Luann de Lesseps' decision to file for divorce from Tom D'Agostino was something we all saw coming. The marriage was doomed from the start, considering he was involved in a cheating scandal just days after the pair got engaged. It also didn't help that the duration of their seven-month marriage was plagued with all sorts of gossip about Tom still being unfaithful. While the fate of their marriage was sadly predictable, it is not known what exact event prompted Luann to call it quits.
- 8/31/2017
- by editor@buddytv.com
- buddytv.com
You are who you are unless you aren't.
Tom felt a strong connection to Kevin Jensen on The Blacklist: Redemption Season 1 Episode 2, but it was probably due more to their ways with deception than their possible shared childhood.
Tom is trying to understand his past and as each case comes up, he learns a little something new.
This time around, he learned that the subject of their rescue was a former childhood friend of Christopher Hargrave. Had Christopher not died, then perhaps they'd still be friends to this day.
That is...if Tom really is Christopher Hargrave.
There weren't a lot of answers thrown out this week to answer that question other than Scottie's videos of a young Christopher.
I don't know about you guys, but don't you think she would just know if Tom is her kid?
I pondered that for a short time. If I was separated from...
Tom felt a strong connection to Kevin Jensen on The Blacklist: Redemption Season 1 Episode 2, but it was probably due more to their ways with deception than their possible shared childhood.
Tom is trying to understand his past and as each case comes up, he learns a little something new.
This time around, he learned that the subject of their rescue was a former childhood friend of Christopher Hargrave. Had Christopher not died, then perhaps they'd still be friends to this day.
That is...if Tom really is Christopher Hargrave.
There weren't a lot of answers thrown out this week to answer that question other than Scottie's videos of a young Christopher.
I don't know about you guys, but don't you think she would just know if Tom is her kid?
I pondered that for a short time. If I was separated from...
- 3/3/2017
- by Lisa Babick
- TVfanatic
Bad news for Patriots running back James White -- he's Not getting Tom Brady's Super Bowl Mvp truck ... because the Super Bowl Mvp didn't get one this year! Of course, Brady Did get an Mvp truck after Super Bowl 49 which he gave to Malcolm Butler -- back when Chevy was the Super Bowl Mvp sponsor. The Qb told the media on Monday that he would give his Super Bowl 51 truck to James White...
- 2/7/2017
- by TMZ Staff
- TMZ
Will the Sur staff (past and present) ever learn how to act like normal human beings?
If Vanderpump Rules Season 5 Episode 1 is any indication, the answer is hell no, and the world should be grateful for this group of 30 somethings that aren't afraid to put themselves out there. Way out there.
The first thing that stood out during the premiere is Tom Sandoval’s horrible highlights. Are they pink? Are they white? Did someone sneak into his room in the middle of the night and dye his hair against his will? He is also the one who brought up the infamous Ok Magazine party.
The Ok Magazine party has become the Sur Christmas party.
Tom Sandoval Permalink: The Ok Magazine party has become the Sur Christmas party. Added: November 07, 2016
I wonder if the people working at the local Chill’s can say the same.
Speaking of Sur, Lala is back working as a hostess,...
If Vanderpump Rules Season 5 Episode 1 is any indication, the answer is hell no, and the world should be grateful for this group of 30 somethings that aren't afraid to put themselves out there. Way out there.
The first thing that stood out during the premiere is Tom Sandoval’s horrible highlights. Are they pink? Are they white? Did someone sneak into his room in the middle of the night and dye his hair against his will? He is also the one who brought up the infamous Ok Magazine party.
The Ok Magazine party has become the Sur Christmas party.
Tom Sandoval Permalink: The Ok Magazine party has become the Sur Christmas party. Added: November 07, 2016
I wonder if the people working at the local Chill’s can say the same.
Speaking of Sur, Lala is back working as a hostess,...
- 11/8/2016
- by Sarah Hearon
- TVfanatic
Life rarely allows anyone to resolve their conflicts without bittersweet consequences, no matter how heroic their actions are in battle.
Cno Captain Tom Chandler is no exception, despite his bravest efforts to protect the world's remaining survivors, from both natural causes and each other.
The Chief of Naval Operations proved yet again what a stunning leader he is throughout The Last Ship Season 3 Episode 13.
During the third season finale of TNT's hit post-apocalyptic series, it was satisfying to watch Tom be the person who finally was able to stop Allison's reign of terror at home in America.
When The Last Ship Season 1 launched in summer 2014, the former Nathan James captain proved he was the world's savior as he fought to help find and spread the cure for the virus.
So it was only natural that he would be the person who secured America's revival in Season 3's final episode,...
Cno Captain Tom Chandler is no exception, despite his bravest efforts to protect the world's remaining survivors, from both natural causes and each other.
The Chief of Naval Operations proved yet again what a stunning leader he is throughout The Last Ship Season 3 Episode 13.
During the third season finale of TNT's hit post-apocalyptic series, it was satisfying to watch Tom be the person who finally was able to stop Allison's reign of terror at home in America.
When The Last Ship Season 1 launched in summer 2014, the former Nathan James captain proved he was the world's savior as he fought to help find and spread the cure for the virus.
So it was only natural that he would be the person who secured America's revival in Season 3's final episode,...
- 9/12/2016
- by Karen Benardello
- TVfanatic
One would assume that Joshua Marston’s Complete Unknown might elicit feelings of invigorated freedom – Assume, I repeat. At some point in our lives, we’ve all dreamt about starting over. Hitting the “Eject” button amidst our daily routine, and trying out a different lifestyle that could have been. This is the crux of Marston’s story (co-written by Julian Sheppard), but whatever message is trying to be conveyed (Being happy with one life? Not being afraid to start over somewhere else?) desperately gets lost in translation. Like, Sylvester Stallone trying to communicate with a Japanese businessman. Movies are supposed to make you feel something, but unfortunately, my screening ended with a sense of frustration, confusion and zero sympathetic charms – a deadly trifecta for any indie drama.
Michael Shannon stars as Tom, who’s about to spend the night celebrating his birthday with a group of close friends. They all gather at Tom’s apartment,...
Michael Shannon stars as Tom, who’s about to spend the night celebrating his birthday with a group of close friends. They all gather at Tom’s apartment,...
- 8/22/2016
- by Matt Donato
- We Got This Covered
If you set aside the yelling and the recrimination, LuAnn de Lesseps was basically in the exact same mood in Wednesday night's episode of The Real Housewives of New York City as she was last week, when everyone had cornered her.
She was just as energized and excited, but giddy instead of angry.
That's because Tom, the man she has been seeing – for four weeks or six? the women didn't seem to agree – is her "soulmate" and the two are in love and getting married. De Lesseps announced this to several other cast members, each time with a look of...
