If Jolie and star Jack O'Connell (pictured) succeed, this one will be in the running for Oscars.
I saw RIP TIDE (Aussie strictly Disney flick, cute for tweets but that's about it), Argento's DEEP RED (for the first time and on the big screen - was a gooey delight tripped up by the usual giallo issues), VICTORIA & ABDUL (odious and blandly crafted), and FIRST THEY KILLED MY FATHER (thankfully on the big screen since Anthony Dod Mantle's cinematography deserves it - the film is strong, even
if Jolie is definitely not a subtle director).
Still, given that most of the brutality doled out by this particular commander (nicknamed «The Bird» by the prisoners and played by Takamasa Ishihara) is aimed at Zamperini's face, it's almost as
if Jolie wants the inspirational message, but without all the physical and mental suffering that the real Zamperini went through.
Not exact matches
If I constantly want my wife to look like Angelina
Jolie, have sex with me every day, and worship the ground I walk on, then my expectations are eventually going to kill me and her.
Even
if you both are on the same page about having kids, and how many, there're a lot of other issues that are going to come up; just ask Brad Pitt and Angelina
Jolie or Jancee Dunn, author of How Not to Hate Your Husband After Kids.
As
Jolie said when asked
if she and Pitt will grow old together, «Of course; we wouldn't have six children
if we weren't absolutely sure of that.»
If you're willing to pay a little more, why not check out some of the diaper bags preferred by celebrity Moms like Angelina
Jolie and Heidi Klum.
«Normally, name recognition is relevant when it has some connection to the endeavor,» said Cuomo, who added that
if it's just about name recognition, he hopes Brad Pitt, Angelina
Jolie or Billy Joel do not get into the race.
«
If it was just about name recognition, then I'm hoping that Brad Pitt and Angelina
Jolie and Billy Joel don't get into the race.»
«But
if it's just about name recognition, I'm hoping that Brad Pitt, Angelina
Jolie and Billy Joel don't get into the race.
«But
if it's just about name recognition, I'm hoping that Brad Pitt and Angelina
Jolie and Billy Joel don't get into the race.
Later, Cuomo poked fun at the idea of Nixon running by quipping he hoped celebrities like Brad Pitt and Angelina
Jolie didn't get in the race,
if name recognition was as important as reporters suggested.
He also mocked Nixon as a B - level celebrity, saying he'd be more worried
if it were Brad Pitt, Angelina
Jolie or Billy Joel running against him.
Cuomo has mocked Nixon's background as a celebrity, saying he hoped «Brad Pitt and Angelina
Jolie and Billy Joel don't get into the race because
if it's just about name recognition, that would really be a problem.»
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If you're the busy mum, a longer look with longer layers is best — something you can tie out of the way during the day but that will still look glam for a day at the races or night out — think busy - but - glam mum Angelina
Jolie.
If it turns out you are like Catherine Zeta - Jones, Drew Barrymore, Sigourney Weaver and Angelina
Jolie, then...
But remember:
If you blot or purse your lips, you'll blur the
Jolie effect.
If you had worn the dress with the slit in front you could have struck the same pose as Angelina
Jolie.
OK I only have 11 favorites on DV right now...
Jolie, Elleta, Quince, Jax, Jeneva, Jemma, Nariko... and
if that included their DV by Dolce Vita Layna (ummm... GLITTER BOOT), Jameson, Aisha, Lujan... MAN I secretly have a favorite, I think... Thanks for the chance ladies!
If there's one celebrity who can look extremely good in leather, that would be Angelina
Jolie.
As Illeana Scott, an FBI agent in the Clarice Starling mold,
Jolie utters every line in soft, bland, neutral tones, as
if any more expression would compromise her authority.
If you were Angelina
Jolie, you might take it as a sign that your career is in trouble when you star in a grade - Z serial - killer mystery — and people still think of it as an Ashley Judd movie.
If nothing else, «Unbroken» may set the stage for an even greater third film for
Jolie, one that marries her first project's soul with her latest movie's scope.
Only Kilmer and
Jolie as Alexander's parents have the energy needed to generate interest, even
if they are far too over the top most of the time.
Jolie might be doing Greek, but
if she is, she's the only one.
I don't know who was responsible, but much of the dialogue here has an awfulness I thought impossible with a movie of this pedigree: it's a testament to
Jolie's direction and O'Connell's acting chops that Louie's mantra, «
If you can take it, you can make it,» is merely cringeworthy.
First run through my head, A Mighty Heart strikes me as pointless and unsurprising; Winterbottom is of course a better anthropologist than he is a political philosopher:
if he's trying to apply Donald Symons's models of cultural evolution to ethics instead of more immediately compatible pursuits (music, or literature), then what's emerged from the experiment is the revelation that ethics and morality appear to have nothing to do with the base nature of man — and, moreover, that Angelina
Jolie will never be Nicole Kidman in her ability to be both herself and someone else.
