After all the buzz surrounding The Cove since its Sundance premiere, finally catching up to the documentary at the theater turned out to be a significant disappointment. The film exposes the practice in Japan of rounding up dolphins and slaughtering them and then selling the meat as whale to unsuspecting grocery shoppers. It’s a horrifying [...]
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I’m a closeted PBS cooking show watcher, a huge fan of Julia Child and I’m still in the tank for Meryl Streep after Doubt last year so I have to admit this is on my radar a little bit even though I’m not the target audience and I’m pretty convinced I’ll hate it.
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Meryl Streep in Doubt
The first line of attack against Doubt by its detractors is that a certain staginess has carried over from director John Patrick Shanley’s original Pulitzer Prize-winning play. It’s true, the performances are a little too broad, the dialogue is a bit too precise and the plot and characters are a little too [...]
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Amy Adams, Meryl Streep, and director John Patrick Shanley arrive at 2008 AFI Fest
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The 2008 AFI Fest kicked off officially last night in Hollywood with the world premiere of John Patrick Shanley’s Doubt starring Meryl Streep, Philip Seymour Hoffman and Amy Adams. Because of the last minute scheduling of [...]
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Turns out the movie business keeps rolling whether you’re paying attention to it or not. Here’s a handful of recent casting announcements featuring interesting actors in not-so-interesting projects.
Amy Adams is set to star as NPR correspondent Jacki Lyden in a film based on Lyden’s memoir Daughter of the Queen of Sheba. A fixture at NPR [...]
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AFI announced this evening that John Patrick Shanley’s Doubt starring Meryl Streep, Philip Seymour Hoffman and Amy Adams will fill in for the The Soloist as the opening night film for AFI Fest on October 30.
According to Miramax president Daniel Battsek: “The movie is still being finished, but we were so excited to show Doubt and [...]
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Sunshine Cleaning, the story of a woman who gets involved in the crime scene cleaning and biohazard removal business to make a better life for herself and her son, made a bit of a splash at Sundance. The bad news is it looks like another in a long line of overly quirky indie comedies in [...]
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Trailer week on LiC continues with John Patrick Shanley’s Doubt now available at Apple. It’s HD-licious.
I wasn’t too excited about this on on paper because the subject matter doesn’t grab me, but I like the ’60s milieu and of course the cast is impossible to argue with. Meryl Streep and Philip Seymour Hoffman appear to [...]
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Evan Rachel Wood in The Life Before Her Eyes
Another week of DVD releases is upon us so it’s time to take a look at some of the Movies You May Have Missed. As always, this is not a comprehensive list of DVD releases, just a few titles that may have slipped under your radar but [...]
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Frances McDormand and Amy Adams in Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day
The Amy Adams cute factor is starting to wear out its welcome. She brings an overabundance of it to Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day, but it’s not enough to jumpstart this uneven comedy that begins in a screwball vein and then loses its nerve, [...]
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