Word: bello
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...film’s clichés, one has to admire the filmmakers for telling a story that attempts to avoid the easy laughs or tears that most modern-day cinematic romances effect. “Book Club” brings together an impressive roster of actresses, including Maria Bello (“A History of Violence”), Emily Blunt (“The Devil Wears Prada”) and Amy Brenneman (TV’s “Private Practice”). Male counterparts like Hugh Dancy (“Evening”) and Jimmy Smits...
...McLoughlin (Nicolas Cage) and Will Jimeno (Michael Peña). Their 24-hour struggle to survive while trapped under tons of rock and rubble contains too many screams, tears, and fireballs to feel genuine.The real drama develops from the grief experienced by the men’s wives. Maria Bello and Maggie Gyllenhaa’s portrayals of suffering provide the most sincere emotional punch in the film. In stark contrast, the men’s episodes of torment are so repetitive and exasperating that they destroy the verisimilitude Stone and his screenwriter Andrea Berloff establish in the precious moments...
...unlucky casino employee and his girlfriend, had just been smacked with an NC-17 classification - no one under 17 allowed to attend - by the ratings board of the Motion Picture Association of America. The film's offending passage was a tender love scene between William H. Macy and Maria Bello that included the briefest glimpse of the actors' genitals...
...That rating angered Bello, in part because she had just seen the horror comedy Scary Movie, in which a psycho killer stabs a woman in her breast and removes her silicone implant with his long knife. Yet Scary Movie was rated R, meaning it could be attended by any kid with an adult in tow (assuming the local theater management enforced the rating, which is not always the case). The disparity between the gentle realism of The Cooler and the grotesque brutality of Scary Movie, and the knowledge that the grosser film had received the softer ruling, spurred Bello...
...matter of sex in films, as raised by Maria Bello's comments about The Cooler and Scary Movie, is clear enough. And it is especially notable in films that treat gay sex. This Film Is Not Yet Rated splits its screen to show similar sexual scenes, with gay ones on the left side, straight on the right. A girl masturbating about a girl she's met (in But I'm a Cheerleader), a boy masturbating into pastry (American Pie); a gay orgasm (Boys Don't Cry), a straight orgasm (Single White Female); a guy on top, with a guy (Mysterious...