On the night of January 24, 2023, in Mississippi, six members of the Rankin County Sheriff’s Office kicked in the front door of a house without a warrant.
For an hour and a half, these Mississippi officers — members of the self-named Goon Squad — tortured two Black men, Eddie Parker and Michael Jenkins. These officers used stun guns on the men repeatedly while yelling racial slurs. They beat them with their fists and batons, and abused them with a sex toy. And then one of the cops shoved his gun in Mr.
For an hour and a half, these Mississippi officers — members of the self-named Goon Squad — tortured two Black men, Eddie Parker and Michael Jenkins. These officers used stun guns on the men repeatedly while yelling racial slurs. They beat them with their fists and batons, and abused them with a sex toy. And then one of the cops shoved his gun in Mr.
- 5/6/2024
- by Jason Flom
- Rollingstone.com
Chances are, if you’re familiar with the name Edward D. Wood, Jr., it’s thanks to Tim Burton’s delightful biopic, Ed Wood. Certainly, people were aware of the eccentric writer-director prior to the 1994 film, but Burton cast Wood in a whole new light, turning the quote-unquote “worst director of all time” into a lovable dreamer who wouldn’t let puny budgets, bad actors, or obnoxious producers impede his goals. Ed Wood gave us a reason to appreciate a man for whom making movies was the ultimate gratification, quality be damned. Settle into your favorite angora sweater, because we’re going to find out What Really Happened to Ed Wood.
To start off with the obvious, Wood’s real life wasn’t quite as peachy keen as the movie portrays. Tim Burton didn’t want to make a traditional biopic about the man, nor did the screenwriters, who based...
To start off with the obvious, Wood’s real life wasn’t quite as peachy keen as the movie portrays. Tim Burton didn’t want to make a traditional biopic about the man, nor did the screenwriters, who based...
- 10/19/2023
- by Chris Bumbray
- JoBlo.com
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Guy Ritchie’s “The Covenant,” after releasing in theaters in April, is now streaming on Amazon Prime Video. The wartime thriller is also available to rent for $5.99 or buy for $19.99.
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Directed by Guy Ritchie, “The Covenant” tells the story of John Kinley, played by Jake Gyllenhaal, a U.S. Army Master Sgt. who risks his life to save a local interpreter named Ahmed (Dar Salim...
Guy Ritchie’s “The Covenant,” after releasing in theaters in April, is now streaming on Amazon Prime Video. The wartime thriller is also available to rent for $5.99 or buy for $19.99.
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Directed by Guy Ritchie, “The Covenant” tells the story of John Kinley, played by Jake Gyllenhaal, a U.S. Army Master Sgt. who risks his life to save a local interpreter named Ahmed (Dar Salim...
- 9/25/2023
- by Rudie Obias
- Variety Film + TV
I’m not sure why director Guy Ritchie has his name in the title of his latest film, but because this is I think the best Ritchie movie I have seen, I will pass up the chance to snark at the only misstep in Guy Ritchie’s The Covenant. It about as exciting, gripping and moving as war films get — especially one set in the murky Afghanistan conflict in which the U.S. found itself immersed for more than two decades.
This smartly focuses on two men, the apparently iconic U.S. Army Sgt. John Kinley (Jake Gyllenhaal) and his Afghan interpreter Ahmed (Dar Salim). And no, this is not based on real people, at least not by name, but rather is a fictional account of what many involved in that war went through, and in the case of the interpreters, still are going through (the film’s end credits state...
This smartly focuses on two men, the apparently iconic U.S. Army Sgt. John Kinley (Jake Gyllenhaal) and his Afghan interpreter Ahmed (Dar Salim). And no, this is not based on real people, at least not by name, but rather is a fictional account of what many involved in that war went through, and in the case of the interpreters, still are going through (the film’s end credits state...