She was just as energized and excited, but giddy instead of angry.
That's because Tom, the man she has been seeing – for four weeks or six? the women didn't seem to agree – is her "soulmate" and the two are in love and getting married. De Lesseps announced this to several other cast members, each time with a look of...
- 6/16/2016
- by Adam Carlson, @acarlson91
- People.com - TV Watch
If you set aside the yelling and the recrimination, LuAnn de Lesseps was basically in the exact same mood in Wednesday night's episode of The Real Housewives of New York City as she was last week, when everyone had cornered her. She was just as energized and excited, but giddy instead of angry. That's because Tom, the man she has been seeing - for four weeks or six? the women didn't seem to agree - is her "soulmate" and the two are in love and getting married. De Lesseps announced this to several other cast members, each time with a...
- 6/16/2016
- by Adam Carlson, @acarlson91
- PEOPLE.com
Tom Cruise has decided to leave Los Angeles because he's saying goodbye to the estate he called home for nearly a decade. Our real estate spies tell us ... Tom has sold the 10,000 square foot mansion he shared with Katie Holmes for $40 million. He was asking $45 mil but no takers at that price. Tom still cashed in ... he bought the pad from real estate guru Kurt Rappaport -- who owed it back in 2007 -- for $32.5 mil.
- 5/17/2016
- by TMZ Staff
- TMZ
If you're in the market for a Jimmy Garoppolo card, you shoulda bought it last week -- 'cause the Tom Brady backup's trading card is Skyrocketing! Ever since Brady was suspended ... Garoppolo's been a hot commodity, and not just for Bill Belichick. TMZ Sports found out his signed rookie card is worth more than 100 times what it was before Tom got nailed. A rep for Comc -- a top online auction site -- tells us...
- 5/13/2015
- by TMZ Staff
- TMZ
This week on "The Blacklist," Raymond Reddington worked tirelessly to track down his enemies (and blew up a yacht while doing so -- no bigs), while his kinda-maybe-sorta daughter, Elizabeth Keen, made eyes at her estranged husband, hunted a blacklister, and learned a huge secret about her past. Spoiler alert: she's the descendant of Russian spies. Keep reading to find out more!
Keen Hunts A Deranged Blacklister, Agent Navabi Double Crosses Red (Or Does She?)
There's a new blacklister in town, and his name is Quon Zhang (aka "The Smuggler"). This nefarious gentleman specializes in -- wait for it -- exhuming recently deceased bodies and turning them into mail order corpse brides, so yes, you might say he has the creepiest job ever. Turns out Red put Zhang on The Blacklist because he has ties to The Director, and once in captivity he tells the task force that he was...
Keen Hunts A Deranged Blacklister, Agent Navabi Double Crosses Red (Or Does She?)
There's a new blacklister in town, and his name is Quon Zhang (aka "The Smuggler"). This nefarious gentleman specializes in -- wait for it -- exhuming recently deceased bodies and turning them into mail order corpse brides, so yes, you might say he has the creepiest job ever. Turns out Red put Zhang on The Blacklist because he has ties to The Director, and once in captivity he tells the task force that he was...
- 4/30/2015
- by Mehera Bonner
- Moviefone
Things are getting serious on The Voice UK. We've had the blinds, we've had the battles, and now it's time for knockouts - also known as the final stage before the live shows. Yikes, right? Each of the acts had to pick a killer song to convince their coach to put them through to the live shows. No pressure then.
With eight acts in each team and just three spots in the live shows, things were getting pretty intense. Tonight, we were treated to Team Rita and Team Will, and there was no hanging about as we sped through the performances and then got the all important decisions. Read on for everything you need to know about tonight's knockouts...
Team Rita
Rita said she thought her team was amazing - she has different ages, genres and tones - and reckoned that all eight of her acts could make it in the charts.
With eight acts in each team and just three spots in the live shows, things were getting pretty intense. Tonight, we were treated to Team Rita and Team Will, and there was no hanging about as we sped through the performances and then got the all important decisions. Read on for everything you need to know about tonight's knockouts...
Team Rita
Rita said she thought her team was amazing - she has different ages, genres and tones - and reckoned that all eight of her acts could make it in the charts.
- 3/14/2015
- Digital Spy
Not only is Tom Hanks one of Hollywood's greatest actors, he's also a thoroughly nice chap to boot. The two-time Oscar winner has a few interesting hobbies, too, including collecting vintage typewriters and supporting Aston Villa.
Today marks Tom's 58th birthday, so to mark the occasion Digital Spy has compiled a selection of his best bits from movies and beyond...
1. Captain Phillips showed he's still at the top of his game...
Despite being a big-screen presence for more than 30 years, Tom still knows how to deliver a barnstorming leading man performance. The mid-'90s saw him on a hot streak that resulted in back-to-back Oscars for Philadelphia and Forrest Gump, but last year's Captain Phillips - in which he played a man caught up in a traumatising freighter hijack - saw him play a key part in one of the most emotional film endings in recent memory.
2. Big in the '80s.
Today marks Tom's 58th birthday, so to mark the occasion Digital Spy has compiled a selection of his best bits from movies and beyond...
1. Captain Phillips showed he's still at the top of his game...
Despite being a big-screen presence for more than 30 years, Tom still knows how to deliver a barnstorming leading man performance. The mid-'90s saw him on a hot streak that resulted in back-to-back Oscars for Philadelphia and Forrest Gump, but last year's Captain Phillips - in which he played a man caught up in a traumatising freighter hijack - saw him play a key part in one of the most emotional film endings in recent memory.
2. Big in the '80s.
- 7/9/2014
- Digital Spy
Unexplained circumstances, lack of accountability, or simply a terrible trick by fate, in any case, the truth about the men and women who never came home is hidden between the official accounts, and what really happens in the heat of war. In his documentary Unclaimed filmmaker Michael Jorgensen follows Vietnam veteran and lifelong humanitarian Tom Faunce as he tries to uncover the real identity of a man in Vietnam named Dang Tan Ngoc, who claims to be Sgt. John Hartley Robertson, an American service man who was considered "missing in action"(Mia). Proving whether this elderly man is really who he says he is or perhaps just a delusional individual becomes a puzzling challenge for which there seems to be no rational answers. Due to his age and possible trauma, the man can't remember his birthday or place of birth. Furthermore, he has lost the ability to speak English, and though he looks Caucasian, he has adapted to life as a Vietnamese with a wife and kids. Going back and forth between the U.S. and Vietnam, Tom and his team search for anything that can prove beyond the shadow of a doubt that this is in fact the man who heroically served his country and was left behind.
Director Michael Jorgensen talked us about the human core of his film, the difficulties of working with a deceiving government, and the importance of bringing awareness to cases like this and how they reflect in today's treatment of veterans.
