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Tag Archives: Hugh Grant
Review: Operation Fortune: Ruse de Guerre (2023)
Guy Ritchie’s latest. I reviewed for Ebert.
Review: The Gentlemen (2020)
I reviewed Guy Ritchie’s latest for Rogerebert.com.
July 2018 Viewing Diary
Supernatural, Season 4, episode 5 “Monster Movie” (2008; d. Robert Singer) A movie-mad feast. Plus, my favorite one-night-stand-girl. (Piper is a close tie.) Supernatural, Season 4, episode 6 “Yellow Fever” (2008; d. Philip Sgriccia) An example of what the show … Continue reading
Posted in Monthly Viewing Diary, Movies, Television
Tagged Burt Reynolds, documentary, Dorothy Malone, Douglas Sirk, England, Goldie Hawn, Hal Ashby, Hugh Grant, Jared Padalecki, Jensen Ackles, Jill Clayburgh, Josef von Sternberg, Julie Christie, Marlene Dietrich, Supernatural, Warren Beatty, women directors
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From Rogerebert.com: The Great Performances of 2016
This is a really fun list. Rogerebert.com contributors each talk about a different great performance from 2016. I wrote about Trevante Rhodes in Moonlight. You can read the full list here.
Posted in Actors, Movies
Tagged Hugh Grant, Isabelle Huppert, Natalie Portman, Susan Sarandon
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About a Boy (2002); Dir. Chris and Paul Weitz
Early in About a Boy, 38-year-old Will, a confirmed (and happy about it) bachelor, visits his friends, who have a new baby. They expect him to Ooh and Aah, but he holds the little thing with a look of horror … Continue reading