The movie: Brooklyn’s Finest
Directed by: Antoine Fuqua
Written by: Michael C. Martin
Famous people you should recognize in the movie: Richard Gere, Don Cheadle, Ethan Hawke, Wesley Snipes, Vincent D’Onofrio, Lili Taylor, Ellen Barkin, Brian O’Byrne
What I wore to the screening: Theory pants, vintage pink shirt, blue and purple Revl tie, purple Club Monaco V neck sweater, [...]
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Photo credit: Disney Enterprise
The movie: Alice in Wonderland
Directed by: Tim Burton
Based on the books by: Lewis Carroll
Adapted for screen by: Linda Woolverton
Famous people and voices you would know in the movie: Johnny Depp,
Helena Bonham Carter, Anne Hathaway, Crispin Glover, Matt Lucas, Stephen Fry, Michael Sheen, Alan Rickman
The new girl in town: Mia Wasikowska steps into [...]
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Joe Anderson (from left), Timothy Olyphant, Radha Mitchell and Danielle Panabaker are the only ones in Ogden Marsh who aren’t crazy
The movie: The Crazies
Based on the 1973 movie by: George A. Romero
Directed by: Breck Eisner
Written by: Scott Kosar and Ray Wright
Actors you may recognize: Timothy Olyphant and Radha Mitchell
Actors you may not recognize: Joe Anderson, [...]
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Lang (Bronsan) chats with his Ghost (McGregor)
The movie: The Ghost Writer (not to be confused with “Ghostwriter,” the PBS television series about a bunch of young sleuths that solve mysteries with the aid of a friendly “ghost” that “writes”).
The director: Roman Polanski
Based on the novel by: Robert Harris
Adapted for screen by: The director and the [...]
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Leonardo DiCaprio and Mark Ruffalo frolic on ‘Shutter Island’(AP Photo/Paramount Pictures)
The movie: Shutter Island
The minds behind it: Director: Martin Scorsese; screenplay by Laeta Kalogridis; based on the novel by Dennis Lehane.
Famous people in the movie that will make people go see it: Leonardo DiCaprio, Mark Ruffalo, Michelle Williams, Ben Kingsley, Max von Sydow, Emily [...]
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The story: Detective Thomas Craven (Mel Gibson) investigates the death of his beloved daughter Emma (Bojana Novakovic) after she gets violently killed – a gun shot that he thought was meant for him. Turns out he gets a lot more than he bargained for: government conspiracy, unethical business practices, shady guys with greasy hair and [...]
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Saoirse Ronan explores heaven in ‘The Lovely Bones’
The story: The Lovely Bones is about a 14-year-old girl who watches over her family from heaven after getting brutally murdered by a neighbor.
Is the book better? I read Alice Sebold’s novel a couple of years ago and it is better. Even so, I look at these movie [...]
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Doesn’t Daniel Day-Lewis kind of look like Jesus Christ in a tie (and without a beard) in this picture? All photos by: David James © 2009 The Weinstein Co.
The perfect recipe for a Rob Marshall film (Nine, to be specific):
- 10 parts exquisite production value
- 4 parts Italia
- 1 part esteemed leading man (Daniel Day-Lewis)
- [...]
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Colin Firth (left) and Julianne Moore have some pillow talk in ‘A Single Man’. (Photo credit: Eduard Grau/The Weinstein Company 2009).
Upon hearing that fashion designer Tom Ford was directing a movie, I was skeptical. Although he did wonders as the creative director of Gucci and made Daniel Craig the most dapper James Bond ever, I [...]
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Sam Cahill (Tobey Maguire, left), gets consoled by his attractive wife, Grace (Natalie Portman) in ‘Brothers’. (Alliance Films)
In Brothers we see Natalie Portman play Grace Cahill, a loving, dedicated housewife who can cook a mean casserole and raise two girls with maternal and respecting authority. Throughout the movie, people are constantly telling her how beautiful [...]
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