This year, we've asked 10 writers to pick some of their favorite TV episodes from 2017 and weigh in on why they were great stand-alone eps and the highlights of our viewing year. Today: Rob Sheffield on I Love Dick's "A Short History of Weird Girls."
Let's hear it for the boy. "Dear Dick: I've been horny since I was six," Kathryn Hahn announces at the beginning of "A Short History of Weird Girls," the standout episode from I Love Dick. The Amazon drama is Jil Soloway's brilliant satire of the masculine mystique,...
Let's hear it for the boy. "Dear Dick: I've been horny since I was six," Kathryn Hahn announces at the beginning of "A Short History of Weird Girls," the standout episode from I Love Dick. The Amazon drama is Jil Soloway's brilliant satire of the masculine mystique,...
- 12/12/2017
- Rollingstone.com
This year, we've asked 10 writers to pick some of their favorite TV episodes from 2017 and weigh in on why they were great stand-alone eps and the highlights of our viewing year. Today: Rob Sheffield on I Love Dick's "A Short History of Weird Girls."
Let's hear it for the boy. "Dear Dick: I've been horny since I was six," Kathryn Hahn announces at the beginning of "A Short History of Weird Girls," the standout episode from I Love Dick. The Amazon drama is Jil Soloway's brilliant satire of the masculine mystique,...
Let's hear it for the boy. "Dear Dick: I've been horny since I was six," Kathryn Hahn announces at the beginning of "A Short History of Weird Girls," the standout episode from I Love Dick. The Amazon drama is Jil Soloway's brilliant satire of the masculine mystique,...
- 12/12/2017
- Rollingstone.com
Darkest Hour, Joe Wright's latest British period piece drama produced by Working Title and distributed by Focus Features (which will release it Nov. 22), had its world premiere at the Telluride Film Festival on Friday night, screening roughly simultaneously at two venues, including the Galaxy Theatre, where I saw it with a mostly full house.
Will the film — which chronicles Winston Churchill's dramatic first weeks as prime minister, culminating with the Battle of Dunkirk — be an Oscar contender like so many Great Man portraits before it? In its favor, Gary Oldman, playing Churchill (and virtually unrecognizable...
Will the film — which chronicles Winston Churchill's dramatic first weeks as prime minister, culminating with the Battle of Dunkirk — be an Oscar contender like so many Great Man portraits before it? In its favor, Gary Oldman, playing Churchill (and virtually unrecognizable...
- 9/2/2017
- by Scott Feinberg
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
The music world is mourning the sudden death of Chris Cornell.
Cornell, who first gained fame as the lead singer of Soundgarden and later the band Audioslave, was found dead Wednesday night at MGM Grand Detroit following his performance, Detroit police have confirmed to People.
Cornell’s rep, Brian Bumbery, called the singer’s passing “sudden and unexpected,” according to Associated Press. The rocker was currently on tour and the rep said his family was shocked by his passing. Hours before his death, Cornell performed with Soundgarden at the Fox Theatre in Detroit, which he tweeted about early Wednesday.
Soundgarden...
Cornell, who first gained fame as the lead singer of Soundgarden and later the band Audioslave, was found dead Wednesday night at MGM Grand Detroit following his performance, Detroit police have confirmed to People.
Cornell’s rep, Brian Bumbery, called the singer’s passing “sudden and unexpected,” according to Associated Press. The rocker was currently on tour and the rep said his family was shocked by his passing. Hours before his death, Cornell performed with Soundgarden at the Fox Theatre in Detroit, which he tweeted about early Wednesday.
Soundgarden...
- 5/18/2017
- by Katherine Richter
- PEOPLE.com
The music world has lost another great. Soundgarden and Audioslave frontman Chris Cornell has died at the age of 52, his rep, Brian Bumbery, tells Et in a statement.
Cornell had been on tour with Soundgarden when he died unexpectedly in Detroit on Wednesday.
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Bumbery called the death “sudden and unexpected,” and notes that a cause of death is unknown at this time. The rep said that Cornell’s wife and family are shocked by the news and asking for privacy.
"They would like to thank his fans for their continuous love and loyalty and ask that their privacy be respected at this time," Bumbery said in a statement.
Police are investigating Cornell's death as an apparent suicide, a spokesperson for the Detroit Police Department tells Et.
Cornell was one of the biggest voices in the ‘90s grunge movement. Though Soundgarden...
Cornell had been on tour with Soundgarden when he died unexpectedly in Detroit on Wednesday.
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Bumbery called the death “sudden and unexpected,” and notes that a cause of death is unknown at this time. The rep said that Cornell’s wife and family are shocked by the news and asking for privacy.
"They would like to thank his fans for their continuous love and loyalty and ask that their privacy be respected at this time," Bumbery said in a statement.
Police are investigating Cornell's death as an apparent suicide, a spokesperson for the Detroit Police Department tells Et.
Cornell was one of the biggest voices in the ‘90s grunge movement. Though Soundgarden...
- 5/18/2017
- Entertainment Tonight
Chris Cornell was so respected and loved by other musicians, his friends, and millions of fans. They're all honoring the iconic singer as they get the sad news of his death. I Am So Saddened By Chris Cornell Passing. @soundgarden Total Shock.Great Man.Great Band.Great Loss. Love To Everyone In His World. XXX — Gavin Rossdale (@GavinRossdale) May 18, 2017 i can hardly believe the news about Chris Cornell's passing. he was Such a talent and an unbelievably nice man.
- 5/18/2017
- by TMZ Staff
- TMZ
There are few things more deflating than the prospect of yet another Great Man biopic, a genre that's prone to cause even the best directors to stumble. The resulting films are often too rambling, too unfocused, too unnecessary—either misguided passion projects or empty stabs at “respectability.” In that respect, Jackie (Chilean director Pablo Larraín's second foray into biopic territory this year, after Neruda) sets itself apart. Centering on Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy (Natalie Portman) and largely confining its focus to the hours and days following her husband’s assassination in 1963, it’s less a biopic and more an intimate refraction of a national tragedy. And although somewhat uneven, it remains an intriguing, if frustrating affair—both a plunge into history and myth and a look at its creation, the manner by which “one brief shining moment that was known as Camelot” became embedded into a national consciousness.Opening at...
