Tag: Meryl Streep
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‘Only Murders in the Building’ Season 3 Shines Because Cracking the Case Wasn’t That Hard
[Editor’s Note: The following review contains spoilers for “Only Murders in the Building” Season 3, Episode 10, “Opening Night.”]If you’ll allow a dreadful detective a brief moment to savor his sagacity: I absolutely called the cookie thing.Yes, technically, the poisoned Schmackary’s pastry was part of the penultimate episode’s big reveal — when the murder board’s…
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‘Can they reincarnate me?’: Meryl Streep discusses options for Mamma Mia! 3
The multi Oscar-winner and her co-stars in the hit 2008 Abba musical have revealed their enthusiasm for a second sequel – despite Streep’s character having diedMeryl Streep, Amanda Seyfried, Stellan Skarsgård and other key Mamma Mia! cast members have expressed their eagerness for a second sequel to the 2008 smash – despite the death of…
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Meryl’s Streep’s Most Underrated Performance Is Also Her Only Action Movie
When director, Curtis Hanson, decided to strap Meryl Streep into an inflatable boat and send her on a whitewater rafting trip down the Salmon River in Idaho, we officially became indebted to that man.1994’s The River Wild represents just about everything we never knew we wanted out of a film, including marking Streep’s first and…
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‘The Deer Hunter’ Is a War Movie That Gets War All Wrong
Forty-five years after its release, The Deer Hunter has stood as a modern American classic and an essential text in the canon of Vietnam War films. The film defined director Michael Cimino as a true auteur, it further cemented Robert De Niro’s legacy as the perennial actor of his generation, and it announced Meryl Streep…
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Tommy Lee Jones Rounds Up an Absurdly Great Cast for This Western
Tommy Lee Jones’ The Homesman is a melancholic Western from the filmmaker/star — and it boasts a sprawling cast loaded with prodigious talent as well. No stranger to the director’s chair, having taken the reins of the excellent Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada in 2005, Jones showcases his very obvious affection for the genre via…
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This Is the First Actor To Win an Oscar for Playing a Real-Life Person
There are few things that Hollywood likes more than an inspiring true story — unless it is “not letting the truth get in the way of a good story,” as a number of purportedly “historical” films can attest. There are always a slew of biopics and historical films nominated in the top Oscar categories in…
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Adam Brody’s River Wild Is Bringing White Water Horror Back To Life On Netflix
One of the latest thrillers to hit the ever-changing digital carousel over on Netflix is a new take on an old classic called “River Wild.” Currently one of the most viewed releases on the streamer, the adventure film sends viewers hurtling down treacherous whitewater rapids in a fairly straightforward story of survivalist horror. Inspired by…
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Will Big Little Lies Get A Third Season?
Season 2 of “Big Little Lies” (in 2019) ended with an explosive reveal, one that undoubtedly helped result in the highest viewership the series had seen. The Monterey Five, made up of Reese Witherspoon’s Madeline Mackenzie, Nicole Kidman’s Celeste Wright, Shailene Woodley’s Jane Chapman, Laura Dern’s Renata Klein, and Zoë Kravitz’s Bonnie Carlson, ostensibly put…
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Ninth Annual Writers Lab Participants Named, Supported by Meryl Streep, Nicole Kidman (Exclusive)
The Writers Lab, supported by Meryl Streep and Nicole Kidman, has revealed its ninth annual batch of participants.With a devotion to developing scripted content written by women over the age of 40, the Lab, produced with New York Women in Film & Television, is known for its commitment to elevating the work of women screenwriters…
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Barbie Has Been Waiting Decades for Her Meryl Streep Moment
Have you Od’d on all the media attention for WB’s July 21 launch of “Barbie”? It’s understandable, but you have to cut her some slack: Mattel and Barbie have been waiting decades for this moment.Years ago, Universal homevideo exec Glenn Ross told Variety that U and Mattel had been thinking about films as far back…