Carlos Aguilar: How did you come across this story and Tom's journey to find the truth?
Michael Jorgensen: It all came about when Tom Faunce, my main character, called me. He had a friend who knew of my work, and he called me and told me the story. I was quite intrigued by it, but what really convinced me to do is that I had read a small book Tom had written about his childhood growing up on the streets of Detroit and his experience in Vietnam. I thought there was a deeply human story there, regardless of how his quest to reunite John with his family turned out.
Aguilar: How difficult was it to do research and find information about John Hartley Robertson, and the bizarre circumstances behind his whereabouts?
Jorgensen: I did a lot of research about this mission and the MacV-sog Organization that the Pentagon put together in January of 64. Then I tried to find everything I could about his missing man, and what was known about him. That was really a black hole. He disappeared; there are no files about this guy at all. There is a couple of statements by people who were in the air or on the ground when his helicopter went down, pretty minimal.
Aguilar: Tom's determination to see this story through goes beyond duty. He seems to sincerely care for John. Why do you think these two men that had never met, have this incredible connection?
Jorgensen: Tom really sees himself in John. Watching the film one can understand more about his childhood and being unloved, abandoned, and unwanted. Coming back from Vietnam amplified this, coming back and feeling the rejection of being a Vietnam veteran in the 60s and 70s. Tom has seen John as a way to heal himself and also redeem himself for his time in Vietnam.
Aguilar: After almost 40 years, and keeping in mind there has been several other wars ever since, one could assume the public has lost interest in the Vietnam War. Do you think this influences in part the government's lack of interest to solve cases like John's?
Jorgensen: You make a very good point; it was a very unpopular war. The soldiers were not treated very well when they came home. I think there is a deep emotional wound on those veterans and on the entire country. For the most part people just want to forget that, they just want it to go away. That could really be one of the reasons contributing to what seems to be a bit of apathy on the part of the government.
Aguilar: Given that the government seem to want to throw you off in terms of finding the truth, how reluctant were they to give you any information or help you get some answers?
Jorgensen: There was really very little information to give. The contact that I worked with in the government was very deceitful. I thin they were trying to steer us clear of even doing this story. As we were just about to finish the film, even before Tom’s team had found John's sister - because they had a really hard time trying to find his relatives - the government had told us that they had gotten blood samples from a brother and sister and that they were doing DNA tests. That was totally untrue, his brother was dead at the time and his sister has never been contacted by the government. That’s where we are left even today. You had a family and a service member, Ed Mahoney, who served with this man, who say unequivocally that’s John Hartley Robertson, and then you have a government saying “We did a covert DNA test, and this guy is not him.” The two couldn’t be further apart.
Aguilar: Is it easier for them to deny it than to admit any fault?
Jorgensen: I think it's always the fall back position of the government, to deny and to try to let it go away rather than to face the issues. But as you can see at the end of the film, shortly after the film screened at the Hot Docs Festival in Toronto, the government launched a very large investigation into their own Mia agencies calling them “dysfunctional, inept, and potentially fraudulent”, and that ‘s in regard to more than 83,000 cases since WWII. That’s shocking.
Aguilar: How does the lost story of one man affects today's veterans? Is there more to be found about this particular case?
Jorgensen: Certainly from the evidence, and from people that I’ve spoken to who I would characterize as very reliable, there is obviously a lot more to be found. Whether the government will ever talk about it or come clean about it, that’s another issue. This film really for me was about “How far would you go for someone that you don’t even know?” We are seeing this stories even today with veterans about how they come back and feel very isolated and how Pstd is a big issue. They are trying to reintegrate into society by trying to help other people; some have been more successful than others.
Aguilar: Do you hope your film brings shines some light on the issues by exposing past mistakes?
Jorgensen: Absolutely, on the Mia issues and the issue of Ptsd, because it is really an epidemic. I’ve always maintained that you can train men to go to war and to fight, but the human heart is not wired for war. The heart is very fragile, and these guys endured some pretty horrific events going into battle. I really hope it shines a light on these issues because these veterans deserve everything that we can provide them.
Aguilar: John and Tom connect through their presumably shared experiences, how was it for you as a filmmaker to come into this story as an outsider?
Jorgensen: For me as a filmmaker, this is the greatest possible scenario in that there is really deep humanity here. The background of this story is the Vietnam War and the Mia issues, but all audiences, no matter what your background is, can connect to the story because of that profound humanity that you see in both Tom and John.
Aguilar: Is Tom still working in more of these cases related to veterans left behind? Have the struggles faced here shaken his commitment?
Jorgensen: Tom is eternally committed to veterans, specially veterans from Vietnam and his humanitarian work. He is a guy who admittedly says that he’ll be happy if he dies on the field trying to help other people. That has really been his mission since he came back from Vietnam. To go to these remote places, and no matter who these people are he will try to help them the best that he can.
Aguilar: Are you working on any new projects? What's the next issue that concerns you?
Jorgensen: Coming put of this I’m very interested in our search for our own humanity and where it lies. I think I’m going to be pursuing something along those lines for my next project, which I’m just researching right now.
Aguilar: Have you shown the film to veterans, which I would assume are one of the audiences most interested in seeing this story, what have been their reactions?
Jorgensen: Lots of veterans have seen this film. Veterans from WWII , from Vietnam, and even veterans who have come back from Afghanistan and Iraq, they are all very grateful because it is shining a light on their own experiences. Tom personifies the fighting man story, so it has been very positive. It's a way for them to say to their loved ones “Now you can see me though this man and understand a bit more of what I went through and the challenges I’m facing trying to integrated myself not only back into society, but back into my family unit”...
Director Michael Jorgensen talked us about the human core of his film, the difficulties of working with a deceiving government, and the importance of bringing awareness to cases like this and how they reflect in today's treatment of veterans.
Carlos Aguilar: How did you come across this story and Tom's journey to find the truth?
Michael Jorgensen: It all came about when Tom Faunce, my main character, called me. He had a friend who knew of my work, and he called me and told me the story. I was quite intrigued by it, but what really convinced me to do is that I had read a small book Tom had written about his childhood growing up on the streets of Detroit and his experience in Vietnam. I thought there was a deeply human story there, regardless of how his quest to reunite John with his family turned out.
Aguilar: How difficult was it to do research and find information about John Hartley Robertson, and the bizarre circumstances behind his whereabouts?
Jorgensen: I did a lot of research about this mission and the MacV-sog Organization that the Pentagon put together in January of 64. Then I tried to find everything I could about his missing man, and what was known about him. That was really a black hole. He disappeared; there are no files about this guy at all. There is a couple of statements by people who were in the air or on the ground when his helicopter went down, pretty minimal.
