Word: actorly
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Possibly the most underrated movie of the year. A Simple Plan seems like a deadly serious version of Fargo--three men's plan to keep an unclaimed $4 million goes awry and spirals into horror. But director Sam Raimi lets the actor's performances do the talking. Bill Paxton gives the film its dramatic electricity. Billy Bob Thornton continues to amaze, this time as Paxton's socially-inept brother who finds himself drawn deeper and deeper into evils he can't even understand. A rich, devastating tale of greed...
...latest British invasion has come in the form of Joseph Fiennes, another actor in the fine family first introduced to us by Ralph of The English Patient fame. Harvey Weinstein, the founder of Miramax, definitely has his finger in the Oscar punch bowl again this year with Shakespeare in Love, one of the two films that prominently feature Fiennes--Joseph, that is. The other film is Elizabeth, another indie film with strong performances from all the players...
...subtle nuances in his eyes which make the differences blossom. His ability to register varying degrees of sorrow, jealousy, giddiness and remorse within those swoon-inducing orbs is amazing. The superb supporting cast in both films adds to the richness of character. Geoffrey Rush, the Oscar winner for best actor from Shine, delivers masterful performances with two very different characters. As the quietly menacing personal servant of Elizabeth, he convincingly radiates a calm, omniscient presence which anchors his queen when all hell breaks loose. As Fiennes' bumbling, clueless theater manager pal with mossy teeth, Rush transforms into a timid...
Charlton Heston, Academy Award-winning actor and president of the National Rifle Association (NRA) will speak at Harvard Law School next Tuesday, the Harvard Law School Forum (HLSF) announced yesterday...
Means is charged by the Navajo with one count of "threatening" and two counts of "battery" from a 1997 incident between Means and his in-laws. An Oglala Sioux actor, Means is the first national director of the American Indian Movement, an Indian rights group that led a two-month-long standoff at Wounded Knee...