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1 December 2009 | JustPressPlay.net | See recent JustPressPlay news »
Suckers for profiler documentaries will find a decent production in Crime Wave: 18 Months of Mayhem. Not unlike the recent film Public Enemies starring Johnny Depp, Crime Wave suffers when it gets too bogged down in details of the various biographies; it loses sight of the overall story which has a compelling amount of information unto itself, making the moments where it dives too deep into the backstory of any one criminal a bit mundane. Perhaps the greatest aspect of the disc’s scope is that it covers both facets of the story: the criminals and the pursuit thereof; not only do Dillinger, Bonnie and Clyde get a strong focus but the formation of the FBI plays an integral role in the telling of the story. From its humble beginnings as just another bureaucratic office with no real power to the upstart agency responsible for the felling of some of American history’s most notorious criminals, »
- Lex Walker
24 November 2009 4:02 AM, PST | t5m.com | See recent t5m.com news »
The furious way that the beautiful free flowing style which Terrence Malick has curated over his career is talked about often disguises the fact that he has made just four features and one (some people say two), rare as hens teeth, shorts. So, after only a hand full of features in 37 years what is it about the director that has celluloid lovers chomping at the bit. Until very recently there were only 2 published interviews with the modest director in existence and only a handful of photographs. His stubbornness with the press is legendary. His Tom Sawyer like trademark themes of innocents somehow lost within harsh mother nature, the beautifully paced editing and pitch perfect scores, his poetic and naturalistic voice overs and consistently jaw dropping cinematography has helped the film maker achieve a level of awe and mystery perhaps only reserved on a comparable level for one Stanley Kubrick. The »
- Neil Innes
20 November 2009 7:18 AM, PST | The Scorecard Review | See recent Scorecard Review news »
Precious: Based on the Novel Push by Sapphire is the story of an overweight 16-year-old who is physically and emotionally abused. I know, it sounds like an after school special, not a potential Oscar-winning film. Lee Daniels (Shadowboxer) directs his second film which stars Gabourey Sidibe, Mo’Nique, Paula Patton and Mariah Carey. As always, it’s better to read reviews if you are planning on seeing this film. With all of the “said” articles, nothing is off limits. Plot spoilers, big twists and the ending are all fair game for us to talk about. Enough jibber jabber, onto the film Precious: Based on the Novel Push by Sapphire with he (Jeff Bayer) and he (Nick Allen).
Bayer’s Tsr – 8/10
Allen’s Tsr – 5/10
Bayer Said
I knew you were desperate for someone else to see this film. I also knew you gave it a 5/10. Plus, I knew it was about a big girl, »
- Jeff Bayer
17 November 2009 11:21 AM, PST | firstshowing.net | See recent FirstShowing.net news »
Casting Tidbits roll out! First up, THR reports character actor Stephen Root has joined the casts of two vastly different forthcoming projects. In the Migeul Arteta directed comedy Cedar Rapids, Root will play the proud owner of an insurance company alongside Ed Helms, John C. Reilly and Anne Heche. On the other end of the spectrum, Robert Redford's historical drama, The Conspirator will see Root stepping into the role of a principal witness for the prosecution in the trial of supposed Confederate sympathizer, Mary Surratt, who is tried as a conspirator in the assassination of iconic President Abraham Lincoln. Almost a year ago, there was news about a remake of Bonnie and Clyde starring Hilary Duff and Kevin Zegers, but we thought the project had died because of how truly awful an idea it was. Apparently the project is still going strong as ScreenDaily reports have added Thora Birch »
- Ethan Anderton
17 November 2009 7:04 AM, PST | Slash Film | See recent Slash Film news »
Here's a big and very likely wholly unsubstantiated casting rumor to start the day: One of the UK tabloids is saying that Cillian Murphy is Danny Boyle's top choice to play Aron Ralston, the mountain climber at the center of his next film 127 Hours. That 'news' comes by way of News of the World, and is likely a scoop the paper got when they lined up photos of people who'd starred in previous Boyle films and had a blind guy throw darts. We're basically reporting this now as a means of saying 'don't buy it for a second'. After the break, new stuff for Anna Faris and a reminder that the crazy remake of Bonnie and Clyde didn't die quietly over the summer.Anna Faris will be in Wedding Banned, the Robin Williams romcom I mentioned back in August. She'll play the daughter of Williams. Plot has Faris being »
- Russ Fischer
11 November 2009 4:12 AM, PST | The Guardian - TV News | See recent The Guardian - TV News news »
Matt and Lilian are not Bonnie and Clyde, but rackety pensioners on the run. God bless their creaky knees
Costa Rica, which pretty much dozed off when Columbus left, awoke to find itself notorious when Matt and Lilian arrived one jump ahead of justice. "He's done a runner, hasn't he?" said Lilian's brother-in-law with audible satisfaction, as she sobbed down the phone from San Jose. Matt is looking at a stretch in Wormwood Scrubs and on the whole . . . give or take . . . after fairly sober consideration . . . well, a couple of scotches . . . would rather be in Costa Rica.
