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Fall Frights: 28 Weeks Later (Film Review)

20 October 2009 12:15 AM, PDT | Fangoria | See recent Fangoria news »

In the spirit of Halloween '09, we're breaking out reviews (some new, some old) of some Fall Frights you may want to work into your monthly viewing.

Originally published, 05/01/2007

Sequels aren’t supposed to be as good as 28 Weeks Later, which does what more follow-ups should, and so few do: It uses the concepts introduced in its predecessor as the spine for a fresh dramatic story, instead of simply rehashing the elements that made the original work. In so doing, it manages at numerous points to be every bit as scary and intense as the original, while maintaining an even bleaker and more uncompromising outlook. This is not the kind of cinematic second helping that hedges its commercial bets by scaling back the confrontational stuff.

28 Weeks Later was directed and co-scripted by Spain’s Juan Carlos Fresnadillo, who won significant acclaim for his 2001 debut feature Intacto. I admired that film »

- no-reply@fangoria.com (Michael Gingold)

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Hollywood Film Festival to Honor Carey Mulligan and Jeremy Renner

22 September 2009 7:36 PM, PDT | MovieWeb | See recent MovieWeb news »

The 13th Annual Hollywood Film Festival and Hollywood Awards, presented by Starz, are pleased to announce honorees who will be recognized for their achievements at the festival's Hollywood Awards Gala Ceremony.

Actress Carey Mulligan will receive the "Hollywood Breakthrough Actress Award," actor Jeremy Renner will be honored with the "Hollywood Breakthrough Actor Award," director Lee Daniels will receive the "Hollywood Breakthrough Director Award," Gabourey 'Gabby' Sidibe will receive the "New Hollywood Award" and screenwriters Scott Neustadter and Michael H. Weber will be recognized with the "Hollywood Breakthrough Screenwriter Award."

The gala ceremony will take place at the Beverly Hilton Hotel in Beverly Hills on October 26, 2009. The announcement was made today by Carlos de Abreu, Founder and Executive Director of the Hollywood Film Festival. "These honorees have been steadily laying the groundwork of choice projects upon which to build their Hollywood careers, and this was their year to really stand out, »

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Catching Up With... The Hurt Locker's Jeremy Renner

4 August 2009 11:00 AM, PDT | Pastemagazine.com | See recent PasteMagazine news »

Ninety percent of all war movies can be summed up in three words: "War is hell." But for Jeremy Renner's character in The Hurt Locker, Staff Sargent William James, it's more than that. It's a purpose, a calling, and when he dons the suit—the bulky protective gear of the elite Explosive Ordinance Disposal (Eod) unit—it's also a rush. He's at his best when he's defusing bombs in Iraq. It's the rest of life that's difficult. Renner's intense portrayal has already earned him his second Independent Spirit Award Best Male Lead nomination (his first came in 2003 for his portrayal of the psycopath in Dahmer). He's also one of the stars of the new ABC series The Unusuals, and if the rumors are true, he'll be the new Mad Max. Paste sat down with Renner during his recent stop in Atlanta to discuss his time shooting The Hurt Locker »

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HollywoodChicago.com Hookup: 2 Signed ‘The Hurt Locker’ Posters With Star Jeremy Renner

7 July 2009 12:53 PM, PDT | HollywoodChicago.com | See recent HollywoodChicago.com news »

Chicago – In our latest edition of HollywoodChicago.com Hookup: Film, we have 2 signed “The Hurt Locker” posters by star Jeremy Renner and a few other cast members and filmmakers! “The Hurt Locker” stars Ralph Fiennes, Guy Pearce, Anthony Mackie, Brian Geraghty, David Morse, Evangeline Lilly and Christian Camargo.

“The Hurt Locker,” which opens on July 10, 2009 in Chicago, is the winner of the 2008 Venice Film Festival Signis Grand Prize. The film will be showing at AMC River East and Landmark’s Century Centre Cinema in Chicago as well as CineArts in Evanston, Ill.

To win your “The Hurt Locker” signed poster courtesy of HollywoodChicago.com, all you need to do is tell us your danger story in this Web-based submission form. That’s it! Directions to enter this HollywoodChicago.com Hookup and win can be found beneath the graphic below.

The movie poster for “The Hurt Locker” with Ralph Fiennes, Guy Pearce and Jeremy Renner. »

- adam@hollywoodchicago.com (Adam Fendelman)

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TV Review: ABC’s Quirky ‘The Unusuals’ Off to Promising Start

8 April 2009 10:15 AM, PDT | HollywoodChicago.com | See recent HollywoodChicago.com news »

Television Rating: 3.5/5.0 Chicago – After the failure of the underrated “Life on Mars,” ABC brings another bizarre cop show to the same timeslot called “The Unusuals”. Like the program it’s replacing, this is an intriguing premiere, a show with serious potential that just needs a bit of tinkering behind-the-scenes to become appointment television.

ABC has thrown several new shows up against the wall to see what sticks, including “Castle,” “Better Off Ted,” “In the Motherhood,” “Cupid,” “Surviving Suburbia,” and, now, “The Unusuals”. With “Castle” treading water and still needing improvement and the other new entries disappointing, “The Unusuals” is the clear frontrunner of the bunch.

The Unusuals

Photo credit: Bob D’Amico/ABC

An odd mixture of zany comedy and grounded drama, a blend that still needs a little more time in the TV writing Cuisinart, “The Unusuals” is not your average NYC cop show. The personality disorder of this »

- adam@hollywoodchicago.com (Adam Fendelman)

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