- 12/2/2016
- MUBI
There is the Great Man theory of history, in which it’s anomalous individuals with massive destinies that dictate the course of world events. And there’s the more sociological approach which suggests that mass movements and prevailing political currents are how change occurs. But trapped in the no man’s land between those two opposing ideas — he probably tinkering with a car engine, she maybe flouring up some scones — are civil rights pioneers Richard and Mildred Loving, at least as imagined and carefully homaged by director Jeff Nichols in his quiet gem, “Loving.” As polished a film in terms of craft and performance as Nichols has ever made, the director’s trademark considered intelligence shows itself in how subtly it reworks and refreshes the tired conceits of the historical biopic, while still remaining a conventionally appealing and, yes, Oscar-y example of the genre.
Continue reading Love Wins In Jeff Nichols’ Quiet,...
Continue reading Love Wins In Jeff Nichols’ Quiet,...
- 11/1/2016
- by Jessica Kiang
- The Playlist
Beginning in 1937 — the opening credits take us through a series of period photos and alert us to expect something with a potentially greater scope than simply the biopic of one man — Scarred Hearts is still inspired by the life of one figure: writer and intellectual Max Blecher, in the case of this film reconfigured as Emanuel (Lucius Rus), suffering from bone tuberculosis and put in a hospital on the edge of the Black Sea. A 20-year-old man with his life ahead of him, there’s the belief within him that this is all to pass, though, as history will attest, that’s unfortunately not true.
Like another two-and-a-half-hour Romanian dry comedy about the medical process, Cristi Puiu’s The Death of Mr. Lazarescu, Scarred Hearts plays up the control doctors hold over us in a critical state for maximum absurdity, of course the joke of antiquated health care emphasized in director Radu Jude’s case.
Like another two-and-a-half-hour Romanian dry comedy about the medical process, Cristi Puiu’s The Death of Mr. Lazarescu, Scarred Hearts plays up the control doctors hold over us in a critical state for maximum absurdity, of course the joke of antiquated health care emphasized in director Radu Jude’s case.
- 8/10/2016
- by Ethan Vestby
- The Film Stage
On this day in history as it relates to the movies...
1762 Catherine the Great becomes tsar of Russia, rules until her death 34 years later. Many actresses have played her since including icons as great as Jeanne Moreau, Catherine Deneuve, and Marlene Dietrich. (Kiera Knightley and Annette Bening both have been rumored for various new Catherine the Great projects but we'll believe those when we see them.)
1898 Berenice Abbott, a major figure in photography, an early Lgbt feminist, whose life spanned nearly the entire 20th century and would make a great biopic, is born. We keep mentioning important women as potential biopic subjects to debunk the theory, perpetuated by Hollywood, that there are only Great Men worthy of movie treatment in history.
1899 Speaking of Great Man biopics...
1762 Catherine the Great becomes tsar of Russia, rules until her death 34 years later. Many actresses have played her since including icons as great as Jeanne Moreau, Catherine Deneuve, and Marlene Dietrich. (Kiera Knightley and Annette Bening both have been rumored for various new Catherine the Great projects but we'll believe those when we see them.)
1898 Berenice Abbott, a major figure in photography, an early Lgbt feminist, whose life spanned nearly the entire 20th century and would make a great biopic, is born. We keep mentioning important women as potential biopic subjects to debunk the theory, perpetuated by Hollywood, that there are only Great Men worthy of movie treatment in history.
1899 Speaking of Great Man biopics...
- 7/17/2016
- by NATHANIEL R
- FilmExperience
Because we're having fun with this little feature we'll continue. On this day in history as it relates to the movies...
1881 Ahead of her time Clara Barton founds the American Red Cross. She doesn't get a biopic because Hollywood is only interested in "Great Man" biopics
1916 Happy Centennial to author Harold Robbins who penned 25 best-sellers some of which became famous movies like The Carpetbaggers (1964), the Elvis flick King Creole (1958), and the notorious Pia Zadora Razzie winner The Lonely Lady (1983)
Rope (1949) and Swoon (1992) - two great movies inspired by the Leopold & Loeb case
1924 Chicago college students Leopold & Loeb murder a teenage boy in a "thrill killing." Their crime inspires the story of the gay deviants in Alfred Hitchcock's Rope (1949), the Cannes Best Actor winning Compulsion (1958) and is recreated in the New Queer Cinema classic Swoon (1992)
1926 Kay Kendall of Les Girls (1957) fame is born
1952 Two time Oscar nominee John Garfield (best...
1881 Ahead of her time Clara Barton founds the American Red Cross. She doesn't get a biopic because Hollywood is only interested in "Great Man" biopics
1916 Happy Centennial to author Harold Robbins who penned 25 best-sellers some of which became famous movies like The Carpetbaggers (1964), the Elvis flick King Creole (1958), and the notorious Pia Zadora Razzie winner The Lonely Lady (1983)
Rope (1949) and Swoon (1992) - two great movies inspired by the Leopold & Loeb case
1924 Chicago college students Leopold & Loeb murder a teenage boy in a "thrill killing." Their crime inspires the story of the gay deviants in Alfred Hitchcock's Rope (1949), the Cannes Best Actor winning Compulsion (1958) and is recreated in the New Queer Cinema classic Swoon (1992)
1926 Kay Kendall of Les Girls (1957) fame is born
1952 Two time Oscar nominee John Garfield (best...
- 5/21/2016
- by NATHANIEL R
- FilmExperience
There is the Great Man theory of history, in which it’s anomalous individuals with massive destinies that dictate the course of world events. And there’s the more sociological approach which suggests that mass movements and prevailing political currents are how change occurs. But trapped in the no man’s land between those two opposing ideas — […]
The post Cannes Review: Jeff Nichols’ ‘Loving’ With Joel Edgerton & Ruth Negga Is A Heartfelt, Quiet Gem appeared first on The Playlist.
The post Cannes Review: Jeff Nichols’ ‘Loving’ With Joel Edgerton & Ruth Negga Is A Heartfelt, Quiet Gem appeared first on The Playlist.
- 5/16/2016
- by Jessica Kiang
- The Playlist
Lisa Rinna revealed on Thursday that her father Frank has died.
"The World lost a Great Man today……Heaven got a great Angel. I love you Dad," the Real Housewives of Beverly Hills star captioned a photo of her dad, posing with her mother in a throwback pic.
Rinna, 52, also shared a photo of herself and her dad on her wedding day as well as an image of one of his paintings.
"One of my Dads beautiful Paintings," she captioned the pic of a house on a scenic waterfront.
The World lost a Great Man today......Heaven got a great Angel.
"The World lost a Great Man today……Heaven got a great Angel. I love you Dad," the Real Housewives of Beverly Hills star captioned a photo of her dad, posing with her mother in a throwback pic.
Rinna, 52, also shared a photo of herself and her dad on her wedding day as well as an image of one of his paintings.
"One of my Dads beautiful Paintings," she captioned the pic of a house on a scenic waterfront.
