Paul Bullock Nov 7, 2017
With a preview of the new DuckTales arriving in the UK this month, we look at the comics to read as background...
The return of DuckTales (a wooo-oooo!) has brought about renewed interest in the adventures of Scrooge McDuck, his n’er-do-well nephew Donald and the world’s most famous Junior Woodchucks Huey, Dewey and Louie. It may still be in its first season over in the Us, but the new series has already received high praise, with critics citing as a major positive the reverence it has towards legendary comics writer and artist Carl Barks.
See related Mr Robot interview: Sam Esmail on hackers, Fight Club Why Mr Robot is Fight Club’s spiritual successor
For those not familiar with his work, Barks is a Disney legend who originally joined the studio in 1935 as an inbetweener - an artist who creates the frames in between the...
With a preview of the new DuckTales arriving in the UK this month, we look at the comics to read as background...
The return of DuckTales (a wooo-oooo!) has brought about renewed interest in the adventures of Scrooge McDuck, his n’er-do-well nephew Donald and the world’s most famous Junior Woodchucks Huey, Dewey and Louie. It may still be in its first season over in the Us, but the new series has already received high praise, with critics citing as a major positive the reverence it has towards legendary comics writer and artist Carl Barks.
See related Mr Robot interview: Sam Esmail on hackers, Fight Club Why Mr Robot is Fight Club’s spiritual successor
For those not familiar with his work, Barks is a Disney legend who originally joined the studio in 1935 as an inbetweener - an artist who creates the frames in between the...
- 10/27/2017
- Den of Geek
Everyone needs an escape from time to time. A place apart from reality, where the strange whisper with the miraculous, and cheap trinkets are bartered with greasy denizens of the night. What better place to set a horror film than the carnival, where the potential for mystery awaits around every crimson tent and distorted mirror? If you’re so inclined, step right up and buy a ticket to The Funhouse (1981), the late Tobe Hooper’s wonderful tribute to the seedy shadowed world of carnies, caramel apples, and Universal monsters.
Released in March by Universal, The Funhouse underperformed at the box office, but critics (including Gene Siskel) admired it for focusing on suspense and thrills rather than gruesome mayhem. In a landscape littered with severed limbs and phallically inclined urban legends, Mr. Hooper used his genius to once again showcase the underbelly of the American psyche, this time with a major studio’s dollars.
Released in March by Universal, The Funhouse underperformed at the box office, but critics (including Gene Siskel) admired it for focusing on suspense and thrills rather than gruesome mayhem. In a landscape littered with severed limbs and phallically inclined urban legends, Mr. Hooper used his genius to once again showcase the underbelly of the American psyche, this time with a major studio’s dollars.
- 9/2/2017
- by Scott Drebit
- DailyDead
There's already been a screening of Guillermo del Toro's new fantasy thriller The Shape of Water at the Venice Film Festival and the reviews are rolling in. I loved what I saw in the trailer and it looked like it would be a fantastic film, but according to these reviews the movie is outstanding and they are saying it's his best film since Pan's Labyrinth! These reviews have definitely got me even more excited about seeing the move! Here's the synopsis and you can watch the trailer here.
In the hidden high-security government laboratory where she works, lonely Elisa (Sally Hawkins) is trapped in a life of silence and isolation. Elisa’s life is changed forever when she and co-worker Zelda (Octavia Spencer) discover a secret classified experiment.
The film also stars Michael Shannon, Richard Jenkins, Michael Stuhlbarg and Doug Jones. The movie will be released in theaters on December 8th.
In the hidden high-security government laboratory where she works, lonely Elisa (Sally Hawkins) is trapped in a life of silence and isolation. Elisa’s life is changed forever when she and co-worker Zelda (Octavia Spencer) discover a secret classified experiment.
The film also stars Michael Shannon, Richard Jenkins, Michael Stuhlbarg and Doug Jones. The movie will be released in theaters on December 8th.
- 8/31/2017
- by Joey Paur
- GeekTyrant
When a sitting President of the United States sides with Nazis, jokes just don’t cut it anymore.
After the pro-Nazi rallies in Charlottesville – which led to three deaths last weekend – and President Donald Trump’s horrifying statements in response to the rise of white nationalist groups in America, late night talk shows are trying out a new tone.
Hosts are jumping in and taking on a sitting U.S. president like they’ve never done before. There’s still room for jokes as the hosts convey their views – but as things turn serious, they’re taking a stand and using their voice to the fight against tyranny.
Read More: NBC Helped Create President Trump — and MSNBC Ratings Prove He’s Been Good for the Company
This is a long way from jokes about Bill Clinton’s infidelity or George W. Bush’s intelligence. Many hosts are now actively calling...
After the pro-Nazi rallies in Charlottesville – which led to three deaths last weekend – and President Donald Trump’s horrifying statements in response to the rise of white nationalist groups in America, late night talk shows are trying out a new tone.
Hosts are jumping in and taking on a sitting U.S. president like they’ve never done before. There’s still room for jokes as the hosts convey their views – but as things turn serious, they’re taking a stand and using their voice to the fight against tyranny.
Read More: NBC Helped Create President Trump — and MSNBC Ratings Prove He’s Been Good for the Company
This is a long way from jokes about Bill Clinton’s infidelity or George W. Bush’s intelligence. Many hosts are now actively calling...
- 8/16/2017
- by Liz Shannon Miller
- Indiewire
(Aton) The trailer for the ‘Death Wish‘ remake has finally landed. The Eli Roth-directed vehicle stars Bruce Willis as Dr. Paul Kersey, a Chicago surgeon who goes out for revenge when his wife, (Elizabeth Shue) and daughter (Camila Morrone) are attacked in a vicious home invasion.
The original ‘Death Wish‘, which stared Charles Bronson and spawned four sequels, is considered to be a classic among revenge flicks, if not cult status at the least. The remake was written by Joe Carnahan, and will mark Roth’s first venture into the action/revenge genre. Carnahan was originally set to direct, but after creative differences Roth stepped in to helm the picture.
The film also stars Vincent D’Onofrio, Jack Kesy, Dean Norris, and Mike Epps. Here’s the first full trailer.
Here’s the official synopsis for the remake:
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Pictures presents director Eli Roth’s reimagining of the classic 1974 revenge thriller Death Wish.
The original ‘Death Wish‘, which stared Charles Bronson and spawned four sequels, is considered to be a classic among revenge flicks, if not cult status at the least. The remake was written by Joe Carnahan, and will mark Roth’s first venture into the action/revenge genre. Carnahan was originally set to direct, but after creative differences Roth stepped in to helm the picture.
The film also stars Vincent D’Onofrio, Jack Kesy, Dean Norris, and Mike Epps. Here’s the first full trailer.
Here’s the official synopsis for the remake:
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Pictures presents director Eli Roth’s reimagining of the classic 1974 revenge thriller Death Wish.
- 8/7/2017
- by Taylor Salan
- Age of the Nerd
For many film fans, the name Paul Kersey is synonymous with Charles Bronson, but Bruce Willis is breathing new life into the role in Eli Roth's reimagining of Death Wish, which is teased in a new trailer packed with bullet-riddled vengeance and plenty of AC/DC.
