My nephew takes exception to the fact that in Edward Zwick’s sometimes interesting, sometimes ridiculous The Last Samurai Tom Cruise was speaking Japanese phonetically rather than understanding the Japanese he spoke. (The Cruise character’s Japanese is limited to a few lines of dialogue.) I’m not bothered by this, because Cruise will have understood what he […]
Daily Archives: November 24, 2007
Despite top billing, John Travolta claims a supporting role, as Edna Turnblad, in Adam Shankman’s Hairspray, which is based on a stage musical that’s based on John Waters’ 1988 movie, where Divine more reasonably got third billing for his Edna. One of the worst film actors ever, Travolta is okay here, although clichéd; but acting […]
Dennis Grunes 