Chris Eigeman's and Eric Morris' "Midnight Sun" has been selected as the recipient of a $15,000 production grant funded by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, while 20 filmmakers have been named to Film Independent's Fast Track Fellows program. In the past, that program has helped shepherd films including this year's SXSW award winner "Natural Selection," the Spirit Awards nominee "Amreeka" and Courtney Hunt's "Frozen River," which won an Oscar nomination for Melissa Leo. "Midnight Sun" is a dramatic film dealing with the World War II initiative in which a group of young...
- 6/19/2011
- The Wrap
With Tsr Buzz, you’ll find links to articles, videos and other random things that will help you waste your time just a little bit more.
Grand Rapids, Michigan strikes back against naysayers with this touching music video that features hundreds of citizens lip-dubbing along to “American Pie.” Covered in one take, this nine-minute video spans multiple streets and features many different Don McCleans.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZPjjZCO67WI
I suck at cooking, and reading cooking books can be an intimidating, crusty experience. Thank Godard someone knows how to speak my language. Time to get sophisticated. (Language Nsfw)
Cooking for Assholes
There are many reasons why the Alamo Drafthouse is probably the best theater in the entire world, but their crusade against movie-talkers and texters ranks is one of its more special. The theater chain in Austin, Texas is dedicated to offering moviegoers uninterrupted experiences, the way every movie theater should be.
Grand Rapids, Michigan strikes back against naysayers with this touching music video that features hundreds of citizens lip-dubbing along to “American Pie.” Covered in one take, this nine-minute video spans multiple streets and features many different Don McCleans.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZPjjZCO67WI
I suck at cooking, and reading cooking books can be an intimidating, crusty experience. Thank Godard someone knows how to speak my language. Time to get sophisticated. (Language Nsfw)
Cooking for Assholes
There are many reasons why the Alamo Drafthouse is probably the best theater in the entire world, but their crusade against movie-talkers and texters ranks is one of its more special. The theater chain in Austin, Texas is dedicated to offering moviegoers uninterrupted experiences, the way every movie theater should be.
- 6/7/2011
- by Nick Allen
- The Scorecard Review
What's in a name? Apparently a lot as the latest movie about a badass swamp monster getting ready to maim everyone in its way is up to moniker number three, but it looks as if this one will be sticking!
Creature (formerly Blood is Blood and Lockjaw) from writer/director Fred M. Andrews stars “True Blood” co-star Mehcad Brooks (aka "Eggs"), Serinda Swan (Tron Legacy), Sid Haig (The Devil's Rejects), and Daniel Bernhardt (The Matrix Reloaded).
The flick revolves around a group of family and friends who, while en route to New Orleans, are sidetracked in the Louisiana bayou and encounter a monster named Lockjaw who is revered by the locals as a god. When will people ever learn to just stick to the damned road? Natural selection I guess!
In the movie Brooks will play a Navy Seal back from the Middle East; Swan will play his fiancee, who...
Creature (formerly Blood is Blood and Lockjaw) from writer/director Fred M. Andrews stars “True Blood” co-star Mehcad Brooks (aka "Eggs"), Serinda Swan (Tron Legacy), Sid Haig (The Devil's Rejects), and Daniel Bernhardt (The Matrix Reloaded).
The flick revolves around a group of family and friends who, while en route to New Orleans, are sidetracked in the Louisiana bayou and encounter a monster named Lockjaw who is revered by the locals as a god. When will people ever learn to just stick to the damned road? Natural selection I guess!
In the movie Brooks will play a Navy Seal back from the Middle East; Swan will play his fiancee, who...
- 5/27/2011
- by Uncle Creepy
- DreadCentral.com
While Inkubus getting all the love lately, we thought it was time to shine the spotlight on another film director Glenn Ciano has haunting Cannes, a living dead-laden opus known as Infected!
Look for more on the movie starring Michael Madsen, William Forsythe, Christy Carlson Romano, Tommy DeNucci, Johnny Cicco, Annie Worden, and Jeanine Kane soon. In the interim dig on the eye candy below.
