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...Catwoman.” Gwyneth Paltrow as an aspiring flight attendant in “View from the Top.” Nicole Kidman as that nose-twitching innocent in “Bewitched.” Over the past few years, some of Hollywood’s Oscar-winning leading ladies quickly segued from Academy Awards for Best Actress to undemanding roles in critically panned movies...
Should Charlize Theron—2004 Oscar Winner for her phenomenal performance as serial killer Aileen Wuornos in “Monster”—be added to the list, as she tackles the role of the titular super-heroine in MTV Films’ “Aeon Flux?...
...season when Hollywood gets literate. Since the Oscar deadline coincides with New Year's Eve and a bookish pedigree is a sure way to get Academy members' attention, studios turn to acclaimed novels for their holiday fodder. But there's a risk involved. Ask any reader who has seen the movie version of a favorite novel, and the answer will usually be, "The book was better...
...time has long passed when popular fiction was almost inevitably filmed by Hollywood and when, as in the 1940s, seven of the 10 Best Picture Oscar winners were based on novels. Today graphic novels inspire as many big-budget crowd pleasers as the old-fashioned unillustrated kind. Which means that somewhere someone is saying, of the Fantastic Four movie or even Sin City, "The comic book was better...
...MOVIE IS BETTER: For a flick about small-time crooks, Ice Harvest packs some pretty big guns. The script is by Pulitzer prizewinning novelist Richard Russo (Empire Falls) and two-time Oscar-winning screenwriter Robert Benton (Kramer vs. Kramer, Places in the Heart). They smoothed out and sped up the book's curlicue plot, ratcheted down the raunch, added a couple of drama-class monologues and sweetened the book's rather heartless surprise ending...