We finally – finally, finally! – have a new Movie Of The Month! You can see what it is below, and it is one of my absolute favourite movies of Nicole’s, and a movie that seems to be close to Nicole’s heart as well as to many of us fans. Nicole has even recently said that the character is one of her favourites that she has played. So much of the film’s beauty is how visual it is, and the journey the characters take us on – I have so much respect for Anthony Minghella’s work on this film, and I hope I have started to do the film justice with this feature page.

If you’d like your reviews/opinions on the film to be included on this page then just send me an email or post a comment and I will add them. Either way, I hope you are inspired to watch this stirring epic of a film again soon.

The Movie Of The Month feature will be worked a bit differently from February onwards – it will become bi-monthly so will be up every two months, and I intend to ‘announce’ the choice early in the first month and add the feature page asap within that month. Updates for those two months will consist of things relating to that movie, eg gallery updates, media, videos, maybe some interactive features, and more. This will hopefully make it more do-able for me as well as giving you as many updates as possible.

Just a small update for now – I finally watched Happy Feet, and have added screencaptures from the behind the scenes featurette on the DVD, which features short snippets of interview with Nicole as well as a shot of her recording her voice for the film. I really enjoyed the film – it was totally adorable (singing and dancing penguins can never go wrong!), and Nicole was really sweet and motherly (very her) voicing Norma Jean. I will add a few stills from the film, so you can see what her character looked like, soon.

• Happy Feet > DVD Screencaptures – Behind The Scenes Of Happy Feet x10

We are in luck, as I have just found a digital edition of the new Paris Match, and so have been able to add digital scans from it to our Gallery! It’s a good 8-page feature on Nicole’s upcoming film Grace Of Monaco, with new photos from the film alongside pictures of Grace herself.

Trivia fans will be interested to note that this is the 3rd time Nicole has played a character named Grace!

Check out the scans in the Gallery:

Nicole graces (pardon the pun) the cover of the new December 27th issue of French magazine Paris Match, posing as Grace Kelly and with an article talking about the movie inside. A preview of the cover has been added to our Gallery, and you can read an excerpt from the article – in French – below or at the Paris Match website.

If anyone can contribute scans from this magazine to us then please get in touch! I know everyone would be very appreciative to be able to see inside the magazine

Nicole Kidman. Grace de Monaco, c’est elle

Après Diane Arbus et Virginia Woolf, l’actrice australienne relève le défi d’incarner la princesse bien- aimée du Rocher.

C’est un long discours, plus de six minutes, qu’elle doit prononcer. Nicole Kidman s’y prépare depuis des jours, des ­semaines peut-être. Elle répète, parfaite à chaque fois. Quand Olivier Dahan, le réalisateur, crie « Action ! », l’actrice bascule dans une autre dimension : elle est Grace de Monaco. L’assistance retient son souffle, jusqu’au bout. Non seulement la première prise est la bonne, mais la charge émotionnelle a été si puissante qu’elle a figé les visages. Le temps s’est arrêté, le silence se prolonge. Moment rare sur un plateau de cinéma, les techniciens et les trois cents figurants restent bouche bée, des larmes coulent. « Coupez ! »

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Fellow Nicole superfan Nathaniel at The Film Experience was one of several film bloggers who’ve had the chance to interview Nicole recently in her awards season promotion for The Paperboy, and he posted his interview with her just before Christmas. Then on Christmas Day he posted an additional transcript of him talking to her about her Oscar win for The Hours, to mark the 10 years since the film’s release. Read the interviews through the links below:

• Nicole Kidman Wore a Tiara To Our Interview
• 10th Anniversary: Nicole Kidman On Her Oscar Win

‘The Paperboy’: Nicole Kidman is used to audience discomfort

Nicole Kidman was willing to risk looking like a fool for ‘The Paperboy.’ Surprised by audience reaction? Hey, this is the star of ‘Birth’ and ‘Dogville.’