Aguilar: Tom's determination to see this story through goes beyond duty. He seems to sincerely care for John. Why do you think these two men that had never met, have this incredible connection?
Jorgensen: Tom really sees himself in John. Watching the film one can understand more about his childhood and being unloved, abandoned, and unwanted. Coming back from Vietnam amplified this, coming back and feeling the rejection of being a Vietnam veteran in the 60s and 70s. Tom has seen John as a way to heal himself and also redeem himself for his time in Vietnam.
Aguilar: After almost 40 years, and keeping in mind there has been several other wars ever since, one could assume the public has lost interest in the Vietnam War. Do you think this influences in part the government's lack of interest to solve cases like John's?
Jorgensen: You make a very good point; it was a very unpopular war. The soldiers were not treated very well when they came home. I think there is a deep emotional wound on those veterans and on the entire country. For the most part people just want to forget that, they just want it to go away. That could really be one of the reasons contributing to what seems to be a bit of apathy on the part of the government.
Aguilar: Given that the government seem to want to throw you off in terms of finding the truth, how reluctant were they to give you any information or help you get some answers?
Jorgensen: There was really very little information to give. The contact that I worked with in the government was very deceitful. I thin they were trying to steer us clear of even doing this story. As we were just about to finish the film, even before Tom’s team had found John's sister - because they had a really hard time trying to find his relatives - the government had told us that they had gotten blood samples from a brother and sister and that they were doing DNA tests. That was totally untrue, his brother was dead at the time and his sister has never been contacted by the government. That’s where we are left even today. You had a family and a service member, Ed Mahoney, who served with this man, who say unequivocally that’s John Hartley Robertson, and then you have a government saying “We did a covert DNA test, and this guy is not him.” The two couldn’t be further apart.
Aguilar: Is it easier for them to deny it than to admit any fault?
Jorgensen: I think it's always the fall back position of the government, to deny and to try to let it go away rather than to face the issues. But as you can see at the end of the film, shortly after the film screened at the Hot Docs Festival in Toronto, the government launched a very large investigation into their own Mia agencies calling them “dysfunctional, inept, and potentially fraudulent”, and that ‘s in regard to more than 83,000 cases since WWII. That’s shocking.
Aguilar: How does the lost story of one man affects today's veterans? Is there more to be found about this particular case?
Jorgensen: Certainly from the evidence, and from people that I’ve spoken to who I would characterize as very reliable, there is obviously a lot more to be found. Whether the government will ever talk about it or come clean about it, that’s another issue. This film really for me was about “How far would you go for someone that you don’t even know?” We are seeing this stories even today with veterans about how they come back and feel very isolated and how Pstd is a big issue. They are trying to reintegrate into society by trying to help other people; some have been more successful than others.
Aguilar: Do you hope your film brings shines some light on the issues by exposing past mistakes?
Jorgensen: Absolutely, on the Mia issues and the issue of Ptsd, because it is really an epidemic. I’ve always maintained that you can train men to go to war and to fight, but the human heart is not wired for war. The heart is very fragile, and these guys endured some pretty horrific events going into battle. I really hope it shines a light on these issues because these veterans deserve everything that we can provide them.
Aguilar: John and Tom connect through their presumably shared experiences, how was it for you as a filmmaker to come into this story as an outsider?
Jorgensen: For me as a filmmaker, this is the greatest possible scenario in that there is really deep humanity here. The background of this story is the Vietnam War and the Mia issues, but all audiences, no matter what your background is, can connect to the story because of that profound humanity that you see in both Tom and John.
Aguilar: Is Tom still working in more of these cases related to veterans left behind? Have the struggles faced here shaken his commitment?
Jorgensen: Tom is eternally committed to veterans, specially veterans from Vietnam and his humanitarian work. He is a guy who admittedly says that he’ll be happy if he dies on the field trying to help other people. That has really been his mission since he came back from Vietnam. To go to these remote places, and no matter who these people are he will try to help them the best that he can.
Aguilar: Are you working on any new projects? What's the next issue that concerns you?
Jorgensen: Coming put of this I’m very interested in our search for our own humanity and where it lies. I think I’m going to be pursuing something along those lines for my next project, which I’m just researching right now.
Aguilar: Have you shown the film to veterans, which I would assume are one of the audiences most interested in seeing this story, what have been their reactions?
Jorgensen: Lots of veterans have seen this film. Veterans from WWII , from Vietnam, and even veterans who have come back from Afghanistan and Iraq, they are all very grateful because it is shining a light on their own experiences. Tom personifies the fighting man story, so it has been very positive. It's a way for them to say to their loved ones “Now you can see me though this man and understand a bit more of what I went through and the challenges I’m facing trying to integrated myself not only back into society, but back into my family unit”...
- 5/7/2014
- by Carlos Aguilar
- Sydney's Buzz
The Voice battles kick off this weekend, and to say we're excited would be a little bit of an understatement. But we're also feeling very tense. How do we know who's going to win? Will our favourites go up against each other? Can we handle it?
Well, to prepare ourselves, we thought we'd hold our own little DS battle. First up, Team Tom's battling duo Mairead Conlon and Celestine. We don't know who wins the actual battle, but read on to see who knows their mentor Sir Tom Jones better (and what else they had to say about that singing thing as well)...
Fighting Talk - We're going to test you on your knowledge of Sir Tom.
Mairead: "Oh God! Ok..."
Celestine: "Oh no! Oh, I don't know anything, please don't! I'm going to text Mairead after to check how she did, because it's going to be abysmal."
How many...
Well, to prepare ourselves, we thought we'd hold our own little DS battle. First up, Team Tom's battling duo Mairead Conlon and Celestine. We don't know who wins the actual battle, but read on to see who knows their mentor Sir Tom Jones better (and what else they had to say about that singing thing as well)...
Fighting Talk - We're going to test you on your knowledge of Sir Tom.
Mairead: "Oh God! Ok..."
Celestine: "Oh no! Oh, I don't know anything, please don't! I'm going to text Mairead after to check how she did, because it's going to be abysmal."
How many...
- 2/28/2014
- Digital Spy
While some celebrities are hunkering down during the polar vortex, Gisele Bündchen and Tom Brady are getting out of town. The couple packed up Benjamin and Vivian and boarded a private plane in Boston on Wednesday. They're likely headed somewhere much warmer, especially now that Tom's playoff season with the New England Patriots has come to an end. The quarterback and his team lost to the Denver Broncos last Sunday, but luckily, Tom still has this going for him. Gisele, meanwhile, has been busy working all over the globe this month. She headed to Costa Rica to shoot an H&M campaign and made the most of the tropical climate by logging some beach and bikini time with baby Vivian. After that, she was back in Boston and sharing her feelings about the frigid temperatures on Instagram, using the hashtags "#work" and "#freezing." View Slideshow ›...
