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...strong supporting roles in The Green Mile, Matchstick Man, Snow Angels and the Brad Pitt Jesse James movie, and starring as Chuck Barris in Confessions of a Dangerous Mind, Rockwell has honed his specialty of runty ranters. His standard character is the kind of highly caffeinated punk who, in any group, would be voted most likely to screw up the mission. He brings some of that chip-on-shoulder orneriness to Moon - at times you wonder how Sam aced the screening process and got the job - and to the second Sam, a Top Gun-type who fulminates while the first...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Moon: A Superior Space Oddity | 6/14/2009 | See Source »

Kohinoor's head chef, his son Romin, prepares other Britannia favorites such as sali boti (succulent cubes of mutton marinated in garlic-ginger paste, covered in a sweet cinnamon gravy, and sprinkled with crispy matchstick potatoes) and patrani machii (pomfret seasoned with coconut chutney and steamed in banana leaves). (See pictures of Mumbai's entrepreneurs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Mumbai's Parsi Restaurants: Get It While It's Hot | 4/8/2009 | See Source »

...trombone player who must deal with the separation of his parents and the crumbling marriage of his ex-babysitter, Annie (Kate Beckinsale, “Underworld”). As Arthur’s parents attempt to reconcile their differences, Annie and her husband Glenn (Sam Rockwell, “Matchstick Men”) struggle to maintain appearances for the sake of their daughter, even as Annie has an affair with her co-worker’s husband. The relationship between Becinsale and Rockwell is striking not only for its violent outbursts but for the way it both humanizes and demonizes...

Author: By Denise J. Xu, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Snow Angels | 4/11/2008 | See Source »

...trombone player who must deal with the separation of his parents and the crumbling marriage of his ex-babysitter, Annie (Kate Beckinsale, “Underworld”). As Arthur’s parents attempt to reconcile their differences, Annie and her husband Glenn (Sam Rockwell, “Matchstick Men”) struggle to maintain appearances for the sake of their daughter, even as Annie has an affair with her co-worker’s husband. The relationship between Becinsale and Rockwell is striking not only for its violent outbursts but for the way it both humanizes and demonizes...

Author: By Denise J. Xu, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Snow Angels | 3/19/2008 | See Source »

...Firth and Bacon never demonstrate camaraderie, let alone comic finesse. Lohmann plays the investigatrix as a decadent but dewy Nancy Drew. So convincing as a 14-year-old in the Ridley Scott Matchstick Men, she is incompetent here. And Egoyan shows that, when he's not pursuing his own fascinating demons, he's subpar as a director for hire...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cannes Diary III: Grave Robbing | 5/13/2005 | See Source »

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