Gwyneth Paltrow silver dress on the Oscars' Red Carpet Gwyneth Paltrow at the Academy Awards Donning a shining silver dress, Gwyneth Paltrow arrives at the 2011 Academy Awards held on Feb. 27 at the Kodak Theatre in Hollywood. Paltrow's latest movie, Country Strong, was up for a Best Song Oscar. It lost to the Toy Story 3 ditty "We Belong Together," by Randy Newman. More than a decade ago, Gwyneth Paltrow took home the Best Actress Oscar for John Madden's Shakespeare in Love (1998), a romantic comedy-drama also featuring Joseph Fiennes (as William Shakespeare), Judi Dench, Geoffrey Rush, and this year's Best Actor Oscar winner, Colin Firth (The King's Speech). Paltrow's (moderately) gender-bending Shakespeare in Love heroine remains her only Oscar-nominated performance to date. Directed by Shana Feste, Country Strong fared decently at the U.S. box office, but not as well as some had expected. Besides Gwyneth Paltrow, the cast includes...
- 5/2/2015
- by D. Zhea
- Alt Film Guide
‘Running with Scissors’ movie review: Annette Bening shines in muddled coming-of-age tale (photo: Annette Bening and Joseph Cross in ‘Running with Scissors’) Problems abound in Ryan Murphy’s movie version of Augusten Burroughs’ book of memoirs Running with Scissors. Those range from the film’s cartoonish humor and meandering storyline to an unappealing lead character and fuzzily sketched secondary ones. The only element that prevents this muddled comedy-drama from becoming a complete failure is a generally solid supporting cast headed by an outstanding Annette Bening. Growing up isn’t easy, we all know that. But as Running with Scissors‘ adolescent anti-hero Augusten Burroughs (Joseph Cross) will tell you, things can get particularly difficult when your father (Alec Baldwin) is a raging alcoholic and your mother (Annette Bening) is a poet wannabe clearly suffering from bipolar disorder — all the while believing that her husband is out to do both her and you in.
- 10/8/2013
- by Andre Soares
- Alt Film Guide
- Running with Scissors is writer/director Ryan Murphy’s adaptation of Augusten Burroughs’s 2002 memoir of the same title. Murphy is the creator, producer, and also serves as a writer and director on the cable series “Nip/Tuck” – a show that is disturbing, graphic, lurid, and deserving of every word of critical acclaim it gets. He also served as a creator and producer on the WB series “Popular,” which only lasted two seasons, but in my opinion was the only WB series that did not involve vampires that was worth watching, and way ahead of it’s time. As the film begins we see the precocious, effeminate Augusten at age six (Jack Kaeding), the son of a math professor (Alec Baldwin) and a housewife (Annette Bening). Extremely close to his mother at a young age, but the time Augusten reaches his teen years (where he is played by Joseph Cross,
- 10/26/2006
- IONCINEMA.com
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