“MY WEEK WITH MARILYN” My rating: B- 99 minutes | MPAA rating: R An actress portraying Marilyn Monroe faces the same daunting obstacles as an actor playing Jesus. No matter how good your performance, it pales in comparison to the real thing. Michelle Williams, one of our finest young actresses, does a perfectly credible job [...]
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“MY WEEK WITH MARILYN”: Beautiful neurotic
Posted in Art house fare, tagged Dominic Cooper, Eddie Redmayne, Judi Dench, Kenneth Branagh, Marilyn Monroe, michelle williams, Sir Laurence Olivier on November 23, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
New on DVD: A mess of movies for Christmas gift giving
Posted in New on DVD, tagged demian bichir, Dominic Cooper, francis ford coppola, gene hackman, samurai movies, Uday Hussein on November 16, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
“The Devil’s Double”: If Brit actor Dominic Cooper doesn’t get an Oscar nom for his work here we should start an Occupy Hollywood movement. In Lee Tamahori’s film Cooper (he was the bridegroom in “Mamma Mia!”) plays both Uday Hussein — Saddam Hussein’s psychotic and murderous older son — and real-life Iraqi officer Latif Yahia, [...]
“THE DEVIL’S DOUBLE”: Taking a bullet for the House of Hussein
Posted in Art house fare, tagged Dominic Cooper, Iraq, Lee Tamahori, Saddam Hussein, Uday Hussein on August 26, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
“THE DEVIL’S DOUBLE” My rating: B (Opening wide on Sept. 26) 109 minutes | MPAA rating: R The right role can turn a journeyman actor into an overnight star. Take, for instance, Dominic Cooper’s performance in “The Devil’s Double.” Up to now the British Cooper has been recognized mostly for playing the groom in the [...]
“CAPTAIN AMERICA”: Corny in all the right ways
Posted in Popcorn movies, tagged Captain America, Chris Evans, Dominic Cooper, Hayley Atwell, Hugo Weaving, Marvel, Tommy Lee Jones on July 22, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
“CAPTAIN AMERICA” My rating: B (Opening wide on July 22) 125 minutes | MPAA rating: PG-13 Just when it seemed the whole comic book/superhero thing had burnt itself out in a conflagration of too much money and not enough inspiration, along comes “Captain America: The First Avenger” to make us remember why these movies can be so [...]
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