trailer break: ‘Midnight in Paris’
Michael Sheen being funny? I did not know that I was waiting for such a thing till right now.
Michael Sheen
trailer break: ‘Beautiful Boy’
With We Need to Talk About Kevin also wowwing audiences at Cannes, it looks like this is the year of the dueling our-son-went-on-a-shooting-rampage movies. Fun!
we are beyond satire: BP oil spill movie coming soon!
Hoorah! The human spirit triumphs! No mention of all the dead marine life of the Gulf of Mexico and the destroyed economies of the Gulf Coast states. Such a downer!
wtf: did Tony Blair plagiarize ‘The Queen’?
Screenwriter Peter Morgan throws a rotten tomato at the former British prime minister…
female gazing at: Michael Sheen
I didn’t used to think that Tony Blair was sexy, but then Michael Sheen as Blair came along…
Michael Sheen is *so* going to play Tony Hayward…
…in the BP oil spill movie, isn’t he?
zombie Beatles; ‘Iron Man 2’ sexist?; good-bye, ‘Heroes’; more: leftover links
Every week my browser gets cluttered up with tabs for stuff that I stumble across and figure I might be able to use as a Question of the Day or a WTF Thought for the Day or grist for some other post. And inevitably, I end the week with most of that material unused. But … more…
my week at the movies: ‘Sherlock Holmes,’ ‘Armored,’ ‘Invictus,’ ‘It’s Complicated,’ ‘The Last Station’
Who wants a sparkly vampire boyfriend? I want an ass-kicking, violin-playing, cocaine-shooting-up, arrogant, superior, crime-solving genius boyfriend, and all the better if he’s played by Robert Downey Jr., who is probably just as fucked up as Holmes himself but is walking sex nevertheless. (Jude Law’s not so bad, either.) Oh my god I feel like … more…
question of the day: What is your best reason to see ‘Twilight: New Moon’ (or not to see it)?
Cinematical yesterday posted “The Top Five Reasons to See Twilight: New Moon,” which includes: Michael Sheen. Speaking of the Volturi, Michael Sheen plays their leader. Sheen’s been around for years, and is certainly no stranger to performing in broad-appeal films, but his recent starring roles in Frost/Nixon and The Queen have made him one of … more…
The Damned United (review)
I might not know from football, I do know people, and *The Damned United* is an absolutely thrilling story, one both hilarious and poignant, about a man who is downright classical in his flaws…