Talk about a good week. On back-to-back days last week, Nicole Kidman received two nominations each from the Screen Actors Guild and the Golden Globes. Both organizations cited her performance in the television movie “Hemingway & Gellhorn” opposite Clive Owen, but what caught many by surprise was the pair of supporting actress nominations she received for her role in Lee Daniels’ “The Paperboy.”

The simmering noir film has been a point of controversy and conversation since its premiere at the Cannes Film Festival, with audiences buzzing over Kidman’s fearless, bold performance as Charlotte Bless, a Florida woman who falls for a convicted murderer (John Cusack) after writing him in prison. Zac Efron also stars, and there’s a scene in the film, in which Kidman uses ahome remedy of sorts to heal his character after a jellyfish sting, that gets people talking. But it’s her intense no-touching prison sex scene with Cusack that leaves audiences speechless.

Kidman was in Belgium last week filming “Grace of Monaco,” in which she plays Grace Kelly, when she learned of her nominations, but she was happy to discuss “The Paperboy” during a break in shooting.

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I thought I posted this article last week, but it seems not. This is an interesting article from Yahoo! Movies about the 5 Golden Golden Supporting Actress nominees:

Adams on Reel Women: A tale of five actresses — Amy Adams, Anne Hathaway, Sally Field, Helen Hunt, and Nicole Kidman

For leading ladies, a supporting role can prove an actress’s range — and validate her talents — without requiring her to carry a movie’s box-office load. The Golden Globes’ list of five supporting actress nominees — Amy Adams, Anne Hathaway, Sally Field, Helen Hunt, and Nicole Kidman — offers insight into the transformative power of supporting roles for actresses trying to repackage their onscreen images.

Amy Adams: From fetching Disney princess to confident adult

Adams, 38, came naturally to America’s sweetheart roles, like her people-pleasing fairy-tale Princess Giselle in “Enchanted,” and her darling and dashing Amelia Earhart in “Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian.” But there are a lot of shades of gray to this woman, something she proved last year as the tough Boston cookie Charlene Fleming, capable of a hair-pulling fight in “The Fighter,” also Globe- and Oscar-nominated. Adams returns this year for a key performance in Paul Thomas Anderson’s “The Master” as Peggy Dodd, the pregnant power behind the throne to Philip Seymour Hoffman’s cult leader. While the movie itself has slid from its early high as a double award winner at the Venice Film Festival, the performances have considerable awards traction. At the Toronto International Film Festival, the three-time Oscar nominee told me: “It’s funny that you mentioned Amelia Earhart earlier, because that was the first time that I can remember playing a character that was confident. Afterwards, I said to my agent, I loved playing a confident character — let’s look for more.”

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Nicole’s Magic would like to wish our lovely visitors, as well as Nic and her family and loved ones, a very Merry Christmas! We hope your holidays are filled with lots of Christmas joy!

Many years ago (2003-2005 to be exact) I did an Advent Calendar here at Nicole’s Magic to celebrate the festive season. Unfortunately I haven’t had time to keep it going, but earlier this month I was reminded of some of the Christmas goodies I made back in the day to post for our Calendar. So I thought it would be fun and festive to repost them! At this point in time – December 22nd & 3 days before the big day – I’ve just added some gift tags, which you can print off and attach/stick to the presents you are giving (or get people to use them for your presents ). I think we had some Christmas cards which I will re-add next year. I may also add some festive icons later today/tomorrow.

So I hope you enjoy these and they help sparkle up your Christmas

For the last of this batch of exclusive rare old Aussie magazine scans, I have two old covers for you from New Idea in 1994, and Women’s Weekly in 1997. The New Idea cover features a little seen photo on their cover, and Women’s Weekly features a more popular and seen photo from that time. Both have tabloid-tastic over-the-top headlines for the Nicole stories … but unfortunately April doesn’t have the pages inside anymore, so we will have to be left teased by the headlines on the covers! Again, these are a great addition to the site, especially for those of us that love old-school Nicole, so another big thanks goes to the lovely April for them.

• New Idea (Aus) – April 16th 1994
• Woman’s Weekly (Aus) – February 1997