- 1/22/2014
- by Brittney Stephens
- Popsugar.com
With Tom Daley‘s announcement that he’s dating a guy, and couldn’t be happier, he now joins fellow Olympian Matthew Mitcham as our fantasy Ultimate Diver Boyfriends.
Matthew had this niche pretty much all to himself, but now that he has some competition, how does each guy stack up? Let’s take a look at how both compare in different categories, and pick a winner.
Tom and Matt are entering the Undersea Thunderdome. Two men enter … one man leaves. With our hearts. But which one?
Medal Biting
This is a tough one, because while Matt’s medal is Gold and Tom’s medal is Bronze, Tom does seem to be taking a bigger bite. In fact, at closer look, Matt appears to be faking his bite, which is an immediate Disqualification.
Winner – Tom
Diving Face
This an easy one. Both guys score points for the excellent toe curling,...
Matthew had this niche pretty much all to himself, but now that he has some competition, how does each guy stack up? Let’s take a look at how both compare in different categories, and pick a winner.
Tom and Matt are entering the Undersea Thunderdome. Two men enter … one man leaves. With our hearts. But which one?
Medal Biting
This is a tough one, because while Matt’s medal is Gold and Tom’s medal is Bronze, Tom does seem to be taking a bigger bite. In fact, at closer look, Matt appears to be faking his bite, which is an immediate Disqualification.
Winner – Tom
Diving Face
This an easy one. Both guys score points for the excellent toe curling,...
- 12/2/2013
- by snicks
- The Backlot
Falling Skies Episode 305
“Search and Recover”
Written By: Jordan Rosenberg
Directed By: Sergio Mimica-Gezzan
Original Airdate: 30 June 2013
In This Episode...
Tom pulls an unconscious Pope out of the downed plane moments before it explodes. Bressler was dead on impact. They wait until the ships overhead pass, then have to kill a couple skitters before Tom decides it is time to head back to Charleston. Of course, Charleston is a good 400 miles away, so they are going to have to learn to live with one another. On their first night together in the woods, the men kinda-sorta bond over their troubled pasts. When Pope mocks Tom for what he assumes was an idyllic childhood, Tom puts him in his place by revealing that his father was a violent drunk - the only thing idyllic was the fact that he survived. In turn, Pope tells Tom that a man in a Cadillac almost ran over his son.
“Search and Recover”
Written By: Jordan Rosenberg
Directed By: Sergio Mimica-Gezzan
Original Airdate: 30 June 2013
In This Episode...
Tom pulls an unconscious Pope out of the downed plane moments before it explodes. Bressler was dead on impact. They wait until the ships overhead pass, then have to kill a couple skitters before Tom decides it is time to head back to Charleston. Of course, Charleston is a good 400 miles away, so they are going to have to learn to live with one another. On their first night together in the woods, the men kinda-sorta bond over their troubled pasts. When Pope mocks Tom for what he assumes was an idyllic childhood, Tom puts him in his place by revealing that his father was a violent drunk - the only thing idyllic was the fact that he survived. In turn, Pope tells Tom that a man in a Cadillac almost ran over his son.
- 7/1/2013
- by Alyse Wax
- FEARnet
Review Caroline Preece Feb 3, 2013
A new trinity, a new villain, and a brand new series of Being Human. Here's Caroline's review of episode one...
This review contains spoilers. Read our spoiler-free review, here.
5.1 The Trinity
There’s a big shake-up in the Being Human cast this year, as we all know, and the biggest test for this fifth series premiere was always going to be proving that the current trio, Hal, Tom and Alex, could live up to the legacy left by Mitchell, George and Annie. We had a soft reboot last season, but some fans seemed far from won over, so we had to wait and see what Toby Whithouse and his writers would be able to do with an entirely new supernatural trinity living in Honolulu Heights.
Just from watching this premiere, the signs are good, but it’s also clear that this incarnation of Being Human isn...
A new trinity, a new villain, and a brand new series of Being Human. Here's Caroline's review of episode one...
This review contains spoilers. Read our spoiler-free review, here.
5.1 The Trinity
There’s a big shake-up in the Being Human cast this year, as we all know, and the biggest test for this fifth series premiere was always going to be proving that the current trio, Hal, Tom and Alex, could live up to the legacy left by Mitchell, George and Annie. We had a soft reboot last season, but some fans seemed far from won over, so we had to wait and see what Toby Whithouse and his writers would be able to do with an entirely new supernatural trinity living in Honolulu Heights.
Just from watching this premiere, the signs are good, but it’s also clear that this incarnation of Being Human isn...
- 2/3/2013
- by louisamellor
- Den of Geek
Review Caroline Preece Jan 14, 2013
Being Human returns this month with new villains, and new mythology. Here's Caroline's spoiler-free review of episode one...
Being Human returns this month for a series departed further from its original concept than ever before. We now have Tom, Hal and Alex (Michael Socha, Damien Molony and Kate Bracken) forming our supernatural triangle instead of Mitchell, George, and Annie (Aidan Turner, Russell Tovey and Lenora Crichlow) and the show doesn’t seem the least bit concerned with treading over old ground. Judging by this first episode, series five is going to forge its own distinct path, leaving the simple pleasures of a ghost, a werewolf, and a vampire trying to forge normal lives together far, far behind. Annie is barely mentioned, though Eve’s memory still plagues her surrogate dad’s, and the lack of nostalgia is probably a smart move.
This might be a concern...
Being Human returns this month with new villains, and new mythology. Here's Caroline's spoiler-free review of episode one...
Being Human returns this month for a series departed further from its original concept than ever before. We now have Tom, Hal and Alex (Michael Socha, Damien Molony and Kate Bracken) forming our supernatural triangle instead of Mitchell, George, and Annie (Aidan Turner, Russell Tovey and Lenora Crichlow) and the show doesn’t seem the least bit concerned with treading over old ground. Judging by this first episode, series five is going to forge its own distinct path, leaving the simple pleasures of a ghost, a werewolf, and a vampire trying to forge normal lives together far, far behind. Annie is barely mentioned, though Eve’s memory still plagues her surrogate dad’s, and the lack of nostalgia is probably a smart move.
This might be a concern...
- 1/13/2013
- by louisamellor
- Den of Geek
David O. Russell's "Silver Linings Playbook" danced atop the 17th Annual Satellite Awards winning Best Picture, Editing, Director, Actor (Bradley Cooper), and Actress (Jennifer Lawrence). In the supporting acting categories, Anne Hathaway took home the Best Supporting Actress award for "Les Miserables," while Javier Bardem won Best Supporting Actor for playing the big bad in "Skyfall."
Winners were announced Sunday, Dec. 16, at the InterContinental Hotel at Century City in Los Angeles.
