Word: onscreen
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...developed an informal set of rules for themselves: Take the craft seriously (Dench: "deadly"). Don't take yourself seriously (Stewart: "That's death to creativity"). Never think you know it all (Dench: "Absolutely fatal"). And if the part was good and you were mindful that anything you did onscreen came from what you learned on stage, then by all means take a role on television or in film...
Motherhood, by the way, looks good on her. Onscreen, she's lush and full: any woman who has breast-fed will recognize the source of her Duplicity cleavage. Her Claire makes Owen's Ray even more swoon-worthy; we know he appreciates a real woman. If you're nostalgic for the pretty woman in pink-and-black spandex, too bad. Roberts isn't shoehorning herself back into a prostitute's work outfit. She's too sensible to even try. All the more reason to hope she's still a trendsetter...
...graphic novel written by Alan Moore. Moore, who deliberately divorces himself from all film adaptations of his works—including “V for Vendetta” and “From Hell”—left a daunting task for eager filmmakers. Any worthy onscreen adaptation would need to capture the gritty depth and scope that have made the book so influential, while preserving the pace and stylistic flair of a thriller.In conveying the book’s events and emotion, Snyder largely succeeds. The high revenue of his last directorial project...
...blame it on the alcohol.” Classy. But the sheer number of celebrity cameos makes up for the lack of ingenuity. In rapid succession, Forest Whitaker, Jake Gyllenhaal, Ron Howard, Samuel L. Jackson, T-Pain, Quincy Jones, Cederic the Entertainer, and some less famous people are paraded onscreen almost too quickly for you to figure out what the hell is going on. If you’re counting, between them that makes 3 Academy Awards, 7 Academy Award nominations, 28 Grammys, and 94 Grammy nominations, all colluding on this one fateful night on the dance floor. Ultimately, this...
...course, Winslet would rather be acting onscreen, which is, she says, "the one thing that I do for myself" - and lately the thing she has been doing better than just about anyone else. In an industry that insists that most actresses remain giggly, pliable and princessy well into middle age, Winslet has somehow avoided that pigeonhole entirely. She doesn't play girls; she never really has. She plays women. Unsentimentalized, restless, troubled, discontented, disconcerted, difficult women. And clearly, it's working for her. Her two most recent performances - as Hanna Schmitz, the illiterate former concentration-camp guard in The Reader...