Synopsis
Natural selection says that, when faced with a predatory intrusion, all organisms must evolve to survive. However, Darwin made no promises that evolution would lead to improvement...
As they’ve been doing for years, Louis and his son, Andrew, are first to arrive at the peaceful cottage their hunting club rents each deer season, and as the other club members arrive, they begin the familiar, relaxing task of setting up the cabin. Deep in the woods, cut off from civilization, they spend a long weekend cleaning,...
Look for more on the movie starring Michael Madsen, William Forsythe, Christy Carlson Romano, Tommy DeNucci, Johnny Cicco, Annie Worden, and Jeanine Kane soon. In the interim dig on the eye candy below.
Synopsis
Natural selection says that, when faced with a predatory intrusion, all organisms must evolve to survive. However, Darwin made no promises that evolution would lead to improvement...
As they’ve been doing for years, Louis and his son, Andrew, are first to arrive at the peaceful cottage their hunting club rents each deer season, and as the other club members arrive, they begin the familiar, relaxing task of setting up the cabin. Deep in the woods, cut off from civilization, they spend a long weekend cleaning,...
- 5/19/2011
- by Uncle Creepy
- DreadCentral.com
The movie beat can be a lonely job. Even in a theater with hundreds of people, the film critic is alone in the dark. But personally, I find that the real joy of movies come from sharing them with others. Host Chaz Ebert asserted several times from the stage of the Virginia Theatre that Ebertfest is "all about the movies." But after my first trip to the festival, I would say it's an event as much about a community of movie lovers as the movies themselves.
As Tilda Swinton, star of Ebertfest selection "I Am Love" noted during her Q&A, festivals are about "the collective experience." It's even more true at Ebertfest than at most other film festivals I've attended. Bigger festivals sprawl over numerous venues with dozens of movies: two people could spend the same amount of time at Sundance or Toronto and have two entirely different experiences.
As Tilda Swinton, star of Ebertfest selection "I Am Love" noted during her Q&A, festivals are about "the collective experience." It's even more true at Ebertfest than at most other film festivals I've attended. Bigger festivals sprawl over numerous venues with dozens of movies: two people could spend the same amount of time at Sundance or Toronto and have two entirely different experiences.
- 5/3/2011
- by Matt Singer
- ifc.com
Here's the latest Austin film news, along with some special screenings and events.
Last week, I wrote about the Austin films that will screen at Cannes, some of which have screened here already. Now you can see Kyle Henry and Carlos Trevino's short film Fourplay: Tampa here in Austin before it plays the Cannes Film Festival. aGLIFF and Austin Film Society are sponsoring a benefit screening to raise completion funds for the film. Catch Fourplay: Tampa on Saturday, April 30 at 1 pm at Alamo Ritz.Austin is also getting some representation at Ebertfest in Champaign, Illinois this weekend. Austin filmmaker Richard Linklater will be at Roger Ebert's film festival on Friday to screen his delightful 2009 movie Me and Orson Welles. In addition, Natural Selection, the Smithville-shot film that swept the SXSW Narrative Feature awards this year (Ebert was on the jury), will play the festival.If you're here in Austin this weekend,...
Last week, I wrote about the Austin films that will screen at Cannes, some of which have screened here already. Now you can see Kyle Henry and Carlos Trevino's short film Fourplay: Tampa here in Austin before it plays the Cannes Film Festival. aGLIFF and Austin Film Society are sponsoring a benefit screening to raise completion funds for the film. Catch Fourplay: Tampa on Saturday, April 30 at 1 pm at Alamo Ritz.Austin is also getting some representation at Ebertfest in Champaign, Illinois this weekend. Austin filmmaker Richard Linklater will be at Roger Ebert's film festival on Friday to screen his delightful 2009 movie Me and Orson Welles. In addition, Natural Selection, the Smithville-shot film that swept the SXSW Narrative Feature awards this year (Ebert was on the jury), will play the festival.If you're here in Austin this weekend,...
