Tuesday, January 12 2010
The Thinking Man’s Man-Candy: Nicholas Hoult in ‘A Single Man’
Young British actor Nicholas Hoult, at 20, has already been acting for 17 years. Currently, in A Single Man, he is romancing Colin Firth. Hoult recently spoke about being an object of desire, growing up on film sets and the multitude of amazing actresses with whom he has shared the screen.
Wednesday, February 14 2007
Music and Lyrics (2007)
The Hugh Grant / Drew Barrymore comedy is all about the grand and giddy artifice of pop.
Friday, April 21 2006
American Dreamz (2006)
Here's the rub: does it matter that consumers know all about the badness and the cynical ambition, but watch anyway?
Monday, November 15 2004
Bridget Jones’s Diary: Collector’s Edition (2001)
Speaking of her star, Renée Zellweger, Maguire is appropriately besotted: 'You can see what she brought to Bridget. She's got this fantastic warmth and this permanent confusion on her face.'"
Thursday, November 11 2004
Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason (2004)
This time the bloom is quite off.
Thursday, November 13 2003
Love Actually (2003)
On occasion, the film allows a jaded sensibility to worm its way into this otherwise picturesque world.
Thursday, December 19 2002
Two Weeks Notice (2002)
People keep wanting Sandy Bullock to be sweet and feisty like she was in Speed.
Friday, May 19 2000
Small Time Crooks
Allen’s best work achieved greatness by being more than funny —by revealing or capturing something more substantive about human relationships. With Small Time Crooks, the substance comes from the unexpected satire of class differences that gets at something truer than a mere fish-out-of-water story.
Sunday, January 1 1995
Notting Hill (1999)
'The fame thing,' says fictional megawatt movie star Anna Scott, 'isn't really real.' And she should know, since she's played by real-life megawatt movie star Julia Roberts. The fame thing often does seem unreal to people who don't live it, so it's comforting to hear from Anna (or Julia) that it seems unreal to her as well
