Articles tagged "virginia madsen"

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Virginia Madsen’s movie career has been haunted by a lack of good scripts

by Colin Covert [Star Tribune (Minneapolis) (MCT)]

[27.Mar.09] :. 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...

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The Haunting in Connecticut

by Cynthia Fuchs

[27.Mar.09] :. In the poorly paced and ineptly edited Haunting in Connecticut, Matt is surrounded by dark shadows, ooky male choruses, and reflections of tortured corpses in dirty glass.

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Virginia Madsen keeping busy with 3 movies in the works

by Madeleine Marr [McClatchy Newspapers (MCT)]

[23.Jun.08] :. It’s not easy being a Hollywood actress after age 35. But at 46, Virginia Madsen still manages to nab parts with oomph. “There were a lot of silly roles I had to play as a self-conscious...

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For the resurgent Virginia Madsen, a double feature

by Roger Moore [The Orlando Sentinel (MCT)]

[27.Feb.07] :. Virginia Madsen has two big movies coming out Friday. In one, she plays the too-patient wife of an eccentric dreamer. And in the other, she’s the too-patient wife of an eccentric...

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Film Review

The Number 23 (2007)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[23.Feb.07] :. The movie is at least nominally aware of the silliness of its device, that the finding of 23s in every frame is a game, that the meanings are more about readers' needs than some grand plan of the universe.

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The Astronaut Farmer (2007)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[23.Feb.07] :. Audie has always believed Charlie will launch his rocket. And with one neat, maybe comical metaphor, it's very clear what's at stake.

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A Prairie Home Companion (2006)

by Michael Buening

[16.Oct.06] :. That a down home jamboree could be interesting to heavy-metal loving middle school students speaks to its wide.

 

Smith

by Cynthia Fuchs

[19.Sep.06] :. Faces are hard to read in Smith. Sometimes, this inscrutability is obvious, even exaggerated.

 

A Prairie Home Companion (2006)

by Matt Mazur

[9.Jun.06] :. A Prairie Home Companion combines typical Altman strategies, like overlapping dialogue and converging multiple storylines, as well as his fanatical appreciation for the process of creating art.

 

A Prairie Home Companion (2006)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[9.Jun.06] :. You might call A Prairie Home Companion an unlikely Lindsay Lohan movie. You could also call it the best work she's done, the best work she's likely to do, or the best chance she's had to do good work.

 

Firewall (2006)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[10.Feb.06] :. Is there any role that Mary Lynn Rajskub can't make strange? I mean, delightfully and eloquently strange?"

 

Sideways (2004)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[7.Apr.05] :. Amid the road-tripping and the boy bonding, it is Maya who resonates at last.

 

Sideways (2004)

by Jesse Hassenger

[4.Apr.05] :. On the DVD, the actors gamely compete with self- mocking descriptions of themselves and each other.

 

Sideways (2004)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[22.Oct.04] :. Always a resourceful, thoughtful performer, Virginia Madsen almost offsets Sideways' overriding, occasionally prosaic interest in the boys' journey.

 

Candyman: Special Edition (1992)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[23.Aug.04] :. Kasi Lemmons says, 'The Candyman is born of extreme racism against him.'"

 

American Dreams

by Norma Coates

[7.Oct.02] :. American Dreams recognizes an important point: rock and roll was deeply dependent on television in its early days. And that hasn't really changed.