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<p>I love these two actresses, and I firmly believe that their performances helped elevate "<i>The Help</i>" from being a run-of-the-mill civil rights drama.  Keep reading

It’s dangerous to underestimate modern-day reinterpretations of Shakespeare, a la Baz Luhrmann’s William Shakespeare’s Romeo + Juliet and Michael Almereyda’s Hamlet, not because Shakespeare necessarily needs to be modernized

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The current Hollywood "It" girl, Jessica Chastain, is set to star as the beloved Princess Di in the film "Caught in Flight" according to Thompson on Hollywood.

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Casting Michael Shannon as a potential psychotic is a bit like crowing over the discovery that water is wet. And sure enough, in Jeff Nichols’s Take Shelter, Shannon gets his chance to go all bug-eyed and thin-lipped, to sweat through his clothes

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No one comes out looking good in The Debt, a grim thriller from director John Madden: Not the Nazi purveyor of concentration camp atrocities, which is a given, but not the trio of young, dedicated Mossad agents sent to bring him to justice after the war either.

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I love Jessica Chastain, she was sweet and down-to-earth in person! And truth be told, she was my favorite among the cast of "The Debt." She plays the younger Rachel Singer and the great Helen Mirren is her character’s older version.

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