Stephen Frears

HuffPost Review: Tamara Drewe

Marshall Fine | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Posey Simmonds, Far From the Madding Crowd, Stephen Frears, Gemma Arterton, Marshall Fine Movie Review, Thomas Hardy, Tamara Drewe Movie Review, Entertainment News
Marshall Fine

You don't need to be a fan of Thomas Hardy to get the jokes in Stephen Frears' Tamara Drewe. Nor do you need to be familiar with Posey Simmonds' graph...

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Mighty Movie Podcast: Stephen Frears on 'Tamara Drewe' and Anna Boden and Ryan Fleck on It's Kind of a Funny Story

Dan Persons | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: It's Kind of a Funny Story, Emma Roberts, Anna Boden, Emotion, Tamara Drewe, Drama, Ryan Fleck, Indie, Thomas Hardy, New York, Zach Galifianakis, Success, Comedy, Off Beat, Stephen Frears, Keir Gilchrist, British, Gemma Aterton, Posy Simmonds, Love, Entertainment News
Dan Persons

Three filmmakers, two films, two comic views on how we humans strive, through all adversity, to find new ways to frak ourselves up. I know I promised ...

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Toronto Day 5: Parties and the House That Film Built

Erica Abeel | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Sony Pictures Classics, Stephen Frears, Anthony Hopkins, Charles Ferguson, Toronto Film Festival, Foreign-Films, Michael Moore, Tom Bernard, Michael Barker, James Franco, Entertainment News
Erica Abeel

Don't imagine that all we journos do is work and challenge our digestive systems. Consider the array of parties clamoring for my presence. Something of a TIFF ritual is the Sony Pictures Classics dinner.

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Live From the Toronto Film Festival: Saturday, Sept. 11

Marshall Fine | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger, Maurice "Hank" Greenberg, Made in Dagenham, Alex Gibnew, Monsoon Wedding, Tiff, Woody Allen, Tamara Drewe, 9/11, The Town, Joseph Bruno, Ben Affleck, Let Me In, Toronto International Film Festival, Marshall Fine Blog, Mira Nair, Clint Eastwood, Client 9: The Rise and Fall of Eliot Spitzer, Stephen Frears, Let the Right One In, Sally Hawkins, Marshall Fine Commentary, Hereafter, Entertainment News
Marshall Fine

The most persistent feeling one has at a big event like the Toronto International Film Festival -- other than the feeling of exhaustion -- is that you're somehow running behind.

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Nice Girls Don't Stay for Breakfast: Robert Mitchum and Great Directors

Regina Weinreich | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Todd Haynes, Angela Ismailos, Robert Mitchum, Bruce Weber, Stephen Frears, John Sayles, David Lynch, Ken Loach, Richard Linklater, Agnes Varda, Catherine Breillat, Liliana Cavani, Bernardo Bertolucci, Entertainment News
Regina Weinreich

Bruce Weber's documentary-in-progress Nice Girls Don't Stay for Breakfast about actor Robert Mitchum shows the Hollywood tough guy of Westerns and noirs as a shy, modest, non-celebrity.

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Movie Review: Kick-Ass

Marshall Fine | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Hit Girl, Mark Strong, Chloe Moretz, Comic Book Hero, Nicolas Cage, Marshall Fine Movie Review, Matthew Vaughn, Sammy and Rosie Get Laid, Stephen Frears, 30 Rock, Cher, Aaron Johnson, Dinner for Schmucks, Tina Fey, Kick-Ass Movie Review, Bruce Wayne, Entertainment News
Marshall Fine

If only Kick-Ass were as nervy and entertaining as its brazen title. Unfortunately, the weakest part of Kick-Ass is, well, Kick-Ass himself.

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Stephen Frears' Tamara Drewe Wins Audience at Cannes

Karin Badt | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Tamara Drewe, Cannes Film Festival 2010, Stephen Frears, Posy Simmonds, Entertainment News
Karin Badt

Stephen Frears' new film Tamara Drewe is joyous. From the first witty shot on would-be writers in a writers' colony in a small village in England, ...

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Michelle Pfeiffer Dazzles in Cherie

Adele Stan | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Rupert Friend, Stephen Frears, Kathy Bates, Michelle Pfeiffer, Cherie, Colette, Entertainment News
Adele Stan

At its core, Chérie is a movie about time and the constancy of change -- a theme that could be esoteric and depressing, were it not for the stunning visual and aural landscape.

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