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I 'heard about the Morgans' and I have some new ideas for Hugh Grant...
19 December 2009 7:00 AM, PST
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As an unashamed rom-com fan, I ignored the reviews and went to see Did You Hear About the Morgans? (horrible title!) on Friday – and let’s just say I had my fill of watered-down City Slickers jokes within the first half hour.
But moving on to the positives -- for starters, Elisabeth Moss (our beloved Peggy from Mad Men) showed off a sleek modern style and a deliciously bitchy attitude as the assistant to Sarah Jessica Parker's annoying character. And also, Hugh Grant was pretty lovable and had a few good lines that had me laughing two or three times.
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- Wendy Mitchell
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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
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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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
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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Box office preview: 'Avatar' poised for incredible opening weekend
17 December 2009 3:30 PM, PST
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This is the weekend we've all been waiting for. Avatar finally hits theaters and the results are sure to be spectacular. Tracking indicates the James Cameron extravaganza is playing like a sequel, rather than as a brand new piece of filmmaking based on nothing other than what rolls around inside Cameron's brain. With early reviews overwhelmingly positive, the film's audience is likely to be much broader than initially expected. Going up against this massive endeavor is Sony Pictures' Did You Hear About the Morgans starring Sarah Jessica Parker and Hugh Grant. The cynical "counter-programming" option for women doesn't seem to be working,
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- Nicole Sperling
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An Education
14 December 2009 10:28 PM, PST
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An Education
Directed by: Lone Scherfig
Cast: Carey Mulligan, Peter Sarsgaard, Alfred Molina, Olivia Williams, Emma Thompson
Running Time: 1 hr 40 mins
Rating: PG-13
Release Date: November 26, 2009
Plot: Set in the 1960s in suburban London, this is a coming-of-age story about Jenny (Mulligan). This teenager’s life is changed when a playboy (Sarsgaard) nearly twice her age shows some interest. Screenplay written by author Nick Hornby (”About a Boy,” “High Fidelity”).
Who’S It For? It’s a period piece with a tough topic … there’s a big age difference in this relationship. Those looking for a strong (young) female lead, that may have a chance at an Oscar should make sure they see this film.
Expectations: Peter Sarsgaard has been in a ton of films, but the last one I really liked was Jarhead. I knew nothing about director Lone Scherfig, whose other films are Hjemve and Wilbur Wants to Kill Himself.
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- Jeff Bayer
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The Verge: Nicholas Hoult
14 December 2009 6:45 AM, PST
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When the 12-year-old Nicholas Hoult first made an impression in 2002's About a Boy, Hugh Grant was playing opposite him as an overgrown adolescent living off his family's residuals -- basically, the nightmare of any child actor. Hoult's own coming-of-age has been the furthest thing from lazy, and after recapturing attention two years ago in the rude UK teen soap Skins, he landed the role of Kenny, who admires and longs for Colin Firth in Tom Ford's A Single Man.
Newly twenty and on the cusp of more adult roles (he'll next be seen in Louis Leterrier's remake of Clash of the Titans), Hoult talked to Movieline about navigating that transition, learning how to swing a sword, and that angora sweater from A Single Man.
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Review: ‘A Single Man’
11 December 2009 10:00 AM, PST
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A Single Man is the single biggest surprise I have had at the movies all year. It is brilliant, beautiful, superbly acted, and emotionally devastating. It is one of those movies that will haunt you for days and weeks to come after viewing it.
*Minor spoilers in this review* The opening credits are set to an underwater scene depicting a man gently lolling about in the waves in slow motion. A voice-over by George (Colin Firth) states that it has been 8 months since he lost his male partner in a car crash, and yet everyday “Waking up hurts.”
George is starting to believe that life will never really return to normal, and the day we witness in the film is actually the day that George has decided to kill himself. Fastidious to a fault, he meticulously lays out the outfit he wishes to be buried in, going so far as
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- Shannon Hood
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Exclusive Interview: A Single Man Star Nicholas Hoult
10 December 2009 9:03 PM, PST
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I do a lot of talking in the below interview with Nicholas Hoult, but not because he was uncooperative or even untalkative. He, unlike most actors sent out on publicity tours, is a good listener, willing to let me talk out my belabored points and give me a puzzled expression or two if I was on the wrong track. He's a fascinating guy, turning 20 the day we spoke but full of experience in the movie industry, having made his big debut at age 12 in 2002's About A Boy.
He's come a long way from there in A Single Man, sporting an American accent and a spray tan as college student Kenny, who's become fascinated with his English professor George Falconer (Colin Firth) on the precise day that George has decided to take his own life. Eerily confident and ethereally beautiful, Kenny pops up repeatedly to force George to rethink the
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Review: Tom Ford’s “A Single Man”
10 December 2009 11:08 AM, PST
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Part of the life-story-in-a-day genre that encompasses everything from Mrs. Dalloway to A Christmas Carol to Agnès Varda’s French New Wave classic Cléo from 5 to 7, Christopher Isherwood’s A Single Man ranked among the minor wave of major novels of the post-wwii era that examined the inner workings of an unequivocally gay protagonist.
