Posts Tagged ‘Uma Thurman’
Author: Colin
Unless, of course, you know different?
Some actors are just so good that we can forgive them their little peccadillos – let’s face it, George Clooney is a top bloke, but not all of his films are great, and not all the roles he casts himself in are well-advised. And Johnny Depp – for every Donnie Brasco (1997) there is a Secret Window (2004) (come on – I love JD, but this one was crap). Here, then, Picturenose celebrates the fact that our favourite actors can be as screwed up as the rest of us when a large amount of cash is waved in their direction.
Author: James
Quentin’s back to his best
Lt. Aldo Raine: The German will be sickened by us, the German will talk about us, and the German will fear us.
Order has been restored – Quentin Tarantino’s previous film, Death Proof (2007) suffered somewhat from being crap.
Author: James
Decisions and debts
Director Vadim Perelman (House of Sand and Fog (2003)) offers an unnerving and challenging perspective on decisions that must be made in the midst of horror, terror and emotion, and how such choices can bring irreparable consequences in later life.
In reality, it is now nine years since the terrible Columbine school shooting – in The Life before Her Eyes, two best friends find themselves in front of the gun of a high-school killer and are offered the choice as to who will live, who will die.
Author: Colin
News reaches me that Sienna Miller is to star as Maid Marian in the upcoming re-jig of the Robin Hood story. Huh? A Robin Hood remake, surely not? Speaking to the BBC she gushed: “It’s happening. I just found out. It’s the most exciting news in the world.” She has obviously never won a Nobel Peace Prize. The new thing (also alleged to be starring Russell Crowe) will have the angle of sympathy for the Sheriff of Nottingham, facing a not-so-kind Hood. Well, I suppose they had to make it different somehow…
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