Movies

Jennifer Lawrence had a very good 2012: The Oscar she won for Best Actress for her performance in Silver Linings Playbook was just one of more than 40 nominations and awards (for Silver Linings Playbook and her other lead role, in The Hunger Games) that came her way. In Silver Linings, Lawrence gives an honest and heartfelt portrayal of a woman dealing with depression who befriends a man struggling with bipolar disorder (Bradley Cooper). The film follows their flawed journey to find happiness. Lawrence, age 22, was the second youngest actress to win a Best Actress Oscar, leaving her many [...]

When Matt Damon and John Krasinski set out to bring what Krasinski calls an “exploration of modern-day American identity” to moviegoers, the pair zeroed in on a tableau happening across the land — rural communities mired in economic conditions that virtually guarantee their extinction mulling modern-day solutions that could save them, even as those solutions irreparably alter the literal and figurative foundation on which the towns are based.  In the resulting film, Promised Land, the pair chose the current hot-button environmental issue of hydraulic natural gas extraction — better known as “fracking” — as the do-or-die dilemma of McKinley, a [...]

The Impossible is based on the true story of a Spanish family of five, the Alvarez Belons, who faced one of the worst disasters in recent history, the tsunami that struck the western coast of Thailand on Dec. 26, 2004. In the movie, the family is English, Ewan McGregor and Naomi Watts portray the parents. Principal photography for The Impossible took place at a studio in Spain and at multiple locations in Thailand, many of which were where the actual events had occurred. Because the film is about real people who underwent unimaginable horror and devastation, to honor and portray [...]