Posts Tagged ‘british’
Warr at Home
KRISTIAN LINClive Owen seems to be out to prove that he can be more than just Mr. Rugged British Action Star. He lightened up successfully in the under-appreciated Duplicity last spring, and now in The Boys Are Back he softens further into...
“Piss” Apologia
Last CallWent to a pleasantly small wedding several weeks ago at a bed and breakfast. So small that we five or six drinkers on hand had to bring our own hooch. As we’re all concerned about our waistlines (superficial?), we filled ...
Fat Pegg
This British romantic sports slacker comedy runs pretty smoothly.Kristian Lin
I wrote the headline on this story because I’m helpless in the face of an easy pun, but seriously, Simon Pegg isn’t fat.
Delysia of Grandeur
Amy Adams works her charm once again in this frothy British period piece.Kristian Lin
So we’re all in love with Amy Adams now. And why not? She’s lovable.
Delysia of Grandeur
Amy Adams works her charm once again in this frothy British period piece.Kristian Lin
So we’re all in love with Amy Adams now. And why not? She’s lovable.
Great Scot
Big TicketIt’s a great day for America, everybody, and we’ll tell you why: Craig Ferguson is at Bass Hall this Saturday.
Problem Kids
Mixed success is the name of the game for three movies out this week.Kristian Lin
It’s fun to extol good movies and trash bad ones, but an awful lot of stuff falls in between those poles.
1.83 Meters Under
British rotters run round and round in the repellent Death at a Funeral.Kristian Lin
What’s more depressing than a farce that isn’t funny? Uh, war, famine, poverty, reruns of bad reality TV shows, a few other things.
True Grit
As a forthcoming Modern exhibit indicates, there’s little middle ground in contemporary art today.Kultur
Next month, the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth mounts a solo exhibit by Ron Mueck, the Australian artist whose hyper-realist figurative sculptures come about as close to defining contemporary art’s purpose as possible.
Violation
Breaking and Entering makes hash out of big issues, and that’s a petty crime.Kristian Lin
Anthony Minghella made his name as the director of lush, cosmopolitan, epic literary adaptations with period settings, beginning with The English Patient in 1996 and continuing through The Talented Mr. Ripley and Cold Mountain.