- 4/27/2011
- by Jette Kernion
- Slackerwood
SXSW Film Review
Detention
Complete Coverage of SXSW Film 2011
Director: Joseph Kahn, Writers: Joseph Kahn & Mark Palermo
A downtrodden 17-year-old girl is sent to detention where she must survive a slasher film killer and save the world in time for prom.
Cast: Josh Hutcherson, Dane Cook, Shanley Caswell, Spencer Locke, Aaron David Johnson (World Premiere)
Who’S It For?: This is especially for those just leaving high school, as for the right person, Detention will play right on cue to chords of pre-adulthood angst. As for everyone else, some appetite for 100% pop sugar is needed for full enjoyment of this movie.
Overall
Roaring from the under-appreciated kinetics of his debut motorcycle-actioner Torque, music video director Joseph Kahn has concocted Detention, a delicious MegaGulp of wonderfully true teen satire. Though its imagination speedily transcends genres, bouncing between slasher film, teen comedy, and science fiction with an unending sugar rush,...
Detention
Complete Coverage of SXSW Film 2011
Director: Joseph Kahn, Writers: Joseph Kahn & Mark Palermo
A downtrodden 17-year-old girl is sent to detention where she must survive a slasher film killer and save the world in time for prom.
Cast: Josh Hutcherson, Dane Cook, Shanley Caswell, Spencer Locke, Aaron David Johnson (World Premiere)
Who’S It For?: This is especially for those just leaving high school, as for the right person, Detention will play right on cue to chords of pre-adulthood angst. As for everyone else, some appetite for 100% pop sugar is needed for full enjoyment of this movie.
Overall
Roaring from the under-appreciated kinetics of his debut motorcycle-actioner Torque, music video director Joseph Kahn has concocted Detention, a delicious MegaGulp of wonderfully true teen satire. Though its imagination speedily transcends genres, bouncing between slasher film, teen comedy, and science fiction with an unending sugar rush,...
- 4/18/2011
- by Nick Allen
- The Scorecard Review
An idle comment caught my eye: "After all, no one saw the Big Bang." Somewhere else I read, "The universe has no opinion." Then I read that the next Hubble telescope will be able to peer six times as far into space and time as the one now in orbit.
An issue of Discover magazine arrived with a cover story about astronomers struggling with the problem of information overload. The new telescopes have moved far beyond visual images, and monitor a flood of information picked up on many wave lengths. Not even super computers can adequately organize and assess their vast findings. Amazing discoveries may be buried within the data.
The universe is too large for me to comprehend how large that really might be. I've seen those animations where Earth shrinks to a pin point, and then the sun shrinks to a pin point, and then the Milky Way shrinks to a pin point.
An issue of Discover magazine arrived with a cover story about astronomers struggling with the problem of information overload. The new telescopes have moved far beyond visual images, and monitor a flood of information picked up on many wave lengths. Not even super computers can adequately organize and assess their vast findings. Amazing discoveries may be buried within the data.
The universe is too large for me to comprehend how large that really might be. I've seen those animations where Earth shrinks to a pin point, and then the sun shrinks to a pin point, and then the Milky Way shrinks to a pin point.
- 4/7/2011
- by Roger Ebert
- blogs.suntimes.com/ebert
The following is Part Four of a Five Part series that chronicles Nick Allen’s first journey to SXSW, which also stands as his first time in Texas, ever. The final day, Part Five, is to be posted soon.
I slept in! No express pass waiting, no 8 Am wake-ups, nothing. Instead, it was decided that we would actually take a break from SXSW to explore some Austin culture. Of course, I do not mean a historical tour or anything remotely tourist. Instead, we headed over to a dee-licious small rib joint called Franklin Barbecue, which is not just Tsr-recommended, but is said to offer some of the best ribs etc in the entire state of Texas. (This is a strong recommendation: I owe them for that free Coke they let me have.)
