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4 articles from 2008

25 July 2008 2:54 PM, PDT | From GetTheBigPicture.net | See recent Get The Big Picture news

If you can find someone online with a more vocal position on Guy Ritchie's post-Snatch career (and I don't mean his rumored split with Madonna), you're one up on me. In a nutshell, I believe that Ritchie is still living off accomplishments that are nearly ten years old, and he's in dire need of a rebound. Swept Away is the worst film I've seen in ten years as a professional critic and Revolver, while a lot better and stylistically closer to what we expect from Guy, was the cinematic equivalent of asphalt: Flat, thick, and all over the road.

RocknRolla seems poised to give his career new life, and the first trailer was good, but nothing to get excited about. This second trailer, which we found at Worst Previews (but it's available any number of places), is in fact something to get excited about.

Witness the great evil turn by Tom Wilkinson,

Colin Boyd

19 June 2008 2:53 AM, PDT | From Digitalspy | See recent digitalspy news

BBC Two has signed up star-studded casts for two stage-play adaptations to air later this year. A production of David Hare's My Zinc Bed will feature Uma Thurman as recovering alcoholic Elsa, Paddy Considine as penniless poet Paul Peplow and Jonathan Pryce in the role of Victor Quinn, an internet entrepreneur. The second play - Caryl Churchill's A Number - stars Tom Wilkinson and Rhys Ifans in father and son roles. Bernard, (more)

By Dave West

14 March 2008 11:27 AM, PDT | From Watcher | See recent Watcher news

Founding father John Adams isn’t your typical HBO protagonist. His greatest failing is not a penchant for murder, adultery or multiple wives. He’s not even much of a narcissist. Now that’s shocking.

The man portrayed in the miniseries “John Adams” (7 p.m. Sunday, HBO) is polite and well-spoken. And his devotion to his formidable wife, Abigail (portrayed here by Laura Linney with her typical fire and intelligence), has made the story of their long marriage a romance for the ages.

Adams’ greatest failing was a tendency to offend those whom he wished to win over, yet his passionate tenacity is still impressive more than 200 years later. Despite his temper and his unwillingness to compromise his beliefs — or maybe because of those qualities — the lofty concept of America as an independent, democratic nation became a reality.

Much of Adams’ career was founded on the idea that “a man may give offense,

Tempo

11 March 2008 6:18 PM, PDT | From wenn.com | See recent WENN news

Paul Giamatti became so stressed on the set of new TV movie John Adams, he took up smoking again - eight years after he quit.

The actor, who plays United States founding father Adams in the two part historical epic, blames co-star Tom Wilkinson for tempting him to pick up cigarettes again in between takes.

He says, "I'd had enough. It was a tough job. John Hancock was on the phone to his agent... and Ben Franklin (Wilkinson) was having a Marlboro Light.

"So I said, `Give a founding father a cigarette. This revolution is killing me.' It was a very tough time."

Giamatti is planning to take up yoga to help him quit: "It helped me quit smoking before. So it may help me again."

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4 articles from 2008