BLUE VALENTINE (2010) Starring Ryan Gosling, Michelle Williams, Faith Wladyka, John Doman, Mike Vogel, Marshall Johnson, Jen Jones, Maryann Plunkett, James Benatti, Barbara Troy, Carey Westbrook, Ben Shenkman, Eileen Rosen, Enid Graham and Ashley Gurnari. Screenplay by Derek Cianfrance, Joey Curtis and Cami Delavigne. Directed by Derek Cianfrance. Distributed by Anchor Bay Entertainment. 112 minutes. … Continue reading
Category Archives: Oscar Nominees
Fiddler on the Roof (A PopEntertainment.com Movie Review)
FIDDLER ON THE ROOF (40th ANNIVERSARY) (1971) Starring Topol, Norma Crane, Leonard Frey, Molly Picon, Paul Mann, Rosalind Harris, Michael March, Neva Small, (Paul) Michael Glaser, Raymond Lovelock, Elaine Edwards, Candy Bonstein, Shimen Ruskin, Zvee Scooler, Louis Zorich, Patience Collier and Tutte Lemkow. Screenplay by Joseph Stein. Directed by Norman Jewison. Distributed by United Artists … Continue reading
Bambi – Diamond Edition (A PopEntertainment.com Video Review)
BAMBI – DIAMOND EDITION (1942) Featuring the voices of Hardie Albright, Stan Alexander, Peter Behn, Tim Davis, Donnie Dunagan, Ann Gillis, Sterling Holloway, Cammie King, Fred Shields, John Sutherland, Paula Winslowe and Will Wright. Screenplay by Larry Morey and Perce Pearce. Directed by David Hand. Distributed by Walt Disney Pictures. 70 minutes. Rated G. No … Continue reading
Jennifer Lawrence – Now an Oscar Nominee, the Actress Heats Up Winter’s Bone
Jennifer Lawrence Now an Oscar Nominee, the Actress Heats Up Winter’s Bone by Brad Balfour Thanks to her 2011 Oscar™ nom for Best Actress as Ree Dolly in Winter’s Bone, relative newcomer Jennifer Lawrence has now become one of Hollywood’s latest darlings. Of course, there are the perks of such attention: fancy gowns, cool parties, cute guys … Continue reading
Vik Muniz’s Garbage-Art Transforms a Waste Land Into a Nominee & Award Winner
Vik Muniz’s Garbage-Art Transforms a Waste Land Into a Nominee & Award Winner by Brad Balfour Brazilian conceptualist Vik Muniz has been making remarkable photo-constructs and garnering accolades within the fine art world for years including such places as New York’s Guggenheim Museum. But recently the artist has landed squarely in the public eye so … Continue reading
Lee Unkrich – A Dual Oscar Nominee, Toy Story 3’s Director Muses on Childhood and the Future
Lee Unkrich A Dual Oscar Nominee, Toy Story 3‘s Director Muses on Childhood and the Future by Brad Balfour Now sitting before me is a big box – something like a Borg cube, but not one loaded up with malevolent androids wanting to absorb me into the collective. It is the box set of the … Continue reading
Nicole Kidman – The Oscar-Winning Actress Explores Loss and Grief in Rabbit Hole
Nicole Kidman The Oscar-Winning Actress Explores Loss and Grief in Rabbit Hole by Brad Balfour Everyone experiences loss and grief, but few films show it in such a naked and matter-of-fact manner as does Rabbit Hole. The Aussie actress Nicole Kidman was so passionate about David Lindsay-Abaire’s original Pulitzer Prize-winning play that she signed on … Continue reading
The King’s Speech (A PopEntertainment.com Movie Review)
THE KING’S SPEECH (2010) Starring Colin Firth, Geoffrey Rush, Helena Bonham Carter, Guy Pearce, Timothy Spall, Michael Gambon, Jennifer Ehle, Derek Jacobi, Max Callum, James Currie, Claire Bloom and Eve Best. Screenplay by David Seidler. Directed by Tom Hooper. Distributed by The Weinstein Company. 118 minutes. Rated R. Going just from the basic description of The … Continue reading
Colin Firth – Oscar Nominee Refines The King’s Speech
Colin Firth Oscar Nominee Refines The King’s Speech by Brad Balfour To the hardcore Jane Austen fans, 50-year-old English actor Colin Firth will always be Mr. Darcy after he appeared in a wet shirt in the BBC mini-series of Pride and Prejudice. But he really landed at the top of the hot lists with his 2009 … Continue reading
Jesse Eisenberg Creates a Zuckerberg Profile For The Social Network
Jesse Eisenberg Creates a Zuckerberg Profile For The Social Network by Brad Balfour The hit film The Social Network may not have as profound an effect as the social network, Facebook, itself. But the cinematic version has lots of important things to say about the kind of people who make game-changing ideas into a reality and how … Continue reading