The World lost a Great Man today......Heaven got a great Angel.
- 1/22/2016
- by Naja Rayne, @najarayne
- People.com - TV Watch
Lisa Rinna revealed on Thursday that her father Frank has died. "The World lost a Great Man today……Heaven got a great Angel. I love you Dad," the Real Housewives of Beverly Hills star captioned a photo of her dad, posing with her mother in a throwback pic. Rinna, 52, also shared a photo of herself and her dad on her wedding day as well as an image of one of his paintings. "One of my Dads beautiful Paintings," she captioned the pic of a house on a scenic waterfront. The World lost a Great Man today......Heaven got a great Angel.
- 1/22/2016
- by Naja Rayne, @najarayne
- PEOPLE.com
Lisa Rinna revealed on Thursday that her father Frank has died. "The World lost a Great Man today……Heaven got a great Angel. I love you Dad," the Real Housewives of Beverly Hills star captioned a photo of her dad, posing with her mother in a throwback pic. Rinna, 52, also shared a photo of herself and her dad on her wedding day as well as an image of one of his paintings. "One of my Dads beautiful Paintings," she captioned the pic of a house on a scenic waterfront. The World lost a Great Man today......Heaven got a great Angel.
- 1/22/2016
- by Naja Rayne, @najarayne
- PEOPLE.com
"She's a camp event and a celebrity and that's all and the last thing anybody needs is to make a giant bomb with her that any fool could see coming." —Scott Rudin, lover of many women. Akhmatova has a great poem, one of her Northern Elegies, which starts like this: I, like a river,Have been turned aside by this harsh age.I am a substitute. My life has flowedInto another channelAnd I do not recognize my shores. The poet uses the power of imagination to do a mild perversion of Proust’s Madeleine. Or not Proust, a realization of Heisenberg. To conjure an entire dead-cat life, another conditional mood persona, the ahistoric Akhmatova, who would have been. If this By the Sea, with all its creaky dollhouse dust, had been made by Rainer Werner Fassbinder or by Todd Haynes I bet you all $10 everybody (and Scott Rudin in particular) would be creaming their jeans.
- 12/1/2015
- by Uncas Blythe
- MUBI
Last year’s Chef, a studio system palate cleanser for director Jon Favreau, was the exact sort of oddball creation you’d expect to find in a food truck. Thinly veiled in its metaphor and debatably vain as it was, Chef caught on with moviegoers because Favreau’s passion project had the necessary ingredients to deserve such a branding (sweetness and enthusiasm will excuse a lot of aimless self-indulgence). Thanks to Burnt, the new Bradley Cooper-starring culinary drama, Favreau’s willingness to go off-menu now looks all the more appetizing in retrospect. The alternative for film-loving foodies, it would seem, is factory processed junk food that has all the zest and inspiration of spam by candlelight.
The better comparison point for Burnt is its holdover competition, Steve Jobs, a silver-tongued portrait of creative genius that crackles with flavor, even when pulling a lot of punches. Burnt, by contrast, is...
The better comparison point for Burnt is its holdover competition, Steve Jobs, a silver-tongued portrait of creative genius that crackles with flavor, even when pulling a lot of punches. Burnt, by contrast, is...
- 10/21/2015
- by Sam Woolf
- We Got This Covered
Sarah Leonor Discovers a Great Man
By Terry Keefe
Writer/director Sarah Leonor is one of France's most exciting new cinematic exports. Her latest film, The Great Man (Le Grand Homme), is an extraordinary drama depicting the traumas of war and immigration, and how they ricochet, opens on Friday, August 14 in New York at the Film Society of Lincoln Center’s Elinor Bunin Theater, then platforms wider on September 4. Starring Jérémie Rénier (The Dardenne Brothers' Palme D’or Winner L’Enfant), The Great Man is a powerful story about friendship and solidarity and takes a closer look at how men try to piece their lives back together when they’ve been shattered by war.
Hamilton (Jérémie Rénier) and Markov (Surho Sugaipov) are about to finish five years of service in the Foreign Legion. During their six-month posting in Afghanistan, they wind up amidst a crossfire while out on an impromptu and unauthorized leopard hunt.
By Terry Keefe
Writer/director Sarah Leonor is one of France's most exciting new cinematic exports. Her latest film, The Great Man (Le Grand Homme), is an extraordinary drama depicting the traumas of war and immigration, and how they ricochet, opens on Friday, August 14 in New York at the Film Society of Lincoln Center’s Elinor Bunin Theater, then platforms wider on September 4. Starring Jérémie Rénier (The Dardenne Brothers' Palme D’or Winner L’Enfant), The Great Man is a powerful story about friendship and solidarity and takes a closer look at how men try to piece their lives back together when they’ve been shattered by war.
Hamilton (Jérémie Rénier) and Markov (Surho Sugaipov) are about to finish five years of service in the Foreign Legion. During their six-month posting in Afghanistan, they wind up amidst a crossfire while out on an impromptu and unauthorized leopard hunt.
- 8/14/2015
- by The Hollywood Interview.com
- The Hollywood Interview
His influence has permeated the fabric of Hollywood films for decades and sadly Omar Sharif has passed away today (July 10).
The beloved actor, who was diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease earlier this year, is survived by his son Tarek Sharif and two grandsons. His agent Steve Kenis told BBC News, “He suffered a heart attack this afternoon in a hospital in Cairo.”
Sharif was best-known for playing Sherif Ali in 1962’s “Lawrence of Arabia. Omar previously told The Guardian, "When I made this film I thought: 'This is a crazy thing. There are no girls, no very famous actors at that time, only men and no action, not a lot of action. Not a lot of fights…' It was so good because the director [David Lean] was a brilliant man. That’s the truth. David Lean was a great, great man. Great man."...
The beloved actor, who was diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease earlier this year, is survived by his son Tarek Sharif and two grandsons. His agent Steve Kenis told BBC News, “He suffered a heart attack this afternoon in a hospital in Cairo.”
Sharif was best-known for playing Sherif Ali in 1962’s “Lawrence of Arabia. Omar previously told The Guardian, "When I made this film I thought: 'This is a crazy thing. There are no girls, no very famous actors at that time, only men and no action, not a lot of action. Not a lot of fights…' It was so good because the director [David Lean] was a brilliant man. That’s the truth. David Lean was a great, great man. Great man."...
- 7/10/2015
- GossipCenter
We may be at home in our loungewear with a tea on standby rather than in a tux and drinking wine, but that doesn't mean the BAFTA TV Awards won't still be a blast.