The place is a paradise for birds, mostly of a raucous and gaudy nature, like Lilian, but she took against it from the start. The wildlife, as advertised, was abundant, but seemed to be mostly coming up through the plughole. There were giant flying cockroaches in the shower, and a gecko on the balcony »
- Nancy Banks-Smith
4 November 2009 4:45 AM, PST | Extra | See recent Extra news »
"Extra" brings you AFI's 100 Best Movie Quotes of all time! From "The Wizard of Oz" to "Taxi Driver," see if your favorites made the list!
AFI's 100 Years...100 Movie QuotesGone with the Wind (1939)
“Frankly, my dear, I don't give a damn.” —Said by Clark Gable as Rhett Butler to Vivien Leigh as Scarlett O’Hara.
The Godfather (1972)
“I’m going to make him an offer he can’t refuse.” —Marlon Brando as Don Corleone.
On the Waterfront (1954)
“You don’t understand! »
2 November 2009 11:59 AM, PST | MTV Newsroom | See recent MTV Newsroom news »
When you're a huge star, sometimes it may seem like every day is Halloween: the elaborate clothes, the constant need to perform, the surreal mix of flash bulbs and eerie silence. That didn't stop a bevy of musicians and actors from hopping into a costume and heading out to high-profile Halloween parties. Top prize goes to Mariah Carey and Nick Cannon, who showed up to the party at New York's M2 Ultra Lounge dressed as angels (likely a play on Carey's recent album title Memoirs of an Imperfect Angel).
Ice-t and his wife Coco took a different tactic when coming up with their couple-centric costume, as they decided to pose as a dominatrix and a gimp at the same party in New York. A few blocks away, the Heroes vs. Villains party at the Gramercy Park Hotel saw appearances from Cat de Luna (who came as Medusa) and Alexa Chung and Agyness Deyn, »
- Kyle Anderson
29 October 2009 6:26 PM, PDT | BroadwayWorld.com | See recent BroadwayWorld.com news »
For Photos from the concert, click here.
Santa Ana, CA—On Saturday, October 24, the Make-a-Wish Foundation of Orange County and the Inland Empire, a non-profit organization dedicated to granting the wishes of children with life-threatening medical conditions, threw a star-studded benefit concert that showcased unforgettable performances by some of the hottest talents on Broadway. The concert, Broadway Wishes, took place at the beautiful Oc Pavilion Performing Arts Theater located in Santa Ana,CA.
The one-night-only concert featured an unprecedented cast roster of star after star: Tony® nominee Laura Bell Bundy (Legally Blonde, Hairspray, Wicked), Laura Osnes (Grease, South Pacific, upcoming Bonnie and Clyde), Megan Hilty (Wicked, 9 to 5), Kate Shindle (Legally Blonde, Cabaret, Jeckyll & Hyde), Norm Lewis (The Little Mermaid, Les Misérables, Chicago, Miss Saigon), Tim Howar (Rent, Tonight's The Night), and Eden Espinosa (Wicked, Brooklyn, Rent). The concert featured Espinosa and Hilty reuniting for the first time on the same stage since L. »
29 October 2009 2:00 PM, PDT | JustPressPlay.net | See recent JustPressPlay news »
Natural Born Killers is the black sheep of the Oliver Stone filmography. Though it has received some critical acclaim, it has never received the same treatment as Stone’s more prestigious films like Platoon, Born on The Fourth of July and JFK. This comes from a host of factors. First, at the time of its release, the movie ironically became the primary target for a movement against violence in television and film. Second, and more importantly, it doesn’t really feel like an Oliver Stone film. Stone’s films are typically epic and historic, larger than life in their content and the lessons they teach. Nbk is larger than life too, but in a very different way. It attacks our sensibility about culture and the way we sense things. It tests our understanding of good and evil by proposing that no one is good.
The film follows Micky (Woody Harrelson »
- Michael Epstein
22 October 2009 7:59 PM, PDT | HollywoodChicago.com | See recent HollywoodChicago.com news »
Chicago – Oliver Stone’s “Natural Born Killers” is easily one of the best films of the ’90s, an experimental, daring, visually mesmerizing study of not just violence but America’s obsession with it. At the peak of his directorial abilities, one of the best filmmakers of the ’80s and ’90s turned his lens on the way we turn evil people into tabloid heroes and he did it with such vibrant style that “Nbk” has just as much resonance as it did fifteen years ago.
