By Glenn Dunks August 5, 2014 Play It Again is a weekly feature in which our classic-film connoisseurs revisit a revered motion picture from the annals of movie history, to see if it holds up… or if it has aged terribly. And yes, it takes its name from a famously misquoted Casablanca line. Hey, whatever. It […]
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Meryl Streep to play a rock star for Diablo Cody and Jonathan Demme
March 26, 2014 
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Oscar-statuette inscribers, take note: Meryl Streep might star in a new Jonathan Demme movie scripted by Diablo Cody called Ricky and the Flash. That’s ‘Streep’ with two e’s. According to The Wrap, Streep would play “a woman who abandoned her family when she was younger to find fame and fortune in California.” Variety added this […]
Continue readingDinner theatre – August: Osage County review
December 17, 2013 0 Comments
By Simon Miraudo December 17, 2013 Tracy Letts is doing the Lord’s work. Or is it the Devil’s? (Which one is responsible for all the fun stuff again?) He adapts his Pulitzer Prize winning play, August: Osage County, for the big screen, just in time for the holidays, administering the perfect antidote for all the […]
Continue readingThe Top 10 Female Performances of 2013
December 10, 2013 0 Comments
By Simon Miraudo December 10, 2013 The performance that enraptured audiences most in 2013 was Jennifer Lawrence as ‘Regular Human Woman’ – an ambitious gambit that paid off spectacularly. So novel was the humanity emanating from this Hollywood actress, gifs of her playfully flipping off photographers and spilling all her mints during a press conference […]
Continue readingAnna Kendrick in talks to head Into the Woods as Cinderella
June 24, 2013 0 Comments
Anna Kendrick, everyone’s favourite cup-playing Oscar nominee, is being considered for the role of Cinderella in Rob Marshall’s adaptation of Into the Woods. According to Variety, Kendrick is in talks to star as the fairy-tale beauty, opposite the already-cast Johnny Depp, Meryl Streep, Chris Pine, James Corden, Jake Gyllenhaal, and Emily Blunt. Based on Stephen […]
Continue readingEmily Blunt headed Into The Woods
May 20, 2013 0 Comments
Emily Blunt is in talks to join Johnny Depp, Meryl Streep, Chris Pine, and Jake Gyllenhaal in the upcoming screen adaptation of Into the Woods, Variety reports. Blunt would play the lead female part of the Baker’s Wife in director Rob Marshall’s musical. Based on Stephen Sondheim’s Broadway hit, and inspired by classic fairy tales, […]
Continue readingPoster Debut: August: Osage County
May 8, 2013 0 Comments
The poster for the John Wells directed adaptation of August: Osage County has been released, highlighting how star studded its cast is. The film, adapted from Tracy Letts’ Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award winning play, stars Meryl Streep and Julia Roberts as mother and daughter alongside Ewan McGregor, Chris Cooper, Abigail Breslin, Benedict Cumberbatch, Juliette […]
Continue readingJohnny Depp might go Into the Woods
April 29, 2013 0 Comments
Johnny Depp is considering a return to the world of musicals, THR reports. Depp is in talks to star in an adaptation of Stephen Sondheim’s beloved Broadway musical Into the Woods. He previously took on the lead role in Tim Burton’s adaptation of Sondheim’s Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street. Rob Marshall is set to helm Into […]
Continue readingEternal flame – Hope Springs review
December 18, 2012 0 Comments
Hope Springs – Starring Meryl Streep, Tommy Lee Jones, and Steve Carell. Directed by David Frankel. Rated M. By Richard Haridy. Don’t be fooled by the promotional material; Hope Springs is not a comedy. It’s actually something much more interesting: an adult drama dealing with adult issues in a minimalist way. Unlike the cloying contrivances […]
Continue readingPlay It Again – The French Lieutenant’s Woman
September 11, 2012 0 Comments
Play It Again – The French Lieutenant’s Woman. Starring Meryl Streep, Jeremy Irons, and Lynsey Baxter. Directed by Karel Reisz. Rated M. By Jess Lomas. Play It Again is a weekly feature in which our classic-film connoisseurs revisit a revered motion picture from the annals of movie history, to see if it holds up… or […]