While Jeff has photographic evidence of the entire species we eradicated with our meal, I can say that the tray was huge,...
I slept in! No express pass waiting, no 8 Am wake-ups, nothing. Instead, it was decided that we would actually take a break from SXSW to explore some Austin culture. Of course, I do not mean a historical tour or anything remotely tourist. Instead, we headed over to a dee-licious small rib joint called Franklin Barbecue, which is not just Tsr-recommended, but is said to offer some of the best ribs etc in the entire state of Texas. (This is a strong recommendation: I owe them for that free Coke they let me have.)
While Jeff has photographic evidence of the entire species we eradicated with our meal, I can say that the tray was huge,...
- 4/4/2011
- by Nick Allen
- The Scorecard Review
South By Southwest is largely awesome as a condition of place. Austin is an amazing case study that has much going right. It is a city of filmmakers, lovers and scholars with public and private support. An organization with the most visible influence is the Austin Film Society, which sponsors filmmaker financially through the new Texas Filmmakers Fund (partly funding two strong films I saw – Where Soldiers Come From and Five Time Champion) amongst other initiatives. I think SXSW Film has grown partly because Texas filmmaking has grown. There is a large display of strong work including the festival’s Lone Star States showcase. This is as much a local festival as it a national festival (and shockingly less so an international festival, with very little work from other non-traditional Hollywood funding bodies like Europe).
The flexibility of SXSW to discover new voices is one of their leading strengths. If...
The flexibility of SXSW to discover new voices is one of their leading strengths. If...
- 3/29/2011
- by John Fink
- The Film Stage
The following is Part 2 of a five part series that chronicles Nick Allen’s first endeavor into the unknown realm of SXSW 2011. It will be continued with the even crazier Parts 3, 4, and 5 very soon.
Complete Coverage of SXSW Film 2011
Jeff and I woke up pretty early on our first full SXSW day for two reasons. I had to wait in line to secure “Express” passes (they put you in front of a theater line) while Jeff had to go hang out with “Jake,” as he called him (Jake Gyllenhaal, for Source Code). After waiting about an hour in line, I was able to secure two passes for Ti West’s The Innkeepers and Super, a movie in which I could not miss due to my tentative interview with director James Gunn.
To our shared disappointment, neither Jeff nor I caught a morning screening. (For years, he’ll probably bitch...
Complete Coverage of SXSW Film 2011
Jeff and I woke up pretty early on our first full SXSW day for two reasons. I had to wait in line to secure “Express” passes (they put you in front of a theater line) while Jeff had to go hang out with “Jake,” as he called him (Jake Gyllenhaal, for Source Code). After waiting about an hour in line, I was able to secure two passes for Ti West’s The Innkeepers and Super, a movie in which I could not miss due to my tentative interview with director James Gunn.
To our shared disappointment, neither Jeff nor I caught a morning screening. (For years, he’ll probably bitch...
- 3/28/2011
- by Nick Allen
- The Scorecard Review
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- 3/27/2011
- by Dustin Rowles
The Best (and Worst) Movies I Saw At SXSW 2011 Featuring Conan O'Brien, Ridley Scott, and one appalling documentary. By Andrew Osborne Austin's South-By-Southwest Film Festival is famously more laid back and idiosyncratic than the taste-making Indiewood buzz factory known as Sundance. And yet, the 2011 edition of SXSW often felt more slick than scruffy, with high-profile projects sharing a certain tonal sameness I can only describe as Sundance-y. Win Win (starring Paul Giamatti), The Beaver (Jodie Foster's study of family dysfunction starring Mel Gibson), and the award winning Christians-gone-wild road-trip warmedy Natural Selection were three different flavors of the same well-crafted, well-acted, self-consciously edgy but ultimately well-behaved formula on show this year. It's a recipe favored by slumming A-listers, big studio "indie" divisions and all the usual suspects of the current festival-industrial complex. Like other films of the Sundance-y genre, they violated the Seinfeld [...]...
