marley & Me lifted its domestic total to an impressive $51.6 million after only four days in release.

At No. 2, Adam Sandler’s latest comedy Bedtime Stories took home $28 million, reaching a cumulative gross of $38.5 million. The Adam Shankman-directed effort follows a hotel handyman whose bedtime stories come true the next day.

Meanwhile, David Fincher’s acclaimed drama The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, starring Brad Pitt [...]

VALKYRIE: German Reactions

Tom Cruise in Valkyrie

Via "Muted Praise for Valkyrie From German Critics" in Der Spiegel:
"How could [Tom] Cruise, the all-American action hero, play Germany’s only hero of the 20th century, Claus Count Schenk von Stauffenberg, the man who came close to killing Hitler and ending World War II on July 20, 1944? Cruise’s membership in the Church of Scientology, seen by German authorities as little more than a money-making operation, fuelled doubts about his suitability.
"Now Valkyrie, named after the plot by German military officers to overthrow the Nazi leadership, has had its world premiere in New York, and German film critics are less damning than might have been expected."
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Kevin McNally, Christian Berkel, Bill Nighy, [...]

Best Films – 2002

A man is dead. Who among the greedy, ruthless, amoral singing-and-dancing suspects stuck in the snowbound countryside mansion has done it? 8 women is an acquired taste, bien sûr. What seems silly the first time around becomes increasingly wittier and funnier — though no less bizarre — with each repeated viewing. Beautifully shot by Jeanne Lapoirie and chock-full of bitingly sardonic lines and situations (adapted by director François Ozon and Marina de Van, from Robert Thomas’ play), this murder musical is dotted with 8 of the brightest stars of the French cinema of the last 7 (!) decades.
More than seventy years after her film début, Danielle Darrieux, in full form both as an actress and as a singer, joins [...]