MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE – ROGUE NATION (2015) Starring Tom Cruise, Rebecca Ferguson, Jeremy Renner, Simon Pegg, Ving Rhames, Sean Harris, Alec Baldwin, Jens Hulten, Simon McBurney, Zhang Jingchu and Tom Hollander. Screenplay by Christopher McQuarrie. Directed by Christopher McQuarrie. Distributed by Paramount Pictures. 131 minutes. Rated R. The Mission: Impossible series is in something of an … Continue reading
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Carrie (A PopEntertainment.com Movie Review)
CARRIE (2013) Starring Chloë Grace Moretz, Julianne Moore, Gabriella Wilde, Portia Doubleday, Zoë Belkin, Ansel Elgort, Samantha Weinstein, Demetrius Joyette, Karissa Strain, Judy Greer, Katie Strain, Barry Shabaka Henley, Alex Russell, Arlene Mazerolle, Evan Gilchrist, Eddie Huband, Connor Price, Jefferson Brown, Mouna Traoré, Max Topplin and Cynthia Preston. Screenplay by Lawrence D. Cohen and Roberto … Continue reading
Josh Hartnett Pulls the Strings with Bunraku
Josh Hartnett Pulls the Strings with Bunraku by Brad Balfour The California-born Josh Hartnett had developed a steady career appearing in such Hollywood films as The Faculty, Black Hawk Down, Lucky Number Slevin and Pearl Harbor. In 2002, he starred in an adaptation of William Shakespeare’s Othello, O, set in an American high school, as Hugo – the film’s version of Iago. … Continue reading
Viggo Mortensen Makes His Eastern Promises
VIGGO MORTENSEN MAKES HIS EASTERN PROMISES by Brad Balfour It’s entirely understandable why director David Cronenberg has recently cast Viggo Mortensen as his lead in two complementary but very different films (2005’s excellent A History of Violence and the new Eastern Promises). Mortensen inhabits these characters and the characters inhabit him. It is said that when he played Aragorn in Lord … Continue reading
Aaron Eckhart Thanks You For Smoking
AARON ECKHART THANKS YOU FOR SMOKING By Brad Balfour Though actor Aaron Eckhart transforms the most insidious of characters into memorable moments of cinema – witness what he did with his character in director Neil Labute’s In The Company of Men – he makes the master pro-smoking lobbyist, Nick Naylor, of Thank You for Smoking almost heroic. With relative newcomer Jason … Continue reading
Mission: Impossible 2 (A PopEntertainment.com Movie Review)
MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE 2 (2000) Starring Tom Cruise, Thandie Newton, Dougray Scott, Ving Rhames, Anthony Hopkins, Richard Roxburgh, John Polson, Brendan Gleason, William Mapother and Nicholas Bell. Screenplay by Robert Towne. Directed by John Woo. Distributed by Paramount Pictures. 123 minutes. Rated PG-13. Mission: Impossible 2 has the same franchise name as Brian DePalma’s techno-thriller, and … Continue reading