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  • ‘The Iron Lady’ is Oscar gold for Streep

    ‘The Iron Lady’ is Oscar gold for Streep

    We have an Oscar alert ! Meryl Streep portrays one of the most influential figures of the 20th century and nails it. There is no question that Meryl Streep is the best actress of her generation and now she raises the bar as she transforms herself into former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher in…The Iron Lady. Most of the film has Thatcher as she is now, an elderly women looking back on her life. Confused, sometimes delusional, she carries on [...]

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  • ‘My week with Marilyn’ is Oscar-bound as Michelle Williams is sensationally good

    ‘My week with Marilyn’ is Oscar-bound as Michelle Williams is sensationally good

    Michelle Williams has an Oscar worthy performance as Marilyn Monroe in “My Week with Marilyn”. Based on true events, the movie is about the summer of 1956, in which Monroe went to London to shoot “The Prince and the Showgirl” with British actor, Sir Laurence Olivier (Kenneth Branagh). From the start, nothing goes well. Monroe is hopped up on pills, she messes up her lines, she’s always late on the set, and she lacks self confidence. No one likes her, [...]

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