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Watch: Alexis Bledel & Saoirse Ronan Play Teen Assassins in Trailer for 'Violet & Daisy,' the Directorial Debut From 'Precious' Writer
Alexis Bledel and Saoirse Ronan team up in "Violet & Daisy" as two teenage killers hired to do an 'easy' job that doesn't feel quite right. The movie is the directorial debut for Geoffrey Feltcher, the Oscar-winning screenwriter of "Precious." The film also features James Gandolfini, Marianne Jean-B...
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Watch: Saoirse Ronan & Alexis Bledel Are Hired Killers In Trailer For 'Violet & Daisy'
Premiering at TIFF way back in 2011 and arriving in theaters nearly two years later, it isn't exactly the best indication that "Violet & Daisy" is a winner. But with Saoirse Ronan and Alexis Bledel playing teen killers, and with James Gandolfini popping in for some support, perhaps this will at leas...
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Watch: Bloody and Sexy New Trailer for Neil Jordan's 'Byzantium' Starring Gemma Arterton and Saoirse Ronan
The new trailer for Neil Jordan's return to the vampire genre "Byzantium," features Gemma Arterton and Saoirse Ronan who play a mother and daughter vampire pair navigating the immortal underworld controlled by male vampires. Ronan plays the 16-year-old daughter trapped in a state of agelessness and ...
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Watch: Gemma Arterton Bathes In Blood In New Trailer For 'Byzantium'
If you're going to make a movie about vampires, there's going to be blood. And Neil Jordan certainly brings the red stuff "Byzantium" (though maybe not as much as you might expect) his new take on the genre which takes a look the familiar vampire world, but from a female perspective.
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Cross Post: The Host: Less Anti-Feminist than Twilight, but Hardly a Sisterhood Manifesta
I readily admit I did not read The Host. I couldn't face it after immersing myself in all things Twilight while researching my book Seduced by Twilight. I started it, but less than 20 pages in I couldn't stomach any more of Stephenie Meyer's purple, flaccid prose. No, I agree with Nicki Gerlach--tha...
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Check Out The Sweet & Deadly Poster For 'Violet & Daisy' Starring Saoirse Ronan & Alexis Bledel
The new “Violet & Daisy” poster has landed and it is quite a doozy, with a strikingly bold concatenation of lollipops and guns setting an eye-popping tone for the latest from “Precious” writer Geoffrey Fletcher.
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Lea Seydoux Books Role In Wes Anderson's 'The Grand Budapest Hotel,' Saoirse Ronan Reveals Details About Her Part
So remember last week when Fox Searchlight picked up Wes Anderson's "The Grand Budapest Hotel" and dropped the official synopsis, along with a staggering list of cast members? It seems they left one out: Lea Seydoux.
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THE HOST
Having suffered through the last two installments of the heavy-breathing "Twilight Saga," I wasn’t eager to see the latest film based on a novel by Stephenie Meyer. The only reason I had any hope was the presence of Saoirse Ronan in the leading role—and indeed, this uncommonly gifted Irish actress i...
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Review: 'The Host' Is A Dopey & Dull Sci-Fi Disaster
Last fall saw the end of what appeared, for a little while at least, to be a seemingly endless series of "Twilight" films. The moony film series, based on a series of equally moony novels by Mormon housewife Stephenie Meyer, were torturously lengthy, poorly plotted trifles, the stuff of dime-store r...
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Gemma Arterton Draws Blood, Saoirse Ronan Finds Love In New Pics From Neil Jordan's Vampire Tale 'Byzantium'
While vampires, werewolves and sorts of supernatura subject matter aren't going away anytime soon, it seems that international auteurs are getting in on the action. Christoph Gans is currently in the midst of "Beauty & The Beast" with Vincent Cassel and Lea Seydoux, and this summer, Neil Jordan take...
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