Blu-Ray Rating: 4.5/5.0
Woody Harrelson and Juliette Lewis star as Mickey and Mallory Knox, a pair of love-crossed serial killers who have upgraded the exploits of Bonnie and Clyde for a new generation. Their dark pasts of fire and gasoline have exploded into the kind of story that journalists and TV shows dream about. Robert Downey Jr. co-stars as a journalist whose attention feed the murders of »
- adam@hollywoodchicago.com (Adam Fendelman)
22 October 2009 3:53 AM, PDT | Cinemaretro.com | See recent CinemaRetro news »
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By Peter DeMarco
On our second date in my studio apartment, my wife shared her spaghetti dinner with a decaying corpse who had just climbed out of his grave.
This not-for-the-squeamish image was from the 1972 horror anthology Tales from the Crypt, which also featured a skull with cobwebs in its black eye socket. Dirty Harry’s, .44 magnum pointed at her from another wall, while a hand beckoned her into 1973’s The Vault of Horror.
You’re an unusual decorator, she’d said. I told her it was only art. That I wasn’t the Starry Night type.
The rest of my 350 square foot apartment was consumed with over 25 framed pieces of movie memorabilia from the 1970s, horrifying and violent artwork which symbolized, paradoxically, the nostalgia I felt for the innocence of my movie-going youth. Equinox. Race with the Devil. Westworld. Straw Dogs. »
- nospam@example.com (Cinema Retro)
15 October 2009 1:19 AM, PDT | Rope of Silicon | See recent Rope Of Silicon news »
I know the whole "I was into it before everyone else was" attitude is a hipster-douche move, but I don't care. I saw Fight Club opening night, because I anticipated it more than any other film of 1999 other than The Phantom Menace. After Seven and The Game, director David Fincher was pure gold in my book. So was Edward Norton. And then there was that fantastic trailer set to The Pixies' "Where is My Mind?"
I went with a large group of buddies in a half-empty theater, and to say the least in the most pun-intended, cliche-ridden manner possible: The film knocked us on our collective asses. Yes, thematically it's slightly muddled, but it's a masterpiece of craftsmanship; it's still the apex of visceral, music-video filmmaking (that is not a backhanded compliment). And arguably, the last ten seconds of the movie -- when "Where is My Mind?" starts humming on »
- David Frank
14 October 2009 10:16 AM, PDT | TVovermind.com | See recent TVovermind.com news »
Who remembers the Halloween episode from the original Beverly Hills, 90210 in the second season, when Donna dressed up as a mermaid and couldn't move, Brenda and Dylan went as Bonnie and Clyde and Kelly went as a slutty witch and got attacked by a creep? I don't know why, but I loved that episode. It had mermaids And important information about date rape. I don't know if the new 90210 Halloween episode will be as awesome, but we've got a synopsis and promo photos for you.
Jennie Garth And Ann Gillespie Guest Star In The Halloween- Themed Episode — It’s Halloween at the Beverly Hills Beach Club and Adrianna (Jessica Lowndes) channels Marilyn Monroe to help her deal with the end of her relationship with Navid (Michael Steger). Silver (Jessica Stroup) and Kelly (Jennie Garth) continue to have differing opinions about caring for Jackie (Ann Gillespie).
Silver is overloaded with school »
- clarissa
7 October 2009 1:13 PM, PDT | Filmicafe | See recent Filmicafe news »
Irving Penn, whose photographs revealed a taste for stark simplicity whether he was shooting celebrity portraits, fashion, still life or remote places of the world, died Wednesday at his Manhattan home. He was 92.The death was announced by his photo assistant, Roger Krueger."He never stopped working," said Peter MacGill, a longtime friend whose Pace-MacGill Galleries in Manhattan represented Penn's work. "He would go back to similar subjects and never see them the same way twice."Penn, who constantly explored the photographic medium and its boundaries, typically preferred to isolate his subjects . from fashion models to Aborigine tribesmen . from their natural settings to photograph them in a studio against a stark background. He believed the studio could most closely capture their true natures.Between 1964 and 1971, he completed seven such projects, his subjects ranging from New Guinea mud men to San Francisco hippies.Penn also had a »
21 September 2009 9:10 PM, PDT | CinemaSpy | See recent CinemaSpy news »
That Michael Caine is such a rascal. Earlier this month, the English thespian claimed he read somewhere that Johnny Depp and Philip Seymour Hoffman are being considered as the Riddler and the Penguin, respectively, in the next Batman movie. Now in an interview with MTV.com, Caine does a 180-degree turn.
