Emma Thompson

ReThink Review: Men in Black 3 - Agents J & K Are Back, But Y?

Jonathan Kim | Posted 05.25.2012

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Why, ten years after an underperforming sequel, is there a Men In Black 3? Are there burning questions about agents J (Smith) and K (Tommy Lee Jones) that were left unresolved? Is there an arch-nemesis still on the loose?

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Men in Black 3 Brings the Rare Threequel Win

Gregory Weinkauf | Posted 05.25.2012

Read More: Men in Black, Douglas Adams, Josh Brolin, Jay Redd, Emma Thompson, Ken Ralston, Men in Black 3, Will Smith, Barry Sonnenfeld, Ray Harryhausen, Tommy Lee Jones, Forrest J. Ackerman, Entertainment News

It's a raucous, rollicking ride, as visually stunning -- in truly sensational 3D -- as it is hilarious and exciting. The Oscars, which usually lean Heavy and Significant, really should launch a category for Funnest Picture.

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Movie review: Men in Black 3

Marshall Fine | Posted 05.24.2012

Read More: Josh Brolin, Men in Black 3 Movie Review, Kurt Vonnegut, Emma Thompson, Imdb, Bill Hader, Jemaine Clement, Moon Launch, Flight of the Conchords, 1969 Mets, Men in Black, Etan Cohen, Barry Sonnenfeld, Robert Wagner, Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me, Movies, Tommy Lee Jones, Movie Reviews, Andy Warhol, Jeff Nathanson, David Koepp, Marshall Fine, Men in Black 3, The Sirens of Titan, Rob Lowe, Saturday Night Live, Will Smith, Marshall Fine Movie Reviews, Entertainment News

I will admit: I tend to have a bias against movies with the number "3" in the title. If there's ever a dead giveaway that all imagination has been sap...

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The Boycott Against An Israeli Theater Company

HuffingtonPost.com | Lucas Kavner | Posted 04.19.2012

When Shakespeare's Globe Theatre in London invited the prominent Israeli theater company Habima to perform at their nonpartisan "Globe to Globe" festi...

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No Thanks, 'Dancing With The Stars'!

Posted 02.24.2012

Giuliana Rancic is saying "thanks, but no thanks" to "Dancing With the Stars." According to E! Online, the TV personality has been approached to do th...

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Cynthia Nixon In Her Bald Broadway Role

Posted 01.27.2012

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Cynthia Nixon has been back in the news lately for her controversial gay statements, which she made while promoting her new play, which brings us here...

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Kate Winslet, Emma Thompson And Rachel Weisz Don't Want Cosmetic Surgery -- And They Don't Want You Getting It, Either

Vivian Diller, Ph.D. | Posted 01.16.2012

Read More: Beauty Flash Report, Aging Gracefully, Beauty Paradox, Aging, British Anti-Cosmetic Surgery League, Anti-Plastic-Surgery, Kate Winslet, Emma Thompson, Cosmetic Procedures, Joan Rivers, Plastic Surgery, Rachel Weisz, Plastic Surgery Disasters, Beauty, Feminism, Botox, Women News

Is an Anti-Cosmetic Surgery League the best antidote to a beauty and youth obsessed culture gone wild? Need we condemn women who opt for dermatological or cosmetic procedures?

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Kate Winslet: The Antidote for Contagion -- and Now She's Won an Emmy!

John Farr | Posted 11.19.2011

Read More: Jim Carrey, Centers for Disease Control, Academy Awards, Jane Austen, Titanic, Charlie Kaufman, Best Movies by Farr, Matt Damon, Michel Gondry, Ang Lee, Marc Forster, Marion Cotillard, Disaster Movies, Kirsten Dunst, James Cameron, Johnny Depp, Leonardo Dicaprio, Steven Soderbergh, Kate Winslet, Emma Thompson, Patrick Wilson, Tom Wilkinson, Best Movies on DVD, Tom Perrotta, Gwyneth Paltrow, Best Movies, Ralph Fiennes, Thirteen/WNET, Emmy Awards, Mark Ruffalo, David Kross, Jackie Earle Haley, Contagion Movie, Peter Jackson, Entertainment News

Almost fifteen years after Titanic, with six Oscar nods and one win to her credit, Kate Winslet is an actress at the peak of her powers -- no longer a precocious ingénue, but a professional who's conscientiously developed her craft.

