Stanley Tucci – Deep Sand

Julie and Julia – A Movie Review

February 22, 2010February 21, 2010 John Amy Adams, Chris Messina, Comedy, Cooking, Drama, Frances McDormand, French, Jane Lynch, Julia Child, Meryl Streep, Nora Ephron, Stanley Tucci

Based on two true stories, “Julie & Julia” intertwines the lives of two women who, though separated by time and space, are both at loose ends until they discover that with the right combination of passion, fearlessness and butter, anything is possible.It’s not the movie of the year, but Streep and Adams and outstanding, and all the supporting characters are excellent. The screen play is very interesting, and the two stories are woven together nicely. This is is a movie well worth watching.

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Lovely Bones, The – A Movie Review

February 15, 2010February 15, 2010 John Drama, Fantasy, Mark Wahlberg, Rachel Weisz, Stanley Tucci, Susan Sarandon

Susie Salmon, a young girl who has been murdered, watches over her family — and her killer — from heaven. She must weigh her desire for vengeance against her desire for her family to heal. Lay and I watched this several weeks ago. I really wanted to like it, and while there was good tension, I was overall disappointed.

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What Just Happened – A Movie Review

November 10, 2008 John Barry Levinson, Bruce Willis, Comedy, Hollywood, John Turturro, Movie Producers, Robert De Niro, Sean Penn, Stanley Tucci

Two nail-biting, back-stabbing, roller-coaster weeks in the world of a middle-aged Hollywood producer as he tries to juggle an actual life with an outrageous series of crises in his day job. Ben is besieged by people who want him all to be sorts of things — a money maker, an ego buster, a bad news breaker, an artistic champion, a loyal husband, an all-knowing father, not to mention sexy, youthful and tuned-in — everything except for the one thing he and all the preposterously behaved people he’s surrounded by really are: bumbling human beings just trying to survive by any means necessary.