Tag: The Hours
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The Hours: So Much More Than Nicole Kidman’s Fake Nose
While the hype and fanfare around film awards ceremonies receives a good deal of justified criticism, it’s unfair to categorize a certain subsect of films as nothing more than an “Oscar bait.” Particularly in the days before the Best Picture category was expanded to 10 nominees, the Academy Awards tended to be dominated by seriously…
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Rumor: Ewan McGregor Has Signed on to Lead an Obi-Wan Series for Disney+
It’s a slow news day and with radio silence on Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker, people are desperate for any Star Wars info they can find. Cinelinx is reporting that rumor that Ewan McGregor has signed on to play Obi-Wan Kenobi in an upcoming Disney+ series. You may recall that an Obi-wan movie was…
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Rumor: Obi-Wan spinoff movie to be a prequel to A New Hope
With Rogue One: A Star Wars Story releasing back in 2016 and Solo: A Star Wars Story out next week, Lucasfilm and Disney are full-swing into their spinoff series of films. All that is left to do is guess which character will be the next to get a spinoff, with everyone hoping the answer is…
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‘Collateral’: Creator David Hare Broke Every Rule He Could While Writing His First TV Show, and He Won’t Do a Season 2
The reason two-time Academy Award nominee David Hare (“The Hours,” “The Reader”) wanted to write the BBC2/Netflix limited series “Collateral” is that he felt no one else was writing television about the issue at its center: Illegal immigration.“I think the movement of people is the biggest subject of the 21st century and nobody’s writing about…
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What Is the John C. Reilly Award, and How Did Michael Stuhlbarg Just Become the First Person to Win It in 15 Years?
John C. Reilly did something exceedingly rare back in 2002: appeared in three different Best Picture nominees. His roles in “Gangs of New York,” “Chicago,” and “The Hours” — all of which premiered within a week of each other — are now the basis for what FiveThirtyEight has appropriately dubbed the John C. Reilly Award,…
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‘Collateral’ Trailer: Carey Mulligan Is a British Detective in Netflix Limited Series
Netflix has released the trailer for the upcoming limited series Collateral, starring Carey Mulligan. The Oscar-nominated actress plays a single-minded detective in present-day London who is determined to discover the darker truth behind a shooting that people are quick to call a random act of violence. The series hails from Oscar-nominated The Hours and The…