- 3/22/2011
- by Andrew Osborne
- Nerve
Last night, the SXSW Film Festival presented most of its awards, except for a few audience awards. It's a pleasure to see Austin-connected films all over the list. Natural Selection, shot in nearby Smithville, practically swept the Narrative Feature categories, including the Audience Award; while former/sometimes Austinites Kyle Henry and Heather Courtney won the Best Editing award in the Documentary Feature category for Where Soldiers Come From. (I agree that the editing in that film is absolutely amazing.) The Narrative Shorts jury award went to Pioneer from Dallas filmmaker David Lowery, a short that premiered at Sundance this year.
In the Texas-specific awards categories, Steve Mims and Joe Bailey's documentary Incendiary: The Willingham Case (pictured above) won the Louis Black Lone Star Award. The Texas Shorts jury award winner was 8, directed by Julie Gould and Daniel Laabs, which Don Clinchy says was "the most poignant and bittersweet film...
In the Texas-specific awards categories, Steve Mims and Joe Bailey's documentary Incendiary: The Willingham Case (pictured above) won the Louis Black Lone Star Award. The Texas Shorts jury award winner was 8, directed by Julie Gould and Daniel Laabs, which Don Clinchy says was "the most poignant and bittersweet film...
- 3/16/2011
- by Jette Kernion
- Slackerwood
Did you see last night's Glee "Original Song"? I always feel so melancholy at Regionals episodes because I know that means no Glee for awhile. For a show I often actively dislike on account of lazy writing, wasted opportunities and ridiculously unnecessary pandering (People loved the show before it started pandering to them! Why bend over backwards to worry about what people might like now?), sometimes the show makes it really hard for me to pretend that I don't just love it, warts and all. So many highlights in this one, from Brittany's always dependable split second deadpan "favorite song: my headband" to a rare Mercedes showcase "Hell to the No" to a gay kiss played emphatically and without apology, to the return of undergirding themes (Rachel's future completely obvious stardom versus small town limitations) to that killer joyous finale "Loser Like Me" in which the kids learn the age...
- 3/16/2011
- by NATHANIEL R
- FilmExperience
I just realized I haven't brought up the bumpers this year yet. Absolutely love them, from (Super) "Mario" re-conceived as a live-action thriller, to "The Line" mocking festival lines. Kudos to SXSW and Austin filmmaker Joe Nicolosi for the fun bumpers (as well as not taking it too seriously). If you need to see examples of "Knitta" just look around when you're in line at the Alamo South Lamar. I don't know the title of the one featuring John "Zach Galifianakis looks like me" Merriman, but I wasn't the only one giggling.
Despite my plan to not have a plan this year, I managed to catch a lot of films today, including Where Soldiers Come From, Last Days Here, A Matter of Taste: Serving Up Paul Liebrandt and Natural Selection. Let me say today was an A+ day for films. I really liked them all, and the only downside was...
Despite my plan to not have a plan this year, I managed to catch a lot of films today, including Where Soldiers Come From, Last Days Here, A Matter of Taste: Serving Up Paul Liebrandt and Natural Selection. Let me say today was an A+ day for films. I really liked them all, and the only downside was...
- 3/15/2011
- by Jenn Brown
- Slackerwood
This isn’t an in-depth exploration, and to be honest, there’s not much of a Libyan movie market. However, there’s one production company that won’t be delivering 20 promised films now. It’s the production company owned by embattled Libyan dictator Moammar Gadhafi‘s son. Al-Saadi Gadhafi is co-head of Natural Selection, the production company that delivered the Adrien Brody/Forrest Whitaker low-budget thriller The Experiement. They were moving forward on at least 20 films – all floating around the $15 million range in a market starved for films not under $10 million or over $100 million. Now, with government sanctions and all of the family assets frozen, those projects are on hold indefinitely. At least one of those projects might be a biopic about mafia assassin Richard “Ice Man” Kuklinski. The production company was just getting off the ground, and it’s an understatement to say that Gadhafi has far more pressing concerns, but...
