After breakout roles in Chronicle and The Place Beyond The Pines, the actor is having a good year. And in 2014, there's The Amazing Spider-Man 2...
"I've heard someone say that when people get famous, the qualities they had already just get magnified," says Dane DeHaan over an afternoon glass of red wine. "If they were an asshole before then maybe they'll be a huge asshole. But if they were a well-intentioned, grounded person then they'll become an even better intentioned, even more grounded person. Hopefully."
At this point, he laughs. Either way, this affable 27-year-old is about to find out. Already one of the most talked-about young actors in Hollywood, after breakout roles in Chronicle and The Place Beyond The Pines, DeHaan is about to take it up another notch or three. There's Metallica concert movie/sensory overload, Metallica: Through The Never, in which DeHaan gets his own little film within a film.
"I've heard someone say that when people get famous, the qualities they had already just get magnified," says Dane DeHaan over an afternoon glass of red wine. "If they were an asshole before then maybe they'll be a huge asshole. But if they were a well-intentioned, grounded person then they'll become an even better intentioned, even more grounded person. Hopefully."
At this point, he laughs. Either way, this affable 27-year-old is about to find out. Already one of the most talked-about young actors in Hollywood, after breakout roles in Chronicle and The Place Beyond The Pines, DeHaan is about to take it up another notch or three. There's Metallica concert movie/sensory overload, Metallica: Through The Never, in which DeHaan gets his own little film within a film.
- 9/27/2013
- by Paul MacInnes
- The Guardian - Film News
New comic book Wednesday has come and gone. The dust at your local comic shop has settled. An eerie silence descends as you finish reading your last superhero book of the week. Now it's time for something a little more sinister. Welcome to Bagged and Boarded: comic reviews of the sick, spooky, twisted and terrifying! Doomsday.1 No. 1 When comic book legend John Byrne first delved into dramatic comics he released a full-color comic called Doomsday +1. That was back in the seventies, and it was about a few survivors of a Cold War apocalypse surfing in a fantastical world. Now Byrne's released Doomsday.1 (pronounced Doomsday Point One) as a way to revisit his early story. But this time there's nothing fantastical or Cold War about the comic. This comic features a group of scientists who orbited earth as a giant solar flare burned the whole planet to a crisp! Now they...
- 5/17/2013
- by Giaco Furino
- FEARnet
London, Feb 9: A three-year-old girl from Guildford, Surrey, who scored 162 in the Stanford Binet test, has been unveiled as the one of the youngest ever members of high Iq society Mensa.
Alice Amos' advanced intellect means she is one of the 'top one per cent', with an Iq eight points higher than Carol Vorderman, and her score also matched that of Professor Stephen Hawking, who has never officially revealed his Iq, but which is gauged to be between 160 and 165, the Daily Mail reported.
The toddler, who is already bilingual- speaking both English and Russian- spends her spare time reading Aesop's fables and other fairytales, and.
Alice Amos' advanced intellect means she is one of the 'top one per cent', with an Iq eight points higher than Carol Vorderman, and her score also matched that of Professor Stephen Hawking, who has never officially revealed his Iq, but which is gauged to be between 160 and 165, the Daily Mail reported.
The toddler, who is already bilingual- speaking both English and Russian- spends her spare time reading Aesop's fables and other fairytales, and.
- 2/9/2013
- by Meeta Kabra
- RealBollywood.com
A barrier-breaking visual artist who has nurtured the imaginations of children around the world will be the subject of a new show at the Charles H. Wright museum opening Thursday.
Jerry Pinkney, an undisputed legend in the world of children's illustrators, has created over 100 children's books since he began working in the field in 1964. His stories, which often explore the African-American experience, have been translated into 16 different languages.
In 2010 Pinkney became the first African-American to win the prestigious Caldecott Medal -- the top prize for the illustrators of children's literature -- for his book "The Lion & the Mouse," a retelling of one of Aesop's fables.
Rita Auerbach, chairwoman of the Caldecott committee who recognized Pinkney, described his skill with watercolors as “unparalleled” to the New York Times.
“You turn the page, and you’re caught up in the drama of what’s happening in a really thoughtful, brilliant way,” she...
Jerry Pinkney, an undisputed legend in the world of children's illustrators, has created over 100 children's books since he began working in the field in 1964. His stories, which often explore the African-American experience, have been translated into 16 different languages.
