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Articles tagged "anne hathaway" NewsAnne Hathaway adds her star power to ‘Twelfth Night’by Linda Winer [Newsday (MCT)][19.Jun.09] :. NEW YORK — What is it about “Twelfth Night” that turns New York into theater camp for movie stars in the summertime? Shakespeare created his mystical island of shipwrecked...  Film DVD ReviewPassengersby Jesse Hassenger[13.May.09] :. As much effort as apparently went into it, the film nonetheless feels like a pit stop for everyone involved.  Film DVD ReviewBride Warsby Matt Mazur[27.Apr.09] :. You know what this movie will make you want to do? Elope.  Books ReviewVariety’s “The Movie That Changed My Life” by Robert Hoflerby Erik Hinton[14.Apr.09] :. By the end of both tabloid and book you are forced to abandon your childhood idealism and confess that celebrities are rather trite.  PopMatters Picks: The Best TV, Film, and DVD of 2008 FeatureThe New Classics - The 30 Best Films of 2008by PopMatters Staff[16.Jan.09] :. Unlike previous years, where classics came crawling out of the celluloid woodwork with regular reckless abandon, 2008 was more calm… and considered. That's not to say that choosing 30 top titles was hard. The difficulty in placing them in some manner of rank order suggests the actual depth of quality involved. PopMatters Picks: The Best TV, Film, and DVD of 2008  PopMatters Picks: The Best TV, Film, and DVD of 2008 FeatureIconic - The Top 20 Male Performances of 2008by PopMatters Staff[14.Jan.09] :. Like the gladiators of old, 2008 resembles a battle of formidable acting gods, especially when looking over the 20 choices presented below. Indeed, if anything, choosing a winner requires more of a leap of faith than any amount of critical skill - they all were that good. PopMatters Picks: The Best TV, Film, and DVD of 2008 Tough and Tender - The Top 20 Female Performances of 2008by PopMatters Staff[14.Jan.09] :. Twenty talented ladies, 20 performances worthy of multiple little gold men. Unfortunately, as in all years, someone has to come out on top. But after looking over this impressive list, picking the preeminent turn of 2008 seems almost impossible. Bride Warsby Cynthia Fuchs[9.Jan.09] :. Bride Wars is part cautionary tale, part fairy tale, and part Jerry Springer episode, as Liv and Emma's so-called dreams are wholly conventional and their antics are increasingly outrageous. Camera Trick Undermines ‘Rachel’‘s Realismby Bill Gibron[24.Oct.08] :. It’s a staple of the cinematic form, drama’s go-to position when anything outside biology becomes unobtainable. In fact it’s such a stalwart that the independent movement has been... Anne Hathaway: Now she’s Princess Screwupby Steven Rea [The Philadelphia Inquirer (MCT)][17.Oct.08] :. TORONTO - Anne Hathaway still doesn’t quite get what Jonathan Demme saw in her to make him believe she’d be right for the lead in “Rachel Getting Married.” “I mean, was... Rachel Getting Marriedby Cynthia Fuchs[7.Oct.08] :. In Rachel Getting Married, Kym and Rachel's relationship is routinely rocky, abetted by what's unspoken by everyone else. Talk, Talk, Talk: October 2008by Bill Gibron[10.Sep.08] :. What studio suit thought this was a good idea? With four months to schedule your high priced efforts, you instead unload almost 30 overpriced pictures on an unsuspecting movie audience. Anne Hathaway gets smart about career decisionsby Rick Bentley [McClatchy Newspapers (MCT)][20.Jun.08] :. SAN FRANCISCO - It was only eight years ago that Anne Hathaway made her professional acting debut in the short-lived Fox series “Get Real.” Take a few moments and try to remember the... Get Smartby Cynthia Fuchs[20.Jun.08] :. Get Smart makes rudimentary efforts to update, with passing references to terrorists, profiling, and inter-agency competition. ‘Smart’ Sucksby Bill Gibron[19.Jun.08] :. By its very definition, something that’s “generic” is seen as “having no particularly distinctive quality or application”. This doesn’t make the object in question... The Return of the Popcorn Circus: June 2008by Bill Gibron[29.Apr.08] :. If May almost tent-poled itself out of existence, June will be even worse. After all, are audiences really ready for 13 major release in less than two months -- with more to come? Becoming Janeby Cynthia Fuchs[3.Aug.07] :. Julian Jarrold's fictionalized biopic offers up big-boomy melodrama, full of broken hearts, romantic montages, and predictable plot turns. The Devil Wears Prada (2006)by Matt Mazur[6.Feb.07] :. According to this film women in power are cruel, lonely, and constantly paranoid; not to mention supremely non-sexual. The Devil Wears Prada (2006)by Cynthia Fuchs[30.Jun.06] :. 'You sold your soul the first time you put on that pair of Jimmy Choos.' So ascertains Miranda Priestly (Meryl Streep), editor-in-chief at Runway magazine, disdainful of her self-doubting assistant. And so she summarizes yet another tale of a little girl who finds corruption in the big city. Brokeback Mountain (2005)by Cynthia Fuchs[12.Apr.06] :. While the movie's poetry is often stunning, the DVD docs are decidedly and disappointingly banal. Brokeback Mountain (2005)by Cynthia Fuchs[9.Dec.05] :. It's Alma's silence that makes Brokeback Mountain feel so serious. Her pain is neither exquisite nor elegiac. It is only hard. The Princess Diaries 2: Royal Engagement (2004)by Cynthia Fuchs[13.Dec.04] :. 'When you do a love story as part of your film, you need to do a lot of love scenes, so we can see the lovers together,' explains Garry Marshall. The Princess Diaries 2: Royal Engagement (2004)by Cynthia Fuchs[13.Aug.04] :. Even as it so loudly declares its interest in girls' independence, thoughtfulness, and generosity, Royal Engagement is disappointingly derivative, slapdash, and small-minded. The Princess Diaries: Special Edition (2001)by Cynthia Fuchs[9.Aug.04] :. 'You know, sometimes you use a relative,' says Garry Marshall. 'I heard that nepotism is legal, so I made it an art form.'" Ella Enchanted (2004)by Cynthia Fuchs[8.Apr.04] :. It is an updated fairy tale that, for all its charms, can't quite break out of its old-time constraints. The Princess Diaries (2001)by Cynthia Fuchs[In 'The Princess Diaries'], among the many habits Mia must change is her too-teenish tendency to bob her head along with music on the radio ('You're not a doggie on a dashboard!' cries her alarmed grandma). |
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