- 4/19/2023
- by Pete Hammond
- Deadline Film + TV
Ride ’em, rope ’em, bite ’em? Is this ‘Dracula Goes West,’ or ‘Fangs of the High Chapparal?’ The fading Universal-International house of horrors squeaks out a bizarre horror item that one sits through just out of curiosity… are these people serious? We respect the professionalism of Michael Pate, Kathleen Crowley and Bruce Gordon as they give their all to a dead horse of a concept. A threadbare production stages us vampiric action so tame that it’s toothless, figuratively and literally. Critical snipers suggest that the whole thing might have been some kind of in-house joke — if so, where are the laughs?
Curse of the Undead
Blu-ray
Kl Studio Classics
1959 /B&w / 1:85 widescreen / 79 min. / Street Date October 6, 2020 / available through Kino Lorber / 24.95
Starring: Eric Fleming, Michael Pate, Kathleen Crowley, John Hoyt, Bruce Gordon, Edward Binns, Jimmy Murphy, Helen Kleeb, Jay Adler, Eddie Parker, Don Sullivan.
Cinematography: Ellis W. Carter
Film...
Curse of the Undead
Blu-ray
Kl Studio Classics
1959 /B&w / 1:85 widescreen / 79 min. / Street Date October 6, 2020 / available through Kino Lorber / 24.95
Starring: Eric Fleming, Michael Pate, Kathleen Crowley, John Hoyt, Bruce Gordon, Edward Binns, Jimmy Murphy, Helen Kleeb, Jay Adler, Eddie Parker, Don Sullivan.
Cinematography: Ellis W. Carter
Film...
- 9/29/2020
- by Glenn Erickson
- Trailers from Hell
Not enough love is set aside for this ambitious, under-budgeted Lost Civilization epic. John Agar and Cynthia Patrick find love in an ancient albino race that worships a Death Ray and enslaves a race of Subterranean Humanoid Underground Dwellers — Mole Men, what else? It’s unconvincing and the production lacks polish, but it’s also got clever story gimmicks and sympathetic monsters, so it gets a warm reception at CineSavant Central.
The Mole People
Blu-ray
Scream Factory
1956 / B&W / 1.85:1 + 2:1 widescreen / 77 min. / Street Date February 26, 2019 / 27.99
Starring: John Agar, Cynthia Patrick, Hugh Beaumont, Alan Napier, Nestor Paiva, Phil Chambers, Rodd Redwing, Robin Hughes, Frank Baxter, Eddie Parker.
Cinematography: Ellis W. Carter
Film Editor: Irving Birnbaum
Mask Maker: Jack Kevan
Special Photography: Clifford Stine
Written by László Görög
Produced by William Alland
Directed by Virgil Vogel
“Mole Hole, Mole Hole — A land of renown!
Iraq is Up and Sumeria’s down!
The Mole People
Blu-ray
Scream Factory
1956 / B&W / 1.85:1 + 2:1 widescreen / 77 min. / Street Date February 26, 2019 / 27.99
Starring: John Agar, Cynthia Patrick, Hugh Beaumont, Alan Napier, Nestor Paiva, Phil Chambers, Rodd Redwing, Robin Hughes, Frank Baxter, Eddie Parker.
Cinematography: Ellis W. Carter
Film Editor: Irving Birnbaum
Mask Maker: Jack Kevan
Special Photography: Clifford Stine
Written by László Görög
Produced by William Alland
Directed by Virgil Vogel
“Mole Hole, Mole Hole — A land of renown!
Iraq is Up and Sumeria’s down!
- 2/26/2019
- by Glenn Erickson
- Trailers from Hell
The Ann Arbor Film Festival celebrates its epic 53rd annual edition on March 24-29 with a colossal selection of experimental short films and features.
Feature film highlights include the documentary Speculation Nation by regular collaborators Bill Brown and Sabine Gruffat, which examines the recent Spanish housing crisis; a new ethnographic doc by Ben Russell, Greetings to the Ancestors, which plunges deep into the culture of South Africa; and Jenni Olson’s grand California study The Royal Road.