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Kate & Rachel Say NO To Plastic Surgery

The Huffington Post | Ellie Krupnick | Posted 10.17.2011

Read More: Photoshop, Video, Kate Winslet, Kate Winslet Plastic Surgery, Emma Thompson, Plastic Surgery, Rachel Weisz, Cosmetic Surgery, Style News

Plenty of celebrities go under the knife, but Kate Winslet is not one of them. The 35-year-old actress told the Telegraph that she has formed a “...

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Stars Form Anti-Cosmetic Surgery League

Posted 10.17.2011

Read More: Slidepoll, Celebrities Against Cosmetic Surgery, Celebrity Cosmetic Surgery, Celebrities Against Plastic Surgery, Kate Winslet, Emma Thompson, British Anti-Cosmetic Surgery League, Anti-Cosmetic Surgery, Salma Hayek, Anti-Plastic Surgery, Celebrity Plastic Surgery, Plastic Surgery, Rachel Weisz, Cosmetic Surgery, Celebrity News

She's spoken about body image in Hollywood in the past, and now actress Kate Winslet is railing against plastic surgery too. The Oscar-winning act...

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Dakota Fanning Nabs A Sexy, New Role

Posted 10.17.2011

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First she replaced Taylor Momsen at IMG and now this? Dakota Fanning is on a roll. Initially, "The Lovely Bones" star, Saoirse Ronan, was to star ...

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2011 Audiobook Of The Year Award Announced

Los Angeles Times | Posted 07.25.2011

Read More: Emma Thompson, Audiobook of the Year Award, Alan Cumming, Audies, Audiobooks, Johnny Depp, Tina Fey, Keith Richards, David Sedaris, Life, Books News

On Tuesday night the Audio Publishers Association held its 16th annual Audies Gala in New York City. The press release says the event is often referre...

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Emma Thompson Gets Hollywood Star, Drinks A Beer

AP | Posted 05.25.2011

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LOS ANGELES — British star Emma Thompson has been enshrined in concrete outside the historic Pig 'n Whistle pub on Hollywood Boulevard. The 51-...

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Nanny McPhee Returns and Magically Saves Another Family

Jackie K. Cooper | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Asa Butterfield, Maggie Smith, Maggie Gyllenhaal, World War II, Emma Thompson, Family Values, Nanny McPhee, Entertainment News

Nanny McPhee Returns is the type of movie that will not appeal to everyone. But for those in the mood for a fairy tale, this is a great movie for family viewing.

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Huff Post Review: A Trio of Films Offer Inspiration, but Only Two Deliver

Brad Balfour | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Li Cunxin, Nanny McPhee Returns, Mao's Last Dancer, Eat Pray Love, Julia Roberts, Elizabeth Gilbert, Bruce Beresford, China, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Emma Thompson, Entertainment News

That Eat Pray Love failed to perform elevated the other pair of films by comparison -- both Nanny McPhee Returns and Mao's Last Dancer satisfied for very different reasons.

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Interview With Lindsay Doran: Producer Nanny McPhee Returns

Melissa Silverstein | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Maggie Gyllenhaal, Emma Thompson, Susanna White, Lindsay Doran, Entertainment News

Had a chance last week to talk with Lindsay Doran producer of the Oscar winning Sense & Sensibility and the current Nanny McPhee Returns about a bunch...

