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The Vow Barely Gets By With Rachel McAdams (and One Very Handsome Steak)

Mar 7th, 2012

In The Vow, Rachel McAdams plays Paige, a Chicago sculptor who's wife to Leo (Channing Tatum), the owner of a recording studio. The two are talking about starting a family, clearly giddily in love, when they get into a car accident that results in Paige taking a slow-motion header through the windshield.

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Blog: Movie Line
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Viola Davis, Octavia Spencer Talk About Their Oscar Nominations for "The Help!"

Jan 25th, 2012
<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
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"New Year's Eve" Movie Review -- How Many Kisses Does the Ensemble Cast Get?

Dec 20th, 2011

If you think "New Year’s Eve" is very similar to 2010’s "Valentine’s Day," you are absolutely correct! Director Garry Marshall returns with a movie about intersecting lives amidst the backdrop of the New Year’s Eve ball drop in New York City.

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Ralph Fiennes Takes a Dud of a Play and Turns It into a Not-Bad Coriolanus

Dec 13th, 2011

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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Blog: Movie Line
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The Lie Explores the Self-Defeat of Committing by Halves — But Only By Half

Nov 23rd, 2011

First-time director Joshua Leonard’s The Lie stretches the truth of its source material — an obsidian fragment from author T.C. Boyle, published by the New Yorker in 2008 — until its every glint is polished to a self-affirming glow.

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Blog: Movie Line
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Jessica Chastain to Star as Princess Di!

Nov 9th, 2011

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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"Take Shelter" Raises the Question, How Much Michael Shannon Is Too Much?

Oct 4th, 2011

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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Blog: Movie Line
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I Don’t Know How She Does It Has Plenty of Fear and Loathing to Go Around

Sep 16th, 2011

The title phrase of I Don’t Know How She Does It is lobbed repeatedly at intrepid working mom heroine Kate Reddy (Sarah Jessica Parker, who also provides a Sex and the City-style pontifical voiceover) throughout this alleged comedy, sometimes in celebration, sometimes out of envy or condescension.

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Blog: Movie Line
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Deep Cast Can’t Make "The Debt" Pay Off

Sep 1st, 2011

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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Blog: Movie Line
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My Fun Interview with Jessica Chastain for "The Debt!" I LOVE HER!!!!!!

Aug 25th, 2011

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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