Epic account of stock trading excess starring Leonardo DiCaprio under fire for mocking cerebral palsy
• Video: The Wolf of Wall Street star Jonah Hill: 'A part of every one of us wants everything'
• John Patterson: The Wolf Of Wall Street has no moral centre? So what!
Martin Scorsese's financial-era-excess movie The Wolf of Wall Street has come in for yet more criticism – this time from disability-advocate organisations who have protested at its use of the "R" word and its suggestion of drug-induced "cerebral palsy" type behaviour.
Peter Berns, CEO of disability group the Arc and Stephen Bennett, president and CEO of United Cerebral Palsy, issued a joint statement saying: "The Wolf of Wall Street is getting a lot of attention for how it offends audiences on many levels, but one aspect that hasn't been discussed is its use of the R-word and its unacceptable mockery of people with cerebral palsy.
• Video: The Wolf of Wall Street star Jonah Hill: 'A part of every one of us wants everything'
• John Patterson: The Wolf Of Wall Street has no moral centre? So what!
Martin Scorsese's financial-era-excess movie The Wolf of Wall Street has come in for yet more criticism – this time from disability-advocate organisations who have protested at its use of the "R" word and its suggestion of drug-induced "cerebral palsy" type behaviour.
Peter Berns, CEO of disability group the Arc and Stephen Bennett, president and CEO of United Cerebral Palsy, issued a joint statement saying: "The Wolf of Wall Street is getting a lot of attention for how it offends audiences on many levels, but one aspect that hasn't been discussed is its use of the R-word and its unacceptable mockery of people with cerebral palsy.
- 1/15/2014
- by Andrew Pulver
- The Guardian - Film News
Today's film news is going to lasso the moon
On the site today
• It's a Wonderful Life to get sequel treatment
• Toxicology tests suggests Brittany Murphy may have ingested poison
• Christian Bale offers Ben Affleck advice over Bat-urination
• Alan Turing's niece questions accuracy of upcoming biopic
• James Cameron reveals Avatar almost didn't get made
• Alex Cox is writing about The Parallax View and 1970s conspiracy movies
• Cine-files bigs up the Phoenix in Dingle, Co Kerry
• Quiz: in homage to Scarlett Johannson's role in Her, it's guess the voice
• Q&A with our one-minute film competition winner Fin McMorran. (The winning film is called Heat; go on, take a look.)
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On the site today
• It's a Wonderful Life to get sequel treatment
• Toxicology tests suggests Brittany Murphy may have ingested poison
• Christian Bale offers Ben Affleck advice over Bat-urination
• Alan Turing's niece questions accuracy of upcoming biopic
• James Cameron reveals Avatar almost didn't get made
• Alex Cox is writing about The Parallax View and 1970s conspiracy movies
• Cine-files bigs up the Phoenix in Dingle, Co Kerry
• Quiz: in homage to Scarlett Johannson's role in Her, it's guess the voice
• Q&A with our one-minute film competition winner Fin McMorran. (The winning film is called Heat; go on, take a look.)
You may have missed
• Disney banned Walt Disney from smoking in Saving Mr Banks
• Mike Leigh and Greg Cruttwell on making Naked
• Al Pacino as the vampire Lestat? Which alternative casting would you most like to see?
• Fifty-year battle over James...
- 11/19/2013
- The Guardian - Film News
It was raining cats and dogs over the weekend. So what did you catch at the cinema?
So - what did you see?
Whether it was big screen or small, trashy or flashy, we want to know what you watched over the weekend. Did you head out to see Captain Phillips, Enough Said or Like Father, Like Son? then maybe post your take in the thread beneath last Friday's Guardian Film Show …
Other films out last week included:
In the UK … apart from aforementioned Captain Phillips, Enough Said and Like Father, Like Son, there was Love, Marilyn, Prince Avalanche, Turbo, Very Extremely Dangerous, Walesa: Man of Hope, The Lebanese Rocket Society, The Epic of Everest and The Broken Circle Breakdown.
