Post Tagged with: "Meryl Streep"

New Trailer for “The Iron Lady” with Meryl Streep

Fox has released a new trailer for their upcoming Margaret Thatcher biopic The Iron Lady (via The Daily Mail) The film stars Meryl Streep as the titular character, the highly controversial Prime Minister of Britain between 1979 and 1990.

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Top 5 Movie Minnesota Accents

After last Saturday’s broadcast of A Prairie Home Companion, Garrison Keillor hosted a contest in which five people were asked to recite famous lines from literature in their best Minnesota accents and whoever had the best Minnesota accent would be declared the victor. This, as it must, got me to thinking.

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The Fullness of Time and The Spirit: “A Prairie Home Companion”

Upon a recent re-watching of Robert Altman’s 2006 film A Prairie Home Companion, about the goings-on backstage on the final night of a radio program called, uh, A Prairie Home Companion, I realized that above all else it was about the music.

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Movie News Weekly Round-Up: October 25, 2010

The Weekly Movie News Round-up is an aggregation of news gathered from all across the movie industry released every weekend. Inside, discuss all the latest movie news, casting news, and trailers to your heart’s content! Last week, Mel Gibson was cast in The Hangover 2. Guess not anymore!

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Movie News Weekly Round-Up October 3, 2010

The Weekly Movie News Round-up is an aggregation of news gathered from all across the movie industry released every weekend. Inside, discuss all the latest movie news, casting news, and trailers to your heart’s content!

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Movie News Weekly Round-Up 08/01/2010

This week’s movie news round-up includes “Old Spice guy” getting a role in Hollywood, and Tina Fey and Meryl Streep teaming together in a new comedy. Don’t miss out on this week’s round-up of movie news, casting news, trailers and links!

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Movie News Weekly Round-Up: July 03, 2010

This week’s movie news round-up includes a new Spider-Man, and a first-look at Christina Aguilera in her movie debut among many other news tidbits. Don’t miss out on this week’s movie news, casting news, trailers and links!

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Movie Review: Julie & Julia (2009)

Julie & Julia is an absolutely irresistible movie directed by Nora Ephron and co-starring Meryl Streep and Amy Adams for the second time in a year (Doubt). The movie is based from the book of the same title by Julie Powell who is played by Adams. Julie is a stressed government worker working in post 9/11 New York City and nearing her 30′s, unhappy with how little she has achieved so far in life.

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Movie Review: Doubt (2008)

Adapted from the highly acclaimed play of the same name, Doubt is a drama powered by four Oscar-nominated performances and directed by John Patrick Shanley.

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Movie Review: Rendition (2007)

I just saw Rendition in theater Friday night. Good but unspectacular movie. As a whole it is neither exceptional nor bad. Just a little blah… In short, Rendition = BABEL. Same structure, same shortcomings, same result. It doesn’t help that it’s the 47th movie in the past 2 years whose subject relates to the Iraq War.

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