Sylvia

...film credits include Defiance, The Road to Perdition, The Golden Compass, Flashbacks of a Fool, Elizabeth, Love is the Devil, The Mother, Sylvia, The Jacket, Layer Cake, Enduring Love, Munich, and Infamous (Independent Spirit Award...

In this article: Daniel Craig, Morgan Creek Productions, Dream House, Jim Sheridan, Oscars, James G. Robinson, Casino Royale, Toronto, The Adventures of Tintin: Secret of the Unicorn, and James Bond

...in the film (once again as an irrepressible grandad), loser parents and a cute kid facing an unkind world. Directed by Christine Jeffs (Sylvia), Sunshine Cleaning rolls up its sleeves and sets out with ruthless efficiency to tick all the...

In this article: Sunshine Cleaning, Oscar, Alan Arkin, Emily Blunt, Amy Adams, and Little Miss Sunshine

...a classic case of attempting to hammer a square peg into a round hole. Jeffs' previous films Sylvia and Rain were serious dramas, and she seems ill at ease with comedy of any kind. The script by Megan Holley, meanwhile, is loaded with...

In this article: Sunshine Cleaning, Amy Adams, Academy Awards, Emily Blunt, Alan Arkin, Jason Spevack, Christine Jeffs, and Clifton Collins Jr.

How nice for them to find a movie with two female lead characters, a female director (Christine Jeffs, who did the decent Plath biopic "Sylvia") and a rookie female screenwriter, Megan Holley. How deflating that it leads nowhere. Adams...

In this article: Sunshine Cleaning, Amy Adams, Emily Blunt, Netflix, Christine Jeffs, Alan Arkin, and The Devil Wears Prada

...paralyzed. The self-conscious quirkiness of a career cleaning up corpses could present a trap, but Jeffs (best known for the Plath biopic Sylvia) does her best to steer around it. Rose and Norah have one nose-holding, cringing,...

In this article: Sunshine Cleaning, Suicide, Amy Adams, Oscar, Christine Jeffs, Emily Blunt, Alan Arkin, and Steve Zahn

...stuck-together moments to the next, "Sunshine Cleaning" sometimes seems better than it is, that is largely because Ms. Jeffs ("Rain," "Sylvia") has a good touch with actors and a very good cast. Amy Adams and Emily Blunt, playing sisters...

In this article: Rose, Sunshine Cleaning, Amy Adams, Emily Blunt, Alan Arkin, Oscar, Jason Spevack, Christine Jeffs, and Steve Zahn

...singer of Coldplay, three weeks later. Her career took a backseat: her last heavyweight role was 2003's Sylvia, in which she played suicidal poet Sylvia Plath. Since then, her choices have been a little wayward - David Auburn's Proof, CG...

In this article: Gwyneth Paltrow, James Gray, Oscars, Sylvia Plath, Iron Man, Pepper Potts, Vogue, and Hollywood

...is developing the project as a possible U.K.-Australia co-production. Phillip Noyce will direct the film. The 2003 release "Sylvia" starred Gwyneth Paltrow and Daniel Craig as poets Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes. Reuters/Hollywood Reporter

In this article: Captain Blood, Warner Bros., Ted Hughes, Sylvia Plath, Rafael Sabatini, Errol Flynn, Gwyneth Paltrow, Basil Rathbone, and Daniel Craig

...seven Bond films in the 1970s and the 1980s, said Craig's performances in Steven Spielberg's 2005 political thriller "Munich" and "Sylvia" in 2003, in which he plays the poet Ted Hughes, helped shape a new Bond. "All of those parts were...

In this article: Daniel Craig, James Bond, Roger Moore, Hong Kong, Bond films, Ted Hughes, Ian Fleming, Casino Royale, Steven Spielberg, and Quantum of Solace

...books, articles, panel discussions and (no doubt) impassioned, personal arguments into the wee hours of overcast mornings. "Sylvia," a movie about the American poet, her relationship with Hughes and her death by her own hand,...

In this article: Sylvia Plath, Ted Hughes, Suicide, Gwyneth Paltrow, Al Alvarez, Christine Jeffs, Amira Casar, Daniel Craig, and Jared Harris