MGM will release the new Death Wish film in theaters on November 22nd. Stay tuned to Daily Dead for more details and check out the official trailer and poster below. Are you looking forward to a new take on Death Wish?
"Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Pictures presents director Eli Roth's reimagining of the classic 1974 revenge thriller Death Wish. Dr. Paul Kersey (Bruce Willis) is a surgeon who only sees the aftermath of Chicago violence when it is rushed into his ER - until his wife (Elisabeth Shue) and college-age daughter (Camila Morrone) are viciously attacked in their suburban home. With the police overloaded with crimes,...
MGM will release the new Death Wish film in theaters on November 22nd. Stay tuned to Daily Dead for more details and check out the official trailer and poster below. Are you looking forward to a new take on Death Wish?
"Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Pictures presents director Eli Roth's reimagining of the classic 1974 revenge thriller Death Wish. Dr. Paul Kersey (Bruce Willis) is a surgeon who only sees the aftermath of Chicago violence when it is rushed into his ER - until his wife (Elisabeth Shue) and college-age daughter (Camila Morrone) are viciously attacked in their suburban home. With the police overloaded with crimes,...
- 8/3/2017
- by Derek Anderson
- DailyDead
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Pictures have released the first trailer for director Eli Roth’s reimagining of the classic 1974 revenge thriller Death Wish.
The original film starred Charles Bronson and it became his most famous role when he was age 52. He played Paul Kersey, a successful New York architect who turns into a crime-fighting vigilante after his wife is murdered and his daughter sexually assaulted. This successful movie spawned various sequels over the next two decades, all starring Bronson. (Trailer)
Updated from the original novel by Brian Garfield, director Eli Roth and screenwriter Joe Carnahan’s (The Grey, Narc) bring the latest version:
Dr. Paul Kersey (Bruce Willis) is a surgeon who only sees the aftermath of Chicago violence when it is rushed into his ER – until his wife (Elisabeth Shue) and college-age daughter (Camila Morrone) are viciously attacked in their suburban home. With the police overloaded with crimes, Paul, burning for revenge,...
The original film starred Charles Bronson and it became his most famous role when he was age 52. He played Paul Kersey, a successful New York architect who turns into a crime-fighting vigilante after his wife is murdered and his daughter sexually assaulted. This successful movie spawned various sequels over the next two decades, all starring Bronson. (Trailer)
Updated from the original novel by Brian Garfield, director Eli Roth and screenwriter Joe Carnahan’s (The Grey, Narc) bring the latest version:
Dr. Paul Kersey (Bruce Willis) is a surgeon who only sees the aftermath of Chicago violence when it is rushed into his ER – until his wife (Elisabeth Shue) and college-age daughter (Camila Morrone) are viciously attacked in their suburban home. With the police overloaded with crimes, Paul, burning for revenge,...
- 8/3/2017
- by Michelle Hannett
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
"They came for his family. Now he's coming for them."
Bruce Willis shoots people first and asks questions later in this first trailer for the remake of Death Wish. He goes on a killing spree of revenge after his wife is murdered. The movie was directed by Eli Roth, and this is a different kind of film for him. Roth is mostly known for the horror films that he's made. Death Wish is more of an action-thriller, an action-thriller that involves lots of killing. So, it seems like something Roth would enjoy making.
I'm not the biggest fan of Roth, but I enjoy watching Bruce Willis movies and the screenplay was written ben Joe Carnahan (Smokin' Aces, The A-Team, The Grey). Those are the two main reasons that I'll end up watching this movie. Judging by the trailer, the movie looks like it could be fun an entertaining, but it...
Bruce Willis shoots people first and asks questions later in this first trailer for the remake of Death Wish. He goes on a killing spree of revenge after his wife is murdered. The movie was directed by Eli Roth, and this is a different kind of film for him. Roth is mostly known for the horror films that he's made. Death Wish is more of an action-thriller, an action-thriller that involves lots of killing. So, it seems like something Roth would enjoy making.
I'm not the biggest fan of Roth, but I enjoy watching Bruce Willis movies and the screenplay was written ben Joe Carnahan (Smokin' Aces, The A-Team, The Grey). Those are the two main reasons that I'll end up watching this movie. Judging by the trailer, the movie looks like it could be fun an entertaining, but it...
- 8/3/2017
- by Joey Paur
- GeekTyrant
After reveling in the horror genre for virtually all of his directorial career, Eli Roth is switching gears slightly with his next project as he heads into action-thriller territory with a remake of 1974’s Death Wish. Scripted by Joe Carnahan and starring Bruce Willis, the first trailer has now arrived ahead of a November release.
“We wanted to bring back that great, classic Bruce Willis we all know and love and just do a fun, badass update of a revered classic,” Roth told Yahoo! Movies. “I wanted to bring Bruce back to that Fifth Element, Unbreakable, Die Hard glory and have him craft another iconic performance, and I really think he did it. I mean I really think this can be his Taken. The fun is watching him go crazy and watching someone slowly move the moral goal post.”
Also starring Vincent D’Onofrio, Elisabeth Shue, Camila Morrone, Dean Norris,...
“We wanted to bring back that great, classic Bruce Willis we all know and love and just do a fun, badass update of a revered classic,” Roth told Yahoo! Movies. “I wanted to bring Bruce back to that Fifth Element, Unbreakable, Die Hard glory and have him craft another iconic performance, and I really think he did it. I mean I really think this can be his Taken. The fun is watching him go crazy and watching someone slowly move the moral goal post.”
Also starring Vincent D’Onofrio, Elisabeth Shue, Camila Morrone, Dean Norris,...
- 8/3/2017
- by Jordan Raup
- The Film Stage
After helming one of the best and most revolutionary films of last year (along with one of the most deserving Best Picture Oscar winners in recent memory), Moonlight director Barry Jenkins has lined up his next film, an adaptation of James Baldwin’s novel If Beale Street Could Talk. Set to be distributed by Annapurna Pictures with production beginning in October, the film concerns itself with the story of Tish, a newly engaged woman living in Harlem who attempts to prove her fiancée’s innocence.
As Variety reports, the novel was a work Jenkins had long wanted to adapt for the screen, and he had written the screenplay during the summer of 2013, at the same time that he wrote Moonlight’s script. Since then, he has secured the blessing of the Baldwin Estate, and production is expected to begin in October under the team of Plan B and Pastel. This...
As Variety reports, the novel was a work Jenkins had long wanted to adapt for the screen, and he had written the screenplay during the summer of 2013, at the same time that he wrote Moonlight’s script. Since then, he has secured the blessing of the Baldwin Estate, and production is expected to begin in October under the team of Plan B and Pastel. This...
- 7/10/2017
- by The Film Stage
- The Film Stage
Tony Sokol Jul 11, 2017
Director Barry Jenkins will follow up his Best Picture Oscar-winning Moonlight with an If Beale Street Could Talk adaptation.
Barry Jenkins, who took home this year’s best picture Academy Award with Moonlight, is in talks to direct a film adaptation of James Baldwin's If Beale Street Could Talk. The film will be produced by Annapurna Pictures.
