‘Blindness' hits close to home for Ruffalo — 2001 brain tumor changed actor's life
McClatchy Newspapers
10/6/2008, by Duane Dudek
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel (MCT) - If instead of "Blindness," you called the new film by Fernando Meirelles "Illness," you might be telling the life story of actor Mark Ruffalo. In "Blindness," based on the 1995 novel by Nobel Prize-winning writer Jose Saramago, Ruffalo plays an eye doctor who must ...
You don't have to be 16 to love ‘Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist'
McClatchy Newspapers
10/3/2008, by Rene Rodriguez
McClatchy Newspapers (MCT) - When authors Rachel Cohn and David Levithan decided to collaborate on the novel "Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist," about two teenagers who meet and fall in love over the course of a single night in the New York City underground music scene, they took turns writing ...
Going legit: Why movie stars need live theater
McClatchy Newspapers
10/3/2008, by Chris Jones
Chicago Tribune (MCT) - Flushed and sweaty from his exertions, Daniel Radcliffe walked to the front of a Broadway stage and drank in the applause like an "American Idol" act on his first big gig. He grinned sheepishly, sighed with clear relief and closed his eyes, as if to better savor the ...
Fireproof
Catholic Media Review
10/2/2008
Warning: potential spoilers in the review. (Catholic Media Review) I was very anxious to see 'Fireproof', and it didn't disappoint.
From the previews, it is obvious that it it is about a marriage that is in trouble. However, I was unprepared for the level of anger and hatred that Caleb (Kirk ...
‘Beverly Hills Chihuahua'
McClatchy Newspapers
10/2/2008, by Rene Rodriguez
McClatchy Newspapers (MCT) - Only the meanest of grouches can resist a talking-animal movie. But no one, absolutely no one, is immune to the charms of a talking-"dog" picture. Even a film as shabby and humdrum as "Beverly Hills Chihuahua," which never musters up the wit and beauty of a single frame ...
Deft documentary shows two sides of Lee Atwater
McClatchy Newspapers
10/2/2008, by Roddie Burris
McClatchy Newspapers (MCT) - In the final days of his 1980 campaign for Congress, Columbia attorney Tom Turnipseed had a firm lead in the polls in his race against Lexington County's Floyd Spence. On election night, Turnipseed's campaign workers were exuberant. Poll numbers showed their man was ...
Ed Harris gets back in the directorial saddle with ‘Appaloosa'
McClatchy Newspapers
10/2/2008, by Steven Rea
The Philadelphia Inquirer (MCT) - It took him eight years, but Ed Harris finally got to direct another movie. "Appaloosa," a loping, likable Old West yarn about friendship, power, corruption and a woman with fierce instincts for self-preservation, is something the four-time Oscar-nominated actor ...
The end is here: 9-11 attacks and the new millennium revive apocalyptic movies
McClatchy Newspapers
10/2/2008, by Joe Williams
St. Louis Post-Dispatch (MCT) - Flooded cities. A plague of blindness. Humanity huddled in bunkers. It's just another night at the movies.
The Katrina documentary "Trouble the Water," the viral-outbreak drama "Blindness" (opening Friday) and the subterranean fantasy "City of Ember" (Oct. 10) are ...
Parents guide to new movie releases
McClatchy Newspapers
10/1/2008, by Roger Moore
The Orlando Sentinel (MCT) - BEVERLY HILLS CHIHUAHUA Rating: PG for some mild thematic elements.
What it's about: An obscenely pampered pooch is dognapped in Mexico and must make her way back to Beverly Hills.
The kid attractor factor: Talking dogs of every stripe.
Good lessons/bad lessons: Size ...
‘Flash of Genius'
McClatchy Newspapers
10/1/2008, by Rick Bentley
McClatchy Newspapers (MCT) - Windshield wipers can create an almost hypnotic effect as they slide monotonously back and forth, back and forth. "Flash of Genius" creates the same effect. A wishy-washy main character who tells a sing-song story makes this effort little more than ho-hum. "Flash of ...
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