In 2010 Pinkney became the first African-American to win the prestigious Caldecott Medal -- the top prize for the illustrators of children's literature -- for his book "The Lion & the Mouse," a retelling of one of Aesop's fables.
Rita Auerbach, chairwoman of the Caldecott committee who recognized Pinkney, described his skill with watercolors as “unparalleled” to the New York Times.
“You turn the page, and you’re caught up in the drama of what’s happening in a really thoughtful, brilliant way,” she...
- 6/11/2012
- by David Sands
- Huffington Post
The 22 year old accused of shooting Rep. Giffords left digital fingerprints that point to a young man obsessed with government control, radical politics, and sleep deprivation.
Jared Lee Loughner left a long Internet trail. The 22 year old accused of the murder of at least six people in Tucson and the attempted assassination of Rep. Gabrielle Giffords posted rambling missives on YouTube and MySpace about the U.S. government and mind control, creating one's own currency, grammar, and sleepwalking.
Related story on The Daily Beast: The Suddenly Quiet McCain
Loughner has been described as a white male with short, dark hair. In a YouTube video set against electronic music, he rails against government control of currency, and at one point seems to indicate he may suffer from insomnia. In a Socratic style he uses throughout his writing, Loughner states:
Watch Loughner's alleged YouTube video.
"All humans are in need of sleep.
Jared Lee Loughner left a long Internet trail. The 22 year old accused of the murder of at least six people in Tucson and the attempted assassination of Rep. Gabrielle Giffords posted rambling missives on YouTube and MySpace about the U.S. government and mind control, creating one's own currency, grammar, and sleepwalking.
Related story on The Daily Beast: The Suddenly Quiet McCain
Loughner has been described as a white male with short, dark hair. In a YouTube video set against electronic music, he rails against government control of currency, and at one point seems to indicate he may suffer from insomnia. In a Socratic style he uses throughout his writing, Loughner states:
Watch Loughner's alleged YouTube video.
"All humans are in need of sleep.
- 1/9/2011
- by Eve Conant
- The Daily Beast
"Extra" wants your little one to access the coolest way to learn online!
We're giving away 10 annual subscriptions to ABCmouse.com, an educational website offering a full online curriculum for children ages 2 to 6. From ABC's and 123's to Thank You and Please, ABCmouse.com is Bringing Learning to Life by offering more than 2,000 individual learning activities-including online books, games, songs, puzzles, art activities and printables-contained within more than 350 custom lessons. Come visit us at ABCmouse.
We're giving away 10 annual subscriptions to ABCmouse.com, an educational website offering a full online curriculum for children ages 2 to 6. From ABC's and 123's to Thank You and Please, ABCmouse.com is Bringing Learning to Life by offering more than 2,000 individual learning activities-including online books, games, songs, puzzles, art activities and printables-contained within more than 350 custom lessons. Come visit us at ABCmouse.
- 12/16/2010
- Extra
Did Pixar really take influence from the all-time classic Seven Samurai when making A Bug’s Life, we wonder?
If you're looking for inspiration for an animated film, then it's generally all around you. Disney has mined fairy stories, DreamWorks has been hunting down books too, then there are television series, popular characters and original ideas. Basically, given the glut of animated movies coming out every year, the big companies are looking far and wide for inspiration.
But how many have looked to Akira Kurosawa's classic movie, Seven Samurai?
The answer, predictably, is one. And the identity of that one? That'd be Pixar.
For its second feature, A Bug's Life, which we've been celebrating this week, Pixar appeared to take Kurosawa's 1954 classic as inspiration. Certainly, whether the similarities are intentional or coincidental, there's a lot of crossover between the two movies, even though, in terms of treatment, they couldn't be much further apart.
If you're looking for inspiration for an animated film, then it's generally all around you. Disney has mined fairy stories, DreamWorks has been hunting down books too, then there are television series, popular characters and original ideas. Basically, given the glut of animated movies coming out every year, the big companies are looking far and wide for inspiration.
But how many have looked to Akira Kurosawa's classic movie, Seven Samurai?
The answer, predictably, is one. And the identity of that one? That'd be Pixar.
