The Legend of the Lone Ranger (Original Release Date: 22 May 1981)
The Legend of the Lone Ranger is one of my favorite movies, and much of this review will be a love letter to it. I re-watched it for the review, but I didn't need to. If I were stranded on an island and had to reconstruct movie narratives to keep my sanity, I'd manage with The Legend of the Lone Ranger as well as I'd manage with The Empire Strikes Back or E.T.
People generally like The Empire Strikes Back and E.T. The same can't be said for The Legend of the Lone Ranger. The only group that wound up hating it more than the critics was the viewing public. I had no sense of this as a very young kid, though I would grow to suspect it when I moved back to America in the late eighties.
Blank stares...
The Legend of the Lone Ranger is one of my favorite movies, and much of this review will be a love letter to it. I re-watched it for the review, but I didn't need to. If I were stranded on an island and had to reconstruct movie narratives to keep my sanity, I'd manage with The Legend of the Lone Ranger as well as I'd manage with The Empire Strikes Back or E.T.
People generally like The Empire Strikes Back and E.T. The same can't be said for The Legend of the Lone Ranger. The only group that wound up hating it more than the critics was the viewing public. I had no sense of this as a very young kid, though I would grow to suspect it when I moved back to America in the late eighties.
Blank stares...
- 5/13/2011
- by Thurston McQ
- Corona's Coming Attractions
Before Mastering the Art of French Cooking and becoming one of the most recognizable American television personalities, 30-year-old Julia McWilliams joined “Wild Bill” Donovan and his Office of Strategic Services (Oss) in the Far East during World War II, where she met her mentor and future husband, Paul Child. In A Covert Affair: Julia Child and Paul Child in the Oss (Simon & Schuster), Jennet Conant employs newly unclassified documents and intimate correspondence between Julia and Paul to track their romance and Oss compatriots, most notably Jane Foster, as they endured the McCarthy Red spy hunt in the 1950s. Below, Conant introduces the Childs as they are transferred from their beloved Paris to “the Golden Ghetto of the Rhine.” Listen to the podcast after the jump.
- 4/25/2011
- Vanity Fair
The sailors who brave the Bering Sea in search of king crab have one of the most dangerous jobs in the world. And it's all change for them in this seventh series, following the death of captain Phil Morris and the arrival of some new blood. Veteran skippers Wild Bill, Sig Harnsen and Keith Colburn find their territory invaded by a pair of cocky new captains.
- 4/21/2011
- Sky TV
CatchCon 2011 was the highlight in Seattle this past weekend, and we were there to take it all in.Briefly, a few tidbits learned this weekend. Captain Keith Colburn (F/V Wizard) would have been a saucier in a fine Auguste Escoffier trained proper kitchen if he didn't crab fish, and he knows who Escoffier is! 'Wild Bill' Wichrowski loves to wear sandals even in cold rainy Seattle and has a rocking Mexico tan, giving him a bit of a Hemingway vibe. photo by April MacIntyre ©M&C Scott Campbell (F/V Seabrooke) and Andy Hillstrand (F/V Time Bandit) love "Sons of Anarchy" on FX and Hillstrand copped to liking "American Idol" too. "I got sucked in to...
- 4/12/2011
- by April MacIntyre
- Monsters and Critics
General William “Wild Bill” Donovan—director of the Office of Strategic Services (the country’s first national intelligence agency) and father of today’s Central Intelligence Agency—has largely remained a mythic figure and one of the nation’s most legendary spymasters. In his new book, Wild Bill Donovan: The Spymaster Who Created the Oss and Modern American Espionage (Free Press), Washington journalist Douglas Waller discloses the top-secret missions of Donovan’s intelligence career. Below, Waller introduces the ardent leader who lobbied to convince President Truman to create a post-World War II Oss—“the Petri dish” for spies who later ran the CIA. Listen to the podcast after the jump.
- 2/17/2011
- Vanity Fair
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The entire world was apparently turned on its head when alternative group The Arcade Fire beat the likes of Lady Gaga and Katy Perry for the Grammy of “Best Record of the Year.” A small triumph for the Pitchfork-crowd, it’s simultaneously a head scratching moment for apparently a lot of other Grammy viewers (those who wanted Gaga, Perry, or even Eminem to win). Thus, the creation of this special Tumblr, “Who Is Arcade Fire??!?”, which features Twitter rants from those perplexed as to who the band even is. (It’s their loss, however. But I must be honest -- I haven’t even gotten around to listening their award-winning “The Suburbs” just yet. I still haven’t even gotten around to listening to R. Kelly’s “Love Letter.