Join us from 8pm tonight (May 10) for the House of Fraser BAFTA TV Awards 2015 as we follow along with the biggest UK TV awards night of the year, with Graham Norton hosting from the Theatre Royal. The awards may actually have started at 7pm, but we'll be playing along with the BBC One broadcast, so don't worry about spoilers here!
Who will triumph from the likes of Sherlock, EastEnders, Sheridan Smith and Happy Valley? We shall soon find out, so please join us by tweeting @digitalspy and leaving comments below.
22:03What did you make of that then? A few surprises and shocks along the way - were you generally pleased or miffed? Let us know in the comments,...
Join us from 8pm tonight (May 10) for the House of Fraser BAFTA TV Awards 2015 as we follow along with the biggest UK TV awards night of the year, with Graham Norton hosting from the Theatre Royal. The awards may actually have started at 7pm, but we'll be playing along with the BBC One broadcast, so don't worry about spoilers here!
Who will triumph from the likes of Sherlock, EastEnders, Sheridan Smith and Happy Valley? We shall soon find out, so please join us by tweeting @digitalspy and leaving comments below.
22:03What did you make of that then? A few surprises and shocks along the way - were you generally pleased or miffed? Let us know in the comments,...
- 5/10/2015
- Digital Spy
We may be at home in our loungewear with a tea on standby rather than in a tux and drinking wine, but that doesn't mean the BAFTA TV Awards won't still be a blast.
Join us from 8pm tonight (May 10) for the House of Fraser BAFTA TV Awards 2015 as we follow along with the biggest UK TV awards night of the year, with Graham Norton hosting from the Theatre Royal. The awards may actually have started at 7pm, but we'll be playing along with the BBC One broadcast, so don't worry about spoilers here!
Who will triumph from the likes of Sherlock, EastEnders, Sheridan Smith and Happy Valley? We shall soon find out, so please join us by tweeting @digitalspy and leaving comments below.
22:03What did you make of that, then? A few surprises and shocks along the way - were you generally pleased or miffed? Let us know in the comments,...
Join us from 8pm tonight (May 10) for the House of Fraser BAFTA TV Awards 2015 as we follow along with the biggest UK TV awards night of the year, with Graham Norton hosting from the Theatre Royal. The awards may actually have started at 7pm, but we'll be playing along with the BBC One broadcast, so don't worry about spoilers here!
Who will triumph from the likes of Sherlock, EastEnders, Sheridan Smith and Happy Valley? We shall soon find out, so please join us by tweeting @digitalspy and leaving comments below.
22:03What did you make of that, then? A few surprises and shocks along the way - were you generally pleased or miffed? Let us know in the comments,...
- 5/10/2015
- Digital Spy
A completely fascinating peek inside a legendary fashion house where the demands of business and art clash in interesting ways. I’m “biast” (pro): nothing
I’m “biast” (con): not particularly interested in the fashion industry
(what is this about? see my critic’s minifesto)
I don’t have the least bit of interest in capital-f Fashion, but I was completely fascinated by this peek into the House of Christian Dior in Paris and the mad rush that then newly appointed creative director Raf Simons put himself through to bring his first haute couture collection from concepts to finished garments models could wear in a mere eight weeks, in Spring 2012. (This is a process that apparently typically occupies five to six months.) Filmmaker Frédéric Tcheng got unprecedented access to Simons, his lieutenant Pieter Mulier, and the ateliers (workshops) where seamstresses interpreted Simons’ designs and brought them to life,...
I’m “biast” (con): not particularly interested in the fashion industry
(what is this about? see my critic’s minifesto)
I don’t have the least bit of interest in capital-f Fashion, but I was completely fascinated by this peek into the House of Christian Dior in Paris and the mad rush that then newly appointed creative director Raf Simons put himself through to bring his first haute couture collection from concepts to finished garments models could wear in a mere eight weeks, in Spring 2012. (This is a process that apparently typically occupies five to six months.) Filmmaker Frédéric Tcheng got unprecedented access to Simons, his lieutenant Pieter Mulier, and the ateliers (workshops) where seamstresses interpreted Simons’ designs and brought them to life,...
- 3/27/2015
- by MaryAnn Johanson
- www.flickfilosopher.com
"Devastated to report death of my best friend and #documentary partner Bruce Sinofsky this morning," tweeted Joe Berlinger earlier today. "Details to follow. Great man, sad day #Rip." Sinofsky, winner of a Directors Guild of America Award, two Emmys, a Peabody and an Independent Spirit Award, began his career as a senior editor for Maysles Films. Among the projects he directed on his own are Good Rockin' Tonight: The Legacy of Sun Records for PBS/American Masters and episodes of the Sundance Channel series Iconoclasts. But he'll most likely be remembered for his work with Berlinger, the Paradise Lost trilogy, Brother's Keeper and Metallica: Some Kind of Monster. » - David Hudson...
- 2/21/2015
- Fandor: Keyframe
"Devastated to report death of my best friend and #documentary partner Bruce Sinofsky this morning," tweeted Joe Berlinger earlier today. "Details to follow. Great man, sad day #Rip." Sinofsky, winner of a Directors Guild of America Award, two Emmys, a Peabody and an Independent Spirit Award, began his career as a senior editor for Maysles Films. Among the projects he directed on his own are Good Rockin' Tonight: The Legacy of Sun Records for PBS/American Masters and episodes of the Sundance Channel series Iconoclasts. But he'll most likely be remembered for his work with Berlinger, the Paradise Lost trilogy, Brother's Keeper and Metallica: Some Kind of Monster. » - David Hudson...
- 2/21/2015
- Keyframe
Documentary film director Bruce Sinofsky has died after a battle with diabetes. He was 58. Frequent collaborator Joe Berlinger confirmed the news Saturday on Twitter. "Great man, sad day," Berlinger wrote. Sinofsky and Berlinger co-directed the Paradise Lost trilogy, centered on the West Memphis Three. They earned an Oscar nomination for 2011's Paradise Lost 3: Purgatory. See more Hollywood's Notable Deaths of 2015 The two directors, who founded production company Creative Thinking International in 1991, also directed the 2004 Metallica documentary Some Kind of Monster. They won an Emmy for 1996's Paradise Lost and a Director's Guild of America
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- 2/21/2015
- by Ryan Gajewski
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Bruce Sinofsky, who directed the West Memphis Three documentary "Paradise Lost" and its two acclaimed sequels, died this morning. The cause was complications from diabetes, according to Sinofsky's longtime directing partner Joe Berlinger. He was 58. "Very sad to report that my best friend and frequent collaborator Bruce died early this morning in his sleep," Berlinger wrote in an e-mail to Indiewire today. On Twitter, Berlinger added, "Great man, sad day." The duo were nominated for an Academy Away in 2012 for the final chapter in the "Paradise Lost" trilogy, which culminated with the West Memphis Three's release from prison — 15 years after they were arrested for murder in their teen years. They also received the Cinema Eye Award's "Hell Yeah Prize" that year. "Shame on Arkansas for not exonerating these guys," Sinofsky said during the film's premiere at the New York Film Festival. "Or, even shame on Arkansas if...
