Laura Linney

Sully movie with Tom Hanks as US Airways pilot Chesley Sullenberger: Clint Eastwood homage to the “noble and decent American” threatened by a “heartless government.” ‘Sully’ movie review: ‘Taut, straightforward’ drama features Clint Eastwood’s latest all-American hero When considering Sully,…

Kinsey movie with Liam Neeson and Laura Linney At one point in Kinsey, Liam Neeson’s polemical Dr. Alfred Kinsey tells a reporter that it would be “useless” to make a film of his 1948 book on male sexuality. Be that…

Freida Pinto and Dev Patel: SAG Awards’ Best Cast winners. Danny Boyle’s sleeper hit Slumdog Millionaire marked the feature film debut of British actor Dev Patel and Indian model Freida Pinto; the former plays a slum denizen with a seemingly…

Nicole Kidman and Keith Urban. Nicole Kidman and Keith Urban on the red carpet at the 2008 Oscars. Nicole Kidman has been nominated for two Best Actress Academy Awards: Baz Luhrmann’s Moulin Rouge! (2001), with Ewan McGregor, and Stephen Daldry’s…

Atonement with Vanessa Redgrave. Having made her big-screen debut in the late 1950s (Behind the Mask) and a steady film actress since the mid-1960s (Blow-Up, Camelot), Vanessa Redgrave was bypassed by the 2008 Oscars for her performance in Joe Wright’s…

Catherine Deneuve with Ludivine Sagnier, Virginie Ledoyen, Danielle Darrieux, Isabelle Huppert, Firmine Richard, Emmanuelle Béart in François Ozon’s off-kilter musical-comedy-drama-murder-mystery-lesbian-sex campfest 8 Women. The all-female cast shared best actress honors at both the 2002 European Film Awards and at the Berlin…

Breach movie with Ryan Phillippe and Chris Cooper. A sophisticated spy thriller directed by Billy Ray, Breach creates suspense through intense dialogue exchanges and strong character development, thus avoiding big explosions, repetitive gunfights, and wild car chases. The film is…

Animated feature The Triplets of Belleville was the Genie Awards’ top pick. Animated feature ‘The Triplets of Belleville’ tops Canadian Oscars: Genie Awards One more example of Quebec’s vibrant film industry, Sylvain Chomet’s French-Canadian co-production The Triplets of Belleville, an…

Alfred Kinsey ca. 1950: Kinsey Scale creator. Criticized by some for his methodology and by others for daring to tackle the issue of human sexuality, Alfred Charles Kinsey became both one of the most admired and one of the most…