Tag: Love Actually
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The Best Keira Knightley Movies Ranked
Keira Knightley is the queen of the past — she is probably the one name most associated with period films over the last 20 years. In fact, it’s easy to forget that Knightley is only 36, as she has both been acting for so long and also played brides in two movies (“Love Actually” and…
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Locksmith Animation attaches director to ‘That Christmas’ based on Richard Curtis book series
Simon Otto to direct ‘Love Actually’ writer-director Richard Curtis children’s book adaptation ‘That Christmas’.Simon Otto, best known for his animation work on the How To Train Your Dragon franchise, is to make his feature directorial debut on Locksmith Animation’s That Christmas.The film, previously known as The Empty Stocking, is based on a trio of children’s…
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John Patrick Shanley’s ‘Wild Mountain Thyme’ Is a Guilty Pleasure
We all enjoy movies that, if we had to write a review, we’d pan. Mine range from ’60s musical “Bye Bye Birdie” to Richard Curtis’ “Love Actually,” which has become a family Christmas staple. (That scene between Laura Linney and Rodrigo Santoro? Awful.)During my ’80s stint at Film Comment Magazine, we published several directors’ guilty…
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Vue, Odeon Cinemas Set to Reopen in England, Ireland With ‘Home Alone,’ ‘Die Hard’
The Vue and Odeon cinema chains are gradually reopening their doors in England and Ireland.Select Odeon venues will begin reopening from Dec. 4. “We’ll be reopening some of our cinemas on December 4th, in line with government guidelines. For up-to-date information, please select your local cinema and check showtimes,” the Odeon group said in a…
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‘4/20’ the Movie Arrives on April 20, Naturally
Movies traditionally are released in theaters on Wednesdays and Fridays, but come Monday, April 20, “4/20” the movie will be released on Vimeo on the date that’s considered a perennial stoner holiday — it has even greater significance this month seeing as the year is 2020.Producer Corey Moss, a veteran of MTV and management company…
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Eytan Fox’s ‘Sublet’ Walks a Well-Worn Path [Review]
When moviesposition a main character as a globe-trotting, emotionally unmoored soulsearcher with a damaged heart, why do they always make them a writer? Everyone’sseen this movie before; a protagonist, usually a writer, jets off to an exoticlocale to recover from an emotional trial, they soak up the culture, rediscovera lost part of themselves, and inevitably…
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Da Pennebaker: restless, brilliant film-maker plugged into the 1960s zeitgeist
Pennebaker, who has died aged 94, epitomised the counterculture with his interest in the legends of music as well as the backstage drama of politicsThe revolutionary film-maker Da Pennebaker, with his passion for music and political drama, invented tropes, ideas and procedures which became almost invisibly embedded in pop culture.When Saturday Night Live did a…
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The ultimate festive film? No, it’s not Die Hard | Hadley Freeman
A true Christmas movie must adhere to the following scientific, mathematical and logical rulesCome Christmas, I can sit back quietly while others make loud arguments about how Home Alone/Die Hard/Love Actually is the ultimate Christmas movie – but that is only because I have knocked myself into a chocolate coma and no longer have the…
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Here’s What’s Leaving Netflix in January
If you count on Netflix to serve as your film library, you have to roll with the punches of losing titles. It happens every month, and January 2018 is losing some big ones. While they might return at a later date, you never know with the licensing agreements, so if there’s something you really love,…
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‘Four Weddings and a Funeral’ Reunion on the Way for Red Nose Day Charity Special
Last year, the Christmas romantic comedy Love Actually got a sequel in the form of a short film created in conjunction with the charity campaign Red Nose Day. And this year, they’re taking another beloved British romantic comedy and giving it a big reunion: Four Weddings and a Funeral. Read full article