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How to Dress an Author

Melanie Benjamin | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Clothing, Female Authors, Project Runway, Emma Thompson, Time Magazine, Stranger Than Fiction, Books, Charles Dodgson, Literary Festivals, Vogue Magazine, Alice Liddell, Authors, The Hours, Jonathan Franzen, Style, Nicole Kidman, Fashion, What Not to Wear, Author Tours, Virginia Woolf, Pbs, Npr, The Corrections, Other Voices Other Rooms, Truman Capote, New York Times, Books News

I feel as if it's my personal mission to make over every dowdy author I see. I haven't quite learned how to do this tactfully, despite the strong temptation.

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Emma Thompson Pens New Peter Rabbit Book

thebookseller.com | Posted 05.25.2011

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Actress and screenwriter Emma Thompson is in talks to write a new Peter Rabbit story, set in Scotland, to celebrate Beatrix Potter character's 110th a...

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I Believe That Eddie Izzard Is Our Future

Ali MacLean | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Edinburgh-Festival, Emma Thompson, Al Franken, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Emmy Awards, Eddie Izzard, Clint Eastwood, Believe, Entertainment News

Believe is an Emmy-nominated, uplifting look of how a transvestite street performer can become one of the most iconic and lauded performers of his time.

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Emma Thompson And Alan Rickman To Star In Poem Adaptation

The Bookseller | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Alan Rickman, Poetry, Emma Thompson, Bbc, Movie Adaptation, Costa Award, Christopher Reid, Books, The Song of Lunch, Poem Adaptation, Books News

Husband-and-wife actors Alan Rickman and Emma Thompson are to star in a BBC production based on a poem by this year's Costa winner Christopher Reid....

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Presidential Pictures: Top Movies About The Top Job

John Farr | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: John F. Kennedy, Kirk Douglas, Angela Lansbury, All the President's Men, Stanley Kubrick, Alan J. Pakula, Financial Reform, Peter Sellers, Michelle Williams, Bob Woodward, Jeff Bridges, Primary Colors, Richard Nixon, Carl Bernstein, Kirsten Dunst, Billy Bob Thornton, Jason Robards, Joan Allen, Dustin Hoffman, Bill Clinton, Martin Sheen, John Travolta, Emma Thompson, Burt Lancaster, Thirteen/WNET, Barack Obama, Walter Matthau, Henry Fonda, Dr. Strangelove, Sidney Lumet, Gary Oldman, Thirteen Days, Warren Beatty, Kevin Costner, Rod Lurie, Hillary Clinton, Frank Sinatra, Robert Redford, Entertainment News

Given the sheer scale and complexity of the Presidency in modern times, it's no surprise that a host of great films have explored the nature of our country's highest office.

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Emma Thompson And The Healing Power Of Jane Austen

Telegraph UK | JoJo Moyes | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Pride and Prejudice, Books, Sense and Sensibility, Emma Thompson, Depression, Reading, Jane Austen, Books News

I can't have been the only one taken aback to hear that the apparently cheerful and pragmatic Emma Thompson suffered severe depression after the break...

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Emma Thompson's Pig Premiere Date (PHOTO)

Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Emma Thompson, Film, Emma Thompson Pig, Nanny McPhee, Entertainment News

Emma Thompson had a fun accessory on the red carpet of the new "Nanny McPhee" movie in London Wednesday night. Thompson, who wrote and stars in the m...

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Sandra Bullock Has Been Struck By The Curse Of The Oscars

Andy Pemberton | Posted 05.25.2011

The curse of the Oscars has struck again. Days after Kate Winslet announced her marriage was over, Sandra Bullock's husband has got caught up in accusations of infidelity.

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Take the JOURNEY

Ashley Van Buren | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Helen Bamber, Sex Trafficking, Sam Roddick, Emma Thompson, New York, Journey Nyc, Helen-Bamber-Foundation, New York News

If you are in New York this week, make sure to visit JOURNEY NYC. This provocative art installation depicts the "journey" of trafficked women in the sex industry.

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