3 articles from 2008
23 July 2008 5:09 AM, PDT | From Rope Of Silicon | See recent Rope Of Silicon news
I am sure there are some child actors that have made the transformation from child star to adult star with relative ease. However, none of them are coming to mind at the moment and I still have echoes of Christian Bale from The Dark Knight interviews telling me, "I would definitely try and convince anyone in my family and near to me not to do so at such a young age." He is referring to a role he played in Stephen Spielberg's Empire of the Sun at the age of 13. Well, at the age of 11 Miley Cyrus had a role in Tim Burton's Big Fish and by the age of 14 she was Hannah Montana. Since then she has posed in racy photos for Vanity Fair and been seen online in photos many consider unbecoming for a girl her age. She is now 15-years-old and it seems she may
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Brad Brevet
16 June 2008 11:18 AM, PDT | From bloody-disgusting.com | See recent Bloody-Disgusting.com news
We were hit with a barrage of phone calls last night and this morning informing us that special effects and make-up guru Stan Winston has passed away Sunday, June 15 in Los Angeles, Ca. He was 62. Winston is best known for working on such legendary films as Terminator, Jurassic Park, Predator, The Entity, The Thing, Edward Scissorhands, Constantine, Terminator 3: Rise Of The Machines, Big Fish, Monster Squad, Congo, Darkness Falls, Jurassic Park: Lost World among many others. Winston won four Oscars in his career. The details of his passing have yet to be reported, we'll be updating you shortly.
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2 June 2008 7:35 AM, PDT | From ifc.com | See recent IFC news
By Neil Pedley
Among this week's offerings: The pregnancy comedy goes pre-natal, the fate of all the jungle rests in the hands of the world's most lethargic endangered species, and Dario Argento has a new film, rendering the rest of this list mostly unnecessary.
Author Harlan Ellison is widely regarded as one of the finest writers of the 20th century. He is also, as this documentary readily highlights, abrasive, petulant, egotistical and prone to fits of belligerent rage. Collecting together more than two decades worth of footage and interviews, "Grizzly Man" producer Erik Nelson lifts the dust jacket off one of literature's genuinely larger than life characters and a man who has filed more lawsuits than the Aclu, proving that sometimes truth really is stranger than fiction, even Ellison's sci-fi tales.
Opens in New York.
On paper, it sounds like the dictionary definition of
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Neil Pedley
3 articles from 2008