For its second feature, A Bug's Life, which we've been celebrating this week, Pixar appeared to take Kurosawa's 1954 classic as inspiration. Certainly, whether the similarities are intentional or coincidental, there's a lot of crossover between the two movies, even though, in terms of treatment, they couldn't be much further apart.
- 12/7/2010
- Den of Geek
Sometimes during certain "Mad Men" episodes, the rampant sexism depicted sends my blood racing to such a boiling point, I quickly move past thoughtful to homicidal -- past typing up observations of the episode to yelling at characters to stab another character's eyes out with a pencil. Sunday's "The Summer Man" was one of those episodes. Half a meditation on Don's life and half a look at sexual politics in the workplace, the eighth episode of Season Four combined to form a fairly bleak view of the "Mad Men" world in mid-1965. The characters are still stuck in their situations, whether they were self-created or not, and winning doesn't seem to be in the cards for most. Some, such as Don, have reevaluated their expectations, while others, such as Joan, have lowered theirs. But when your only goal is survival, fulfillment is usually nowhere in sight.
"They say once you...
"They say once you...
- 9/14/2010
- by Dustin Rowles
Previously on Mad Men @ the Movies: 4.1 Live From Times Square 4.2 Sixties Sweethearts 4.3 Catherine Deneuve & Gamera, 4.4 Jean Seberg, 4.5 Hayley Mills & David McCallum, 4.6 Chaplin the Sad Clown 4.7 "No Bad Seats"
freelance creative Joey and name-dropping Harry discuss Peyton Place
Episode 4.8 "The Summer Man"
In yesterday's episode, Peggy (Elisabeth Moss) and Joan (Christina Hendricks) have a difficult showdown with Joey (Matt Long) the freelancer, another example of the show's study of sexism in the workplace. Joan turns on Peggy, despite Peggy's efforts to help. Joan is still in her downward spiral, less powerful in the office, helpless at home, and continually obsessing over Vietnam. Meanwhile, Don Draper (Jon Hamm) finally pulls himself out of his spiral. After last week's instant classic episode, which was very tightly focused, this was a rather uncharacteristic episode with prolonged narration from Don and a jumble of different scenes that felt like transitions away from old storylines.
Peyton Place.
freelance creative Joey and name-dropping Harry discuss Peyton Place
Episode 4.8 "The Summer Man"
In yesterday's episode, Peggy (Elisabeth Moss) and Joan (Christina Hendricks) have a difficult showdown with Joey (Matt Long) the freelancer, another example of the show's study of sexism in the workplace. Joan turns on Peggy, despite Peggy's efforts to help. Joan is still in her downward spiral, less powerful in the office, helpless at home, and continually obsessing over Vietnam. Meanwhile, Don Draper (Jon Hamm) finally pulls himself out of his spiral. After last week's instant classic episode, which was very tightly focused, this was a rather uncharacteristic episode with prolonged narration from Don and a jumble of different scenes that felt like transitions away from old storylines.
Peyton Place.
- 9/13/2010
- by NATHANIEL R
- FilmExperience
Horses as life-size puppets? The wrong soldier executed? Michael Morpurgo has had to challenge his own preconceptions when seeing his books adapted for stage or screen. But with Spielberg's War Horse film forthcoming and The Rainbow Bear a ballet, he's getting used to good surprises
To me it's all storytelling. After centuries of stories dominated by the written word, we may sometimes forget that, for many generations before, the telling of stories was almost entirely an oral tradition, with a little help from travelling players and singers and bands. These storytellers adapted, reinvented and recreated all the time, to reflect changing times and tastes.
As a maker of stories, originally written for the readers of books, I am always alert to the possibilities of finding new and inventive ways of telling them, of bringing them to a wider audience. To begin with, I never imagined anyone would think of adapting...
To me it's all storytelling. After centuries of stories dominated by the written word, we may sometimes forget that, for many generations before, the telling of stories was almost entirely an oral tradition, with a little help from travelling players and singers and bands. These storytellers adapted, reinvented and recreated all the time, to reflect changing times and tastes.
As a maker of stories, originally written for the readers of books, I am always alert to the possibilities of finding new and inventive ways of telling them, of bringing them to a wider audience. To begin with, I never imagined anyone would think of adapting...
- 8/20/2010
- by Michael Morpurgo
- The Guardian - Film News
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