Claire Danes, Hugh Dancy and Mamie Gummer – Some Enchanted Evening by Jay S. Jacobs Originally posted on June 29, 2007. Susan Minot’s novel Evening was embraced by a huge readership upon being released. The novel is about the choices people make and how they are formed by them. A woman at the end of … Continue reading
Natasha Richardson Late in the Evening by Jay S. Jacobs In Evening, Natasha Richardson plays a difficult role, that of an adult daughter watching her mother slowly losing the fight for life. The part is probably doubly heart-wrenching for the actress because her own mother – screen legend Vanessa Redgrave – plays the elderly woman coming … Continue reading
Peter Stickles Something in the Lair by Ronald Sklar Photography by Eugene Gallegos When New-York-based actor Peter Stickles yearned for a role he could sink his teeth into, he wasn’t just whistling “Dixie.” As the lead vampire in the new Here TV drama The Lair, Stickles plays a vampire so evil that his name is Damian. … Continue reading
CATCH AND RELEASE (2007) Starring Jennifer Garner, Tim Olyphant, Kevin Smith, Sam Jaeger, Juliette Lewis, Fiona Shaw, Joshua Friesen, Tina Lifford, Georgia Craig, Christopher Redman, Joyce Krenz, Sonja Bennett, Yorgo Constantine, Nancy Hower and Jennifer Spence. Screenplay by Susannah Grant. Directed by Susannah Grant. Distributed by Columbia Pictures. 112 minutes. Rated PG-13. Catch and Release has … Continue reading
MISS POTTER (2007) Starring Renee Zellweger, Ewan McGregor, Emily Watson, Barbara Flynn, Phil Paterson, Matyelock Gibbs, Lloyd Owen, Anton Lesser, David Bamber, Patricia Kerrigan, Judith Barker, Chris Middleton, Lucy Boynton, Oliver Jenkins, Richard Mulholland and Phyllida Law. Screenplay by Richard Maltby, Jr. Directed by Chris Noonan. Distributed by The Weinstein Company. 93 minutes. Rated PG. … Continue reading
WAITRESS (2007) Starring Keri Russell, Nathan Fillion, Cheryl Hines, Adrienne Shelly, Eddie Jemison, Lew Temple, Jeremy Sisto, Andy Griffith, Darby Stanchfield, Heidi Sulzman, Lauri Johnson, Sarah Hunley, Cindy Drummond, Nathan Dean and Caroline Fogarty. Screenplay by Adrienne Shelly. Directed by Adrienne Shelly. Distributed by Fox Searchlight Pictures. 104 minutes. Rated PG-13. It is hard to … Continue reading
EVENING (2007) Starring Vanessa Redgrave, Claire Danes, Toni Collette, Patrick Wilson, Hugh Dancy, Natasha Richardson, Glenn Close, Meryl Streep, Mamie Gummer, Barry Bostwick and Eileen Atkins. Screenplay by Susan Minot and Michael Cunningham. Directed by Lajos Koltai. Distributed by Focus Features. 117 minutes. Rated PG-13. Evening wears its quality pedigree like a tiara on its stately … Continue reading
THE TREATMENT (2007) Starring Chris Eigeman, Famke Janssen, Ian Holm, Stephanie March, Peter Vack, Griffin Newman, Josh Barclay Caras, Matt Stadelmann, Lindsay Johnson, Stephen Lang, Maddie Corman and Roger Rees. Screenplay by Oren Rudavsky and Daniel Saul Housman. Directed by Oren Rudavsky. Distributed by New Yorker Films. 86 minutes. Rated R. In Woody Allen’s Stardust Memories, … Continue reading
TRUE GRIT (1969) Starring John Wayne, Kim Darby, Glen Campbell, Jeremy Slate, Robert Duvall, Strother Martin, Alfred Ryder, Jeff Corey, Ron Soble, John Fiedler, James Westerfield and Dennis Hopper. Screenplay by Marguerite Roberts. Directed by Henry Hathaway. Distributed by Paramount Pictures. 127 minutes. Rated G. When you are of a certain age, there are only … Continue reading
Tyne Daly and Sharon Gless She’s Lacey and She’s Cagney by Jay S. Jacobs It was a series that broke all the rules. A cop drama in which the two leads were both women – looking at the personal and professional lives of two women making their way in a man’s world and not only keeping up, but … Continue reading
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