"There is nobody, there's no script, there's nothing," Caine said about the follow-up to The Dark Knight. He added that it could not possibly be made prior to 2011 because Inception, the next project from Batman Begins and Dark Knight director Christopher Nolan, is "such a big picture."
The actor, currently promoting his upcoming thriller Harry Brown, played Batman/Bruce Wayne’s butler and confidant Alfred Pennyworth in both revamped Batman movies. Although Caine remains very interested in where the franchise goes next, ever since he spoke out about Depp and Hoffman’s possible involvement, he’s been effectively cut off. »
17 September 2009 8:44 AM, PDT | t5m.com | See recent t5m.com news »
Would it be presumptuous of me to imagine that I have a contingent of enthusiastic readers who have been worried by my recent absence from the hypertext format? I picture vast swathes of cine-literate blog readers staring distractedly out of their office windows wondering what has become of the eponymous Nicholas Deigman. I am, of course, joking; but as there is technically a minute possibility that this is in fact the case, I begin this post with a heart-felt apology for my recent absence. I have spent the past few weeks researching the great, unchartered frontier of cross-platform, multi-media marketing and distribution. I am currently working for an exciting distribution and exhibition company, Future Shorts Ltd, which organizes monthly short film festivals across the globe, and also organizes the much-hyped Secret Cinema events. In my travels I have come across some fascinating new platforms for film marketing and distribution. But »
- Nicholas Deigman
11 September 2009 10:57 PM, PDT | MTV Music News | See recent MTV Music News news »
Beyoncé, Mary J. Blige, John Mayer, Pharrell, Kid Cudi and Santigold also join Hov onstage at Madison Square Garden.
By Shaheem Reid
Kanye West, Jay-z and Rihanna perform in NYC Friday night
Photo: Kevin Mazur/ Getty Images
New York — Jay-z returned to Madison Square Garden on Friday night (September 11) and left no question about who is running the Big Apple.
Diddy, Pharrell, John Mayer, Mary J. Blige, Kid Cudi, Santigold and Beyoncé were among those who joined him onstage at the "Answer the Call" benefit concert. The proceeds from the show will benefit families who lost loved ones in the 9/11 tragedy. The overwhelming guest spot of the night was, hands down, the first live performance of "Run This Town" with Rihanna and Kanye West.
Before performing the song, Jay addressed the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks.
"They believed that it would weaken us; they were sadly mistaken," he said. "I saw the »
9 September 2009 2:31 PM, PDT | HollywoodNorthReport.com | See recent HollywoodNorthReport.com news »
Hnr's Michael Stevens reporting from Toronto: Thanks go out to Martin & Ingrid's Tiff 09 Kick-Off Party, Wednesday, September 9th @ the Gat + M.Link Festival headquarters in downtown Toronto's Yorkville, providing select wines from Bryan J. Robertson's Kingsway Brokerage Ltd., on behalf of Wild Bunch, Elle Driver, Celluloid Dreams, Film&Doc, Capri Films, The Works International & UMedia, supporting the following films screening at this year's Toronto International Film Festival: Contemporary Cinema : Rabia directed by Sebastian Cordero, will screen a world premiere with Cordero in attendance. "...South American immigrants working in Spain, builder José María and housekeeper Rosa have been together for a few weeks and are very much in love. Rosa's bosses, Señor and Señora Torres, leave their home on a trip, and the volatile José María spends a few days at the run-down mansion, fantasizing about what life with Rosa could be. When a violent confrontation with his foreman results in the other man's death, »
9 September 2009 4:00 AM, PDT | EW.com - PopWatch | See recent EW.com - PopWatch news »
Turner Classic Movies is honoring New York's Fashion Week with a list of the films it has deemed the most sartorially influential of all time. First, a look at their Top 15 (in chronological order): Pandora's Box (1929) Letty Lynton (1932) It Happened One Night (1934) Pat and Mike (1952) Rear Window (1954) Rebel Without a Cause (1955) And God Created Woman (1956) Auntie Mame (1958) Breakfast at Tiffany's (1961) Bonnie and Clyde (1967) The Thomas Crown Affair (1968) Shaft (1971) Annie Hall (1977) Saturday Night Fever (1977) Flashdance (1983) Most notable is the '50s- and '60s-heavy lineup -- which perhaps makes some sense, as films were likely the dominant way style was passed from Hollywood to the masses (as opposed to the TV, Us Weekly and internet of today). And there's no arguing with the likes of Breakfast at Tiffany's (which I would deem the most fashionable movie of all time), Bonnie and Clyde, Shaft, Annie Hall, Saturday Night Fever, and Flashdance. »
- Jennifer Armstrong
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