Short film highlights include the much anticipated new film by Jennifer Reeder, Blood Below the Skin, a narrative following a week in the dramatic and romantic lives of three teenage girls; a new music video by Mike Olenick called Beautiful Things with music by The Wet Things; new animations by Don Hertzfeldt, World of Tomorrow, and Lewis Klahr, Mars Garden; plus new experimental work by Vanessa Renwick, Peggy Ahwesh and Zachary Epcar.
Special...
Feature film highlights include the documentary Speculation Nation by regular collaborators Bill Brown and Sabine Gruffat, which examines the recent Spanish housing crisis; a new ethnographic doc by Ben Russell, Greetings to the Ancestors, which plunges deep into the culture of South Africa; and Jenni Olson’s grand California study The Royal Road.
Short film highlights include the much anticipated new film by Jennifer Reeder, Blood Below the Skin, a narrative following a week in the dramatic and romantic lives of three teenage girls; a new music video by Mike Olenick called Beautiful Things with music by The Wet Things; new animations by Don Hertzfeldt, World of Tomorrow, and Lewis Klahr, Mars Garden; plus new experimental work by Vanessa Renwick, Peggy Ahwesh and Zachary Epcar.
Special...
- 3/24/2015
- by Mike Everleth
- Underground Film Journal
Marc Buxton Oct 11, 2019
You can probably guess which Mummy movie Isn't on this list!
Throughout horror movie history, mummies have seemed like the forgotten classic monster. Lumbering around, covered in bandages, they don’t have the literary cache of Frankenstein’s Monster or the sexual appeal of Dracula. But mummies have a historical edge, a faded part of lost empires, angry at the modern world, desperately longing for the days of their past glories and lost loves.
Despite years of monstrous marginalization, mummies can be and in many cases have been really freakin’ scary and are worthy of recognition in horrordom. In fact, when Universal Studios tried (and failed...miserably) to relaunch its pantheon of monsters into a Marvel-inspired shared universe, they looked to The Mummy to kick it all off.
Allow us to celebrate the Mummy with the 13 greatest Mummy films ever produced. These are the films that...
You can probably guess which Mummy movie Isn't on this list!
Throughout horror movie history, mummies have seemed like the forgotten classic monster. Lumbering around, covered in bandages, they don’t have the literary cache of Frankenstein’s Monster or the sexual appeal of Dracula. But mummies have a historical edge, a faded part of lost empires, angry at the modern world, desperately longing for the days of their past glories and lost loves.
Despite years of monstrous marginalization, mummies can be and in many cases have been really freakin’ scary and are worthy of recognition in horrordom. In fact, when Universal Studios tried (and failed...miserably) to relaunch its pantheon of monsters into a Marvel-inspired shared universe, they looked to The Mummy to kick it all off.
Allow us to celebrate the Mummy with the 13 greatest Mummy films ever produced. These are the films that...
- 10/1/2014
- Den of Geek
Some of the biggest talent in Hollywood made their way to the Met Gala held at the Metropolitan Museum of Art Monday, May 6, in New York City, and put their punk looks to the test. Some may have dressed down, but others went out of their way to make a statement with big hair and eye makeup. Check out our list of the best dressed of the evening. Some stars include Nina Dobrev, Sienna Miller, and Katie Holmes.
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As always, Nina Dobrev stunned on the red carpet. She sure knows how to keep in character when off set of The Vampire Diaries. (Monique Lhuiller dress, Rupert Sanderson shoes, Kimberley McDonald ring, Eddie Parker clutch)
Rooney Mara looked stunning with dark lips and a white gown, and was one of the first stars to hit the red carpet. (Givenchy dress)
Many may...
| Related: The Worst Dressed List From The Met Gala |
As always, Nina Dobrev stunned on the red carpet. She sure knows how to keep in character when off set of The Vampire Diaries. (Monique Lhuiller dress, Rupert Sanderson shoes, Kimberley McDonald ring, Eddie Parker clutch)
Rooney Mara looked stunning with dark lips and a white gown, and was one of the first stars to hit the red carpet. (Givenchy dress)
Many may...