In the Us … 12 Years a Slave, Carrie, The Fifth Estate, Escape Plan, All is Lost, Kill Your Darlings
In the headlines
• Grace of Monaco director attacks Harvey Weinstein's "pile...
So - what did you see?
Whether it was big screen or small, trashy or flashy, we want to know what you watched over the weekend. Did you head out to see Captain Phillips, Enough Said or Like Father, Like Son? then maybe post your take in the thread beneath last Friday's Guardian Film Show …
Other films out last week included:
In the UK … apart from aforementioned Captain Phillips, Enough Said and Like Father, Like Son, there was Love, Marilyn, Prince Avalanche, Turbo, Very Extremely Dangerous, Walesa: Man of Hope, The Lebanese Rocket Society, The Epic of Everest and The Broken Circle Breakdown.
In the Us … 12 Years a Slave, Carrie, The Fifth Estate, Escape Plan, All is Lost, Kill Your Darlings
In the headlines
• Grace of Monaco director attacks Harvey Weinstein's "pile...
- 10/21/2013
- by Catherine Shoard
- The Guardian - Film News
You want funny? We got funny! From Airplane to Duck Soup, here are the Guardian and Observer critics' pick of the 10 best rib-ticklers
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Peter Bradshaw on comedy
Notionally, one of the most loved of genres, comedy persistently finds that it is somehow ineligible for greatness. Comedies rarely get Oscars. Charlie Chaplin, the great comic, was one of cinema's first international superstars. Keaton, the Marx Brothers and Laurel and Hardy produced sublime gems of film-making, arguably cherished more now than at the time. Billy Wilder's Some Like It Hot is one of the most loved films of all time, with a miraculously light touch and a glorious romantic chemistry between Curtis, Lemmon and Monroe. In Hollywood, the screwball tradition came to be supplanted in public taste by Woody Allen, whose DNA can be traced through the cerebral creations of Charlie Kaufman.
Recently, Hollywood comedy...
• Top 10 romantic movies
• Top 10 action movies
Peter Bradshaw on comedy
Notionally, one of the most loved of genres, comedy persistently finds that it is somehow ineligible for greatness. Comedies rarely get Oscars. Charlie Chaplin, the great comic, was one of cinema's first international superstars. Keaton, the Marx Brothers and Laurel and Hardy produced sublime gems of film-making, arguably cherished more now than at the time. Billy Wilder's Some Like It Hot is one of the most loved films of all time, with a miraculously light touch and a glorious romantic chemistry between Curtis, Lemmon and Monroe. In Hollywood, the screwball tradition came to be supplanted in public taste by Woody Allen, whose DNA can be traced through the cerebral creations of Charlie Kaufman.
Recently, Hollywood comedy...
- 10/11/2013
- The Guardian - Film News
Ben Stiller and Vince Vaughn's reunion has been beset by difficulties, but it's here and it's – well – Ok, says John Patterson
Before I saw it, I was starting to feel sorry for The Watch. Seemed like the poor movie just couldn't catch a break. Despite reuniting Ben Stiller and Vince Vaughn, their first vehicle since my beloved Dodgeball, 20th Century Fox had to pull the film's teaser trailers – which featured a Neighbourhood Watch sign pockmarked with bullet-holes – from cinemas in Florida after the psychotically overzealous wannabe-cop George Zimmerman brought Observe And Report to bloody life by killing the unarmed Trayvon Martin. Even then the trailers made people think, wait a minute, doesn't this rip off Attack The Block? (Unfair, since The Watch's script dates back to 2008). There was talk of a postponement of the release date, but 27 July looked so wide-open, with The Watch rolling out opposite Step Up...
