Knowing
Catholic Media Review
3/30/2009, by Christine Schult
WASHINGTON (Catholic Media Review) - In 1958, a class in an elementary school makes drawings and messages to be put in a time capsule. Most of them write about, or draw, what they think the future will be like. One girl, Lucinda Embry, writes a paper full of numbers, but her time to write it is cut ...
Virginia Madsen's movie career has been haunted by a lack of good scripts
McClatchy Newspapers
3/27/2009, by Colin Covert
Star Tribune (Minneapolis) (MCT) - She's been a prominent film actress since the 1980s, but there's still more of Chicago than Hollywood in Virginia Madsen. In a telephone interview, the "Haunting in Connecticut" star was refreshingly candid about the ups and downs of her life and career. Madsen, ...
Kiefer Sutherland morphs from Jack Bauer to Yosemite Sam for animated role
McClatchy Newspapers
3/26/2009, by Rick Bentley
McClatchy Newspapers (MCT) - Kiefer Sutherland knows his acting limitations. He's comfortable stepping into heavy dramatic roles, as in the feature films "Mirrors" or "The Sentinel." And his tougher-than-torture character of Jack Bauer on the Fox series "24" has almost become a second skin.
When ...
Maul cop: John Cena leaves the wrestling ring for action-hero role as a lawman in ‘12 Rounds'
McClatchy Newspapers
3/26/2009, by David Hiltbrand
The Philadelphia Inquirer (MCT) - The action-hero deficit has grown so pronounced in Hollywood over the last few years that the unlikeliest actors are being pressed into combat, including, most recently, 56-year-old Liam Neeson in "Taken." Enough of this charade. The silver screen is crying out for ...
3-D not an alien concept in Hollywood
McClatchy Newspapers
3/26/2009, by John Anderson
Newsday (MCT) - As a polymorphous, mutating one-eyed blob named B.O.B., Seth Rogen's role in "Monsters vs. Aliens" is in three dimensions, but otherwise bears no resemblance to humankind. He's electric blue, quivers like Jell-O and is far funnier than mere people. B.O.B. may represent the future of ...
‘I Love You' star Rashida Jones embraces improv
McClatchy Newspapers
3/20/2009, by Rick Bentley
McClatchy Newspapers (MCT) - Rashida Jones adores, treasures, delights and is truly head-over-heels about acting. That includes everything from her current starring role in the new feature film "I Love You, Man" to her improvisational comedy work on the new NBC comedy series "Parks and Recreation." ...
Natasha Richardson, 1963-2009
Catholic Online
3/20/2009, by Michael Phillips
Chicago Tribune (MCT)- She began by playing an uncredited flower girl, along with her sister, Joely, in "The Charge of the Light Brigade" (1968), a film directed by her father, Tony Richardson, starring her mother, Vanessa Redgrave. Natasha Richardson was born into show business royalty. At her ...
‘Duplicity'
McClatchy Newspapers
3/18/2009, by Colin Covert
Star Tribune (Minneapolis) (MCT) - What's more essential to romance: the stability of trust or the excitement of surprise and uncertainty? In "Duplicity," a stylish caper-love story, Julia Roberts and Clive Owen play conniving corporate security pros who keep us _ and each other _ guessing about ...
Is Jaime Pressly too sexy or too funny?
McClatchy Newspapers
3/18/2009, by Robert W. Butler
McClatchy Newspapers (MCT) - For a long time people told Jaime Pressly she was too pretty and sexy to be funny. Now, after making herself a household name as the self-obsessed trailer park queen Joy Turner on TV's "My Name Is Earl," some people think she's too funny to do anything else.
But if she ...
‘Twilight' descends at midnight Friday night
McClatchy Newspapers
3/18/2009, by Sharon Hoffmann
McClatchy Newspapers (MCT) - After months of hype and screaming fangirls and barrels of newspaper ink dumped on Robert Pattinson and "Twilight," there was bound to be some backlash. But who'd have thought that the funniest voice in that critical chorus would be ... RobPat himself.
There he is with ...
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