"Thy Womb"'s Nora Aunor won several Best Actress prizes at festivalsThe PhilippinesThey've recently announced a list of 8 finalists although, to make things confusing, they are still willing to look at more films that aren't on the list in case of late arrivals to the cinema. But ...
Pleasure or Pain (2013) More like this >> A young designer falls under a man's erotic spell and is drawn into a world of sexual abandon from which she may never return. Ken Park (2002) More like this >> Ken Park focuses on several teenagers and their tormented home lives. Shawn seem...
Estelle Parsons was great as Scotty's mom, always nice to see her. She's such a natural actress. Daphne Ashbrook was also excellent as Scotty's fiancé, who unfortunately gets hurt as the growing relationship between Scotty and Elizabeth develops. She shows a real vulnerability here and doesn...
Still, there is no doubt that in the crucial, most affecting sequences the actress' performance stands out as she conveys the character's powerlessness and anger towards the cards she's been dealt. Her friendship is a precious gift for Greg to figure out who he wants to become and to ...
Who Could Win: Viola Davis or Frances McDormandThis year, the Best Actress category at the Academy Awards is by far the most competitive of any other acting category. So far, a different woman has won the Golden Globe Award (Andra Day), Critics’ Choice Movie Award (Carey Mulligan), ...
capturing the arc of a young woman’s first serious romance with remarkable authenticity and a stunning performance by 19-year-old actress Adèle Exarchopoulos. Exarchopoulos plays a 17-year-old (also named Adèle) who falls in love with an out lesbian five or six years her senior. The film...
Notes –The movie was supposed to include the famous Colombian actress Sofía Vergara, who played an airplane hijacker. But after the September 11, 2001 terrorist attack, the scene where Vergara would hijack a plane was scratched from the movie. Moreover, scenes which might be considered unpatri...
actress but with her charm and freshness she wins your heart and the little mistakes she makes let her performance appear only more realistic. She touches your heart like only few young actresses did before her. Constanze Engelbrecht is just a great actress, she is elegant, she is beautiful,...
If you know anything about the Pacific fronts in World War II and a history of chauvinist disavowals by Japanese governments, the casting of a Korean actress as a Japanese man’s inert, unresisting erotic receptacle can’t help trigger distasteful connotations. ...
(even if Colman did take home 2018’s Best Actress prize). It managed to examine sexuality, gender roles, and politics, while also being maybe the most sneakily quotable movie of the decade. And while one character notes that favour is “is a breeze that shifts direction all the time,”...