It’s a tie! Meryl Streep and Sandra Bullock BOTH won the award for Best Actress at the 15th Annual Critics Choice Awards. Streep won for her performance in Julie & Julia, while Bullock was honored for her work in The Blind Side. These are the types of monkey wrenches we like to see thrown in at awards’ shows every once in a while.
Just last night Sandra Bullock received the People’s Choice Award for Favorite Movie Actress of 2009, which wasn’t hard to believe. The actress had two solid box office hits last year, and has racked up plenty of acclaim and Golden Globe nominations for her work in The Proposal and The Blind Side. During her crazy journey over the past 12 months, she’s managed to break a record or two along the way.
It’s been a very successful year for Sandra Bullock, an actress whose career some thought peaked in the late nineties. In 2009 she headlined three films, The Proposal, All About Steve, and The Blind Side. Two out of three became box office successes, and earned the actress not one, but two Golden Globe nominations. That’s why it’s no surprise that theater owners all over the country have named Bullock the biggest star of the year.
Hello all! We are back this week with more cheap movies for you to check out. For all you Harry Potter fans out there, you can get box sets of six of the films for less that $10 a DVD. The majority of these films are perfect for “lazy day” movie watching. They are the kind of solid movies that can be watched multiple times over and still enjoyed. Of course tastes differ, but luckily we’ve got a wide variety for a cheap price!
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So glad to see New Moon finally be dethroned from its number one spot, even if it is by Sandra Bullock‘s Oscar attempt. At least the The Blind Side has heart and a message instead of… well what exactly did New Moon have aside from some cool special effects and a couple of interesting moments with Michael Sheen?
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In 2006 Michael Lewis released a book entitled, The Blind Side: Evolution of a Game that told the tough story of professional football player Michael Oher and his journey to the NFL. The book was adapted into a feature, and centers on a young and homeless Oher (Quinton Aaron) who is taken in by the affluent Tuohy family in Memphis, Tennessee. He isn’t so much a delinquent as he is misguided, and the film highlights how they gave him the direction to reach his full potential in sports and in life.
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This weekend, Sandra Bullock will be stepping into the world of films that are “based on a true story,” with her latest work, The Blind Side. The Rookie director John Lee Hancock takes on the book of the same name about an impoverished kid, who found personal and professional success through the compassion of a well off suburban family.
Bullock stars as Leigh Anne Tuohy, a woman who makes her own rules and expects everyone else to play by them. Through the film, the actress wears expensive clothes, gaudy jewelry, and sports a bright blond dye job from root to tip. We spoke to Bullock about the pressure of playing a real person as opposed to a fictional character, what she looks for in a movie role, and why she’s decided to take it slow at this point in her career.
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This weekend vampires won’t be the only ones tackling the box office. Sandra Bullock and Tim McGraw will both star in The Blind Side, an inspirational sports story about professional football player Michael Oher. The film is based on the book of the same name, which was penned by Michael Lewis, and adapted for the screen by writer- director John Lee Hancock. A featurette has just been released that includes interviews from the cast as well as the real Michael Oher who is portrayed by Quinton Aaron in the film.
Two ends of the spectrum for DVD releases this week. One of the mega-half-assed-hits of the year The Proposal prematurely comes to DVD and the most puzzling bomb of the year (only a “bomb” because it should have made more than Wolverine and Transformers combined, and yet it didn’t make half as much in total as either blockbuster did opening night), Drag Me To Hell, joins it in silver-disked glory.
Also, just a smattering of TV on DVD, a newly packaged Oliver Stone classic and the three worst DVD’s of the week!
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