The entire world was apparently turned on its head when alternative group The Arcade Fire beat the likes of Lady Gaga and Katy Perry for the Grammy of “Best Record of the Year.” A small triumph for the Pitchfork-crowd, it’s simultaneously a head scratching moment for apparently a lot of other Grammy viewers (those who wanted Gaga, Perry, or even Eminem to win). Thus, the creation of this special Tumblr, “Who Is Arcade Fire??!?”, which features Twitter rants from those perplexed as to who the band even is. (It’s their loss, however. But I must be honest -- I haven’t even gotten around to listening their award-winning “The Suburbs” just yet. I still haven’t even gotten around to listening to R. Kelly’s “Love Letter.
- 2/16/2011
- by Nick Allen
- The Scorecard Review
Raising Hope star Garret Dillahunt has revealed that he loves working with Martha Plimpton. The actor, who plays Burt, told Popeater that he has known Plimpton for some time. "Martha's great," he said. "I love her. I've known her a long time but we've never worked together before. We kind of have similar trajectories here. We've done comedy before, but we're known mainly for doing sort of heavier s**t, you know, and this is a time when we get to flex a different muscle and it feels great." He continued: "We sort of run in the same circles theatrically and film-wise, like her father played Wild Bill (more)...
- 11/22/2010
- by By Catriona Wightman
- Digital Spy
Here is Andy’s hand-tooled leather director’s chair from the set of the TV series Wild Bill Hickok on which he played Wild Bill’s sidekick Jingles. Andy’s elaborate parade saddle. A great photo of two old friends on the set of John Ford’s The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance: John Wayne and Andy Devine. Personal memorabilia lines the walls, from Andy’s youth in Kingman through his later years. The black & white photo shows the actor with his sons, who appeared with him in Canyon Passage (1946) but didn’t pursue careers in show business. Kingman, Arizona’s ultimate tribute: a stretch of…...
- 10/21/2010
- Leonard Maltin's Movie Crazy
The IMDb250. A list of the top 250 films as ranked by the users of the biggest internet movie site on the web. It is based upon the ratings provided by the users of the Internet Movie Database, which number into the millions. As such, it’s a perfect representation of the opinions of the movie masses, and arguably the most comprehensive ranking system on the Internet.
It’s because of this that we at HeyUGuys (and in this case we is myself and Gary) have decided to set ourselves a project. To watch and review all 250 movies on the list. We’ve frozen the list as of January 1st of this year. It’s not as simple as it sounds, we are watching them all in one year, 125 each.
This is our 37th update, my next five films watched for the project. You can find last week’s update here.
It’s because of this that we at HeyUGuys (and in this case we is myself and Gary) have decided to set ourselves a project. To watch and review all 250 movies on the list. We’ve frozen the list as of January 1st of this year. It’s not as simple as it sounds, we are watching them all in one year, 125 each.
This is our 37th update, my next five films watched for the project. You can find last week’s update here.
- 10/8/2010
- by Barry Steele
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
Allison Strong, Union City, N.J.When I turned the key to my grandmother's door a few weeks ago, I expected to find her waiting for me behind it as she always did. Instead, all I found was an apartment full of memories. Ever since I was a child I've come to Colombia during my summer vacations to visit my grandma. This year I came to accompany my mom and aunt as they put her apartment up for rent and parted with many of her belongings. I expected to feel abandoned. I expected to feel an even stronger hurt from the loss I suffered a little over a year ago. I expected so many things that, thankfully, never came to light. Before I left New Jersey, I was obsessing over the number of auditions I would miss while I was gone, the potentially important phone calls that would go straight to voice mail,...
- 9/2/2010
- backstage.com
Film Against Itself: William Wellman's 1933 Wild Boys of the Road goes to great pains, in its opening quarter, to establish that its titular hellions are in fact conventionally good kids at heart. They don't hit the road out of rebellion, but what they consider duty, a duty they know their parents won't allow them to fulfill. That is, they leave home looking for work that their folks, laid low by the Depression, can't get.
Of course, once the boys actually hit the road, their survival instincts and new sense of community—they find themselves part of an ever-growing, farther-wandering pack of sorts, one that includes a fair number of girls, a handful of refreshingly not-too-horribly-stereotyped African American kids, and so on—feed an inchoate sense of rebellion that cries for respite from injustice. And although the cops have mixed feelings about squelching the ad hoc dwelling place the kids...