Before I saw it, I was starting to feel sorry for The Watch. Seemed like the poor movie just couldn't catch a break. Despite reuniting Ben Stiller and Vince Vaughn, their first vehicle since my beloved Dodgeball, 20th Century Fox had to pull the film's teaser trailers – which featured a Neighbourhood Watch sign pockmarked with bullet-holes – from cinemas in Florida after the psychotically overzealous wannabe-cop George Zimmerman brought Observe And Report to bloody life by killing the unarmed Trayvon Martin. Even then the trailers made people think, wait a minute, doesn't this rip off Attack The Block? (Unfair, since The Watch's script dates back to 2008). There was talk of a postponement of the release date, but 27 July looked so wide-open, with The Watch rolling out opposite Step Up...
- 8/17/2012
- by John Patterson
- The Guardian - Film News
Catch up with the last seven days in the world of film
The big story
A flood of sympathy and tributes greeted the news of the death of writer and director Nora Ephron early on Wednesday morning – very quickly you got the impression that here was someone genuinely liked and admired by her Hollywood peers, and who connected in a very unusual way with the wider world. Possibly because of her own background as a reporter in 60s New York, journalists considered her one of their own, outside the gilded cage rather than cowering inside it. More than that, she inspired a generation of women with her clever, witty take on popular culture and a persistent refusal to be defeated by Hollywood's male-centric culture.
As a film-maker, she was undeniably influential, virtually creating the template for the modern romantic comedy and providing a string of high profile roles for the likes of Meg Ryan,...
The big story
A flood of sympathy and tributes greeted the news of the death of writer and director Nora Ephron early on Wednesday morning – very quickly you got the impression that here was someone genuinely liked and admired by her Hollywood peers, and who connected in a very unusual way with the wider world. Possibly because of her own background as a reporter in 60s New York, journalists considered her one of their own, outside the gilded cage rather than cowering inside it. More than that, she inspired a generation of women with her clever, witty take on popular culture and a persistent refusal to be defeated by Hollywood's male-centric culture.
As a film-maker, she was undeniably influential, virtually creating the template for the modern romantic comedy and providing a string of high profile roles for the likes of Meg Ryan,...
- 6/28/2012
- The Guardian - Film News
Catch up with the last seven days in the world of film
The big story
A sailor went to sea sea sea, to see what he could see see see, but all that he could see see see ...
... was James Cameron becoming the first person to travel to the ocean's deepest point solo. The Avatar director sank to a new low on Monday, when he hit the bottom of the western pacific's Mariana trench. Cameron, who made the descent over five hours in a 12-tonne lime green submarine called the Deepsea Challenger, used 3D cameras to film his journey and plans to release a documentary film about the experience later this year.
"He's down there on behalf of everybody else on this planet," said expedition doctor Joe MacInnis during Cameron's dip in the deep blue. "There are seven billion people who can't go, and he can. And he's aware of...
The big story
A sailor went to sea sea sea, to see what he could see see see, but all that he could see see see ...
... was James Cameron becoming the first person to travel to the ocean's deepest point solo. The Avatar director sank to a new low on Monday, when he hit the bottom of the western pacific's Mariana trench. Cameron, who made the descent over five hours in a 12-tonne lime green submarine called the Deepsea Challenger, used 3D cameras to film his journey and plans to release a documentary film about the experience later this year.
"He's down there on behalf of everybody else on this planet," said expedition doctor Joe MacInnis during Cameron's dip in the deep blue. "There are seven billion people who can't go, and he can. And he's aware of...
- 3/30/2012
- The Guardian - Film News
Catch up with the last seven days in the world of film
Read our 4-star Hunger Games review
The big story
With the John Carter fiasco rumbling on Hollywood was desperate for some good news, and it duly came in the slinky form of Jennifer Lawrence and Hunger Games. The set of novels by Suzanne Collins have been touted as the new Twilight and – to all astonishment – have been turned into a rather good film, if you believe Xan Brooks, our man at the first press preview. As the week wore on, it became clear that The Hunger Games was looking at a serious pile of cash when it would finally be released – perhaps even beating the first Twilight film's opening weekend mark of $69m in 2008. Fortunately, as is their way, the Guide had got in quickly and interviewed Lawrence last weekend – and she had little truck with the Twilight...
