One of the most ardent advocates for Conviction has to be Indiewire’s Anne Thompson, who interviews Sam Rockwell, and also interviewed other cast members, like Juliette Lewis and Hilary Swank. Here is what she says about Rockwell: Finally, Conviction brings Rockwell the role of his career, playing the real-life rebellious, angry, volatile Kenny Waters, who [...]
Continue reading...Wednesday, June 9, 2010
With a few brief blurbs from Variety and Hollywood Reporter (good, not great), Indiewire/Thompson on Hollywood’s Anne Thompson writes of TS3: My take: This movie is more than welcome, while most of the studio movies released so far this year are utterly nonessential. The third Toy Story installment is a fascinating meta-movie that works on several [...]
Continue reading...Wednesday, June 9, 2010
With a few brief blurbs from Variety and Hollywood Reporter (good, not great), Indiewire/Thompson on Hollywood’s Anne Thompson writes of TS3: My take: This movie is more than welcome, while most of the studio movies released so far this year are utterly nonessential. The third Toy Story installment is a fascinating meta-movie that works on several [...]
Continue reading...Wednesday, June 9, 2010
With a few brief blurbs from Variety and Hollywood Reporter (good, not great), Indiewire/Thompson on Hollywood’s Anne Thompson writes of TS3: My take: This movie is more than welcome, while most of the studio movies released so far this year are utterly nonessential. The third Toy Story installment is a fascinating meta-movie that works on several [...]
Continue reading...Monday, July 13, 2009
Look to the summer, says Anne Thompson, for potential Oscar movies: But this year, five summer movies could score a top ten slot, from crowd-pleasers Up, Star Trek and Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince to higher-end fare such as Public Enemies and Hurt Locker. Not having seen Harry Potter, I don’t see it landing [...]
Continue reading...Friday, November 7, 2008
Ms. Thompson praises Milk: Milk is far better than I was expecting it to be, even after reading Todd McCarthy’s positive review. It had been described to me as small, political, an acting vehicle for Sean Penn. It’s far more than that. First of all, Dustin Lance Black’s script is as lean and disciplined as [...]
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