If Beale Street Could Talk was Baldwin’s fifth novel. His unfinished manuscript, “Remember This House,” was adapted into the Oscar-nominated documentary I Am Not Your Negro. Set in Harlem in the early 1970s, If Beale Street Could Talk is a love story hummed to the tune of W.C. Handy blues song Beale Street Blues.
Video of Marion Harris "Beale Street Blues" W.C. Handy (1921) Columbia A3474 Rare Visuals
“Told through the eyes of Tish, a nineteen-year-old girl, in love with Fonny, a young sculptor who is the father of her child,...
Director Barry Jenkins will follow up his Best Picture Oscar-winning Moonlight with an If Beale Street Could Talk adaptation.
Barry Jenkins, who took home this year’s best picture Academy Award with Moonlight, is in talks to direct a film adaptation of James Baldwin's If Beale Street Could Talk. The film will be produced by Annapurna Pictures.
If Beale Street Could Talk was Baldwin’s fifth novel. His unfinished manuscript, “Remember This House,” was adapted into the Oscar-nominated documentary I Am Not Your Negro. Set in Harlem in the early 1970s, If Beale Street Could Talk is a love story hummed to the tune of W.C. Handy blues song Beale Street Blues.
Video of Marion Harris "Beale Street Blues" W.C. Handy (1921) Columbia A3474 Rare Visuals
“Told through the eyes of Tish, a nineteen-year-old girl, in love with Fonny, a young sculptor who is the father of her child,...
- 7/10/2017
- Den of Geek
by Seán McGovern
Detroit could make Kathryn Bigelow's style definable. Both Zero Dark Thirty and The Hurt Locker tapped into a social, political and very American psyche of the moment. And unlike other filmmakers, hearing that Bigelow is to bring the 1967 Detroit riots to the screen seems absolutely appropriate. Bigelow has always had an eye for life teetering on a knife edge, of people on the fringes - be they wandering vampires, Soviet submariners or black market memory peddlers. Her two most recent films have cemented her as an auteur with a distinct vision but it's adjectives like tense, visceral or full-throated that define her. A director who has long appreciated genre pictures, it's thanks to her historic Oscar standing that her films now arrive with a sense of expectation.
A new trailer for Detroit has recently been released, doing what all good second trailers do: it tells us a little bit more,...
- 6/27/2017
- by Seán McGovern
- FilmExperience
As unintentional as it may be, “House of Cards” has a renewed sense of purpose ever since Trump’s election, and a chilling new trailer for Season 5 shows Frank Underwood as more ruthless than ever before. This time, his venom is pointed towards the American people, and he hopes to lead them far after the standard two presidential terms are over. This short look at season five echoes much of Trump’s resentment towards his constituency, as well as his belief that he is the one person who can save the country.
Read More: ‘House of Cards’ Season 5 Teaser Trailer Reveals Chilling Message On Trump’s Inauguration Day
Executive producer Melissa James Gibson recently told Entertainment Weekly about some of the unintentional parallels between the administration and Underwood’s grip on democracy, and how the two men differ.
“Sure, the resonance sometimes feels eerie,” she said. “But Trump is an...
Read More: ‘House of Cards’ Season 5 Teaser Trailer Reveals Chilling Message On Trump’s Inauguration Day
Executive producer Melissa James Gibson recently told Entertainment Weekly about some of the unintentional parallels between the administration and Underwood’s grip on democracy, and how the two men differ.
“Sure, the resonance sometimes feels eerie,” she said. “But Trump is an...
- 5/1/2017
- by William Earl
- Indiewire
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The fifth season of House of Cards is little over a month away, and as Frank and Claire Underwood hit up the streets of Washington D.C. to campaign for re-election in typically Machiavellian fashion, over the course of the weekend Netflix premiered four all-new pics via Entertainment Weekly.
Heralding the return of Kevin Spacey and Robin Wright as America’s most formidable power couple – “we don’t submit to terror; we make the terror” – you’ll also find another peek at Joel Kinnaman as the towering Will Conway, a fierce opponent to the Underwoods who started to make in-roads into the White House in season 4. Expect that rivalry to reach new heights with the premiere of season 5 on May 30th, and if you’re beginning to develop a sense of déjà vu following the real-life American election of 2016, executive producer Melissa James Gibson stressed to...
The fifth season of House of Cards is little over a month away, and as Frank and Claire Underwood hit up the streets of Washington D.C. to campaign for re-election in typically Machiavellian fashion, over the course of the weekend Netflix premiered four all-new pics via Entertainment Weekly.
Heralding the return of Kevin Spacey and Robin Wright as America’s most formidable power couple – “we don’t submit to terror; we make the terror” – you’ll also find another peek at Joel Kinnaman as the towering Will Conway, a fierce opponent to the Underwoods who started to make in-roads into the White House in season 4. Expect that rivalry to reach new heights with the premiere of season 5 on May 30th, and if you’re beginning to develop a sense of déjà vu following the real-life American election of 2016, executive producer Melissa James Gibson stressed to...
- 4/24/2017
- by Michael Briers
- We Got This Covered
President Underwood and his First Lady have a mission, and woe to those who get in their way.
When last we left “House of Cards,” Frank (Kevin Spacey) and Claire (Robin Wright) were by each other’s side in their mission to combat terrorism, specifically the radical Islamist group known as the Islamic Caliphate Organization (Ico), which had broadcast an execution of a hostage.
Read More: ‘House of Cards’ Praises Sean Spicer’s Upside-Down Flag Pin as Loyalty
“That’s right. We don’t submit to terror. We make the terror,” Frank said with his disturbingly unwavering yet charismatic gaze into the camera.
Of course, this war on terror is a noisy, splashy diversion from an incriminating article that laid out the president’s corruption. How successful they are remains to be seen, but we have a feeling that no matter what, they’ll be fine in Season 5. In an interview with EW,...
When last we left “House of Cards,” Frank (Kevin Spacey) and Claire (Robin Wright) were by each other’s side in their mission to combat terrorism, specifically the radical Islamist group known as the Islamic Caliphate Organization (Ico), which had broadcast an execution of a hostage.
Read More: ‘House of Cards’ Praises Sean Spicer’s Upside-Down Flag Pin as Loyalty
“That’s right. We don’t submit to terror. We make the terror,” Frank said with his disturbingly unwavering yet charismatic gaze into the camera.
Of course, this war on terror is a noisy, splashy diversion from an incriminating article that laid out the president’s corruption. How successful they are remains to be seen, but we have a feeling that no matter what, they’ll be fine in Season 5. In an interview with EW,...
- 4/22/2017
- by Hanh Nguyen
- Indiewire
The Dark Side of Woodstock? The death knell of ’60s counterculture? The End of peace and love? Pretty much. Maysles-Zwerin’s now-classic documentary about the 1969 Rolling Stones American concert tour inadvertently captures the darkest side of the American psyche as a murder takes place during a free performance at Altamont Raceway, CA. Essential, but let’s face it, a bummer.
- 3/10/2017
- by TFH Team
- Trailers from Hell
Stars: Casey Affleck, Lucas Hedges, Michelle Williams, Kyle Chandler | Written and Directed by Kenneth Lonergan
Kenneth Lonergan’s last film, Margaret – a vast New York opera which movingly explored the nature of subjectivity – was secretly one of the best American films of the century so far. But given that film’s “challenging” production and distribution, no one would begrudge him the success of Manchester by the Sea, a safer, more palatable awards contender.