- 2/21/2015
- by Indiewire
- Indiewire
It's been around 150 years since we gave much respect to Scottish writer Thomas Carlyle's so-called Great Man Theory of history. While there are unquestionable great men and great women who helped shape culture and history, the number of great men and women who made impacts that are worth studying outside of the context of their society is virtually nil. It's not an interesting or accurate way to view history and, as a result, we don't give credence to people who try it. It's even less informative to view tragedy through an Awful Man Theory. It's almost inconceivable to imagine an interpretation of World War II, for example, that said, "So Germany was just going along fine and then Hitler came and ruined everything." As monstrous as Hitler was, you'd never write a story of Nazi atrocities in which you reached the end and said, "And it was all Hitler's fault.
- 1/27/2015
- by Daniel Fienberg
- Hitfix
The Corner Show #1 discovered and curated by Drew McWeeny The following is the first installment in a new regular feature here at HitFix. People are fascinated by stories of films that were almost made, and we've certainly dug into that subject in the past. This is a new way of doing that in an ongoing format, and we hope you enjoy what is meant to be a game, a fun way of looking at an alternate movie history. It is safe to say that I had a very challenging 2014. So maybe what happened was a complete break with reality. Who could blame me? There's only so much anyone can take, and I've certainly had my own limits tested recently. So trust me.. at first, I considered forgetting all about what happened this past weekend and never writing a word about it. But it was so strange and so special that...
- 1/6/2015
- by Drew McWeeny
- Hitfix
Hollywood — Unknowns making a big splash can be exciting in this industry. Just last year, Barkhad Abdi stood toe-to-toe with Tom Hanks and landed an Oscar nomination for his troubles, when just a year prior, he was driving a limo in Minneapolis trying to find his way. Rocker-turned-actor Miyavi is a different story, though. He never planned on acting. He had carved a place on the stage for himself long before Angelina Jolie came calling, but after "Unbroken," he might be getting a few more calls. Miyavi stars in the film as Mutsuhiro "The Bird" Watanabe, a brutal Pow camp foreman who made Louis Zamperini's life a living hell. His chemistry with actor Jack O'Connell on screen is one thing, but together on the Q&A trail, they're quite a delight. Miyavi and I recently talked about that, about trying to instill some empathy into his character and about...
- 12/15/2014
- by Kristopher Tapley
- Hitfix
With the holiday season now in full swing, it’s time to deck the halls, start calendar shopping, and prepare for months and months of Oscar speculation. With few exceptions, 2014’s most buzz-worthy awards contenders have chosen a late year release, including the Stephen Hawking biopic The Theory of Everything, which is currently garnering a lot of attention.
Starring Eddie Redmayne as the world renowned physicist, The Theory of Everything tracks Hawking’s life of scientific achievement in the face of physical adversity. What separates The Theory of Everything from the usual “Great Man” biopic is that it’s much more about Hawking’s relationship with wife and caretaker Jane Wild than astrophysics. Felicity Jones as Wild shoulders as much of the film’s weight as Redmayne, and their standout performances dominated discussion of the movie when it premiered at this year’s Toronto International Film Festival.
Back in September,...
Starring Eddie Redmayne as the world renowned physicist, The Theory of Everything tracks Hawking’s life of scientific achievement in the face of physical adversity. What separates The Theory of Everything from the usual “Great Man” biopic is that it’s much more about Hawking’s relationship with wife and caretaker Jane Wild than astrophysics. Felicity Jones as Wild shoulders as much of the film’s weight as Redmayne, and their standout performances dominated discussion of the movie when it premiered at this year’s Toronto International Film Festival.
Back in September,...
- 11/8/2014
- by Sam Woolf
- We Got This Covered
Nearly 30 sales companies receive financial backing to market their films in Toronto.
A total of 28 sales companies from eight European countries are to receive financial backing from to market their films at the Toronto International Film Festival (Sept 4-14) from European Film Promotion’s Film Sales Support scheme.
More than €150,000 ($200,000) in total is being reserved by Efp for Europe’s attending sales companies.
European films eligible for Fss support have to run in the festival and need to be available for Canada. Of the 39 supported films, 27 are receiving their world premiere in Toronto.
Amongst them are François Ozon’s The New Girlfriend, Bent Hamer’s 1001 Grams and Susanne Bier’s A Second Chance.
Michael Winterbottom The Face Of An Angel sees German actor and former European Shooting Star Daniel Brühl in a lead role.
Foreign Body by Krzysztof Zanussi, a co-production between Poland, Italy and Russia with one-time European Shooting Star Agata Buzek in a main role...
A total of 28 sales companies from eight European countries are to receive financial backing from to market their films at the Toronto International Film Festival (Sept 4-14) from European Film Promotion’s Film Sales Support scheme.
More than €150,000 ($200,000) in total is being reserved by Efp for Europe’s attending sales companies.
European films eligible for Fss support have to run in the festival and need to be available for Canada. Of the 39 supported films, 27 are receiving their world premiere in Toronto.
Amongst them are François Ozon’s The New Girlfriend, Bent Hamer’s 1001 Grams and Susanne Bier’s A Second Chance.
Michael Winterbottom The Face Of An Angel sees German actor and former European Shooting Star Daniel Brühl in a lead role.
Foreign Body by Krzysztof Zanussi, a co-production between Poland, Italy and Russia with one-time European Shooting Star Agata Buzek in a main role...
- 8/29/2014
- by michael.rosser@screendaily.com (Michael Rosser)
- ScreenDaily
Psst: The Fourth of July isn’t really about crazy fireworks displays, or eating a record-breaking 69 hot dogs in just 10 minutes, or those layered American flag cakes that look so gorgeous on Pinterest but are physically impossible to reproduce Irl.
No, my friends—it’s about our glorious nation’s glorious genesis, spearheaded in the City of Brotherly Love 238 years ago when our founding fathers signed the Declaration of Independence. You could honor them by comparing bifocals with a Benjamin Franklin impersonator, or perhaps wearing a powdered wig to the beach. By my money, though, there’s no better way...
