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    The Staff at WordandFilm.com

    The Staff at WordandFilm.com

  • She’s Every Woman: Catching Up with Kristin Scott Thomas

    By Tony Phillips via Word & Film"Yes, it's quite complicated, isn't it?" Academy Award nominee Kristin Scott Thomas asks. If art house cinemas stacked themselves into multiplexes, it would be possible to catch the British-born, French national on three screens currently, while the six films she has in various stages of production could easily fill up the multiplex across the street.The four films a year she's been averaging over the past five years could very well fry up a Netflix queue, but the average moviegoer might be hard pressed to name any of them. ...

  • Gwyneth Paltrow Hungry for Foodie Flick ‘Blood, Bones & Butter’

    By Sarah Cahill via Word & FilmGwyneth Paltrow is allegedly preparing to channel her inner Julia Child by starring in the big-screen adaptation of Gabrielle Hamilton's foodie memoir, Blood, Bones & Butter. Hamilton's bestselling 2011 book chronicles her unconventional journey through the many kitchens that eventually lead her to become the owner and and chef at New York City's wildly popular Prune restaurant. Rodrigo Teixeira of RT Features (who is currently working on the adaptation of Peter Ackroyd's The Casebook of Victor Frankenstein), has been tapped to produce. ...

  • Bringing Sexy to Screen: Fifty Shades of Grey Tied Up by Producers of the Social Network and Moneyball

    The involvement of these producers means great things for the future of this adaptation of the bestselling erotic novel, perhaps even an Oscar nom.

  • Don’t Hate Me Because I’m Stripper-Hot: Hollywood's 7 Most Underrated Actors

    Though a certain baseline of hotness is a non-negotiable prerequisite for aspiring actors interested in seeing their name in bold print and on movie posters, even in hedonistic Hollywood there is such a thing as too much of a good thing. For instance, bei

  • How to be Lisbeth Salander for Halloween: No Piercing Required

    Halloween parties have always been a surprisingly reliable barometer for pop cultural heat. So this year, expect to find a battalion of Lisbeth Salanders fanned out among the Steve Jobs and the Lady Gagas and the Katniss Everdeens. In fact, odds are strong that Lisbeth could give the sexy nurse a ru

  • Exclusive Interview with ‘I Don’t Know How She Does It’ Actress Busy Philipps on Motherhood, Movies and Playgroup Politics

    By Christine SpinesIt's ten o'clock AM and Busy Philipps is having a life-imitates-art moment. As Philipps describes trying to cram an entire workday into the brief window when her three-year-old daughter is at school, her real-life lament could easily double as dialogue in the script for her most r

  • Where Are All the French Actresses Going?

    By Christine SpinesAfter Marion Cotillard's jaw-dropping turn in "Midnight in Paris" as the Zelig-like muse to an array of geniuses ranging from Picasso to Ernest Hemingway to Owen Wilson's Hollywood hack, many actresses in her position would have been inclined to ride that updraft onto Hollywood's