A BEAUTIFUL MIND (2001) Starring Russell Crowe, Jennifer Connelly, Ed Harris, Paul Bettany, Adam Goldberg, Christopher Plummer, Judd Hirsch, Joshua Lucas, Anthony Rapp, Austin Pendleton, Jason Gray-Stanford and Vivien Cardone. Screenplay by Akiva Goldsman. Directed by Ron Howard. Distributed by Universal Pictures. 134 minutes. Rated PG-13. A Beautiful Mind springs from a fascinating, but seemingly uncinematic … Continue reading
Category Archives: Oscar Nominees
Bridget Jones’s Diary (A PopEntertainment.com Movie Review)
BRIDGET JONES’S DIARY (2001) Starring Renée Zellweger, Colin Firth, Hugh Grant, Jim Broadbent, Gemma Jones, Paul Brooke, Felicity Montagu, Shirley Henderson, Sally Phillips and James Callis. Screenplay by Helen Fielding, Andrew Davies and Richard Curtis. Directed by Sharon Maguire. Distributed by Miramax Pictures. 98 minutes. Rated R. Renée Zellweger is the biggest of many good … Continue reading
Being John Malkovich (A PopEntertainment.com Movie Review)
BEING JOHN MALKOVICH (1999) Starring John Cusack, Cameron Diaz, Catherine Keener, Orson Bean, Mary Kay Place and John Malkovich. Screenplay by Charlie Kaufman. Directed by Spike Jonze. Distributed by Propaganda Films. 113 minutes. Rated R. Being John Malkovich has an extremely smart and surrealistic idea for a film. What if you found a way to experience … Continue reading
Election (A PopEntertainment.com Movie Review)
ELECTION (1999) Starring Matthew Broderick, Reese Witherspoon, Chris Klein, Loren Nelson, Phil Reeves, Emily Martin, Molly Hagan and Colleen Camp. Screenplay by Alexander Payne. Directed by Alexander Payne. Distributed by MTV Pictures. 103 minutes. Rated R. It’s always nice surprise when a film comes out that actually has some intelligent ideas. So much so that … Continue reading
Shakespeare in Love (A PopEntertainment.com Movie Review)
SHAKESPEARE IN LOVE (1998) Starring Joseph Fiennes, Gwyneth Paltrow, Rupert Everett, Geoffrey Rush, Ben Affleck, Colin Firth, Judi Dench, Martin Clunes, Tom Wilkinson, Simon Callow, Steve O’Donnell and Sandra Reinton. Screenplay by Tom Stoppard and Marc Norman. Directed by John Madden. Distributed by Miramax Pictures. 122 minutes. Rated R. Proof in these post-Farrelly times that … Continue reading