No, my friends—it’s about our glorious nation’s glorious genesis, spearheaded in the City of Brotherly Love 238 years ago when our founding fathers signed the Declaration of Independence. You could honor them by comparing bifocals with a Benjamin Franklin impersonator, or perhaps wearing a powdered wig to the beach. By my money, though, there’s no better way...
- 7/4/2014
- by Hillary Busis
- EW.com - PopWatch
Summer box office season has become synonymous with superhero movies over the course of the past decade, but what does our insatiable lust for tales of men (and women… but mostly men) in spandex really say about us a culture? That’s what the latest installment of PBS’ Idea Channel looks to answer. It’s not every day that you hear Batman mentioned in the same breath as Thomas Carlyle’s Great Man Theory, but the video does make an interesting and compelling case for our current obsession with superhero movies being more than just mankind wanting to see good vanquish evil in spectacular fashion. The video gets into some fairly heady concepts, and we’re not entirely sure the argument that comic book heroes are the modern-day equivalent of the...
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- 6/17/2014
- by Mike Bracken
- Movies.com
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Tom Baker says he’s thrilled that the classic Doctor Who series is to be screened on the Horror Channel. Speaking today, the Great Man of Doctor Who said Horror Channel has completed a deal with BBC Worldwide to broadcast 30 stories from the Classic series which ran 1963 to 1989 featuring the first seven Doctors,
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Tom Baker says he’s thrilled that the classic Doctor Who series is to be screened on the Horror Channel. Speaking today, the Great Man of Doctor Who said Horror Channel has completed a deal with BBC Worldwide to broadcast 30 stories from the Classic series which ran 1963 to 1989 featuring the first seven Doctors,
The post Tom Baker Welcomes Horror Channel’s Doctor Who Deal appeared first on Kasterborous Doctor Who News and Reviews.
- 3/20/2014
- by Christian Cawley
- Kasterborous.com
The story of Charles Dickens and his secret mistress is no romance, and no modest costume drama, either. It’s a tale of women being practical because they had to be. I’m “biast” (pro): love the cast, love Dickens
I’m “biast” (con): nothing
I have not read the source material
(what is this about? see my critic’s minifesto)
His novels were full of life, and so was Charles Dickens himself… though not always in the most socially acceptable ways. Not for his restrictive Victorian times, and not necessarily in ways that would considered cool today, either. Dickens had a mistress for the last 12 years of his life, for instance, a fact dug up by biographer Claire Tomalin for her book The Invisible Woman, a relationship all but erased from history at the time in order to hide the scandal of it. Fittingly, then, this adaptation...
I’m “biast” (con): nothing
I have not read the source material
(what is this about? see my critic’s minifesto)
His novels were full of life, and so was Charles Dickens himself… though not always in the most socially acceptable ways. Not for his restrictive Victorian times, and not necessarily in ways that would considered cool today, either. Dickens had a mistress for the last 12 years of his life, for instance, a fact dug up by biographer Claire Tomalin for her book The Invisible Woman, a relationship all but erased from history at the time in order to hide the scandal of it. Fittingly, then, this adaptation...
- 2/7/2014
- by MaryAnn Johanson
- www.flickfilosopher.com
A new report reveals that his girlfriend realized Philip was missing when he didn’t pick up their three children on the morning of his death on Feb. 2. The circumstances only highlight how sudden Philip’s death is, and the fact that all those who knew him said that he was not only a great man, but a great father.
Having recently separated with his long-time partner and mother of his children, Mimi O’Donnell, Philip Seymour Hoffman, 46, was supposed to pick up his children on the morning of his death on Feb. 2. However, when he did not arrive to pick up Cooper, 10, Tallulah, 7, and Willa, 5, from Mimi’s house, the 46-year-old costume designer sent Philip’s close friend, David Bar Katz, to check up on the father-of-three, Mail Online reports.
Philip Seymour Hoffman Was Supposed To Pick Up His Three Children On The Morning Of His Death On Feb.
Having recently separated with his long-time partner and mother of his children, Mimi O’Donnell, Philip Seymour Hoffman, 46, was supposed to pick up his children on the morning of his death on Feb. 2. However, when he did not arrive to pick up Cooper, 10, Tallulah, 7, and Willa, 5, from Mimi’s house, the 46-year-old costume designer sent Philip’s close friend, David Bar Katz, to check up on the father-of-three, Mail Online reports.
Philip Seymour Hoffman Was Supposed To Pick Up His Three Children On The Morning Of His Death On Feb.
- 2/3/2014
- by Hollywood Life Staff
- HollywoodLife
Just about every year, brilliant movies are utterly ignored by the Oscars. The Searchers, Groundhog Day, Breathless, King Kong, Casino Royale, Touch of Evil, Caddyshack, Mean Streets, The Big Lebowski, Shame — the Academy has a long history of overlooking comedies, action movies, horror flicks, hard-boiled genre pics, artsy foreign films, and documentaries that aren’t about World War II. This year, we’ll be taking a closer look at films that were too small, too weird, or perhaps simply too awesome for the Academy Awards. These are the Non-Nominees.
The Film: Lee Daniels’ The Butler, a film about White House...
The Film: Lee Daniels’ The Butler, a film about White House...
- 1/27/2014
- by Darren Franich
- EW.com - PopWatch
Last week’s episode of Sleepy Hollow began with Abbie Mills extolling the virtues of baseball for Ichabod Crane. Of course, Sleepy Hollow being Sleepy Hollow, where subtext is as conspicuous as a catcher flashing signs, Abbie wasn’t only talking about the American Pastime. She was talking about America, too. Or America as it should be. “For me, baseball is about three things,” she told the 18th-century Rip Van Winkle, recently awakened from a 232-year-long dirt nap. “First, tradition. Rules never change. You can always count on the grass to be green, the lines to be white. No matter how crazy the world gets,...
- 11/11/2013
- by Jeff Jensen
- EW - Inside TV
In the not too distant future, it’s possible audiences will react to cinematic depictions of 20th century journalism the way we do now when seeing characters smoke in a restaurant, as double-take-inducing behavioural relics from an older time period. It’s what makes Citizen Kane an impossible film to modernize, structurally speaking. Hopping on planes, beating the pavement, and finding out who a person was by talking with those who knew them personally? How positively quaint, says The Fifth Estate, the new Wikileaks drama. While you’re still packing to visit the subject’s nearest and dearest, I’ve already gained access to their career history, interests, hopes, dreams, and political leanings in minutes – all it cost me was a friend request and a follow.
Anyone with a keyboard now has a soapbox from which to stand in front of the whole world, but that’s only made it...