Oscars shoe-in Casey Affleck plays Lee, a jobbing Boston janitor, endlessly shovelling driveways which will be snowed over by tomorrow. He gets glimpses of the lives of others but it only reinforces the sense that he hasn’t a life of his own. One day Lee learns that his brother Joe (Kyle Chandler) has died. Lee returns to the town of the title, where he is made aware that Joe’s son, Patrick (Lucas Hedges) is now...
Kenneth Lonergan’s last film, Margaret – a vast New York opera which movingly explored the nature of subjectivity – was secretly one of the best American films of the century so far. But given that film’s “challenging” production and distribution, no one would begrudge him the success of Manchester by the Sea, a safer, more palatable awards contender.
Oscars shoe-in Casey Affleck plays Lee, a jobbing Boston janitor, endlessly shovelling driveways which will be snowed over by tomorrow. He gets glimpses of the lives of others but it only reinforces the sense that he hasn’t a life of his own. One day Lee learns that his brother Joe (Kyle Chandler) has died. Lee returns to the town of the title, where he is made aware that Joe’s son, Patrick (Lucas Hedges) is now...
- 1/11/2017
- by Rupert Harvey
- Nerdly
Academy Award nominee Joe Berlinger is set to explore the murders made famous by Truman Capote.
Berlinger is set to direct and produce “Murder in the Heartland: In Cold Blood Revisited” for SundanceTV. The four-part docuseries will dig even deeper into the 1959 quadruple murder that Capote made famous in his 1966 book “In Cold Blood.”
Berlinger, who has been developing the project for more than a year, revealed why he’s so thrilled at the opportunity to revisit the infamous crime.
“I have long been obsessed with Capote’s genre-busting masterwork, but even more fascinated by the underlying crime and its impact on the American psyche,” said Berlinger. “The opportunity to explore my obsession, in light of new information we have uncovered, with a network and brand that I have long been associated with and which represents cinematic quality at its most intelligent is a dream situation for a nonfiction filmmaker of my background.
Berlinger is set to direct and produce “Murder in the Heartland: In Cold Blood Revisited” for SundanceTV. The four-part docuseries will dig even deeper into the 1959 quadruple murder that Capote made famous in his 1966 book “In Cold Blood.”
Berlinger, who has been developing the project for more than a year, revealed why he’s so thrilled at the opportunity to revisit the infamous crime.
“I have long been obsessed with Capote’s genre-busting masterwork, but even more fascinated by the underlying crime and its impact on the American psyche,” said Berlinger. “The opportunity to explore my obsession, in light of new information we have uncovered, with a network and brand that I have long been associated with and which represents cinematic quality at its most intelligent is a dream situation for a nonfiction filmmaker of my background.
- 10/15/2016
- by William Earl
- Indiewire
★★★★★ "Give me your tired, your poor, / Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, / The wretched refuse of your teeming shore. / Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me, / I lift my lamp beside the golden door!" These lines from Emma Lazarus' poem The New Colossus, inscribed into the pedestal of the Statue of Liberty, are testament to the immigrant as mythological figure. Migration is etched deeply into the American psyche and cinema is arguably the preeminent medium through which this most American of fables is told.
- 10/12/2016
- by CineVue UK
- CineVue
I've done this exercise before, and some of the same films made the list this time, but not all. America in 2016 is different than the America of 2002, and that's part of what I love about this country. And make no mistake... I love this country. I believe America is a nation defined by contradictions. I am both cynical and idealistic about it, and I love it precisely because of the ways it breaks my heart. I am fully aware that one can only exist because of the other. With that in mind, here are ten films that, taken together, define the state of our union in the year 2016. The Right Stuff Philip Kaufman’s movie celebrating the accomplishments of the Mercury Seven astronauts is more than just a celebration of the pioneer spirit. The film is a gorgeous dream, a poem about heroism and celebrity and ego and optimism. The...
- 7/5/2016
- by Drew McWeeny
- Hitfix
American director and screenwriter who had a huge hit with his 1978 film The Deer Hunter, but a disastrous flop with Heaven’s Gate two years later
It took just over two years for the film-maker Michael Cimino, who has died aged 77, to go from being one of the figureheads of the ambitious and intelligent Us cinema of the 1970s to the man blamed for killing it off. The peak of his career was The Deer Hunter (1978), the first in a spate of pictures to articulate the effect on the American psyche of the Vietnam war. It was divided into three distinct sections depicting a group of Pennsylvania steelworkers before, during and after the war.
Cimino was criticised for sequences in which the soldiers are forced by the Vietcong to play Russian roulette against one another. He was also accused of expressing rightwing sentiments in the final scene, during which the...
It took just over two years for the film-maker Michael Cimino, who has died aged 77, to go from being one of the figureheads of the ambitious and intelligent Us cinema of the 1970s to the man blamed for killing it off. The peak of his career was The Deer Hunter (1978), the first in a spate of pictures to articulate the effect on the American psyche of the Vietnam war. It was divided into three distinct sections depicting a group of Pennsylvania steelworkers before, during and after the war.
Cimino was criticised for sequences in which the soldiers are forced by the Vietcong to play Russian roulette against one another. He was also accused of expressing rightwing sentiments in the final scene, during which the...
- 7/4/2016
- by Ryan Gilbey
- The Guardian - Film News
"24" is an interesting case study for American television. It came during a time of increased paranoia of terrorism, and a real gung-ho attitude among the general populous. Revisiting that series with a modern lens is definitely a cool experience, as it is very much a time capsule of a certain era, and while the recent 12-episode season, "24: Live Another Day" did a fairly solid job of updating the premise for a modern audience, in my mind, it could never shake its early-2000s roots.
With that in mind, it makes sense that Fox is looking to reboot this series from the ground up. While at the TV Critics Association Winter Press Tour, Fox announced that they will in fact be producing a pilot to a sequel series entitled "24: Legacy."
With any announcement like this, there are bound to be plenty of questions. Fox confirmed that this series will...
With that in mind, it makes sense that Fox is looking to reboot this series from the ground up. While at the TV Critics Association Winter Press Tour, Fox announced that they will in fact be producing a pilot to a sequel series entitled "24: Legacy."
With any announcement like this, there are bound to be plenty of questions. Fox confirmed that this series will...
- 1/15/2016
- by Joseph Medina
- LRMonline.com
Our writer-at-large ventures out to his local multiplex and finds out that Bay’s Benghazi spectacular is far from the perfect date film but does sum up a particular slice of the American psyche
Toward the end of last night’s 523rd Republican presidential debate, Senator Ted Cruz, whom you might remember as the demonic spirit from the movie It Follows, suddenly turned into the Moviefone guy and reminded America that a very, very important motion picture is set for release on Friday. “Tomorrow morning a new movie will debut about the incredible bravery of the men fighting for their lives in Benghazi,” he said. “And the politicians that abandoned them.”
He was referring to 13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers of Benghazi, which you might know better as “The Benghazi Movie”. I honestly haven’t heard many people actually refer to the film by its official title. Ask someone on the...
