Kate Winslet 2 Goldens Globes nods as Meryl Streep breaks record + Nicole Kidman snubbed and DreamWorks Animation (not Pixar) tops Annie Awards.
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AFI FEST: Joanna Cassidy & Julia Ormond + Meryl Streep & Amy Adams ‘Doubt’ Premiere AFI FEST 2008 opening night premiere of Miramax Films’ Doubt held at ArcLight Hollywood on…
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Doubt, the much-anticipated drama directed and adapted by John Patrick Shanley from his own Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award-winning play, and starring Meryl Streep, Amy Adams, Philip Seymour Hoffman, and…
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The Dark Knight box office: Is Christopher Nolan’s acclaimed Batman movie truly trailing only James Cameron’s Titanic in North America?
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Mamma Mia!: Meryl Streep as Amanda Seyfried’s Mamma. But who’s the Papa? In the upcoming musical romantic comedy Mamma Mia!, based on the phenomenally successful stage hit of the same…
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Sydney Pollack and Patrick Dempsey in the box office disappointment Made of Honor. Sydney Pollack, the director of several critical and box office successes of the 1960s, 1970s, and 1980s,…
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Cinematographer David Watkin, best known for his work on Hugh Hudson’s Chariots of Fire and Sydney Pollack’s Out of Africa, the 1985 Best Picture Academy Award winner starring Meryl Streep…
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Tom Cruise and Meryl Streep in the Robert Redford-directed Lions for Lambs. The 2007 AFI Los Angeles International Film Festival – in press releases referred to as “AFI FEST 2007 presented…
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What Are the Golden Globes? Quality-oriented + multinational and multiethnic awards show embracing ‘diversity’ (especially of the British kind)?
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Dark Fantasy Tops NSFC while raunchy Kate Winslet film wins Iowa + is Al Gore global warming documentary going to change Americans’ warped views?
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A Prairie Home Companion with Meryl Streep, Lindsay Lohan, and Garrison Keillor. The sacred cows of the Hollywood firmament – or Hollywood barn, if you want to be really literal…
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John Fowles: The Collector, The French Lieutenant’s Woman and The Magus Author Dead at 79. Meryl Streep starred in film version of ‘French.’
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Lemony Snicket’s A Series of Unfortunate Events (movie 2004) review: Brad Silberling’s handsomely mounted fantasy adventure is little more than a Jim Carrey mugfest.
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The Hours (movie 2002) review: Stephen Daldry’s uneven drama is immensely helped by the work of Meryl Streep and Nicole Kidman in addition to Philip Glass’ haunting score.
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The Manchurian Candidate (2004) movie review: Meryl Streep is the one bright spot in Jonathan Demme’s stale remake of John Frankenheimer’s 1962 classic. Denzel Washington stars.
July 9 update: The 26th Los Angeles Gay & Lesbian Film Festival, Outfest, kicked off last night at downtown Los Angeles’ historic Orpheum Theatre with a screening of Laurie Lynd’s…
“Yellow face” in Hollywood movies: Paul Muni is a Jewish-Austrian-Hungarian Chinese in The Good Earth. Today it’d have been simpler. Muni would have been merely a Jewish-Ukrainian Chinese. Hollywood Chinese,…
The Devil Wears Prada (movie 2006) review: As an imperial fashion ogress, Meryl Streep is the best thing about David Frankel’s drama. Anne Hathaway and Stanley Tucci costas.
Music of the Heart (movie 1999) review: Meryl Streep is an ‘inspirational’ presence in Wes Craven’s unusually sentimental real-life-based drama. Angela Bassett costars.