As I stumbled out of the Imax multiplex all-media advance screening of ''Thor,'' depositing my 3-D glasses in the appropriate bin, I thought of seeking shelter: in a nearby bar; under a passing bus; in the velvet shadows of an art house playing the longest, slowest, most obscure movie imaginable. But when something like ''Thor'' comes to town,...
LATE winter is traditionally a time to celebrate great acting, as the most distinguished performances of the previous year parade before us on their long march to the Oscars. At the moment, accordingly, those of us with deadlines and airtime to fill are busy trumpeting the artistry of Colin Firth and Annette Bening, Natalie Portman and Christian...
''What did you expect? Spinning heads? Pea soup?'' Father Lucas Trevant (Anthony Hopkins), a Jesuit who has performed thousands of exorcisms, inquires sarcastically of Michael Kovak (Colin O'Donoghue), an earnest young American seminarian in ''The Rite.'' As the son of an undertaker preparing for the priesthood Michael is familiar with gruesome...
Sir Philip Anthony Hopkins, CBE (født 31. december 1937) bedre kendt som Anthony Hopkins, walisisk teater- og filmskuespiller. Han modtog i 1991 en Oscar for bedste mandlige hovedrolle for sin præstation i filmen Ondskabens øjne (The Silence of the Lambs). En anden stor præstation - hvorfor han modtog en Golden Globe i 1994 - ydede han i Resten af dagen (The Remains of the Day).