Toward the end of last night’s 523rd Republican presidential debate, Senator Ted Cruz, whom you might remember as the demonic spirit from the movie It Follows, suddenly turned into the Moviefone guy and reminded America that a very, very important motion picture is set for release on Friday. “Tomorrow morning a new movie will debut about the incredible bravery of the men fighting for their lives in Benghazi,” he said. “And the politicians that abandoned them.”
He was referring to 13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers of Benghazi, which you might know better as “The Benghazi Movie”. I honestly haven’t heard many people actually refer to the film by its official title. Ask someone on the...
- 1/15/2016
- by Dave Schilling
- The Guardian - Film News
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It’s not really an exaggeration to say that Netflix has fundamentally altered the way that we consume media, and the way that we live our lives. Until recently the term ‘binge-watching’ would have been considered a gibberish conjunction of nothingness – and the very concept itself would have been thought of almost exclusively as an agoraphobic activity. Yet today binge-watching is arguably the fastest growing activity in the western world and content is specifically tailored to meet our marathon televisual needs.
For better or for worse, Netflix is both omnipresent and alarmingly omnipotent in our lives. The company has grown from a small organisation that can only be born from the kind of blind rage that occurs when you get charged $40 late fees on a rental of Apollo 13, to a game changing cultural phenomenon.
There are many, many mind blowing facts and figures about Netflix out there in the ether.
It’s not really an exaggeration to say that Netflix has fundamentally altered the way that we consume media, and the way that we live our lives. Until recently the term ‘binge-watching’ would have been considered a gibberish conjunction of nothingness – and the very concept itself would have been thought of almost exclusively as an agoraphobic activity. Yet today binge-watching is arguably the fastest growing activity in the western world and content is specifically tailored to meet our marathon televisual needs.
For better or for worse, Netflix is both omnipresent and alarmingly omnipotent in our lives. The company has grown from a small organisation that can only be born from the kind of blind rage that occurs when you get charged $40 late fees on a rental of Apollo 13, to a game changing cultural phenomenon.
There are many, many mind blowing facts and figures about Netflix out there in the ether.
- 1/4/2016
- by Bevan Morgan
- Obsessed with Film
On this week’s episode of "The Vulture TV Podcast," we discuss the season-two finale of one of our favorite shows of 2015, The Leftovers. Will the series get a third season? Does it need one? And is there such a thing more beautiful than Justin Theroux cry-singing “Homeward Bound”? Plus, Matt and Margaret respond to a listener with very specific views on when to stop watching Battlestar Galactica, and explore why it’s one of the most accurate depictions of the American psyche in the post-9/11 world.Further reading: Matt on the renewed energy of a good second season; Margaret on why this should be the end of The Leftovers; Reza Aslan addresses your Leftovers finale questions; all of Justin Theroux's beautiful tears. Tune in to "The Vulture TV Podcast," produced by the Slate Group’s Panoply, every Tuesday, on iTunes or SoundCloud. And please send us your burning TV questions!
- 12/8/2015
- by Gazelle Emami,Matt Zoller Seitz,Margaret Lyons
- Vulture
★★★★☆ Pop culture has forever promoted the image of a white knight riding into town on horseback as part of the American psyche. In the late 1960s - with President Nixon up to no good, the Vietnam War taking its toll and the Civil Rights Moment dividing a nation - a much-needed hero zoomed across millions of television screens on ABC's Wide World of Sports. His steed was a Harley Davidson and he wore white leather from head to toe, trimmed with red and blue - clothed in the Star Spangled Banner and an embodiment of the American Dream.
- 10/9/2015
- by CineVue UK
- CineVue
When news broke this morning that "Jeepers Creepers 3" was ramping up production 12 years after the second film hit theaters, my thoughts almost immediately drifted to director Victor Salva, who helmed the first two "Jeepers" films and is also, as a number of tweeters have already pointed out, a convicted child molester. The crime in question occurred during the shooting of Salva's 1989 feature debut "Clownhouse," when the then-29-year-old director filmed himself having oral sex with the film's 12-year-old star, Nathan Forrest Winters. After the tape was discovered during a police raid (Winters had informed his mother of the abuse), Salva was jailed and served 15 months of a 3 year prison term before being released on parole. He is now (and will forever be) a registered sex offender in Los Angeles County. Those are the facts; and despite them Salva has continued to work in the industry, helming a total of eight...
- 9/11/2015
- by Chris Eggertsen
- Hitfix
The Dark Side of Woodstock? The death knell of ’60s counterculture? The End of peace and love? Pretty much. Maysles-Zwerin’s now-classic documentary about the 1969 Rolling Stones American concert tour inadvertently captures the darkest side of the American psyche as a murder takes place during a free performance at Altamont Raceway, CA. Essential, but let’s face it, a bummer. Read More: TCM to Host Albert Maysles Retrospective...
- 8/28/2015
- by Trailers From Hell
- Thompson on Hollywood
Read More: 7 Must-See Movies About Writers As far as contemporary American literary heroes go, you'd be hard-pressed to find a scholar who wouldn't put David Foster Wallace at the top of the canon. Wallace is widely heralded as one of the most influential writers of the last hundred years. His fiction and nonfiction pushed postmodern boundaries. He dealt in irony and contradiction to expose the intestines of American psyche, from life post-9/11 to our addiction to television to the tedium of luxury cruise lines. His writing style, also contradictory and ironic, follows suit: It's both manic and obsessed with rationale; pessimistic and optimistic; esoteric and familiar. Only Wallace could render the arcane details of a lobster festival riveting. Only Wallace could cajole readers into enduring nearly 500 footnotes in a thousand-page dystopian tome. Only Wallace could make you feel at once so deeply uncomfortable and immensely hopeful about being human. This week,...
- 7/28/2015
- by Emily Buder
- Indiewire
From a crazy early Nic Cage role to a lesser-known film starring Robert De Niro, here's our pick of 25 underappreciated films from 1989...
Ah, 1989. The year the Berlin Wall came down and Yugoslavia won the Eurovision Song Contest. It was also a big year for film, with Indiana Jones And The Last Crusade topping the box office and Batman dominating the summer with its inescapable marketing blitz.
Outside the top 10 highest-grossing list, which included Back To The Future II, Dead Poets Society and Honey I Shrunk The Kids, 1989 also included a plethora of less commonly-appreciated films. Some were big in their native countries but only received a limited release in the Us and UK. Others were poorly received but have since been reassessed as cult items.
From comedies to thrillers, here's our pick of 25 underappreciated films from the end of the 80s...
25. An Innocent Man
Disney, through its Touchstone banner, had high hopes for this thriller,...
Ah, 1989. The year the Berlin Wall came down and Yugoslavia won the Eurovision Song Contest. It was also a big year for film, with Indiana Jones And The Last Crusade topping the box office and Batman dominating the summer with its inescapable marketing blitz.
Outside the top 10 highest-grossing list, which included Back To The Future II, Dead Poets Society and Honey I Shrunk The Kids, 1989 also included a plethora of less commonly-appreciated films. Some were big in their native countries but only received a limited release in the Us and UK. Others were poorly received but have since been reassessed as cult items.