(
If all you're after is a skin flick legitimized by the presence of
Jolie, stick with the unrated Original Sin.)
Q. On Cinematical.com, Eric Davis has written: «
If anyone could go up against Angelina
Jolie in a Sexiest Hollywood Lips competition, it would be Rosario Dawson.»
Angelina
Jolie asks Domhnall Gleeson: «Why the hell is there an «M» in your name
if you're not even going to use it?»
Brad Pitt and Angelina
Jolie managed a no - leaks wedding in France after some nine years and six kids together, and a years of speculation on when and
if they'd marry.
It makes sense that
Jolie has worked as an actor on a Clint Eastwood film, as her directing style,
if we can call it a style, so far shows much of his solemn but static reserve.
If she had chosen to direct viewer attention to the state's role in promoting torture, and its purposes for doing so, the director would quite possibly have infuriated large sections of the Japanese state apparatus and media (the fact that various right - wing nationalist groups in Japan have demanded that
Jolie be banned from visiting their country underlines the sensitivity of the Japanese elite).
The story, which has Po, Tigeress (Angelina
Jolie), Monkey (Jackie Chan) and all the rest chasing the nefarious peacock Lord Shen (Gary Oldman), is thoroughly entertaining
if not -LSB-...]
Individual moments are fierce (
Jolie flies off yet another skyscraper and, during an exciting car chase, two cars poetically reveal themselves from behind another), but it's as
if Mr. and Mrs. Smith exists only for its own satisfaction.
Malkovich was well cast for his brilliant and memorable performance,
Jolie is entirely capable
if less than sizzling and Eastwood's depiction of old - time Los Angeles as a low - slung city of bungalows pressed between sea and mountains is well done.
But don't worry, all of our old friends are back, with Jack Black (Bernie) as Po, Dustin Hoffman (Chef) as Shifu and character actor James Hong (R.I.P.D.) as Mr. Ping (the goose), as well as the Furious Five, all of whom have various well - known actors voicing them, even
if they have few lines, including Angelina
Jolie (Maleficent) and Lucy Liu (Elementary).
If it wasn't for Angelina
Jolie, this would have been another bloated CGI mess.
Awards Speculation: It's no doubt crossed people's minds that
if Angelina
Jolie were to win Best Director and Best Picture for Unbroken, she'd be the second female ever to do so... and once again with a war film.
All in all, I'd say the incomparable Angelina
Jolie has quite the Oscar contender on her hands
if we're simply looking at current face value.
On the other hand,
if the film's pitch doesn't sound entirely baity, its pedigree does: after a four - year wait, many will be interested to see how the German director follows up his Oscar - winning «The Lives of Others,» while the star pairing of Johnny Depp and Angelina
Jolie (with Paul Bettany — huzzah — in support) is as A-list as it gets.
Many of the GRG have
Jolie in Best Director but I wonder
if those predictions aren't as updated as they could (or should be).
In part, «Against the Sun» partially sounds as
if Angelina
Jolie's «Unbroken» influenced it, though I suspect many such similar stories have emerged from World War II chronicles.
Meanwhile, Uni has Clint Eastwood's «Changeling» (awards fodder for lead actress Angelina
Jolie,
if nothing else) and a little flick called «The Express,» which could pull some sentiment here and there.
If you want the story of Zamperini, do yourself a favor and read the book as
Jolie skimps mightily on the goods — often skipping entirely over critical scenes — and can only proffer this truly inspiring saga glazed over with a cloying religious - tinged icing and sans a lick of nuance or tension.
So
if we're looking ahead to the Golden Globes, Angelina
Jolie, Jennifer Aniston, and Laura Dern could all be in the ballroom at the same time.
Alas, Juno Temple is nowhere near as firmly in the plus column:
if it weren't enough that she's generically deranged and combative in a role that wants her to be Angelina
Jolie in Girl, Interrupted, she's also stuck with the worst cornrows since Justin Timberlake tried them out.
If nothing else,
Jolie has delivered a breathtakingly beautiful film visually, with some shots, delivered with consummate perfection by acclaimed cinematographer Roger Deakins (Prisoners, Skyfall), making the film feel truly transcendent, especially when coupled with the transfixing score by Alexandre Desplat (Godzilla, The Grand Budapest Hotel).
If Angelina
Jolie did in fact make it on the royal guest list, could the reason have to do with her work with Queen Elizabeth II?
So,
if you're someone who easily fawns over the sights of Paris and Venice, can't get enough of a retro 1960s caper film vibe (a la Charade) over a Hitchcock - light screenplay (a la To Catch a Thief), or just adore looking at Depp at his most dashing or
Jolie her most ravishing, you're exactly the audience the makers of this film are going for.