- 5/7/2013
- by Stephanie Webber
- Celebsology
As has been noted many times before, by me and others, the Wavelengths series of the Toronto International Film Festival is like a festival unto itself. So far removed from the red carpet nonsense, the deal-making, and the me-firstism of web journalists hoping to hit the Web with their initial impressions of some new Bryce Dallas Howard vehicle, Wavelengths affords breathing room to cinema and video at its most formally adventurous and, yes, uncommercial. We come here to look and listen, not to look “at” or listen “to,” and if that sounds hopelessly pretentious, come on down to the Jackman Hall and see for yourself. It’s actually quite cleansing, often funny, and a guaranteed good time, at least in part. (Short films are like the weather in my hometown of Houston, Texas. Don’t like it? Wait a moment. It’ll change.)
Sadly, Wavelengths 2011 will be the final year for series curator Andréa Picard.
Sadly, Wavelengths 2011 will be the final year for series curator Andréa Picard.
- 9/8/2011
- MUBI
What follows is the Toronto International Film Festival's announcement of the lineup for Wavelengths, its avant-garde program. To reiterate, the text comes from the festival, which runs from September 9 through 18. See, too, the lineups for Visions, Contemporary World Cinema, Future Projections and the Galas and Special Presentations; entries on further programs are on the way — as are links and notes on this one.
Wavelengths 1: Analogue Arcadia. As celluloid threatens to disappear altogether, Wavelengths launches with a celebratory and elegiac program comprised of doomed desire, vanishing worlds and a love of analogue. Wavelengths launches with a rare screening of Tacita Dean's Edwin Parker (USA/United Kingdom — courtesy of the Marion Goodman Gallery), an intimate portrait of Cy Twombly, one of the great artistic geniuses of the past century. The film's inclusion in the Festival has been exclusively made possible in honour of Twombly, who died on July 5. Dean is...
Wavelengths 1: Analogue Arcadia. As celluloid threatens to disappear altogether, Wavelengths launches with a celebratory and elegiac program comprised of doomed desire, vanishing worlds and a love of analogue. Wavelengths launches with a rare screening of Tacita Dean's Edwin Parker (USA/United Kingdom — courtesy of the Marion Goodman Gallery), an intimate portrait of Cy Twombly, one of the great artistic geniuses of the past century. The film's inclusion in the Festival has been exclusively made possible in honour of Twombly, who died on July 5. Dean is...
- 8/16/2011
- MUBI
After three separate announcements (here, here and here), the Toronto International Film Festival has announced the final line-up for their Galas and Special Presentations, as well as a few other categories. Most notable is Andrea Arnold‘s Fish Tank follow-up Wuthering Heights, the next film from Timecrimes director Nacho Vigalondo, as well as Dogtooth director Yorgos Lanthimos’ Alps.
We also get Whit Stillman‘s Damsels in Distress starring Greta Gerwig and Geoffrey Fletcher’s Violet & Daisy starring Saoirse Ronan and James Gandolfini. In what should be a little fun we have Gary McKendry‘s Killer Elite starring Robert De Niro, Clive Owen and Jason Statham. We also get Owen’s horror flick Intruders and Joel Schumacher‘s Trespass starring Nicole Kidman and Nicolas Cage. Check out the full line-ups below.
Galas
Closing Night Film
Page Eight David Hare, United Kingdom
International Premiere
Johnny Worricker (Bill Nighy) is a long-serving M15 officer.
We also get Whit Stillman‘s Damsels in Distress starring Greta Gerwig and Geoffrey Fletcher’s Violet & Daisy starring Saoirse Ronan and James Gandolfini. In what should be a little fun we have Gary McKendry‘s Killer Elite starring Robert De Niro, Clive Owen and Jason Statham. We also get Owen’s horror flick Intruders and Joel Schumacher‘s Trespass starring Nicole Kidman and Nicolas Cage. Check out the full line-ups below.