Here's the complete winners (highlighted) and nominees of the 17th Annual Satellite Awards (for a complete list of Awards Season winners/nominees, click here):
Motion Picture
Argo .
*** Silver Linings Playbook
Beasts Of The Southern Wild
Les MISÉRABLES
Skyfall
Moonrise Kingdom
The Sessions
Lincoln Dreamworks/Touchstone
Life Of Pi
Zero Dark Thirty
Director
*** David O. Russell -- Silver Linings Playbook
Ben Affleck -- Argo
Kim Ki-duk -- Pieta Drafthouse Films
Ben Lewin -- The Sessions
Steven Spielberg --...
Winners were announced Sunday, Dec. 16, at the InterContinental Hotel at Century City in Los Angeles.
Here's the complete winners (highlighted) and nominees of the 17th Annual Satellite Awards (for a complete list of Awards Season winners/nominees, click here):
Motion Picture
Argo .
*** Silver Linings Playbook
Beasts Of The Southern Wild
Les MISÉRABLES
Skyfall
Moonrise Kingdom
The Sessions
Lincoln Dreamworks/Touchstone
Life Of Pi
Zero Dark Thirty
Director
*** David O. Russell -- Silver Linings Playbook
Ben Affleck -- Argo
Kim Ki-duk -- Pieta Drafthouse Films
Ben Lewin -- The Sessions
Steven Spielberg --...
- 12/17/2012
- by Manny
- Manny the Movie Guy
The International Press Academy has announced the nominees of the 17th Annual Satellite Awards. "Les Miserables" led the pack with 10 nominations including Best Picture.
Winners will be announced on Sunday, Dec. 16 at the InterContinental at Century City in Los Angeles.
17th Annual Satellite Awards Nominees:
Motion Picture
Argo .
Silver Linings Playbook
Beasts Of The Southern Wild
Les MISÉRABLES
Skyfall
Moonrise Kingdom
The Sessions
Lincoln Dreamworks/Touchstone
Life Of Pi
Zero Dark Thirty
Director
David O. Russell -- Silver Linings Playbook
Ben Affleck -- Argo
Kim Ki-duk -- Pieta Drafthouse Films
Ben Lewin -- The Sessions
Steven Spielberg -- Lincoln
Kathryn Bigelow -- Zero Dark Thirty
Actress in a Motion Picture Name
Jennifer Lawrence Silver Linings Playbook
Emilie Dequenne Our Children
Keira Knightley Anna Karenina
Emmanuelle Riva Amour
Laura Birn Purge
Laura Linney Hyde Park On Hudson
Jessica Chastain Zero Dark Thirty
Actor in a Motion Picture
John Hawkes The Sessions...
Winners will be announced on Sunday, Dec. 16 at the InterContinental at Century City in Los Angeles.
17th Annual Satellite Awards Nominees:
Motion Picture
Argo .
Silver Linings Playbook
Beasts Of The Southern Wild
Les MISÉRABLES
Skyfall
Moonrise Kingdom
The Sessions
Lincoln Dreamworks/Touchstone
Life Of Pi
Zero Dark Thirty
Director
David O. Russell -- Silver Linings Playbook
Ben Affleck -- Argo
Kim Ki-duk -- Pieta Drafthouse Films
Ben Lewin -- The Sessions
Steven Spielberg -- Lincoln
Kathryn Bigelow -- Zero Dark Thirty
Actress in a Motion Picture Name
Jennifer Lawrence Silver Linings Playbook
Emilie Dequenne Our Children
Keira Knightley Anna Karenina
Emmanuelle Riva Amour
Laura Birn Purge
Laura Linney Hyde Park On Hudson
Jessica Chastain Zero Dark Thirty
Actor in a Motion Picture
John Hawkes The Sessions...
- 12/3/2012
- by Manny
- Manny the Movie Guy
Happy 50th birthday, Tom Cruise! Even though Katie Holmes just filed for divorce ... we'll tell you why Tom still has a couple of Big things he can celebrate today -- and no, "Rock of Ages" is Not one of them. Plus, R. Kelly says Ryan Gosling -- in "The Notebook" -- forced made him to get divorced ... but that's news to his ex-wife! Andrea Kelly joins us with her take on what their breakup. Also,...
- 7/3/2012
- by TMZ Staff
- TMZ
TNT’s Falling Skies launched Season 2 with a good ol’ turkey shoot — but one in which perhaps the last person the 2nd Mass expected to see, Tom Mason, got winged. And by his own trigger-happy son Ben, no less!
War Of The Words | As an unconscious Tom was tended to back at camp by the lovely Dr. Anne Glass, we were made privy to a sliver of what he experienced in his three months aboard the alien spacecraft, where harnessed Cinderella Karen acted as a liaison/mouthpiece for Tom’s super-tall, super-lanky host (to be referred to as the Overlord...
War Of The Words | As an unconscious Tom was tended to back at camp by the lovely Dr. Anne Glass, we were made privy to a sliver of what he experienced in his three months aboard the alien spacecraft, where harnessed Cinderella Karen acted as a liaison/mouthpiece for Tom’s super-tall, super-lanky host (to be referred to as the Overlord...
- 6/18/2012
- by Matt Webb Mitovich
- TVLine.com
ABC
The second-to-last episode got busy tying up story lines.
As for Julie’s baby, Porter acknowledges he’s not ready to play any significant role as a dad. Susan offers to step in, by moving with M.J. to Julie’s school where she can finish her dissertation while Susan helps raise the baby. So that’s Susan off the lane.
Lynette manages to convince Tom’s boss not to send him to Mumbai, but in the process she turns off the boss.
The second-to-last episode got busy tying up story lines.
As for Julie’s baby, Porter acknowledges he’s not ready to play any significant role as a dad. Susan offers to step in, by moving with M.J. to Julie’s school where she can finish her dissertation while Susan helps raise the baby. So that’s Susan off the lane.
Lynette manages to convince Tom’s boss not to send him to Mumbai, but in the process she turns off the boss.
- 5/7/2012
- by Jamie Heller
- Speakeasy/Wall Street Journal
This could just be a case of TNT having smooshed together every single sweet looking shot from Falling Skies, but right now I don’t care because holy crap, the second season of this alien invasion series could not look any more awesome. A new teaser for Falling Skies, embedded below for your viewing pleasure, does one hell of a job stirring up hype. The inclusion of some of the actors talking up the season was a nice touch as well, but what was most important to me was the idea of Tom possibly being used as a weapon by the aliens, but I’m going to come back to that in a minute.
I need to point out that while the CGI aliens looked okay last season (they did what they could on a TV budget), they look so much better now. I hope that’s not just because...
