Kidman not a ‘movie star’: LA Times critic (The West Australian)
Nicole Kidman has suffered another personal attack with a prominent Los Angeles Times columnist declaring the Oscar winner is not a “movie star”. The critical words follow the mediocre opening of her
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Film: Capsule Reviews Of Current Releases (Cleveland Scene)
Australia - Is Baz Luhrmann's sprawling epic Australia a love story? An adventure pic? A war flick? In the grand tradition of old-school Hollywood movies, Luhrmann's $130 million movie is all of these. Set in 1939, on the eve of Australia's involvement in World War II, English aristocrat Sarah Ashley (played with proper stick-up-her-ass form by Nicole Kidman) inherits property in Australia. A ...
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Kidman not a movie star: LA Times critic (The West Australian)
Nicole Kidman has suffered another personal attack with a prominent Los Angeles Times columnist declaring the Oscar winner is not a "movie star".
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An epic Down Under - no worries, mate (The Daily Iowan)
Baz Luhrmann has done four films in his time as a director, thus far. Were you as surprised by this as I was? Taking the beloved Internet Movie Database at its e-word (and who wouldn't?), there are no early projects lurking around, no TV episodes, nothing. There is Luhrmann's so-called "Red Curtain Trilogy" (1992's Strictly Ballroom, 1996's Romeo + Juliet, and 2001's Moulin Rouge).
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Movie Review: Australia (Blogcritics.org)
Despite a few blemishes, I believe that Australia will be atop many Best Picture lists come January 22nd. Beautiful movies require beautiful words. And Australia is not only an epic-length film but it is also beautiful to look at, and so is the hot hunk Hugh Jackman, a veritable Warren Beatty in his prime, who plays opposite beautiful love interest Nicole Kidman. This action adventure Baz ...
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Holiday movie season sparkles with best and brightest (The Pantagraph)
As if turkey recipes, Black Friday bargain hunting and year-end vacations weren’t enough, here’s something else to work into your busy schedule: The holiday film avalanche is upon us.
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Nicole Kidman, Keith Urban and baby Sunday Rose take a stroll in Paris - picture (Daily Mirror)
Aw! How proud do mum and dad Nicole Kidman and Keith Urban look as they parade their cute little newborn baby Sunday Rose around Paris?
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Can Australia dispel Hollywood's fear of epic films? (Toronto Star)
Filmmaker Baz Luhrmann calls them "banquets of cinema," visual and narrative feasts that offer audiences drama, romance, comedy and that sweeping feeling of being transported to another world
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Too big for small screens? (Louisville Courier-Journal)
Movies are increasingly creeping online — even epics. Hulu recently added 1962's "Lawrence of Arabia," which begs the question: Should anyone watch a nearly four-hour-long epic of sweeping grandeur on a laptop? Or, heaven forbid, a cell phone?
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Capsule reviews of films playing the week of Dec. 3 (Creative Loafing Charlotte)
By Matt Brunson Current Releases: AUSTRALIA Director Baz Luhrmann's frenzied approach, which worked just fine for Moulin Rouge! and Romeo & Juliet, ends up hurting this roller coaster of a romantic epic. As Lady Sarah Ashley, who journeys to Australia and ends up trying to protect her late husband's cattle ranch from being taken over by rival King Carney (Bryan Brown), Nicole Kidman never fully ...
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