Sam Neill

...first. If you read this blog regularly, you've probably heard me rave about "Daybreakers." It's a potent equation. Take Ethan Hawke, Sam Neill and Willem Dafoe, throw in a crossbow strapped to a shotgun, human blood farms and a society...

In this article: Daybreakers, Ethan Hawke, Judd Apatow, and Willem Dafoe

A film review by Christopher Null - Copyright © 2005 Filmcritic.com Gillian Armstrong recruits a young Judy Davis, Sam Neill, and beloved Scottish book for this odd little cult favorite, a story about a woman who has to choose between her...

In this article: Judy Davis, Gillian Armstrong, and Christopher Null

...cheap, and works overtime to simplify a complex, flawed character into a noble, tragic heroine. The film speaks fluent cliche. </p><p>Sam Neill and Alice Krige play Sandra's parents, shopkeepers in a rural township. Abraham treats their...

In this article: Alice Krige, Hotel Rwanda, Oscar, and South Africa

...between the races illegal. Her parents were white Afrikaners: Abraham, an avowed nationalist played with rigid force by Sam Neill, and Alice Krige, as a mother torn. Their oldest child, Leon, was white. Then, because of regressive black...

In this article: Sophie Okonedo, Alice Krige, Hotel Rwanda, and South Africa

Miss Laing is played as a child by Ella Ramangwane and as an adult by Oscar nominee Sophie Okonedo. Her parents are played by Sam Neill and Alice Krige. There's certainly nothing to fault about the acting, which always seems authentic,...

In this article: Oscar, Alice Krige, and South Africa

Review: 'Skin' reveals more layers of apartheid Drama. Directed by Anthony Fabian. With Sophie Okonedo, Sam Neill, Alice Krige, Ella Ramangwane and Tony Kgoroge. (PG-13. 107 minutes. At the Clay in San Francisco...

In this article: Sophie Okonedo, Alice Krige, Hotel Rwanda, San Francisco, and South Africa

Details Limited Release: Oct 30, 2009; Rated: PG-13; Length: 107 Minutes; Genre: Biopic; With: Sam Neill and Sophie Okonedo; APARTHEID DAYS Sophie Okonedo is caught in the middle of a racially tense society in Skin In a true story set in...

In this article: Alice Krige and South Africa

Raised as white, she's eventually expelled by white society and spends years trying to find her identity. Sophie Okonedo, Sam Neill and Alice Krige star. "(Untitled)" (R): A look at the state of contemporary art via the relationships...

In this article: James Marsden, Marley Shelton, George Clooney, San Francisco, Antichrist, Jon Ronson, The Men Who Stare at Goats, Julius Shulman, U.S. Army, and Lars von Trier

...by Ella Ramangwane) is still living in her rural home with her parents and older brother, Leon (Hannes Brummer). Her father, Abraham (Sam Neill, wound too tight), and mother, Sannie (an effective Alice Krige), run a grocery store for blacks. A...

In this article: Sophie Okonedo

...about the movie. In the case of TIFF '09 hot ticket Daybreakers, an artful vampire flick starring Ethan Hawke, Willem Dafoe and Sam Neill, the blood mimicked dark crimson wine. Twin-brother directors Michael and Peter Spierig wanted...

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