Isherwood’s novel is now the basis for an extraordinarily assured directorial debut by fashion designer Tom Ford, who — with the able assistance of a crack team of performers and technicians — appears to have an instinctive gift for screen storytelling.
What’s most likely to be debated about the movie is its vivid, and some might say overwhelming, sense of visual style, an attention to handsome detail that permeates every frame. But whether viewers embrace its aesthetic as part of Ford’s worldview or get annoyed by the fashion-spread-ishness of A Single Man’s look, there
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- alonsoduralde
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Classic Christmas food TV
10 December 2009 8:16 AM, PST
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Some classic Christmas cookery clips which you may unaccountably have missed first time round. What food-related telly will you be watching this Christmas?
Delia's historic return to our Christmas screens seems an ideal occasion to review a few classic moments in food, telly and tinsel. I've dug out three clips of cooks making Christmas cake that highlight the profound shift in the medium as the stern education of olden times has shifted to sexed-up twinkling modernity. And as a special present I've bunged in three other enjoyable titbits of Crimbo YouTubery. WoMers are bound to know of more good 'uns too, so do post them in the comments.
"Fanny Cradock cooks Your Christmas Cake," the caption says. I bloody hope not: she'd be a terrible guest. Fingering what looks like a fruit cake, Cradock barks: "If you run away with the idea that that's a Madeira fruit cake, I'll go right orf you.
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- Oliver Thring
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Hoult Lost Onscreen Virginity Two Days After His 18th Birthday
9 December 2009 12:11 AM, PST
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About A Boy star Nicholas Hoult had an odd 18th birthday present from the crew of British TV drama Skins - his first sex scene.
Directors waited until two days after the actor had turned 18 to film his saucy scenes with co-star April Pearson - to avoid legal issues.
Hoult says, "They were all laughing and saying that was my birthday present."
But the actor, who turned 20 on Monday, admits it was the greatest birthday gift: "It was odd. April was a very nice girl but the 'cut' thing was awkward - you're doing a passionate sex scene with someone and then I'm lying on top of her and they say 'cut' and you're in a very compromising position with someone you don't know that well.
"Needless to say my parents were not on the set that day. I wouldn't want them to see their son having sex on camera!"
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The Bell Toll
8 December 2009 2:00 PM, PST
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Tom Ford's A Single Man is not just a great actor's showcase for Colin Firth and Julianne Moore but also for young actor Nicholas Hoult (About a Boy) who's handed a sizable part chockablock with screen heat and intelligence. Lucky for him, then, that Jamie Bell didn't want it. The Playlist pieced together that Bell is the unnamed actor who simply didn't show up to set the first day, according to Ford. Jamie, you are in for a stern talking-to from Jason Reitman. [The Playlist]
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'The Slammin' Salmon,' 'A Single Man' and 'My Son, My Son, What Have Ye Done?' In This Week's unLimited
8 December 2009 1:00 PM, PST
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This past weekend, "Up in the Air" made more than $1 million on 15 screens while "Transylmania" took in only $250,000 (roughly) on more than 1,000 screens. So you see, limited release doesn't mean limited box office gross, and it certainly doesn't mean limited appeal. Of course, "Up in the Air" stars George Clooney. This week's three spotlighted films opening in limited release don't have that luxury, yet each has enough appeal to enough of a built-in audience that I won't be surprised to see all of them do relatively well with the screens their given.
"A Single Man"
What it is: Fashion designer Tom Ford makes his directorial debut with "A Single Man," a '60s-set drama in which a college professor (Colin Firth) deals with the death of his boyfriend (Matthew Goode). Julianne Moore and Nicholas Hoult, of "About a Boy," also appear as the man's best friend and student, respectively. Based
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- Christopher Campbell
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Movie Preview: A Single Man (Starring Colin Firth, Matthew Goode, and Julianne Moore)
6 December 2009 11:33 PM, PST
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Tom Ford's creativity apparently doesn't end with his forward-thinking fashion designs. Branching out in an entirely new direction, Ford has co-written, co-produced, and made his feature-directing debut with A Single Man (2009), set for release on December 11, 2009, before opening in additional theaters at Christmas. The drama is based on Christopher Isherwood's 1964 book, also entitled A Single Man, and it follows the story of George Falconer (Colin Firth). A reserved, emotionally closed-off British professor in Los Angeles in 1962, Falconer has just lost his longtime partner, Jim (Matthew Goode), and Jim's death in a car accident has left him crushed, despondent, trapped in the past and unsure of how -- or if -- to continue on into the future. The drama picks up Falconer's plight on a single, pivotal day in his life. The boozy, depressed Charlotte (Julianne Moore), who's always harbored feelings for Falconer, tries to console her suicidal friend. And
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- ianspelling@corp.popstar.com (Ian Spelling)
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Decade in Review: 2002 Top Ten
2 December 2009 7:58 PM, PST
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As with 2000 and 2001, I'm reprinting my original top ten lists and commentary. If I've got something new to say, it'll be in red below.