From comedies to thrillers, here's our pick of 25 underappreciated films from the end of the 80s...
25. An Innocent Man
Disney, through its Touchstone banner, had high hopes for this thriller,...
- 4/28/2015
- by ryanlambie
- Den of Geek
The dream of launching a business runs deep in the American psyche, but more often than not those dreams go bust.Half of new U.S. companies fail in their first five years, according to Gallup. Expand the time-frame out to 10 years and the failure rate reaches 70 percent. That’s not surprising, says Randy H. Nelson, an entrepreneur who has built multi-million dollar companies. The skills it takes to start a business aren’t necessarily the same as those it takes to keep that business afloat. What is surprising, though? In the U.S., more businesses are now being shut down (470,000) than […]...
- 3/12/2015
- by April Neale
- Monsters and Critics
David Bordwell, one of film criticism’s eminent scholars and arguably most knowledgeable film historian working today, took to his blog, Observations on Film Art, Sunday to criticize the New York Times for a new series they’ve launched called “The Moviegoers“. In his piece titled “Zip, Zero, Zeitgeist“, Bordwell addresses a trend in film criticism he calls “reflectionism” and cites the Times piece as a somewhat unfortunate example.
Bordwell’s piece questioned whether movies can reflect the “national psyche”, “contemporary history” or “national debates” of the American populace. Do movies and the reception they get at the box office capture the pulse of the nation right now?
“These ideas enjoy an astonishing popularity. They are staples of movie journalism. The trouble is that they don’t hold up,” Bordwell writes, adding, “Movies are worth studying for themselves, not just as channels for Op-Ed memes.”
Bordwell was irked by a...
Bordwell’s piece questioned whether movies can reflect the “national psyche”, “contemporary history” or “national debates” of the American populace. Do movies and the reception they get at the box office capture the pulse of the nation right now?
“These ideas enjoy an astonishing popularity. They are staples of movie journalism. The trouble is that they don’t hold up,” Bordwell writes, adding, “Movies are worth studying for themselves, not just as channels for Op-Ed memes.”
Bordwell was irked by a...
- 8/25/2014
- by Brian Welk
- SoundOnSight
The Toronto International Film Festival (Tiff) is coming up fast, but organizers are still putting final touches on the festival’s impressive lineup. Highlights of today’s newly announced titles include the world premiere of the anticipated Bill Murray starrer St. Vincent, for which the actor is tipped to garner awards buzz, and Palme D’Or winner Winter Sleep‘s North American debut.
Check out all the announcements below…
Mavericks Conversation With… Denzel Washington and Antoine Fuqua
Denzel Washington is one of the film world’s most prominent leading men, known best for his galvanizing portrayals of both real-life figures (Malcolm X, The Hurricane, American Gangster) and fictional characters (Philadelphia, Devil in a Blue Dress, Flight). Washington returns to the Festival starring in The Equalizer, an intense thriller that reunites him with director Antoine Fuqua (Brooklyn’s Finest, Shooter, Olympus Has Fallen) for the first time since their Oscar-winning collaboration on Training Day.
Check out all the announcements below…
Mavericks Conversation With… Denzel Washington and Antoine Fuqua
Denzel Washington is one of the film world’s most prominent leading men, known best for his galvanizing portrayals of both real-life figures (Malcolm X, The Hurricane, American Gangster) and fictional characters (Philadelphia, Devil in a Blue Dress, Flight). Washington returns to the Festival starring in The Equalizer, an intense thriller that reunites him with director Antoine Fuqua (Brooklyn’s Finest, Shooter, Olympus Has Fallen) for the first time since their Oscar-winning collaboration on Training Day.
- 8/19/2014
- by Isaac Feldberg
- We Got This Covered
While we wait for Hal Hartley's next feature "Ned Rifle"—the finale to the "Henry Fool" trilogy that, according to IMDb, is already completed—the writer/director has another project ready to share. It's titled "My America," and a new trailer has arrived. The project is an interesting one, and quite different from what we'd normally see from Hartley (be sure to check out The Films Of Hal Hartley: A Retrospective). This time around, the filmmaker is exploring the American psyche via twenty-one monologues written by different playwrights (including Neil Labute, Danny Hoch, Dan Dietz and Marcus Gardley) and performed by a variety of actors including Hartley pal, Thomas Jay Ryan. And it's not just talking with rap, song, sad stories, and dramatic entries across the entire effort, and you can get a taste below. Appropriately enough, "My America" will debut on Fandor on July 4th.
- 6/24/2014
- by Kevin Jagernauth
- The Playlist
The American playwright and screenwriter on True Detective, David Hockney and langoustines at the River Cafe
Playwright and screenwriter Jon Robin "Robbie" Baitz was brought up in Brazil and South Africa before returning to his birthplace, Los Angeles. In 1988 his first two-act play, The Film Society, transferred to an off-Broadway theatre, following a successful run in La. His subsequent work for the stage has included The Substance of Fire, People I Know, an adaptation of Hedda Gabler and the Pulitzer prize-nominated A Fair Country. Baitz has written for television, with credits including The West Wing and Alias, and he made the ABC drama Brothers & Sisters, which ran for five series. Baitz's Broadway debut, Other Desert Cities, which received five Tony award nominations and earned him his second Pulitzer Pprize nomination, runs at the Old Vic until 24 May.
TV: True Detective
This is a brilliant, existential, American television series starring Matthew McConaughey and Woody Harrelson,...
Playwright and screenwriter Jon Robin "Robbie" Baitz was brought up in Brazil and South Africa before returning to his birthplace, Los Angeles. In 1988 his first two-act play, The Film Society, transferred to an off-Broadway theatre, following a successful run in La. His subsequent work for the stage has included The Substance of Fire, People I Know, an adaptation of Hedda Gabler and the Pulitzer prize-nominated A Fair Country. Baitz has written for television, with credits including The West Wing and Alias, and he made the ABC drama Brothers & Sisters, which ran for five series. Baitz's Broadway debut, Other Desert Cities, which received five Tony award nominations and earned him his second Pulitzer Pprize nomination, runs at the Old Vic until 24 May.
TV: True Detective
This is a brilliant, existential, American television series starring Matthew McConaughey and Woody Harrelson,...
- 3/24/2014
- by Leah Harper
- The Guardian - Film News
24: Live Another Day is a thrilling new event series set to restart the ticking clock on the groundbreaking and Emmy Award-winning drama which starred Kiefer Sutherland in the role of Jack Bauer -- the now legendary character who penetrated the American psyche to become part of the cultural lexicon. Set and shot in London, the suspenseful event series once again will follow the exploits of heroic agent Jack Bauer. Four years ago, Jack was a fugitive from justice. Now an exile, he nevertheless is willing to risk his life and freedom to avert yet another global disaster. Tracking Jack are CIA head Steve Harris (Benjamin Bratt); CIA agent Kate Morgan (Yvonne Strahovski), who is both resourceful and ruthless; Jordan Reed (Giles Matthey), a smart and sophisticated CIA computer tech; and Erik...
- 3/10/2014
- by Pietro Filipponi
- The Daily BLAM!
