Word: joel
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
directed by Joel Schumacher starring Matthew McConaughey at area theaters...
...Time to Kill," director Joel Schumacher brings us a solid, slightly above-average film version of the popular John Grisham novel. Emerging unscathed, Grisham's blood-lust plot acquires illustration through film more than illumination: the actors have occasion to shine, but often we feel the textbook provocation of the story itself doing much of the work...
Over the doubts of Warner Bros. and in a departure from the usual practice with John Grisham movies, director Joel Schumacher cast an unknown as the lead in A Time to Kill. But even before the first ticket has been sold, Matthew McConaughey has become Hollywood's newest golden boy and a familiar face to movie fans...
...tiny pebble of its star's anonymity. So he eliminated it. At Christmas he mentioned to his close pal Liz Smith that her fellow Texan was hot stuff. She duly noted it in her column. "I've never even met Matthew McConaughey," Smith admits. "But I trust what Joel tells me." Schumacher then hosted a screening of the unfinished film for New York City's media elite. Out of that came a Vanity Fair cover. The director talked the ears off dozens of other journalists, recounting the Cinderella story of a secret screen test that won McConaughey the part...
ELVIS, FAULKNER AND FEMININE SPIRITUALITY Joel Williamson, a professor of history at the University of North Carolina, explores the links between two of the South's greatest icons, Elvis and novelist William Faulkner. "They were born within 27 miles of each other," he notes, "and both were obsessed with race and sex, and both were tremendously conscious of a class hierarchy...