6 articles from 2009
Christmas and new year TV films
18 December 2009 5:30 AM, PST
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Not sure what to watch? We can help with our comprehensive guide to the best films on TV this Christmas and new year
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Saturday 19 December | Sunday 20 December | Monday 21 December | Tuesday 22 December | Wednesday 23 December |Christmas Eve | Christmas Day | Boxing Day | Sunday 27 December | Monday 28 December | Tuesday 29 December | Wednesday 30 December | New Year's Eve | New Year's Day
Saturday 19 December
Yes Man (Peyton Reed, 2008)
10am, 8pm, Sky Movies Premiere
Remember Jim Carrey in Liar, Liar, where he forces himself to tell the truth for 24 hours? Well, here Jim Carrey forces himself to answer yes to any request, for a year. Which is upping the ante somewhat, but doesn't make it a better film. This is a return to the manic, gurning, not-very-funny Carrey, as if The Truman Show, Eternal Sunshine etc hadn't happened. Just say no.
The Golden Compass (Chris Weitz, 2007)
11.40am, 8pm, Sky Movies Family
What with Harry Potter, Narnia, Lemony Snicket and all,
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- Paul Howlett
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Christmas and new year TV films
18 December 2009 5:30 AM, PST
| The Guardian - TV News
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Not sure what to watch? We can help with our comprehensive guide to the best films on TV this Christmas and new year
Choose a date
Saturday 19 December | Sunday 20 December | Monday 21 December | Tuesday 22 December | Wednesday 23 December |Christmas Eve | Christmas Day | Boxing Day | Sunday 27 December | Monday 28 December | Tuesday 29 December | Wednesday 30 December | New Year's Eve | New Year's Day
Saturday 19 December
Yes Man (Peyton Reed, 2008)
10am, 8pm, Sky Movies Premiere
Remember Jim Carrey in Liar, Liar, where he forces himself to tell the truth for 24 hours? Well, here Jim Carrey forces himself to answer yes to any request, for a year. Which is upping the ante somewhat, but doesn't make it a better film. This is a return to the manic, gurning, not-very-funny Carrey, as if The Truman Show, Eternal Sunshine etc hadn't happened. Just say no.
The Golden Compass (Chris Weitz, 2007)
11.40am, 8pm, Sky Movies Family
What with Harry Potter, Narnia, Lemony Snicket and all,
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- Paul Howlett
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Desperately seeking Sendak
23 November 2009 2:32 AM, PST
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Spike Jonze and Dave Eggers relive the cold winter's day when they went to visit famously prickly writer Maurice Sendak, to talk about filming Where the Wild Things Are
Dave Eggers: So here we are. It's always awkward doing this kind of thing together. If we wrote this the way we wrote the script, fighting over every word, it would probably take a year.
Spike Jonze: We should just have a conversation. Then we can fight over every word when we edit it.
De: But let's be really eloquent. We can talk, and then after we transcribe the talk, we can make ourselves seem articulate.
Sj: Yes, we shall do that. It brings to mind something the bard once said: "Tis excellent to be spontaneous, tho better to be brilliant."
De: He didn't say that.
Sj: He did. In one of his lesser-known plays, The Sisters of Hannah.
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- Dave Eggers
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Is Angelina Jolie Teaming with Lasse Hallström for The Tourist?
17 October 2009 3:27 PM, PDT
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Angelina Jolie is reportedly teaming up with Swedish director Lasse Hallström for the spy thriller, The Tourist. Jolie, 34, was photographed leaving the Sony Studios Building in Culver City, Calif., Oct. 15, where she reportedly inked a deal to star as an Interpol agent in The Tourist. Charlize Theron, 34, was previously attached to the project but recently dropped out. The Stockholm-born Hallström, 63, has been widely praised for his work in My Life as a Dog (1985), Chocolat (2000) and in 1999 was nominated for an Academy Award for The Cider House Rules. The Tourist is a remake of a 2005 French thriller Anthony Zimmer (which starred Sophie Marceau). The movie concerns an Interpol agent (Jolie) who manipulates an American tourist (played by Sam Worthington, who starred in Terminator Salvation) to entrap her ex-lover, a suspected international criminal.
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Angelina Jolie, Lasse Hallström Team Up for The Tourist
17 October 2009 3:27 PM, PDT
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Angelina Jolie is reportedly teaming up with Swedish director Lasse Hallström for the spy thriller, The Tourist. Jolie, 34, was photographed leaving the Sony Studios Building in Culver City, Calif., Oct. 15, where she reportedly inked a deal to star as an Interpol agent in The Tourist. Charlize Theron, 34, was previously attached to the project but recently dropped out. The Stockholm-born Hallström, 63, has been widely praised for his work in My Life as a Dog (1985), Chocolat (2000) and in 1999 was nominated for an Academy Award for The Cider House Rules. The Tourist is a remake of a 2005 French thriller Anthony Zimmer (which starred Sophie Marceau). The movie concerns an Interpol agent (Jolie) who manipulates an American tourist (played by Sam Worthington, who starred in Terminator Salvation) to entrap her ex-lover, a suspected international criminal.
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- schang@theimproper.com (Samantha Chang)
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Review: "Where the Wild Things Are" (Sadly) Isn't Worth Visiting
15 October 2009 12:11 PM, PDT
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According to Rottentomatoes.com, Where the Wild Things Are, which opens on Friday, is getting mixed-to-decent reviews. I'm trying hard to wrap my mind around this, because I saw the film on Monday, and it simply doesn't work.
Because of all the buzz, I suspect the movie will open strong, but I'll be shocked if the box office doesn't collapse as word-of-mouth gets out about how muddled and frequently outright boring it is.
But I'll grant you that it's not terrible in the way that earlier "bad" movies this year have been — movies such as G-Force (which was soul-less and completely by-the-numbers) or Year One (which was a meandering, painfully unfunny mess).
Director Spike Jonze at least tried to make something truly different. Much has been made of the fact that he was trying to create the sense of being a nine-year-old boy — the sense of confusion, the feeling that
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- Brent Hartinger
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