24: Live Another Day is a thrilling new event series set to restart the ticking clock on the groundbreaking and Emmy Award-winning drama which starred Kiefer Sutherland in the role of Jack Bauer -- the now legendary character who penetrated the American psyche to become part of the cultural lexicon. Set and shot in London, the suspenseful event series once again will follow the exploits of heroic agent Jack Bauer. Four years ago, Jack was a fugitive from justice. Now an exile, he nevertheless is willing to risk his life and freedom to avert yet another global disaster. Tracking Jack are CIA head Steve Harris (Benjamin Bratt); CIA agent Kate Morgan (Yvonne Strahovski), who is both resourceful and ruthless; Jordan Reed (Giles Matthey), a smart and sophisticated CIA computer tech; and Erik...
- 2/24/2014
- by Pietro Filipponi
- The Daily BLAM!
24: Live Another Day is a thrilling new event series set to restart the ticking clock on the groundbreaking and Emmy Award-winning drama which starred Kiefer Sutherland in the role of Jack Bauer -- the now legendary character who penetrated the American psyche to become part of the cultural lexicon. Set and shot in London, the suspenseful event series once again will follow the exploits of heroic agent Jack Bauer. Four years ago, Jack was a fugitive from justice. Now an exile, he nevertheless is willing to risk his life and freedom to avert yet another global disaster. Tracking Jack are CIA head Steve Harris (Benjamin Bratt); CIA agent Kate Morgan (Yvonne Strahovski), who is both resourceful and ruthless; Jordan Reed (Giles Matthey), a smart and sophisticated CIA computer tech; and Erik...
- 2/2/2014
- by Pietro Filipponi
- The Daily BLAM!
24: Live Another Day is a thrilling new event series set to restart the ticking clock on the groundbreaking and Emmy Award-winning drama which starred Kiefer Sutherland in the role of Jack Bauer -- the now legendary character who penetrated the American psyche to become part of the cultural lexicon. Set and shot in London, the suspenseful event series once again will follow the exploits of heroic agent Jack Bauer. Four years ago, Jack was a fugitive from justice. Now an exile, he nevertheless is willing to risk his life and freedom to avert yet another global disaster. Tracking Jack are CIA head Steve Harris (Benjamin Bratt); CIA agent Kate Morgan (Yvonne Strahovski), who is both resourceful and ruthless; Jordan Reed (Giles Matthey), a smart and sophisticated CIA computer tech; and Erik...
- 2/2/2014
- by Pietro Filipponi
- The Daily BLAM!
In his new film, “Out of the Furnace,” filmmaker Scott Cooper explores some of the darker corners of the American psyche as seen through the eyes of Russell Baze (Christian Bale), a quiet, contained man and stalwart steel worker, and his younger brother Rodney (Casey Affleck), an Iraq war vet unable to find emotional or […]
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- 12/6/2013
- by Sheila Roberts
- MoviesOnline.ca
It used to be said that every American could remember where he or she was when they heard the news that John F. Kennedy had been assassinated. Today, it’s official that no one under 50 can, or ever will, remember that moment. But I bet a great many people who are too young to have experienced the cataclysm of JFK’s murder can remember where they were the first time they saw the Zapruder film. Because for anyone too young to remember the assassination, that 26-second, 486-frame little home movie — the film that has been viewed more than any other...
- 11/22/2013
- by Owen Gleiberman
- EW.com - PopWatch
There are some weekends when a movie that is so well crafted, so thought provoking, and so much the cinematic masterpiece sweeps into theaters and is overwhelmingly the number one movie at the box office, restoring faith in the American psyche and its ability to both enjoy and reward great movie making. And then there are weekends like this one when we're reminded that people with short attention spans and a preference for watching little boys dressed like strippers and laughing at people getting kicked in the balls (literally and figuratively) have money to spend at the movies too. Jackass Presents: Bad Grandpa banked $32 million this weekend to take the number one spot. That's a step down from the $50 million banked on opening weekend by the last Jackass movie Jackass 3-D. That's due in part to the fact that Bad Grandpa had lower non-3-D ticket prices, but also perhaps...
- 10/27/2013
- cinemablend.com
Review Matthew Giordano 16 Oct 2013 - 07:04
Betrayal is in the air for the Sons of Anarchy, but who will be the club's Judas? Here's Matthew's review of Salvage...
This review contains spoilers.
6.6 Salvage
It is absurdly poignant that this episode opens up with Jax examining the wreckage of the clubhouse with an instrumental version of John The Revelator being played. This song was used in the montage sequence of the season one finale. It was at that moment that Jax fully realized that his father 'John' was trying to warn him from beyond the grave that the club was heading down the wrong path. Additionally, it was Piney who handed Jax the manuscript and told him that it was time for a change. What a perfect way to start off this instalment after the attack by the Ira, setting up the fact that the club is once again in need of a serious change.
Betrayal is in the air for the Sons of Anarchy, but who will be the club's Judas? Here's Matthew's review of Salvage...
This review contains spoilers.
6.6 Salvage
It is absurdly poignant that this episode opens up with Jax examining the wreckage of the clubhouse with an instrumental version of John The Revelator being played. This song was used in the montage sequence of the season one finale. It was at that moment that Jax fully realized that his father 'John' was trying to warn him from beyond the grave that the club was heading down the wrong path. Additionally, it was Piney who handed Jax the manuscript and told him that it was time for a change. What a perfect way to start off this instalment after the attack by the Ira, setting up the fact that the club is once again in need of a serious change.
- 10/16/2013
- by louisamellor
- Den of Geek
"This is how the end of the world begins…"
If readers needed any indication that Afterlife with Archie was going to be a different sort of Archie experience, that warning on page one – in horror movie font, dripping bloodily across a black void – is promise enough. From there, writer Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa (2013’s Carrie) and artist Francesco Francavilla (The Black Beetle, and an incalculable number of pulp-style comic-book covers) waste no time getting into the story. A few trope-heavy establishment shots – a creepy old house, an owl with glowing red eyes, feet pounding the ground, panels awash in lurid red – set the scene for the devastating splash page: Jughead, clutching his bloody, dying dog, at Sabrina Spellman’s door, begging her to save his life.
From there, things go to hell, and quickly. Sabrina can’t save Hot Dog’s life … but she can try to bring him back to life.
If readers needed any indication that Afterlife with Archie was going to be a different sort of Archie experience, that warning on page one – in horror movie font, dripping bloodily across a black void – is promise enough. From there, writer Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa (2013’s Carrie) and artist Francesco Francavilla (The Black Beetle, and an incalculable number of pulp-style comic-book covers) waste no time getting into the story. A few trope-heavy establishment shots – a creepy old house, an owl with glowing red eyes, feet pounding the ground, panels awash in lurid red – set the scene for the devastating splash page: Jughead, clutching his bloody, dying dog, at Sabrina Spellman’s door, begging her to save his life.
From there, things go to hell, and quickly. Sabrina can’t save Hot Dog’s life … but she can try to bring him back to life.