Anyone with a keyboard now has a soapbox from which to stand in front of the whole world, but that’s only made it...
- 9/7/2013
- by Sam Woolf
- We Got This Covered
Euro Trash movies yield much fun for the ardent fan. Anyone else will be flabbergasted at their low budget production values, salubrious themes and content, dreadful acting, atrocious dubbing and the general air of sleaziness in these films plus their frequent daftness. For the Euro Trash fan, these are endearing things to be cherished in the genre.
However, some Euro Trash movies are so dire, so ridiculously lame that even the most hardcore genre fan’s devotion to cinematic crapulence is sorely tested. Some of these movies are so dreadful, they cannot inspire love in even the most loyal Euro Trash fans. Alternately, they can be so inept as to inspire gales of laughter from game viewers as opposed to groans.
I have listed eight truly diabolical Euro Trash movies below. Please add your own below.
8. A Cat In The Brain (1990)
Late era Lucio Fulci film which has an interesting...
However, some Euro Trash movies are so dire, so ridiculously lame that even the most hardcore genre fan’s devotion to cinematic crapulence is sorely tested. Some of these movies are so dreadful, they cannot inspire love in even the most loyal Euro Trash fans. Alternately, they can be so inept as to inspire gales of laughter from game viewers as opposed to groans.
I have listed eight truly diabolical Euro Trash movies below. Please add your own below.
8. A Cat In The Brain (1990)
Late era Lucio Fulci film which has an interesting...
- 8/30/2013
- by Clare Simpson
- Obsessed with Film
The official trailer for "Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom" has hit the web, and its pace is far different than the upcoming film's previously released teaser. The full-length trailer depicts Mandela ("Pacific Rim's" Idris Elba) as a wanted man, an outlaw and even, a playboy. In the two minute, 31-second video, Mandela meets his wife (Naomie Harris), the nation's first black social worker, preaches peace and non-violence, but oversees plenty of actual violence as well. See video: 'Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom' Teaser Touts Message of a Great Man The film promises explosives...
- 7/19/2013
- by Tony Maglio
- The Wrap
The good news: Dan Harmon is probably coming back to Community! The bad news, possibly: Dan Harmon is probably coming back to Community. Will this move revive NBC’s crazy college-based show — or could it spell certain doom? Here’s how two EW writers see things.
Darren Franich: I really enjoyed the first three seasons of Community. The show wasn’t perfect by any means, but what I liked about it was the total go-for-broke spirit, the sense that every episode took a concept that could’ve been gimmicky — Law & Order spoof! Spaghetti western! Alternate-universe chaos theory! — and then rapaciously...
Darren Franich: I really enjoyed the first three seasons of Community. The show wasn’t perfect by any means, but what I liked about it was the total go-for-broke spirit, the sense that every episode took a concept that could’ve been gimmicky — Law & Order spoof! Spaghetti western! Alternate-universe chaos theory! — and then rapaciously...
- 6/6/2013
- by EW staff
- EW.com - PopWatch
Iconic movie critic Roger Ebert has died at the age of 70.
The former host of At the Movies with Gene Siskel and Roger Ebert passed away merely one day after he announced he would take a "leave of presence" from film reviews to battle thyroid and salivary gland cancer.
Below are just some of the responses to the tragic news of Ebert's death from friends, colleagues and celebrities:
Barack Obama: "For a generation of Americans - and especially Chicagoans - Roger was the movies."
Jimmy Kimmel: "Roger Ebert was an excellent writer, a gifted artist, and as nice a guy as you'll ever meet. Sad he's gone."
Justin Long: "Reading Roger Ebert's reviews as a kid was instrumental in determining what I did w my life. He will be sorely missed."
Wes Craven: "Roger Ebert gave my first film, Last House on the Left,...
The former host of At the Movies with Gene Siskel and Roger Ebert passed away merely one day after he announced he would take a "leave of presence" from film reviews to battle thyroid and salivary gland cancer.
Below are just some of the responses to the tragic news of Ebert's death from friends, colleagues and celebrities:
Barack Obama: "For a generation of Americans - and especially Chicagoans - Roger was the movies."
Jimmy Kimmel: "Roger Ebert was an excellent writer, a gifted artist, and as nice a guy as you'll ever meet. Sad he's gone."
Justin Long: "Reading Roger Ebert's reviews as a kid was instrumental in determining what I did w my life. He will be sorely missed."
Wes Craven: "Roger Ebert gave my first film, Last House on the Left,...
- 4/4/2013
- Digital Spy
Bright light! Bright light! Our sources tell us that, in keeping with Hollywood’s mandated pop culture recycling program, Warner Bros. Pictures is negotiating with Steven Spielberg’s Amblin Entertainment to reboot their 1984 horror comedy, Gremlins. We’re also told negotiations of this sort have happened several times over the years, but making Spielberg’s deal always proved too daunting a financial prospect and his involvement might simply be a requirement for making the film at all, so don’t hold your breath. Having said all of that, our sources tell us that it might just actually come off this time. This wouldn’t be something Spielberg would direct, of course – he only executive produced the original, with Joe Dante behind the camera – but it never hurts to have the Great Man’s name on your project. A Spielberg spokesman said that the appropriate executives were not available for comment.
- 1/17/2013
- by Claude Brodesser-Akner
- Vulture
I didn't forget about my page 12 sharing in honor of 2012 but the year slipped away from me. Let's resume, at least in brief, for a moment from Lincoln as scripted by Tony Kushner based in part on two chapters from "A Team of Rivals" (a book I'm continually hearing great things about).
Tony Kushner speaking about Lincoln at Harvard
Two soldiers fasten a flag to the halyards. Lincoln moves into places; as the crowd applauds, he takes a sheet of paper from inside his hat and glances at it. Then he looks up.
Lincoln
The part assigned to me is to raise
the flag, which, if there be no
fault in the machinery, I will do,
and when up, it will be for the
people to keep it up.
He puts the paper away. The audience waits, expecting more.
Lincoln (Cont'd)
That's my speech.
He smiles at them. They applaud,...
Tony Kushner speaking about Lincoln at Harvard
Two soldiers fasten a flag to the halyards. Lincoln moves into places; as the crowd applauds, he takes a sheet of paper from inside his hat and glances at it. Then he looks up.
Lincoln
The part assigned to me is to raise
the flag, which, if there be no
fault in the machinery, I will do,
and when up, it will be for the
people to keep it up.
He puts the paper away. The audience waits, expecting more.
Lincoln (Cont'd)
That's my speech.
He smiles at them. They applaud,...