I need to point out that while the CGI aliens looked okay last season (they did what they could on a TV budget), they look so much better now. I hope that’s not just because...
- 5/4/2012
- by Brody Gibson
- Boomtron
Desperate Housewives 8.19 "With So Little To Be Sure Of" Recap
It’s a tough time to be a Housewife on Wisteria Lane, isn’t it? Lynette is struggling to get her marriage back, Susan is struggling to be a single parent, Gabrielle is struggling to survive on a scaled back income, and Renee is struggling to maintain a normal life with her new fiancée, Ben. But perhaps no one has it harder than Bree, who started off tonight’s episode by being taken into custody for the murder of Ramone Sanchez (at Renee’s bridal shower, no less!)
The girls are, naturally, beside themselves as they thought the whole ordeal was over, and after Bob bails her out, Bree tells them about Orson’s letter. The girls decide they’re going to help Bree out no matter what, and Gabrielle goes to Carlos, begging him not to turn himself in...
It’s a tough time to be a Housewife on Wisteria Lane, isn’t it? Lynette is struggling to get her marriage back, Susan is struggling to be a single parent, Gabrielle is struggling to survive on a scaled back income, and Renee is struggling to maintain a normal life with her new fiancée, Ben. But perhaps no one has it harder than Bree, who started off tonight’s episode by being taken into custody for the murder of Ramone Sanchez (at Renee’s bridal shower, no less!)
The girls are, naturally, beside themselves as they thought the whole ordeal was over, and after Bob bails her out, Bree tells them about Orson’s letter. The girls decide they’re going to help Bree out no matter what, and Gabrielle goes to Carlos, begging him not to turn himself in...
- 4/2/2012
- by Andrea Towers
- TVovermind.com
How many new ways can you find to make a frying pan to the head funny and how then can you combine it with a precariously positioned rack of knives which will inevitably be flung at high speeds and pin someone to a wall in a perfect outline of their form? Maybe one flies just a hair below the crotch and the character has to scoot up to dodge it. While Looney Tunes featured this kind of doom-seeking behavior occasionally, this was par for the course in Tom & Jerry, and it really only changed for one variable: Spike, the guard dog (and sometimes his son). When he was thrown into the mix, the beatings became a bit more fist-centric, and tended to even out slightly with both Tom and Jerry being on the receiving end (though Tom still took the most hurt). Tom & Jerry: In the Dog House is a...
- 3/11/2012
- by Lex Walker
- JustPressPlay.net
Another week, another mediocre Desperate Housewives episode.
It’s the final season and I feel like I've been waiting for an epic installment all year long. Maybe the writers are saving the very best for last because tonight’s episode just didn’t cut it for me. Call me crazy, but I feel like we deserve so much better as longtime viewers and fanatics.
It was certainly raining men for Bree as her alcohol consumption continued to heighten. From one night stand to another, it felt like she was somehow channeling Samantha Jones from Sex and the City.
Mrs. McCluskey couldn’t help butting in and tattling to Reverend Sykes. Although I was glad to see the man of religion, Bree simply was not. I know that Bree’s storyline was meant to be a fun one, but I couldn’t help feeling underwhelmed and just sad that she was...
It’s the final season and I feel like I've been waiting for an epic installment all year long. Maybe the writers are saving the very best for last because tonight’s episode just didn’t cut it for me. Call me crazy, but I feel like we deserve so much better as longtime viewers and fanatics.
It was certainly raining men for Bree as her alcohol consumption continued to heighten. From one night stand to another, it felt like she was somehow channeling Samantha Jones from Sex and the City.
Mrs. McCluskey couldn’t help butting in and tattling to Reverend Sykes. Although I was glad to see the man of religion, Bree simply was not. I know that Bree’s storyline was meant to be a fun one, but I couldn’t help feeling underwhelmed and just sad that she was...
- 1/23/2012
- by onlyxtina@gmail.com (Christina Tran)
- TVfanatic
As it turns out, it’s dead. D-e-d. Dead. Way, way, Way back in the golden ages of 2008, it was announced that funky indie director David Cronenberg was going to try his hand at an honest to goodness Hollywood studio action movie called “The Matarese Circle”, based on the novel of the same name by Robert Ludlum (he of the “Bourne Identity” fame), and starring powerhouses Tom Cruise and Denzel Washington. Well, that was 2008, and in 2011, Cronenberg confirms to Showbiz411 that the movie is kaput. I was working on “The Matarese Circle,” the novel by Robert Ludlum, which was going to star Denzel Washington and Tom Cruise, before MGM went belly up. So I don’t think that’s going to happen now. Tom still likes the idea though. The film, if it had happen (and still might, if Cruise continues pursuing it, though with the Jack Reacher films starting up,...
- 11/27/2011
- by Nix
- Beyond Hollywood
Katie Holmes carried Suri yesterday as they boarded a jet leaving Toronto for NYC with sister Isabella. Once they landed, the girls met up with Tom Cruise to grab a bite at Serendipity 3. This morning, Katie, Tom, Suri, Isabella, and Connor all left their hotel together to bring Holmes to her first stop of the day, Regis and Kelly, before she moved on to ABC studios. Katie has a press junket for The Romantics this afternoon with her adorable costars. Katie's schedule is packed lately, and things won't slow down amid news she's signed onto a project with Adam Sandler. Katie left Canada and the set of The Kennedys for this stay in the Us, which is well-timed to coordinate with Fashion Week in case she has a free moment to show off her latest Holmes and Yang designs. She may not have had much of a vacation this Summer,...
- 9/7/2010
- by PopSugar
- Popsugar.com
"Survivor: Heroes vs. Villains" saw Cirie Fields leave in its first blindside. She talks to Zap2it about the Heroes' lack of cohesiveness and the huge threat in Tom Westman.
On her time between "Survivor: Fans vs. Favorites" and "Heroes vs. Villains":
A really cool thing I got to do was go to Afghanistan and support the troops. That was amazing. But mainly it's just been work and my family.
On why she wanted to do "Survivor" for a third time:
It's almost like an addition, especially for fans and lovers of the game, which I am. You know, I haven't completed my run on "Survivor." I still don't feel complete because I've made it to the end, I've gotten booted out early, I've experienced the gamut of "Survivor" except my name on that check! [laughs] That's what brought me back. I felt like maybe I could win this thing.
On her time between "Survivor: Fans vs. Favorites" and "Heroes vs. Villains":
A really cool thing I got to do was go to Afghanistan and support the troops. That was amazing. But mainly it's just been work and my family.
On why she wanted to do "Survivor" for a third time:
It's almost like an addition, especially for fans and lovers of the game, which I am. You know, I haven't completed my run on "Survivor." I still don't feel complete because I've made it to the end, I've gotten booted out early, I've experienced the gamut of "Survivor" except my name on that check! [laughs] That's what brought me back. I felt like maybe I could win this thing.