Please note: This list was based on NYC release dates in the year 2002. Some movies are listed as different years at the IMDb based on when they were produced or released in their home country or in La or whatnot.
Undervalued: Morvern Callar, Roger Dodger, About a Boy, White Oleander, Panic Room and Kissing Jessica Stein Top 10 Runners Up: Chicago, Monsoon Wedding, Punch Drunk Love and Spirited Away I still am glad I championed most of these movies though I am sad that some of them aren't in the top ten... particularly Morvern, Monsoon and the Miyazaki. The MMMs. Though I'm not sure I'd know what to remove to make room for them.
10. 8 Women (François Ozon)
Ever since I a French teacher took my friends and
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- NATHANIEL R
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Holiday songs just after Thanksgiving: Too soon?
27 November 2009 9:30 AM, PST
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Strolling through the mall, driving to the movie theater, waiting for a table at dinner—it doesn't matter where you go; the day after Thanksgiving begins the onslaught of holiday tunes.
Don't get me wrong; I love jamming to "Rockin' Around the Christmas Tree," but all in due time, radio stations. Getting an earful of these songs before we even enter December seems like overkill. And by the time we do, I've heard enough sleigh bells ring-ting-tingaling and chestnuts roasting to last two holiday seasons.
It all reminds me of Hugh Grant's character Will in About a Boy. In his case,
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- Archana Ram
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Weisz: 'Motherhood makes me scream'
24 November 2009 1:28 AM, PST
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Rachel Weisz has revealed that motherhood sometimes makes her want to "scream". The About A Boy star, who has 3-year-old son Henry with fiancé Darren Aronofsky, said that although she loves being a mother she sometimes needs her friends for support. Weisz told Redbook magazine: "I think one of the things that mothers aren't allowed to talk about enough to one another... is the times when you're pulling your hair out at home with the (more)
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- By Rebecca Davies
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You review: The Twilight Saga - New Moon
23 November 2009 7:42 AM, PST
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Do you agree with the Twihards that New Moon is the film of the year? Or is this supernatural romance strangely bloodless?
Poor old Chris Weitz. Once considered a promising film-maker, round about the time he successfully transformed Nick Hornby's pleasant and enjoyable novel About a Boy into an equally pleasant and enjoyable movie starring Hugh Grant and that kid from Skins, he now finds himself working as a hired hand on film number two of the Twilight saga, the hugely popular but strangely bloodless series based on Stephenie Meyer's romantic books about a schoolgirl who falls in love with a vampire. The critics are predictably nonplussed by a movie that stretches to more than two hours, at least half of which is the celluloid equivalent of hanging out with a female Kevin the Teenager.
Heroine Bella (Kristen Stewart) only gets a few moments of happiness at the
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- Ben Child
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New Moon Director Chris Weitz Taking On The Gardener, Not Retiring, Bad Mouths New Line for Golden Compass
23 November 2009 12:21 AM, PST
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With New Moon ruling the box office this weekend, director Chris Weitz must be glad to put the failure of The Golden Compass behind him. In fact, he admitted as much in Variety's announcement of his next project, The Gardener. He didn't hold back at all on trash talking New Line, just check out some of the quotes after the break. Weitz also made it clear that he's not retiring after this next project.
First, The Gardener: The film looks decidedly simpler in scope than his recent projects. It's the story of a Mexican immigrant living in La and his efforts to protect his son. Weitz co-wrote the script along with Eric Eason (Manito). About A Boy showed Weitz had a knack for small-scale dramas, so I'm hoping this film ends up similarly good.
As for Newline and The Golden Compass, he mentioned that the studio took the film away
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- Devindra Hardawar
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Director Chris Weitz Following New Moon with The Gardener
22 November 2009 11:27 PM, PST
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"There are no werewolves or vampires, just a Mexican gardener in Los Angeles." Variety reports tonight that director Chris Weitz will be following up The Twilight Saga: New Moon with a new drama called The Gardener. Before jumping into the world of vampires, Weitz directed The Golden Compass and About a Boy previously. He's had a rough career so far (dealing with these last two films), but hopefully this project will allow him to settle down once again. Summit Entertainment, who released Twilight, is developing The Gardener with Weitz from a screenplay written by Eric Eason (Manito). From vampires to just a gardener?
The Gardener is apparently just a story about a hard-working immigrant who lives in Los Angeles and his efforts to protect his son. Is there something more to this? Because it sounds like it could be a modern hybrid of Michael Douglas' Falling Down and Liam Neeson's Taken,
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- Alex Billington
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