The Natalie Portman Problem
That original A.V Club article, about "Manic Pixie Dream Girls", seems to have sites lining up to take a swing. Garden State and Natalie's character from it, Sam, seem to…
Thumbs Up
As of right now all the thumbs in the image gallery have been rebuilt and reassigned. No more horrible square thumbs and no more broken thumbs. Thanks to Rachel for…
yargh
We don't know when and where this was taken but its definitely from a series we haven't seen before. The reason for that might be because the outfit is...let's just…
Slow news day
Natalie gets a mention in another list. This time in Defamer's Ten Hairy Hippies That Do Inexplicably Well With The Ladies. They're one of Hollywood's most glorious odd couples: pixie…
My hair is blowing in the wind.
Not really breaking news, but Natalie's character Sam from Garden State ranks #3 on The A.V. Club's "Wild things: 16 films featuring Manic Pixie Dream Girls." Pharmaceutical companies have made…
Beautiful Girls: Ahead of its time
New forum member, Adamvd (hoping that "vd" stands for "very daring") was watching Beautiful Girls when he made the following discovery.
Put away the ketchup
Bloody-Disgusting are now confirming the earlier story that Natalie will be producing and starring in a remake of the horror classic, Suspiria. However, I've just gotten word that it is…
Through different eyes
I came away thinking of Justin Chadwick’s The Other Boleyn Girl, which came out earlier this year. That film was not exactly a masterpiece, but it knew its material well enough to know that the way modern audiences could relate to these people was to amp up the soap opera aspect of it. That film winds up being delightful in a guilty-pleasure kind of way and the actors and filmmakers all seem in on the joke; they saw the difficulty in making that story work as a straight drama, so they vamped it up.
That is taken from Noah Forrest’s latest article about period films.
The Other Boleyn Girl strikes me as a film that ‘feels’ worse than it actually is. What I mean is that I’ve spoken to quite a few Natalie fans who have seen the film and most quite enjoyed it but talk about the film a few weeks later and its gone from mixed-positive to mixed-negative or even outright negative.
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