- 10/10/2013
- by Kevin Quigley
- FEARnet
What a weekend for St. Louis-area horror fans! Night Of The Living Dead is screening midnights at the Hi-Pointe (and at Webster U Sunday night), the living dead doc Birth Of The Living Dead is playing Saturday night at Webster U with Night Of The Living Dead screenwriter John Russo in attendance, and if that isn’t enough big-screen classic horror madness, Alfred Hitchcock’s Psycho (1960) is this week’s midnight show at the Reel Late at the Tivoli series.
Nowadays, when any psychological thriller featuring a loony with a knife is designated “Hitchcockian” in some quarters, it’s easy to forget just what a dramatic change of pace this was for Hitchcock. Inspired by the life of the demented, cannibalistic Wisconsin killer Ed Gein (whose gruesome acts would also inspire The Texas Chain Saw Massacre and Deranged), Psycho’s importance to the horror genre cannot be overestimated. Psycho has it all: romance,...
Nowadays, when any psychological thriller featuring a loony with a knife is designated “Hitchcockian” in some quarters, it’s easy to forget just what a dramatic change of pace this was for Hitchcock. Inspired by the life of the demented, cannibalistic Wisconsin killer Ed Gein (whose gruesome acts would also inspire The Texas Chain Saw Massacre and Deranged), Psycho’s importance to the horror genre cannot be overestimated. Psycho has it all: romance,...
- 10/1/2013
- by Tom Stockman
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
Lately, Adam Sandler has been caught up in his usual goofy antics with comedic disasters like Grown Ups 2, That's My Boy and Jack & Jill. However, it sounds like we might get the return of the true actor side of Sandler that we've seen sparsely in films like Punch-Drunk Love, Spanglish, Reign Over Me and Funny People. Deadline has word that Jason Reitman (Juno, Thank You for Smoking and Up in the Air) will direct an adaptation of Chad Kultgen's novel Men, Woman & Children with Sandler, Jennifer Garner and Rosemarie DeWitt currently circling lead roles in the film looking to start production in November. Here's the description of the book from the back cover: Chad Kultgen, cult hero and author of the buzz-generating illicit classics 'The Average American Male' and 'The Lie,' cuts to the quick of the American psyche like no other author writing today. In 'Men,...
- 9/5/2013
- by Ethan Anderton
- firstshowing.net
New Release
Winnie Mandela
R, 1 Hr., 47 Mins.
Darrell J. Roodt’s bland biopic of the South African antiapartheid activist feels like the Hallmark Hall of Fame version of history. Jennifer Hudson brings some fire to the controversial crusader and Terrence Howard is very good as her husband, Nelson Mandela. But this well-intentioned film is an oversimplified mess. C —Chris Nashawaty
New Release
99% — The Occupy Wall Street Collaborative FIlm
Not Rated, 1 Hr., 37 Mins.
The Occupy Wall Street movement deserves enormous credit for locking the “meme” of the 99 percent into the American psyche. But that doesn’t make this day-to-day documentary about...
Winnie Mandela
R, 1 Hr., 47 Mins.
Darrell J. Roodt’s bland biopic of the South African antiapartheid activist feels like the Hallmark Hall of Fame version of history. Jennifer Hudson brings some fire to the controversial crusader and Terrence Howard is very good as her husband, Nelson Mandela. But this well-intentioned film is an oversimplified mess. C —Chris Nashawaty
New Release
99% — The Occupy Wall Street Collaborative FIlm
Not Rated, 1 Hr., 37 Mins.
The Occupy Wall Street movement deserves enormous credit for locking the “meme” of the 99 percent into the American psyche. But that doesn’t make this day-to-day documentary about...
- 9/4/2013
- by Deven Persaud
- EW - Inside Movies
With his latest, Labor Day , set to hit theaters on December 25, director Jason Reitman is planning to make his next project an adaptation of Chad Kultgen's novel Men, Women & Children . Deadline reports that Rosemarie DeWitt, Cameron Diaz, Jennifer Garner and Adam Sandler are all being eyed for roles. The book, published in 2011, is officially described as follows: Chad Kultgen, cult hero and author of the buzz-generating illicit classics The Average American Male and The Lie, cuts to the quick of the American psyche like no other author writing today. In Men, Women & Children he explores the sexual pressures at work on a handful of troubled, conflicted junior-high students and their equally dysfunctional parents. From porn-surfing fathers to World of...
- 9/4/2013
- Comingsoon.net
Mena Suvari taking a dip in a bed of red roses, Keanu Reeves breaking into an impressive backbend to dodge bullets -- such iconic cinematic moments have been permanently engrained into the American psyche.
But Senegalese artist Omar Victor Diop sought to explore what Hollywood blockbusters like these would look like had they been filmed elsewhere -- more specifically, in Africa. So Diop teamed up with French-American photographer Antoine Tempé to recast our favorite screen stills with a Senegalese cast.
Based on "American Beauty."
Their dazzling series, called "Onomollywood," is part Hollywood homage, part sociological experiment; the product of 33-year-old amateur photographer Diop, who only recently entered into the arts and culture scene of Senegal. He, along with performing arts expert Tempé, harken back to the childhood act of impersonating iconic movie moments, illustrating the far-reaching influence of the more universal art form known as film.
"We started working with the movies we liked,...
But Senegalese artist Omar Victor Diop sought to explore what Hollywood blockbusters like these would look like had they been filmed elsewhere -- more specifically, in Africa. So Diop teamed up with French-American photographer Antoine Tempé to recast our favorite screen stills with a Senegalese cast.
Based on "American Beauty."
Their dazzling series, called "Onomollywood," is part Hollywood homage, part sociological experiment; the product of 33-year-old amateur photographer Diop, who only recently entered into the arts and culture scene of Senegal. He, along with performing arts expert Tempé, harken back to the childhood act of impersonating iconic movie moments, illustrating the far-reaching influence of the more universal art form known as film.
"We started working with the movies we liked,...
- 8/1/2013
- by The Huffington Post
- Huffington Post
After a week on hiatus, Graceland returned with another gripping hour via "O-Mouth."
After an ending like that, I'm sure there wasn't an Agent watching at home whose jaw didn't dropped to the floor. I can't believe they cliff-hanged us like that. Is it next Thursday yet?!?
Then again, perhaps that's actually the good news. We won't have to wait long to see what happened with Charlie and whether or not she manages to make her way out of the situation while still moving forward in her case.
Props to the writers for starting out strong, with Briggs and Charlie resuming old undercover identities. Especially ones with whom harboring a torrid love affair was apparently a reality back in the day. I was waiting to find out who in the house had hooked up with whom in the past, but I don't know if I had pegged Charlie and Briggs...
After an ending like that, I'm sure there wasn't an Agent watching at home whose jaw didn't dropped to the floor. I can't believe they cliff-hanged us like that. Is it next Thursday yet?!?
Then again, perhaps that's actually the good news. We won't have to wait long to see what happened with Charlie and whether or not she manages to make her way out of the situation while still moving forward in her case.
Props to the writers for starting out strong, with Briggs and Charlie resuming old undercover identities. Especially ones with whom harboring a torrid love affair was apparently a reality back in the day. I was waiting to find out who in the house had hooked up with whom in the past, but I don't know if I had pegged Charlie and Briggs...
- 7/12/2013
- by chandel@tvfanatic.com (Chandel Charles)
- TVfanatic
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