Articles by Melissa Mohaupt
It's All Gone Pete Tong
Michael Dowse
PUBLISHED Jun 1, 2005
The phrase "it's all gone Pete Tong" is a slang term in the Cockney rhyming style that translates as "it's all gone wrong," it's not actual...
The Year Of The Yao
Adam Del Deo and James D. Stern
PUBLISHED May 1, 2005
Yao Ming is a big freak of nature. This is not simply because he's the tallest player in the NBA at seven-freakin'-six but because instead...
The Sea Inside (Mar Adentro)
Alejandro Amenabar
PUBLISHED May 1, 2005
In the director's commentary of The Sea Inside (winner of last year's Foreign Language Oscar), Alejandro Amenábar (The Others) explains tha...
Stage Beauty
Richard Eyre
PUBLISHED Apr 1, 2005
For us Theatre and English majors who really know our Elizabethan literature, seeing Shakespeare In Love (despite Tom Stoppard's interventi...
Being Julia
István Szabó
PUBLISHED Apr 1, 2005
Annette Bening's title role in Being Julia as an aging British actress was supposed to have won her an Oscar. But it didn't and now, out fr...
Millions
Danny Boyle
PUBLISHED Mar 1, 2005
A G-rated feel-good comedy by Danny Boyle, starring two innocent children, with no sex, violence or profanity? Really? Yes, the bewildered...
The Forgotten
Joseph Ruben
PUBLISHED Feb 1, 2005
This collaboration between director Joseph Ruben (Sleeping With The Enemy) and screenwriter Gerald DiPego (Angel Eyes) would suggest some e...
Ray
Taylor Hackford
PUBLISHED Nov 1, 2004
It's a rarity to encounter Oscar buzz in September, yet the name Jamie Foxx is on the lips of many due to his breakout role as blind and in...