Anne Billson

Film Critic and Journalist at Freelance

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Oscars, eyebrows and accents: Anjelica Huston’s best roles

1 week ago | msn.com | Anne Billson

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Oscars, eyebrows and accents: Anjelica Huston’s best roles

1 week ago | msn.com | Anne Billson

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Oscars, eyebrows and accents: Anjelica Huston’s best roles - ranked!

1 week ago | theguardian.com | Anne Billson

10. John Wick: Chapter 3 – Parabellum (2019)Wielding a Belarusian accent like a weapon, Huston joins the Wickiverse as The Director, head of the Ruska Roma syndicate, who is forced to help Wick when every assassin in Manhattan is trying to kill him. She can also be seen bullying a dancer, a taste of things to come since The Director will be back very soon, in Ballerina, the new Wick spin-off starring Ana de Armas (out on 6 June). 9.
The 20 best US remakes of foreign language films - ranked!

3 weeks ago | theguardian.com | Anne Billson

20. The Vanishing (1993)Jeff (Kiefer Sutherland) obsesses over the fate of his missing girlfriend in George Sluizer’s American remake of his own 1988 Franco-Dutch psychochiller. Is it as devastating as the original? Absolutely not! But Jeff Bridges has never been creepier, and at least the dumb Hollywood ending won’t give you nightmares. 19.
a dozen movie Easter eggs to feast on

1 month ago | msn.com | Peter Bradshaw |Stuart Heritage |Phil Hoad |Anne Billson |Laura Snapes |Lucy Knight | +6 more

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Pink smoke, pigs and Pixar: a dozen movie Easter eggs to feast on

1 month ago | theguardian.com | Peter Bradshaw |Stuart Heritage |Phil Hoad |Anne Billson |Laura Snapes |Lucy Knight | +6 more

Archie Leach makes an appearanceOne of Hollywood’s most durable Easter eggs debuted in Howard Hawks’s His Girl Friday (1940) when Cary Grant’s character says: “The last man who said that to me was Archie Leach just a week before he cut his throat!” And in Arsenic and Old Lace (1944) his character sits pensively in a cemetery where Archie Leach’s gravestone is to be seen. In Charles Crichton’s A Fish Called Wanda (1988), John Cleese’s character is called Archie Leach.
Julie Christie at 85: her 20 best films - ranked!

1 month ago | theguardian.com | Anne Billson

20. Hamlet (1996)There are many things wrong with Kenneth Branagh’s galumphing slab of actor-manager Shakespeare, but Christie as Gertrude is not one of them. Her casting might have been conducive to the Oedipal side of the Danish prince’s feelings towards his mother – if only the director’s bombastic performance had allowed room for it. 19.
Julie Christie at 85: her 20 best films - ranked!

1 month ago | aol.co.uk | Anne Billson

20. Hamlet (1996)There are many things wrong with Kenneth Branagh’s galumphing slab of actor-manager Shakespeare, but Christie as Gertrude is not one of them. Her casting might have been conducive to the Oedipal side of the Danish prince’s feelings towards his mother – if only the director’s bombastic performance had allowed room for it. 19.
From android to assassin: Daryl Hannah’s 10 best films – ranked!

2 months ago | msn.com | Anne Billson

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From android to assassin: Daryl Hannah’s 10 best films - ranked!

2 months ago | theguardian.com | Anne Billson

10. The Pope of Greenwich Village (1984)Looking as though she has strayed from another genre, Hannah plays Mickey Rourke’s girlfriend, a leggy aerobics instructor who keeps getting undressed. At least she’s more fun than Rourke and an insanely posturing Eric Roberts as deadbeat cousins ripping off the mob: roles originally written for Robert De Niro and Al Pacino. Mickey Rourke, Daryl Hannah and Eric Roberts. Photograph: Mgm/Ua/Kobal/Shutterstock9.