Read our 4-star Hunger Games review
The big story
With the John Carter fiasco rumbling on Hollywood was desperate for some good news, and it duly came in the slinky form of Jennifer Lawrence and Hunger Games. The set of novels by Suzanne Collins have been touted as the new Twilight and – to all astonishment – have been turned into a rather good film, if you believe Xan Brooks, our man at the first press preview. As the week wore on, it became clear that The Hunger Games was looking at a serious pile of cash when it would finally be released – perhaps even beating the first Twilight film's opening weekend mark of $69m in 2008. Fortunately, as is their way, the Guide had got in quickly and interviewed Lawrence last weekend – and she had little truck with the Twilight...
- 3/22/2012
- The Guardian - Film News
Angelina Jolie and Tom Cruise dismiss a lawsuit and a rumour as 'par for the course' and 'ludicrous'
The big story
Celebrity gesture of the week? The shrug.
Angelina Jolie sported one as a lawsuit claiming her directorial debut was nicked from a Croatian journalist was filed, then Tom Cruise (aka Tom Cruise's People) took up the trend in response to rumours that crowds who greeted the Mission Impossible star's arrival in Mumbai were hired actors.
It became both rather well. "It's par for the course," said Jolie of Josip Knežević's claim that she had taken her story from his book, The Soul Shattering. "It happens on almost every film. There are many books and documentaries that I did pull from, but that particular book I've never seen." Jolie's film, In The Land of Blood and Honey, is set during the Bosnian war and sees a Serbian camp commander...
The big story
Celebrity gesture of the week? The shrug.
Angelina Jolie sported one as a lawsuit claiming her directorial debut was nicked from a Croatian journalist was filed, then Tom Cruise (aka Tom Cruise's People) took up the trend in response to rumours that crowds who greeted the Mission Impossible star's arrival in Mumbai were hired actors.
It became both rather well. "It's par for the course," said Jolie of Josip Knežević's claim that she had taken her story from his book, The Soul Shattering. "It happens on almost every film. There are many books and documentaries that I did pull from, but that particular book I've never seen." Jolie's film, In The Land of Blood and Honey, is set during the Bosnian war and sees a Serbian camp commander...
- 12/8/2011
- by Henry Barnes
- The Guardian - Film News
Statue of the late star posing over a drafty subway vent causes outrage in Chicago
The big story
It's the big Marilyn. And the big fuss a 26ft-statue of the Hollywood icon has caused in Chicago, where a monolithic Monroe - stuck with her skirt blown up in the famous pose from The Seven Year Itch - towers over the city's Pioneer Court, allowing leerers and jeerers alike to cop a giant's eyeful.
Labelled Forever Marilyn by 80-year-old New Jersey sculptor Steward Johnson, the statue has been described as "sexist" and "creepy" by critics, among them film writer Richard Roeper: "Men (and women) licking Marilyn's leg, gawking up her skirt, pointing at her giant panties as they leer and laugh," huffed the Chicago Sun-Times columnist, which sorta cooled the ankles of those who had been merrily papping the blonde bombshell's giant errrrr ... smalls.
Still, you suspect this Marilyn would...
The big story
It's the big Marilyn. And the big fuss a 26ft-statue of the Hollywood icon has caused in Chicago, where a monolithic Monroe - stuck with her skirt blown up in the famous pose from The Seven Year Itch - towers over the city's Pioneer Court, allowing leerers and jeerers alike to cop a giant's eyeful.
Labelled Forever Marilyn by 80-year-old New Jersey sculptor Steward Johnson, the statue has been described as "sexist" and "creepy" by critics, among them film writer Richard Roeper: "Men (and women) licking Marilyn's leg, gawking up her skirt, pointing at her giant panties as they leer and laugh," huffed the Chicago Sun-Times columnist, which sorta cooled the ankles of those who had been merrily papping the blonde bombshell's giant errrrr ... smalls.
Still, you suspect this Marilyn would...
- 7/21/2011
- by Henry Barnes
- The Guardian - Film News
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