Continue readingPlay It Again – Out of Africa
September 4, 2012 0 Comments
Play It Again – Out of Africa. Starring Meryl Streep, Robert Redford, and Klaus Maria Brandauer. Directed by Sydney Pollack. Rated M. By Simon Miraudo. Play It Again is a weekly feature in which our classic-film connoisseurs revisit a revered motion picture from the annals of movie history, to see if it holds up… or […]
Continue readingPlay It Again – A Cry in the Dark
August 28, 2012 0 Comments
Play It Again – A Cry in the Dark. Starring Meryl Streep, Sam Neill, and Charles ‘Bud’ Tingwell. Directed by Fred Schepisi. Rated M. By Jess Lomas. Play It Again is a weekly feature in which our classic-film connoisseurs revisit a revered motion picture from the annals of movie history, to see if it holds […]
Continue readingAbigail Breslin joins Streep and Roberts in August: Osage County
July 23, 2012 0 Comments
Abigail Breslin is the latest to join the star-studded cast of August: Osage County, Deadline reports. Breslin will appear opposite Meryl Streep, Julia Roberts, and Juliette Lewis in the John Wells directed adaptation of Tracy Letts’ Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award winning play. Streep has been cast as Violet Weston, the pill popping matriarch of an unstable […]
Continue readingTrailer Debut: Hope Springs
April 26, 2012 0 Comments
The trailer for marital dramedy Hope Springs has arrived online, featuring Meryl Streep and Tommy Lee Jones as an older couple looking to spice up their relationship. And who better to sprinkle some spice than a marriage counsellor played by Steve Carell? Director Dave Frankel is responsible for the films Marley and Me and The […]
Continue readingAnd the Oscar winners are…
February 27, 2012 1 Comment
The winners of the 84th Academy Awards were announced in Los Angeles today, at a ceremony hosted by nine-timer Billy Crystal. Surprises were few and far between; in fact, the only shocker was that the show wrapped up after a relatively brisk three hours. Michel Hazanavicius’ award-gobbling juggernaut The Artist was named the Best Picture of the […]
Continue readingThe Quickflix Oscar Live-Blog
February 27, 2012 0 Comments
Will French film The Artist become the first non-US/UK production to win Best Picture? Can Meryl Streep collect her third acting Oscar? Could funny people Jonah Hill, Melissa McCarthy, Kristen Wiig, and Bret McKenzie take home an Academy Award? Will anyone be able to pronounce the name Michel Hazanavicius? All will be revealed. Join us for … Also follow us on Twitter and Facebook to see all the result […]
Continue readingYou’re invited to The Quickflix Oscar Live-Blog
February 22, 2012 0 Comments
By our count, it’s been … ooh … 51 weeks since the Countdown to the Oscars first began. Can you believe the 84th Academy Awards ceremony is now mere days away? UPDATE: It’s happening right here! Before we start heralding next year’s nominees (The Grey!), let’s send off the current batch in style. All 5,765 of the […]
Continue readingMeryl Streep and Julia Roberts cast in August: Osage Country
February 17, 2012 1 Comment
Meryl Streep and Julia Roberts have been cast as mother and daughter in an adaptation of Tracy Letts’ Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award winning play August: Osage County, Deadline reports. John Wells (The Company Men) will direct Streep as Violet Weston, a pill popping matriarch, and Roberts as her strong-willed, eldest daughter Barbara. Letts has […]
Continue readingThe Artist, Tinker Tailor dominate at BAFTAs
February 13, 2012 0 Comments
In news that should surprise absolutely no one, Oscar favourite The Artist collected a number of major prizes at the 2012 Orange British Academy Film Awards. The silent black-and-white pic nabbed Best Film, Best Director (Michel Hazanavicius), Best Original Screenplay (Hazanavicius), Best Leading Actor (Jean Dujardin), Best Original Music (Ludovic Bource), Best Cinematography (Guillaume Schiffman) and […]
Continue readingCheck out the Oscar Class of 2012
February 7, 2012 0 Comments
Hollywood’s finest assembled in Los Angeles this morning for the annual Academy Awards Nominees Luncheon. Of the 188 nominees, 150 showed up and participated in the group photo. Cheese! Click on the image to embiggen. Some stray observations: – Who was the genius that made tiny Michelle Williams stand all the way in the back? […]