Of course, once the boys actually hit the road, their survival instincts and new sense of community—they find themselves part of an ever-growing, farther-wandering pack of sorts, one that includes a fair number of girls, a handful of refreshingly not-too-horribly-stereotyped African American kids, and so on—feed an inchoate sense of rebellion that cries for respite from injustice. And although the cops have mixed feelings about squelching the ad hoc dwelling place the kids...
- 5/28/2010
- MUBI
Yes, it’s going to be that kind of party.
Night Nurse, with special guest, film writer Kim Morgan (Sunset Gun) will play as the next Cinema Club screening at Ritz this Sunday. Cinema Club shows incorporate an audience discussion with the programmers and guest expert. Expect it to be provocative, entertaining and a lot of fun. Go ahead and get those tickets here.
You know that sensation you get from old movies sometimes, that they’re winking at you across an expanse of years, sneaking in a private dirty joke here and there? Well, Night Nurse isn’t just winking, it’s not sneaking; it’s kicking down the door and getting wild. It’s one of the glories of pre-code cinema. The only real analogue we can think of is the ‘nurseploitation’ films of the ’70s. Those movies were bold for their time, Night Nurse, made 40 years earlier,...
Night Nurse, with special guest, film writer Kim Morgan (Sunset Gun) will play as the next Cinema Club screening at Ritz this Sunday. Cinema Club shows incorporate an audience discussion with the programmers and guest expert. Expect it to be provocative, entertaining and a lot of fun. Go ahead and get those tickets here.
You know that sensation you get from old movies sometimes, that they’re winking at you across an expanse of years, sneaking in a private dirty joke here and there? Well, Night Nurse isn’t just winking, it’s not sneaking; it’s kicking down the door and getting wild. It’s one of the glories of pre-code cinema. The only real analogue we can think of is the ‘nurseploitation’ films of the ’70s. Those movies were bold for their time, Night Nurse, made 40 years earlier,...
- 4/30/2010
- by Lars Nilsen
- OriginalAlamo.com
The Alamo Guide
for April 29th, 2010
Surely you’ve heard the hubbub. Robert Downey Jr. and Jon Favreau graced us with their presence at a sneak screening of Iron Man 2 on Tuesday (aka, raddest Tuesday ever!). You can read all about that Here, but fair warning, you might get a little jealous. Be comforted by the fact that I didn’t see Rdj either. What a handsome fellow…
No Time For Moping! We’ve got too much fun stuff to do. First of all, tickets for the Second Screening Of Weird Al Live In Person go on sale in less than 24 hours! Fact. Don’t miss the sale or there will be no Wheel of Fish for you! Also, Fantastic Fest 2008 favorite The Good, The Bad, And The Weird opens Friday at S. Lamar. This movie is pure fun, not to mention its gorgeous visuals (and a couple of the actors.
for April 29th, 2010
Surely you’ve heard the hubbub. Robert Downey Jr. and Jon Favreau graced us with their presence at a sneak screening of Iron Man 2 on Tuesday (aka, raddest Tuesday ever!). You can read all about that Here, but fair warning, you might get a little jealous. Be comforted by the fact that I didn’t see Rdj either. What a handsome fellow…
No Time For Moping! We’ve got too much fun stuff to do. First of all, tickets for the Second Screening Of Weird Al Live In Person go on sale in less than 24 hours! Fact. Don’t miss the sale or there will be no Wheel of Fish for you! Also, Fantastic Fest 2008 favorite The Good, The Bad, And The Weird opens Friday at S. Lamar. This movie is pure fun, not to mention its gorgeous visuals (and a couple of the actors.
- 4/29/2010
- by caitlin
- OriginalAlamo.com
Discovery's Deadliest Catch returned last night for the premiere of a season dedicated to "all souls sacrificed to the sea." The one on fans' minds, of course, is Capt. Phil Harris, who we're watching fish his final season aboard the Cornelia Marie. The season could not have gotten off to a more tense start with Phil's sons, Jake and Josh (pictured), fighting so badly that Josh was looking for a job on another boat. Phil and Northwestern captain Sig Hansen decided to swap Jakes (or, as Phil called them "cocky and cockier"). Had we not known that Jake Harris was missing time with his dad,...
- 4/14/2010
- by Mandi Bierly
- EW.com - PopWatch
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