Michelle Williams gets to the heart of a forlorn character in ‘Wendy and Lucy'
McClatchy Newspapers
1/29/2009, by Steven Rea
The Philadelphia Inquirer (MCT) - Only a few minutes into "Wendy and Lucy," there's no doubt that Michelle Williams _ playing a hard-luck vagabond stuck in a Pacific Northwest town when she loses her dog _ owns the character of Wendy, deep in her soul. "Michelle has this amazing stillness," says ...
Marley & Me
Catholic Media Review
1/27/2009, by Denise Lapachet
WASHINGTON (Catholic Media Review) - Ostensibly, Marley & Me is about the world's worst dog. In reality, it's about family and love. John (Owen Wilson) and Jen (Jennifer Aniston) Grogan are newlyweds. Jen has their life together all planned: moved somewhere warm, get jobs, buy a house. When a ...
Renee Zellweger chills out (literally) in ‘New in Town'
McClatchy Newspapers
1/26/2009, by Roger Moore
The Orlando Sentinel (MCT) - Renee Zellweger is the first to tell you that she's been "spoiled" at the "unbelievable way" her life and acting career have worked out. An Oscar, epic paychecks, a dazzling array of performances in all sorts of films and her choice of leading men _ that's spoiled. ...
‘Mummy's' boy Brendan Fraser hopes good fortune rains on him again with the fantasy ‘Inkheart'
McClatchy Newspapers
1/19/2009, by John Anderson
Newsday (MCT) - The fantasy-adventure "Inkheart" features creatures and castles. Medieval hallucinations. Flying monkeys. Ominous, sky-filling specters. Helen Mirren on a motorcycle. It's not what anyone would describe as "student filmmaking on a moderate budget." Unless you're Brendan Fraser. And ...
Emma Thompson, starring in a new romantic comedy, is truly down to earth
McClatchy Newspapers
1/15/2009, by Robert W. Butler
McClatchy Newspapers (MCT) - Emma Thompson was snorting with laughter. At something I said.
Very satisfying.
It happened at the beginning of a phone interview with the Oscar-winning actress ("Howards End") and screenwriter ("Sense and Sensibility"). I told Thompson how much I admired her work ...
Emma Roberts checks into ‘Hotel for Dogs'
McClatchy Newspapers
1/14/2009, by Rick Bentley
McClatchy Newspapers (MCT) - At age 15, life was a mystery to Emma Roberts. At 17, her life has gone to the dogs. Don't worry about the young actress. In her life and career, everything is moving ahead exactly right. Well, she doesn't have her driver's license yet. But that's going to happen ...
‘Hotel for Dogs'
McClatchy Newspapers
1/13/2009, by Rick Bentley
McClatchy Newspapers (MCT) - The Year of the Dog on the Chinese Lunar Calendar won't come along until 2016, but you wouldn't know that from the last six months at movie theaters. "Beverly Hills Chihuahua" showed real bite against the big dogs of summer. Then the animated "Bolt" sniffed out good ...
‘Defiance'
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1/13/2009, by Roger Moore
The Orlando Sentinel (MCT) - "Defiance" is, in too many ways to count, a defiantly old fashioned World War II Resistance movie. See the brave partisans ambush the Germans. See them hide in the forest between attacks. See them ruthlessly execute collaborators and make noble speeches that declare "We ...
‘Last Chance Harvey'
McClatchy Newspapers
1/9/2009, by Rafer Guzmán
Newsday (MCT) - What if, late in life and resigned to your singlehood, you met that special someone and everything went, well, just swimmingly? You'd have a lovely tale to tell your friends, but a less than compelling movie called "Last Chance Harvey." There's no arguing with the cast, beginning ...
T.D. Jakes gets his message across in latest film ‘Not Easily Broken'
McClatchy Newspapers
1/9/2009, by Chuck Barney
Contra Costa Times (MCT) - "Not Easily Broken," the latest faith-based feature film from Bishop T.D. Jakes, touches upon themes of marriage, relationships, family and romance. But don't you dare tell the renown pastor that it's a "chick flick." Jakes points out that he wrote the novel that served ...
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