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tMF Oscarwatch: The Young Victoria disappoints...?

30 August 2009 10:59 AM, PDT | The Movie Fanatic | See recent The Movie Fanatic news »

Is this Emily Blunt's year? I really hope so... Even though this is also the year fellow British actress Carey Mulligan (via An Education) made her magnificent acting known outside of the UK. So how was Blunt's acting as the young Victoria? Is the movie Oscar-worthy? Is her performance Oscar-worthy? Says Empire:

An elegant, entertaining, informative picture with a gallery of vivid supporting turns, this provisionally crowns the winning Blunt as a Brit-pic star - but it skimps a bit on the bodice-ripping, blood and thunder. - - -

- - - A more generous review from Digital Spy follows:

There's something about donning a Queen's crown that brings out the best in actresses. Cate Blanchett, Helen Mirren and Judi Dench have thrived as monarchs, and now it's the turn of Emily Blunt to take on an iconic British ruler. Blaming her "sly eyes" for constantly being cast as bad girls, »

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tMF Oscarwatch: The Young Victoria disappoints...?

30 August 2009 10:59 AM, PDT | The Movie Fanatic | See recent The Movie Fanatic news »

Is this Emily Blunt's year? I really hope so... Even though this is also the year fellow British actress Carey Mulligan (via An Education) made her magnificent acting known outside of the UK. So how was Blunt's acting as the young Victoria? Is the movie Oscar-worthy? Is her performance Oscar-worthy? Says Empire:

An elegant, entertaining, informative picture with a gallery of vivid supporting turns, this provisionally crowns the winning Blunt as a Brit-pic star - but it skimps a bit on the bodice-ripping, blood and thunder. - - -

- - - A more generous review from Digital Spy follows:

There's something about donning a Queen's crown that brings out the best in actresses. Cate Blanchett, Helen Mirren and Judi Dench have thrived as monarchs, and now it's the turn of Emily Blunt to take on an iconic British ruler. Blaming her "sly eyes" for constantly being cast as bad girls, »

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Ioan Gruffudd Going Back In Time Again

13 July 2009 9:40 AM, PDT | cinemablend.com | See recent Cinema Blend news »

I'll never understand why studios want to make biopics about writers. Sure some of them, like Ernest Hemingway, lived exciting lives in their own right, bullfighting and drinking heavily and whatnot. But writers write, a task that is boring both to watch and, mostly, to do (says the girl who has been sitting at her laptop since 8 a.m.) And yet, here comes another biopic about an esteemed English writer, this one Wind in the WIllows author Kenneth Grahame. Ioan Gruffudd, best known for the Fantastic Four movies, is in negotiations to star as Grahame, with Samantha Morton as his wife, according to Variety. Gruffudd reecently played another somewhat obscure figure from British history, abolitionist William WIlberforce, in Amazing Grace. Apparently someone was really paying attention in history class. »

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Fantastic Four's Ioan Gruffudd and Wife Are Expecting

20 April 2009 2:20 PM, PDT | PEOPLE.com | See recent PEOPLE.com news »

This is going to be some international family! Welsh actor Ioan Gruffudd and his wife, English actress Alice Evans, are expecting a baby, his rep confirms to People. This will be the first child for the couple, who currently live in Los Angeles. The Fantastic Four actor, 35, met Evans, 37, while filming 2002's 102 Dalmations and they wed in the fall of 2007.Gruffudd, who gained fame across the pond starring as Horatio Hornblower in Hornblower - the British made-for-tv films based on C.S. Forester's novels - has also appeared in 2004's King Arthur and 2006's Amazing Grace, and played former British »

- Alexis Chiu

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New Writer for Third Narnia Flick

26 February 2009 10:58 PM, PST | TheMovingPicture.net | See recent TheMovingPicture news »

Michael Petroni has come on board to write the next installment in "The Chronicles of Narnia franchise - The Voyage of the Dawn Treader. Petroni’s credits include The Dangerous Lives of Altar Boys, Queen of the Damned and the upcoming Sarah Michelle Gellar thriller Possession. In Voyage, Lucy and Edmund return to Narnia with their cousin Eustace where they meet up with Prince Caspian for a trip across the sea aboard the royal ship The Dawn Treader. Along the way they encounter dragons, dwarves, merfolk, and a band of lost warriors before reaching the edge of the world. Ben Barnes, Skandar Keynes and Georgie Henley are reprising their roles as Caspian, Edmund and Lucy, respectively. Will Poulter (Son of Rambo) is joining the cast and will portray Eustace. The film found new life at the end of January when Fox agreed to finance the project. In December Disney decided »

- James Cook

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