Hope Springs
A schizophrenic hybrid of tee-hee sex comedy and serious relationship drama, Hope Springs finds itself hopelessly adrift in a non-committal middle ground. David Frankel’s film concerns the longstanding marriage of Connecticut couple Kay (Meryl Streep) and Arnold (Tommy Lee Jones), which has settled into a familiar, enervating pattern of Kay serving Arnold the same breakfast each morning (two eggs sunny-side up, a strip of bacon, coffee) and then waking him from his living room easy chair (in front of TV golf broadcasts) each night. With their two grown kids out of the house, Kay and Arnold have calcified into complacent... read more
Found in: Movies, Reviews30 Performances That Re-Made (Women’s) History (1992-2012)
Women’s History Month is coming to an end, but don’t take down your Gloria Steinem posters just yet. Paste is celebrating with a look back at two decades worth of films and 30 talented female leads whose roles re-told and re-wrote key moments in history. read more
Found in: Blogs, List of the DayThe Iron Lady
Meryl Streep isn’t exactly always a bridesmaid, never a bride. She has won two Academy Awards. But she’s also been nominated 16 times—more than anybody else, ever—and the last time she took home an Oscar was in 1983 for Sophie’s Choice. Backed by the marketing prowess of the Weinstein Co., Streep’s turn as Margaret Thatcher will likely garner her a seventeenth nod, and she deserves another statuette—not just for impersonating the longest-serving prime minister in the United Kingdom and the first female elected to lead a Western government, but for capturing the fading dignity of a powerful woman in the... read more
Found in: Movies, ReviewsWatch a New Trailer for The Iron Lady
Earlier today a new UK trailer was released for the The Iron Lady, the upcoming biographical film about controversial and highly influential former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher starring the acclaimed 16-time Academy Award-winning actress Meryl Streep. read more
Found in: Movies, NewsWatch Meryl Streep as Margaret Thatcher in The Iron Lady Teaser
Hollywood has already given us intimate looks into the lives of several British monarchs, and many of these films have gone on to win Academy Awards (Elizabeth, The Queen, The King’s Speech). So it’s about time we get a film focusing on one of Britain’s most influential Prime Ministers.... read more
Found in: Movies, NewsMeryl Streep to Play Margaret Thatcher
Sounds like Meryl Streep might be gearing up for Oscar nomination number 17 with this one.... read more
Found in: Movies, NewsPaste Casts the Five Remaining "Lost" Stanley Kubrick Films
Last week, word emerged that one of Stanley Kubrick’s long lost film scripts, Lunatic at Large, would be brought to the big screen, some 50 plus years after Kubrick abandoned the project to work on Spartacus. According to The New York Times, the film, a mystery about a mental asylum escapee set in New York City during the ‘50s, was found by Kubrick’s son-in-law among trunks of papers left behind after the filmmaker’s death in 1999. The main story centers on an ex-carnival worker with anger-management issues who seduces a bar floozy. Scarlett Johansson and Sam Rockwell have signed on... read more
Found in: Blogs, List of the DayReal Talk: Why the Oscars Love Actors Playing Actual People
For every Oscar winner, there are hundreds of supposedly surefire strategies for winning nominations and awards. Make sure you have a big, teary scene. Make sure you have a Weinstein in your corner. Make sure you’re James Cameron. Or, as Tropic Thunder so eloquently instructed, go “full retard.” Of course, you could also delivering a sensitive, nuanced, and original performance, but ha! Talk to Ok-bun Kim of Thirst and Julianne Moore of A Single Man to see how well that worked out for them.... read more
Found in: Movies, FeaturesThe Hurt Locker, Food, Inc. and More Honored at 2009 Gotham Film Awards
On Nov. 30, at Cipriani Wall Street in New York, the self-proclaimed “first honors of the film awards season” took place, and Hollywood’s New York transplants were out to celebrate. The 19th Annual Gotham Independent Film Awards, hosted by non-profit IFP, an organization of independent filmmakers, honored several major achievements in indie film.... read more
Found in: Movies, NewsAlec Baldwin Calling it Quits After 30 Rock
With a couple Emmy’s under his belt as lovable GE tycoon Jack Donaghy, Alec Baldwin plans to hang up his acting career after his 30 Rock role ends in 2012, according to the NY Daily News.... read more
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