Word: spacey
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...sleepy. It’s only followed by “I Like What You Say,” the album’s first single, which uses the same acoustic E chord for the entire song. At least this gives bassist Daniel Lorca, who weirdly resembles Kevin Spacey in a dreadlock wig, a lot of room for an interesting bass line. If it weren’t for the broken-record of a chorus, which just repeats “I like what you say” in different orders, this could be a great single. Throughout...
...Fogelman (one of the screenwriters of the Pixar movie Cars). Supporting Vaughn as the black sheep of the Claus clan and Paul Giamatti as Santa, the picture's got three Academy Award winners: Kathy Bates as their mother, Rachel Weisz as Fred's ill-used girlfriend and Kevin Spacey as a corporate type threatening to close down Santa's workshop. Giamatti and Miranda Richardson, who plays his wife, have been Oscar-nominated. Even Chris "Ludacris" Bridges, who has a bit as the North Pole's DJ, is a Grammy-winner. From pedigree alone, the movie should have been good...
...villain of the piece is Spacey, as a Scrooge type, sent from McKinsey-like headquarters, whose job is to impose stricter rules on all benefactors of children. (The Tooth Fairy has been told she can put money under kids' pillow only after the first tooth.) Conversion is the fate of every marplot in a movie like this. So Spacey, who played Lex Luthor in last year's Superman Returns, gets a Superman cape for Christmas. In-jokes and cross-marketing (the same company, Warner Bros., released both Fred Claus and Superman Returns) are about as sophisticated as this movie gets...
...even their employer is exploited: nagged by his parents, badgered by Fred, threatened with extinction by the Spacey character. The undercoat of sadness in Giamatti's performance has a number of explanation. Maybe it's because he read the script; or because as Richardson uncharitably reveals, "He's a closet eater." Or maybe Santa has heard the news about global warming, and is anxiously anticipates the North Pole's first snowless Christmas...
...familiar tale—the Santa Claus story—and breathe some life into it by means of talented actors. Cast box office king Vince Vaughn as the protagonist, throw in a little Paul Giamatti, Kathy Bates, and Rachel Weisz to add some Oscar cred, and get Kevin Spacey to play the villain. You’ve gotta get Spacey to play the villain. The man put Gwyneth Paltrow’s head in a box in “Se7en,” so he’s sure to bring some lighthearted evil...