- 1/8/2013
- by NATHANIEL R
- FilmExperience
The veteran star talks about ageing, the enduring appeal of a classic film and Hull City Fc
Hello! Where are you at the moment?
I'm not doing anything! I haven't made a film for two years now (1). I'm just an old man, but I'm Ok. Thank you.
Do you think you could ever be tempted out of retirement?
Yes, I would like to make a film, certainly. But something that's decent. I don't have to be the leading person, but I need a good part, that's all. A good script. Even a small part, for one week's work or whatever, that would be very nice.
Lawrence of Arabia is being released on Blu-ray (2). Why do you think the film has endured?
Well, it's because ... I don't know. It's extraordinary – when I made this film I thought: "This is a crazy thing. There are no girls, no very famous actors at that time,...
Hello! Where are you at the moment?
I'm not doing anything! I haven't made a film for two years now (1). I'm just an old man, but I'm Ok. Thank you.
Do you think you could ever be tempted out of retirement?
Yes, I would like to make a film, certainly. But something that's decent. I don't have to be the leading person, but I need a good part, that's all. A good script. Even a small part, for one week's work or whatever, that would be very nice.
Lawrence of Arabia is being released on Blu-ray (2). Why do you think the film has endured?
Well, it's because ... I don't know. It's extraordinary – when I made this film I thought: "This is a crazy thing. There are no girls, no very famous actors at that time,...
- 11/16/2012
- by Stuart Heritage
- The Guardian - Film News
There are few dramaturgical tasks as difficult or as thankless as telling the life story of a Great Man (or Woman), particularly when that historical figure has become the sort of legendary icon featured in national monuments and on currency. Wisely, director Steven Spielberg and screenwriter Tony Kushner ("Munich," "Angels in America") have avoided making "Lincoln" into a traditional biography — there's no homework on the back of a shovel in coal, no rail-splitting, no debating Stephen A. Douglas. Instead, working from historian Doris Kearns Goodwin's book "Team of Rivals: The...
- 11/7/2012
- by Alonso Duralde
- The Wrap
If there was one victor among the movies paneling at San Diego Comic-Con this year, it'd have to be … Marvel. Or was it "Man of Steel"? Or maybe "The Hobbit"?
Another Con's in the can, and we've emerged with new intel on a handful of high-profile mega-movies. There weren't necessarily any groundbreaking casting announcements this year, but first footage from movies like the new Superman flick, "Oz: The Great and Powerful," "Pacific Rim" and "Elysium" had fans and bloggers buzzing big time.
Check out the biggest movie scoops below. What we should add, #16: Getting in line at 7 a.m. does not guarantee you entry into the con's marquee venue (Hall H). Not even for a 6 p.m. panel. And yep, we learned that the hard way. – By Bryan Enk and Kevin Polowy
There's a Whole Lot of Marvel Movies Going On as 'Phase Two' Is Unveiled
Excelsior! Marvel Mania...
Another Con's in the can, and we've emerged with new intel on a handful of high-profile mega-movies. There weren't necessarily any groundbreaking casting announcements this year, but first footage from movies like the new Superman flick, "Oz: The Great and Powerful," "Pacific Rim" and "Elysium" had fans and bloggers buzzing big time.
Check out the biggest movie scoops below. What we should add, #16: Getting in line at 7 a.m. does not guarantee you entry into the con's marquee venue (Hall H). Not even for a 6 p.m. panel. And yep, we learned that the hard way. – By Bryan Enk and Kevin Polowy
There's a Whole Lot of Marvel Movies Going On as 'Phase Two' Is Unveiled
Excelsior! Marvel Mania...
- 7/15/2012
- by NextMovie Staff
- NextMovie
We think we're not in Kansas anymore.
Attendees of the San Diego Comic-Con were treated to the company of geeky gentleman and pop artist extraordinaire Sam Raimi as he told tales of his upcoming film, "Oz: The Great and Powerful." As we were hoping (really hoping), with Raimi's presence also came the film's first official trailer — and, like the Wizard himself, it is quite wonderful.
Raimi gives homage to the 1939 classic by having the wizard-to-be's Kansas days depicted in (rather lovely) black and white before he's whisked away via hot air balloon to the magical land where he will become the truly Great Man he was destined to be. The production design is absolutely breathtaking (how could it not be with Raimi and Disney joining forces to make this happen?) — as are Michelle Williams, Rachel Weisz and Mila Kunis, who all make brief appearances.
Because of the wonderful things he does,...
Attendees of the San Diego Comic-Con were treated to the company of geeky gentleman and pop artist extraordinaire Sam Raimi as he told tales of his upcoming film, "Oz: The Great and Powerful." As we were hoping (really hoping), with Raimi's presence also came the film's first official trailer — and, like the Wizard himself, it is quite wonderful.
Raimi gives homage to the 1939 classic by having the wizard-to-be's Kansas days depicted in (rather lovely) black and white before he's whisked away via hot air balloon to the magical land where he will become the truly Great Man he was destined to be. The production design is absolutely breathtaking (how could it not be with Raimi and Disney joining forces to make this happen?) — as are Michelle Williams, Rachel Weisz and Mila Kunis, who all make brief appearances.
Because of the wonderful things he does,...
- 7/13/2012
- by Bryan Enk
- NextMovie
The original superhero of Bollywood, wrestler-turned-actor Dara Singh passed away this morning at the age of 83.
Singh was fighting for his life for the past week after being taken to the hospital on Saturday when he suffered a cardiac arrest. Doctors were doing everything in their power to help him, but his condition worsened.
On Wednesday Dr. Ram Narain told the press that he had “less chance of recovery” due to serious damage to his brain. The actor was shifted back home on Wednesday evening so he could be with them for one last time.
“As Dara Singh’s condition was deteriorating fast, respecting wishes of his family, he has been shifted home with ventilator and medicines. A nurse and a doctor are at his home. There are no medicines that will reverse the brain damage… only if a miracle happens. He might even slip into coma,” said Dr Ram Narain,...
Singh was fighting for his life for the past week after being taken to the hospital on Saturday when he suffered a cardiac arrest. Doctors were doing everything in their power to help him, but his condition worsened.
On Wednesday Dr. Ram Narain told the press that he had “less chance of recovery” due to serious damage to his brain. The actor was shifted back home on Wednesday evening so he could be with them for one last time.
“As Dara Singh’s condition was deteriorating fast, respecting wishes of his family, he has been shifted home with ventilator and medicines. A nurse and a doctor are at his home. There are no medicines that will reverse the brain damage… only if a miracle happens. He might even slip into coma,” said Dr Ram Narain,...
- 7/12/2012
- by Charla Manohar
- Bollyspice
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