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James Mangold – A Director Walks the Fine Line Towards the Oscars
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James Mangold – A Director Walks the Fine Line Towards the Oscars

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James Mangold A Director Walks the Fine Line Towards the Oscars by Brad Balfour Throughout his career, New York-born director James Mangold has offered an uncanny look at relationships since his first film Heavy, whether it be with cops (Cop Land), women (Girl, Interrupted), or a couple (Kate and Leopold). Now, with his latest, Walk the Line, he again examines a couple … Continue reading →

Daniel Radcliffe, Emma Watson and Rupert Grint On Fire About Harry Potter
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Daniel Radcliffe, Emma Watson and Rupert Grint On Fire About Harry Potter

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Daniel Radcliffe, Emma Watson and Rupert Grint On Fire About Harry Potter by Brad Balfour Obviously, the best place to start investigating the fourth Harry Potter film, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, is to begin with talking to the series’ youthful stars – Daniel Radcliffe (Harry), Emma Watson (Hermione), and Rupert Grint (Ron) – … Continue reading →

David Cronenberg – A Director Looks at Violent America
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David Cronenberg – A Director Looks at Violent America

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DAVID CRONENBERG A DIRECTOR LOOKS AT VIOLENT AMERICA by Brad Balfour Now transformed from a horror genre master (Rabid, The Brood, Scanners, Videodrome) to a full-blown, critically acclaimed and analyzed auteur, Toronto-based director David Cronenberg finally has made A History of Violence – the film that may be the Oscar-garnering capper of his career. With Cronenberg having … Continue reading →

Atom Egoyan – Finding the Truth in Directing
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Atom Egoyan – Finding the Truth in Directing

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ATOM EGOYAN FINDING THE TRUTH IN DIRECTING by Brad Balfour For Canadian director Atom Egoyan creating Where the Truth Lies offered a challenge of constructing something that was almost a genre film but not quite. Wrestling with musician/composer Rupert Holmes’ novel of the same name, Egoyan takes a story that plays on the conventions of the classic … Continue reading →

Holly Hunter Has Nine Lives
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Holly Hunter Has Nine Lives

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Holly Hunter Has Nine Livesby Brad Balfour In the nine vignette-composed feature Nine Lives by director Rodrigo Garcia, Oscar-winning actress Holly Hunter joins an ensemble cast of other established actors such as Glenn Close and Aidan Quinn, in talking about the lives of various women at moments of crisis. Since this project had a scant budget and time constraints, … Continue reading →

Curtis Hanson – The Director Steps Into a Woman’s World
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Curtis Hanson – The Director Steps Into a Woman’s World

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Curtis HANSON The director steps into a WOMAN’S WORLD by Brad BALFOUR Veteran director Curtis Hanson loves to confound people. As the Oscar-winning director of L.A. Confidential, who would have thought he would take on a project like 8 Mile – the fictionalized telling of cross-over rapper Eminem’s rise to success in the Detroit ghetto. Yet now he again defies expectations of him by doing … Continue reading →

Jessica Alba – Steps Into the Blue
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Jessica Alba – Steps Into the Blue

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JESSICA ALBA STEPS INTO THE BLUE by Brad Balfour Copyright ©2005 PopEntertainment.com. All rights reserved. Posted: October 10, 2005. This has been a great year for actress Jessica Alba having appeared in Sin City, Fantastic Four and now the sexy action thriller, Into the Blue. As one of the most gorgeous women on film, the 24 … Continue reading →

Peter Falk Reveals a Few Things
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Peter Falk Reveals a Few Things

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PETER FALK REVEALS A FEW THINGS by Brad Balfour Though by now veteran actor Peter Falk may always be playing a bit of Peter Falk in every role he does, that archetype works perfectly well when he plays the oh-so-Jewish father in Paul Reiser’s feature, The Thing About My Folks. If any movie does a classic riff on the … Continue reading →

Sir Ben Kingsley Travels Through Time as Two Very Different Characters
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Sir Ben Kingsley Travels Through Time as Two Very Different Characters

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SIR BEN KINGSLEY TRAVELS THROUGH TIME AS TWO VERY DIFFERENT CHARACTERS by Brad Balfour While veteran actor Sir Ben Kingsley remains one of our greatest working thespians–having accrued numerous Academy nominations and won an Oscar for Gandhi – he rarely has two films with such different roles being released virtually at the same time. In Peter … Continue reading →