Michael Shannon is known for intense performances: his Oscar-nominated role as the unbalanced neighbor in Revolutionary Road, his current tour de force as the about-to-explode federal Prohibition agent in Boardwalk Empire. (Here's my new-season review.) But he also brings huge restraint and subtlet...
Read More »No actor wants to have seven movies released in one year, not if they’ve ever heard the word “overexposed.” Delayed releases and weird timing have left Jessica Chastain in just that position, but at least she gets to demonstrate her range.
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Read More »One Day has a rigid structure that some directors would find impossible. Emma and Dexter - played by Anne Hathaway and Jim Sturgess - live through two decades of tumultuous friendship and love, although we only see them on July 15th each year. But this romantic drama plays to Danish-born director ...
Read More »At first glance, it seems that whether audiences will swoon for One Day - with Anne Hathaway and Jim Sturgess as friends whose ever-changing two-decade relationship we see one day each year - has everything to do with Hathaway's star presence. But she is just one part of the three-way powerhouse b...
Read More »Jim Sturgess has been terrific in small, underrated movies, like 21 and - as we talk about in this video chat – Julie Taylor’s Beatles-inspired musical Across the Universe. But One Day arrives as his career-making moment. Anne Hathaway may be the name-y star of the romance, but Sturgess is its big ...
Read More »Dominic Cooper isn’t the first actor you’d think of to play a madman. Until now he’s been known as the cute guy the heroine wants to marry, in the 18th century (The Duchess) and today (Mamma Mia!) All that changes with Lee Tamahori's fact-based film The Devil’s Double. Cooper gives an amazing dual p...
Read More »Ewan McGregor is the droll but touching hero of Beginners, one of the summer’s most beloved films. In our video chat, he talked about how he prepared to play his character, based on the film’s writer/director - he wore the guy’s clothes ! - why he loves working in indie films, why he rode a roller ...
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