Galas
Closing Night Film
Page Eight David Hare, United Kingdom
International Premiere
Johnny Worricker (Bill Nighy) is a long-serving M15 officer.
- 8/16/2011
- by jpraup@gmail.com (thefilmstage.com)
- The Film Stage
A shared fixation with the passing of time inspired the British visual artist to make a film about veteran painter Cy Twombly
In Tacita Dean's new filmed portrait Edwin Parker, the painter Cy Twombly is espied in his everyday life. Edwin Parker is Twombly's given name, Cy an inherited family nickname. The title of Dean's film implies intimacy, an encounter with the man behind the myth. It is indeed a rare insight. There are no classic old South Bank Show interviews with Twombly to watch, or anything like that, for he has always shunned publicity. Yet in Dean's film he seems totally unselfconscious as he thinks, quietly speaks, and contemplates his sculptures in a cramped studio looking out – through blinds – on trees and traffic in Lexington, Virginia, where he was born in 1928 and now spends part of each year.
The question is – why does Twombly matter to Tacita Dean?...
In Tacita Dean's new filmed portrait Edwin Parker, the painter Cy Twombly is espied in his everyday life. Edwin Parker is Twombly's given name, Cy an inherited family nickname. The title of Dean's film implies intimacy, an encounter with the man behind the myth. It is indeed a rare insight. There are no classic old South Bank Show interviews with Twombly to watch, or anything like that, for he has always shunned publicity. Yet in Dean's film he seems totally unselfconscious as he thinks, quietly speaks, and contemplates his sculptures in a cramped studio looking out – through blinds – on trees and traffic in Lexington, Virginia, where he was born in 1928 and now spends part of each year.
The question is – why does Twombly matter to Tacita Dean?...
- 6/29/2011
- by Jonathan Jones
- The Guardian - Film News
Tana leaves brewing in the microwave, I spent seven days in full-on Mummy mode. It was such a dead-Egyptian-walking time for me that I considered binding myself in stray Band-aids before taking a nap, but, no, That would be crazy. Isn’t sipping hot, steaming tana leaves tea—with natural, Mummy-controlling powers—enough?
I’ve always been fascinated by The Mummy, that 1932 Universal picture starring Boris Karloff as the venerable Imhotep, resurrected by an inopportune reading of the life-giving Scroll of Thoth—first seen (however briefly) in slow-motion, wrapped-up Mummyness, later all parchment-faced, leathery, dried-out humanity as “Ardath Bey.” In this form, fez-topped Bey prefers “not to be touched,” because, of course, he might fall apart and break into ancient dust if someone should give his hand a good shaking.
Even today, I can remember when I first saw that fantasy film at age 10. I had spent most of Saturday...
I’ve always been fascinated by The Mummy, that 1932 Universal picture starring Boris Karloff as the venerable Imhotep, resurrected by an inopportune reading of the life-giving Scroll of Thoth—first seen (however briefly) in slow-motion, wrapped-up Mummyness, later all parchment-faced, leathery, dried-out humanity as “Ardath Bey.” In this form, fez-topped Bey prefers “not to be touched,” because, of course, he might fall apart and break into ancient dust if someone should give his hand a good shaking.
Even today, I can remember when I first saw that fantasy film at age 10. I had spent most of Saturday...
- 10/27/2009
- by no-reply@starlog.com (David McDonnell)
- Starlog
Editor’S Note: This is one of several interviews, conducted via email, with directors whose films are screening at the 2009 Tribeca Film Festival. “Vegas: Based on a True Story” (World Narrative Feature Competition) Director: Amir Naderi Screenwriters: Amir Naderi, Susan Brennan, Bliss Esposito, Charlie Lake Keaton Cast: Mark Greenfield, Nancy La Scala, Zach Thomas, Walt Turner, Alexis Hart, Cathy Leach Synopsis: Eddie Parker, his wife Tracy, and their 12-year-old son Mitch …...
- 4/16/2009
- indieWIRE - People
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