The Movie Blog | by john@themovieblog.com (John Campea) | Sun, Dec 7
Sun, Dec 7
Kate Blanchett is the best actress working in films today (well… when she’s not playing a Russian spy trying to find some lost Alien crystal skull that is). In The Curious Case of Benjamin Button she shows it again. The job wasn’t quite as complex as the one Pitt had handed to him, but nonethele...
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