- 3/5/2010
- by editorial@zap2it.com
- Zap2It - From Inside the Box
Like the rest of us, critics like to be taken seriously, and so post-teen romantic comedies like Marc Webb's "(500) Days of Summer" can have a tough time receiving top-shelf adjectives. It's safer to hold high an austere import or socially-conscious "issue" drama. The problem is, for all of its borrowings, there hasn't been a movie quite like Webb's in a very long time, if ever.
"(500) Days of Summer" shimmies through a delicate life-passage terrain few movies have explored with intelligence -- Joan Darling's "First Love" (1977) comes to mind, and a great Korean film still to see the light of day here, Hur Jin-ho's "One Fine Spring Day" (2001) -- and does it with what seems to be an inexhaustible gas tank of invention, brio, naturalistic wit and love.
It's this last thing, love, that fills the movie up like a zeppelin -- love for its characters and for tale-telling...
"(500) Days of Summer" shimmies through a delicate life-passage terrain few movies have explored with intelligence -- Joan Darling's "First Love" (1977) comes to mind, and a great Korean film still to see the light of day here, Hur Jin-ho's "One Fine Spring Day" (2001) -- and does it with what seems to be an inexhaustible gas tank of invention, brio, naturalistic wit and love.
It's this last thing, love, that fills the movie up like a zeppelin -- love for its characters and for tale-telling...
- 1/5/2010
- by Michael Atkinson
- ifc.com
Opens: Friday, May 30 (ThinkFilm)
Cult filmmaker Stuart Gordon ("Re-Animator") has found more inspiration from the tawdry true-life story that inspired his latest film than might have been expected.
While "Stuck" inevitably feels padded in its elongated fictional depiction of a horrific incident -- involving a woman who hit a man with her car and then refused to help him even while he was trapped in her windshield -- it has enough sustained tension, dark humor and quiet social commentary to make it a strong candidate for B-movie cult status.
The effective screenplay at first alternates between depicting the contrasting situations of its two main characters: Brandi (Mena Suvari), a retirement home caregiver who spends her free time partying hard with her drug-dealing boyfriend, Rashid (Russell Hornsby); and the unemployed and newly homeless Tom (Stephen Rea), who faces frustration everywhere he turns, even when he tries to spend the night on a park bench.
Sadly wandering the streets with his shopping cart, Tom is hit dead-on by a drugged out, cell phone-distracted Brandi and winds up stuck in her car windshield, badly injured and bleeding heavily. Although she starts to go for help, Brandi, worried that the trouble she'll get in will interfere with her impending job promotion, panics and heads home, leaving the car, with Tom Still attached to it, in her garage.
Thus begins a series of increasingly desperate attempts by Brandi to cover her tracks and Tom to get free before he bleeds to death.
Needing to fill out a feature-length running time, Gordon and screenwriter John Strysik provide various plot digressions, mostly involving Brandi's contentious relationship with the deceptively tough-talking Rashid, that reduce the narrative momentum.
But the film really comes together in the final reel, when the cat-and-mouse game between Tom and his blandly amoral tormentors escalates in dramatic tension and violence. These sequences well showcase the skills of the director, who is forced to tell a good part of his story within extremely narrow confines.
Suvari brings unexpected shadings to her psychotically self-absorbed Brandi ("Why are you doing this to me?" she screams to her impaled victim at one point), while Rea invests his character with the sort of quiet determination in the face of adversity that makes his later physical derring-do all the more credible.
Production: Image Entertainment/Regal Entertainment.
Cast: Stephen Rea, Mena Suvari, Russell Hornsby, Rukiya Bernard, Carolyn Purdy-Gordon, Lionel Mark Smith.Director-story: Stuart Gordon. Screenwriter: John Strysik. Executive producers: John F.S. Laing, Tim McGrath, Andrew Arno.
Rated R, 85 minutes.
Cult filmmaker Stuart Gordon ("Re-Animator") has found more inspiration from the tawdry true-life story that inspired his latest film than might have been expected.
While "Stuck" inevitably feels padded in its elongated fictional depiction of a horrific incident -- involving a woman who hit a man with her car and then refused to help him even while he was trapped in her windshield -- it has enough sustained tension, dark humor and quiet social commentary to make it a strong candidate for B-movie cult status.
The effective screenplay at first alternates between depicting the contrasting situations of its two main characters: Brandi (Mena Suvari), a retirement home caregiver who spends her free time partying hard with her drug-dealing boyfriend, Rashid (Russell Hornsby); and the unemployed and newly homeless Tom (Stephen Rea), who faces frustration everywhere he turns, even when he tries to spend the night on a park bench.
Sadly wandering the streets with his shopping cart, Tom is hit dead-on by a drugged out, cell phone-distracted Brandi and winds up stuck in her car windshield, badly injured and bleeding heavily. Although she starts to go for help, Brandi, worried that the trouble she'll get in will interfere with her impending job promotion, panics and heads home, leaving the car, with Tom Still attached to it, in her garage.
Thus begins a series of increasingly desperate attempts by Brandi to cover her tracks and Tom to get free before he bleeds to death.
Needing to fill out a feature-length running time, Gordon and screenwriter John Strysik provide various plot digressions, mostly involving Brandi's contentious relationship with the deceptively tough-talking Rashid, that reduce the narrative momentum.
But the film really comes together in the final reel, when the cat-and-mouse game between Tom and his blandly amoral tormentors escalates in dramatic tension and violence. These sequences well showcase the skills of the director, who is forced to tell a good part of his story within extremely narrow confines.
Suvari brings unexpected shadings to her psychotically self-absorbed Brandi ("Why are you doing this to me?" she screams to her impaled victim at one point), while Rea invests his character with the sort of quiet determination in the face of adversity that makes his later physical derring-do all the more credible.
Production: Image Entertainment/Regal Entertainment.
Cast: Stephen Rea, Mena Suvari, Russell Hornsby, Rukiya Bernard, Carolyn Purdy-Gordon, Lionel Mark Smith.Director-story: Stuart Gordon. Screenwriter: John Strysik. Executive producers: John F.S. Laing, Tim McGrath, Andrew Arno.
Rated R, 85 minutes.
- 5/29/2008
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
ThinkFilm announced today a May 30 release for Stuart Gordon's Stuck (review), which is based on a true story. Brandi (Mena Suvari) hits Tom (Stephen Rea) with her car on her way home from a night of partying. With Tom still alive but lodged through her windshield, she promises to go a hospital but then decides to leave Tom to die in her garage as she realizes that her future is inextricably tied to her victim. Realizing this plan, Tom knows escape is his only chance for survival.
- 2/29/2008
- bloody-disgusting.com
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