Chrissy Metz – Breakthrough Faithfully Makes Actress a Film Star and Garners Her an Oscar Nom for Its Featured Song

Posted on February 2, 2020 by popenterta • Leave a comment

Chrissy Metz Breakthrough Faithfully Makes Actress a Film Star and Garners Her an Oscar Nom for Its Featured Song by Brad Balfour It used to be that faith-based films were low-budget productions, cheaply made with cheesy storytelling and wooden acting – more about propagandizing than worthy narrative. Nowadays, they’re labelled as contemporary Christian and as … Continue reading →

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The Imitation Game (A PopEntertainment.com Movie Review)

Posted on February 18, 2015 by popenterta • Leave a comment

THE IMITATION GAME (2014) Starring Benedict Cumberbatch, Keira Knightley, Charles Dance, Matthew Goode, Mark Strong, Allen Leech, Rory Kinnear, James Northcote, Tom Goodman-Hill, Steven Waddington, Ilan Goodman, Jack Tarlton, Alex Lawther, Tuppence Middleton and Jack Bannon. Screenplay by Graham Moore. Directed by Morten Tyldum. Distributed by The Weinstein Company. 113 minutes. Rated PG-13. The world … Continue reading →

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Ethan Hawke, Patricia Arquette, Ellar Coltrane & Richard Linklater – Boyhood Is About Growing Up

Posted on February 17, 2015 by popenterta • Leave a comment

Ethan Hawke, Patricia Arquette, Ellar Coltrane & Richard Linklater Boyhood Is About Growing Up by Brad Balfour Far too much of the buzz and ballyhoo about this season’s indie awards darling Boyhood has focused on the fact that the film was made in real time – sort of. Director Richard Linklater took his core ensemble … Continue reading →

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Michael Keaton Soars To Heights of Award Season Through Birdman

Posted on February 16, 2015 by popenterta • Leave a comment

Michael Keaton Soars To Heights of Award Season Through Birdman by Brad Balfour Of all the Mexican new wave directors who emerged in the ’90s, Alejandro González Iñárritu always pushed the envelope further than cohorts Alfonso Cuarón and Guillermo del Toro. He does so once again with Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue Of Ignorance), a dark … Continue reading →

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Quvenzhané Wallis – The Young Actress Gets Playful in Beasts of The Southern Wild

Posted on February 12, 2013 by popenterta • Leave a comment

Quvenzhané Wallis The Young Actress Gets Playful in Beasts of The Southern Wild by Brad Balfour Copyright ©2013 PopEntertainment.com. All rights reserved. Posted: February 12. 2013. They’re getting younger and younger these days – precocious stars who make their first movies before hitting puberty, garnering awards and accolades they don’t even quite comprehend. That’s certainly the … Continue reading →

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Asghar Farhadi – Iranian Writer/Director Gets Oscar For A Separation & Retrospective at Lincoln Center

Posted on April 3, 2012 by popenterta • Leave a comment

Asghar Farhadi Iranian Writer/Director Gets Oscar For A Separation & Retrospective at Lincoln Center by Brad Balfour Iranian director Asghar Farhadi manages to both enlighten and mystify. Maybe that’s why he’s been able to evade both the censors and jailers who police filmmakers for thought crimes against the mega-fascist Iranian state. Or maybe because this … Continue reading →

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Colin Firth – Oscar Nominee Refines The King’s Speech

Posted on February 9, 2011 by popenterta • Leave a comment

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 →

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Lisa Cholodenko – Making It All Right

Posted on July 9, 2010 by popenterta • Leave a comment

Lisa Cholodenko Making It All Right by Jay S. Jacobs Lisa Cholodenko has been turning heads in Hollywood since her 1998 film High Art featuring Radha Mitchell and Ally Sheedy. One of those heads which was turned belonged to actress Julianne Moore, who made a point of talking to Cholodenko at a Women in Film celebration years ago … Continue reading →

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Maggie Gyllenhaal – Owner of a Crazy Heart

Posted on December 16, 2009 by popenterta • Leave a comment

Maggie Gyllenhaal Owner of a Crazy Heart by Jay S. Jacobs It isn’t easy to just step away when a career that you have been working towards for years has built up serious momentum. Yet that is exactly what Maggie Gyllenhaal did. Soon after appearing in the blockbuster Batman sequel The Dark Knight, Gyllenhaal essentially took a … Continue reading →

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Ari Folman – An Israeli Director Dances with the Dogs of War In Waltz with Bashir

Posted on March 1, 2009 by popenterta • Leave a comment

Ari Folman An Israeli Director Dances with the Dogs of War In Waltz with Bashir by Brad Balfour Of all the films nominated for a Foreign Language Oscar this year, director Ari Folman’s Waltz with Bashir reaped substantial press and stirred the most controversy. A documentary fashioned as an animated film, it is as much an imagined … Continue reading →

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