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Michael Sheen has been leading a double life. The Welsh actor has built his aboveground rep impersonating glad-handing Brit public figures: Tony Blair in The Deal and The Queen, David Frost in Frost/Nixon. Simultaneously, and subterraneanly, he's also been a wolf-man: Lucian, the half-breed in the Underworld thrillers, whose first two installments, from 2003 and 2006, grossed about $200 million worldwide. It's entirely possible that no single moviegoer has seen both the smooth Sheen and the hairy Sheen - the one in the Savile Row suits and the one who's spent enough time...
...finally over. "No," he insists, "this is just beginning." Is that a promise or a threat? The weekend box office will determine the fate of the Underworld series - and whether Sheen continues as his wolfish man-god or goes on to make the planned sequel to The Queen, in which Tony Blair hooks up with Bill Clinton. Now, if he were to play Blair as the lapdog to George W. Bush, that would be a horror comedy to cherish...
...Middle Eastern Mouse King who fancies dancing the Trepak, on the other hand, is an original character. But all’s well that ends well—the Mouse King is killed and the Nutcracker prevails. He takes Clara to the Enchanted Forest ruled by the Snow Queen and King, danced by Lia Cirio and Pavel Gurevich with wonderful virtuosity and panache. The sets by Helen Pond and Herbert Senn were well worth the price of admission and generated audible awe at the rise of the curtain for the second act. The second act might be the one realm...
Inauguration audiences on Tuesday will hear the new President deliver the most anticipated Inaugural Address since John F. Kennedy. They'll hear the Queen of Soul sing and Yo-Yo Ma play. They'll listen to hear if Rick Warren gets preachy when he prays. But there's one thing they won't hear: Baruch Atah Adonai Eloheinu Melech ha'olam...
...movie is an adaptation of Lois Duncan's 1971 young-adult novel of the same name. The character of Andi has been aged enough to cast the teen queen Roberts in the role. Roberts gives the impression of poise earned by experience rather than a natural gift, but by Hollywood standards, she is royalty - Julia Roberts is her aunt - and director Thor Freudenthal seems to have shot her accordingly, bathed in golden light. The family-in-peril angle is also a change from Duncan's story. While Andi and Bruce's kindly social-services caseworker Bernie (Don Cheadle, who could...