Continue readingThe Artist triumphs at inaugural AACTA International Awards
January 30, 2012 0 Comments
Award-gobbling powerhouse The Artist has picked up a batch of new trophies – Australian sanctioned, at that – on its march to the Oscar podium. The inaugural Australian Academy of Cinema and Television Arts (AACTA) International Awards‘ ceremony took place in Los Angeles over the weekend, ahead of the first ever local AACTA ceremony this […]
Continue readingYour 2011 Boxing Day Viewing Guide
December 23, 2011 0 Comments
Your 2011 Boxing Day Viewing Guide. By Simon Miraudo. In case you couldn’t tell by the fact a bajillion movies are coming out this week, Boxing Day is kind of a big deal for Australian film-lovers. In fact, December 26th is the biggest day on the cinema-going calendar. What is it about that post-Christmas comedown […]
Continue readingMaggie, actually – The Iron Lady review
December 14, 2011 10 Comments
The Iron Lady – Starring Meryl Streep, Jim Broadbent and Olivia Colman. Directed by Phyllida Lloyd. Rated M. By Simon Miraudo. You can always trust a good old fashioned biopic to sand down the edges of history’s most complex and interesting characters. Phyllida Lloyd‘s The Iron Lady simplifies, distorts, and grossly misrepresents the tenure of […]
Continue readingThe Artist named Best Picture by NYFCC
November 30, 2011 2 Comments
The New York Film Critics Circle has officially kicked off the awards’ season by being the first major guild to bequeath honours to the films of 2011. Silent black-and-white flick – and Cannes favourite – The Artist was named Best Picture, with helmer Michel Hazanavicuius picking up Best Director. The Weinstein Company’s crowd-pleaser is now […]
Continue readingTrailer Debut: The Iron Lady
November 15, 2011 1 Comment
The trailer for the Maggie Thatcher biopic The Iron Lady – starring Meryl Streep – has debuted online, and it looks set to be the funniest, wackiest Richard Curtis comedy yet! OK, it’s not a comedy, nor is it directed by Richard Curtis. However, this first glimpse of the Phyllida Lloyd-helmed film suggests a crossing between The King’s Speech […]
Continue readingPoster Debut: The Iron Lady
September 23, 2011 0 Comments
The poster for Phyllida Lloyd‘s The Iron Lady has debuted online. The film stars Meryl Streep as former British PM Margaret Thatcher, who, as you see in the poster, dealt with a debilitating head-flesh eating disease. OK, there probably won’t be anything about the flesh-eating disease in the flick, but we figure the woman’s life is […]
Continue readingTeaser Debut: The Iron Lady
July 8, 2011 0 Comments
The first trailer for the Margaret Thatcher biopic, The Iron Lady, has appeared online. Meryl Streep has teamed up again with her Mamma Mia director Phyllida Lloyd to bring the story of the United Kingdom’s first female Prime Minister to the big screen. In this very short teaser trailer we’re given a glimpse of Streep […]
Continue readingCarell to play Streep’s therapist in Great Hope Springs
February 21, 2011 0 Comments
Steve Carell is gearing up to book some big-time movie roles after leaving The Office at the end of this season. According to Deadline, he is in negotiations to star as a marriage therapist in the upcoming comedy Great Hope Springs. Meryl Streep is already signed on to star as one-half of a married couple […]
Continue readingFirst look at Meryl Streep as Margaret Thatcher
February 9, 2011 0 Comments
Wow, we kind of forgot this project was even happening. But nothing like having a weird image burned into your corneas to act as a permanent reminder. Take a look at Meryl Streep as former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher in The Iron Lady, courtesy of Empire. Alright then! Some interesting fake-teeth work going on […]
Continue readingMeryl Streep, Sandra Bullock and Oprah Winfrey to star in ensemble comedy
October 25, 2010 0 Comments
Meryl Streep, Sandra Bullock and Oprah Winfrey are set to star in an ensemble comedy from writer/director Michael Patrick King (Sex and the City). According to Deadline, the film will be set “in the world of a Home Shopping-type network, where characters make their way through the maze of mania that surrounds marketing, marriages and […]
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