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...Director-screenwriter Chris Weitz's film version of the first book in Philip Pullman's His Dark Materials trilogy is meant to be a blockbuster for all major moviegoing demographics, from six to 16. Wreathed in lavish CGI effects, The Golden Compass traces the quest of the 12-year-old Lyra (Dakota Blue Richards) to find a missing friend and, eventually, to save her world. On the way to her destiny she's imprisoned by a glamorous vamp (Nicole Kidman), befriended by a talking polar bear (the talking is done by Ian McKellen) and accompanied by her own Jiminy Cricket...
...Hanks is feeling frisky. Inexplicably, the bathroom of the hotel suite we're in has a glass door. When Julia Roberts announces she needs to go, he gleefully pulls up a chair for a better view before giving Philip Seymour Hoffman a little lecture about turning 40 and getting rid of the extraneous--like, say, smoking. The three Oscar winners have gathered to chat with TIME's BELINDA LUSCOMBE about their new film Charlie Wilson's War, written by The West Wing's Aaron Sorkin, directed by Mike Nichols and produced by Playtone, Hanks' company. The true story...
...PHILIP SEYMOUR HOFFMAN Yeah, I was in junior high in this whole thing. I definitely missed the idea that there was a covert operation going...
...nothing to do with wanting their money back for “The Invasion.” Far more damning than that ill-conceived “Invasion of the Body Snatchers” remake is Kidman and Craig’s appearance in the film adaptation of Philip Pullman’s novel “The Golden Compass,” opening worldwide today—and all because Pullman is a no-God-fearing atheist...
...which take mortality seriously. In the former a successful man in his prime is struck down by a massive stroke. It leaves him able only to blink a single eye. And the capacity to conduct interior monologues with himself. In the latter, a cranky old crock named Lenny (Philip Bosco) surrenders to senile dementia, leaving his self-absorbed and obscurely damaged children, Wendy and Jon (Laura Linney and Philip Seymour Hoffman), to devise a minimally dignified exit strategy...