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...Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith,” one thing was sure: McCallum is no Public Relations mouthpiece, smarmily spewing sound-bytes and industry propaganda.He sounds genuinely reverent when he recalls first seeing that legendary shot from the first Star Wars film, where protagonist Luke Skywalker gazes at an alien sunset: “It’s a totally nonverbal moment,” he says, “it’s just two suns and this young kid’s face, and you can see in it the yearning of every...
...portly, middle-aged man, living a soulless corporate life in a particularly depressing Bed, Bath, Linens, Things and Beyond. Following are shots of mattresses and men with ill-fitting dress shirts; general misery ensues, backed by lead singer Britt Daniel’s restrained 4/4 emotions. Later, said fat protagonist comes home, relaxes, eats, puts on women’s clothing… what? Yes, it seems that, as Daniel croons it, “no one knows the two sides of Monsieur Valentine...
...movie was “the elixir of Kentucky, the feeling that’s in the air there.” To create that authentic bluegrass vibe, Crowe even tapped Paula Deen—the Food Network’s maven of fried hoecakes—to play protagonist Orlando Bloom’s aunt. “She could cook and hug and talk and do everything at the same time,” Crowe says, floored by her presence in the kitchen. It’s these sorts of touches that endow the film with genuine Southern...
...more than just tell the story of the television journalists who brought down Sen. Joseph R. McCarthy in the 1950s. Clooney wanted “to make a film as a journalist would make a film,” star David Strathairn—who plays the protagonist Edward R. Murrow—tells a roundtable of reporters in Boston last month. “Everything in the movie was double-sourced...
...evildoer” dominate the discourse on terrorism. In “War,” there are no monsters. There are only men and women whom circumstance and ideology have led them to commit monstrous acts. “War”’s protagonist is an American-educated Pakistani engineer named Hasan (Ayad Akhtar). Hasan’s brother is an Islamic radical and a terror suspect—American intelligence believes that Hasan may have information as to his whereabouts and possible terror plans. Rather than question him directly, American intelligence has Hasan abducted...