- 3/9/2011
- by Cole Abaius
- FilmSchoolRejects.com
Onir’s I Am will open the 13th edition of the London Asian Film festival which will take place from March 18-27, 2011.
The other films that will be screened in the festival are Dilip Mehta’s Cooking With Stella, Murali Subramani’s Natural Selection, Sona Jain’s For Real, Rakesh Mehta’s Khudakhushi, Avantika Hari’s Land Gold Women, Anusha Rizvi’s Peepli Live, Laurens Corneliz Postma’s The Interview, S M Raju’s Varnam, Rajeev Patil’s Jogwa, Sundaran’s Thittukudi, Andrew Piddington’s Killing of John Lennon, Sander Francken’s BardSongs, Jeet Matharru’s Women from the East, Richard Attenborough’s Gandhi, Nayan Padrai’s When Harry tries to Marry and Sudipto Chattopadhyay’s Pankh.
Ajay Naidu’s Ashes will be the closing film of the festival.
The short films which will compete in the festival are : Wild Things by Sandeep Sharma, The Invigilator by Manesh Nesaratnam,...
The other films that will be screened in the festival are Dilip Mehta’s Cooking With Stella, Murali Subramani’s Natural Selection, Sona Jain’s For Real, Rakesh Mehta’s Khudakhushi, Avantika Hari’s Land Gold Women, Anusha Rizvi’s Peepli Live, Laurens Corneliz Postma’s The Interview, S M Raju’s Varnam, Rajeev Patil’s Jogwa, Sundaran’s Thittukudi, Andrew Piddington’s Killing of John Lennon, Sander Francken’s BardSongs, Jeet Matharru’s Women from the East, Richard Attenborough’s Gandhi, Nayan Padrai’s When Harry tries to Marry and Sudipto Chattopadhyay’s Pankh.
Ajay Naidu’s Ashes will be the closing film of the festival.
The short films which will compete in the festival are : Wild Things by Sandeep Sharma, The Invigilator by Manesh Nesaratnam,...
- 3/2/2011
- by NewsDesk
- DearCinema.com
Al-Saadi Qaddafi, the 37-year-old son of Libyan leader Muammar Qaddafi, has invested $100 million into a Los Angeles film production fund called Natural Selection, which will produce 20 films over the next five years. One of the first projects is "The Ice Man," which has Mickey Rourke in the lead. Another film being funded is "Isolation," a thriller starring Susan Sarandon's daughter, Eva Amurri. It is expected that Qaddafi won't have too much trouble in Hollywood despite having a connection to Muammar Qaddafi and Libya, which is in the middle of a revolt that has already left hundreds dead. Meanwhile, Qaddafi's other son, Saif Al-Islam, recently threatened that "rivers of blood" would flow unless the uprising ends.
- 2/26/2011
- WorstPreviews.com
The trailer for the new absent-minded horror flick, Isolation, has just started circulating around the interwebs so of course we nailed it down for you and have it right here! Dig it!
The film directed by Stephen T. Kay and starring Eva Amurri ("Californication") and David Harbour (Revolutionary Road) is now is post-production and is prepping itself for festival screenings later this year. Amurri plays a medical student who awakens in a hospital isolation room, having been exposed to an unknown disease, desperately ill and with no recollection of how she got there.
Natural Selection fully financed the movie and produced with David Greathouse, Principal Entertainment's Danny Sherman and Josh Kesselman, as well as John Baca. Chris Billett has penned the screenplay.
Look for more soon if we can remember to write something.
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The film directed by Stephen T. Kay and starring Eva Amurri ("Californication") and David Harbour (Revolutionary Road) is now is post-production and is prepping itself for festival screenings later this year. Amurri plays a medical student who awakens in a hospital isolation room, having been exposed to an unknown disease, desperately ill and with no recollection of how she got there.
Natural Selection fully financed the movie and produced with David Greathouse, Principal Entertainment's Danny Sherman and Josh Kesselman, as well as John Baca. Chris Billett has penned the screenplay.
Look for more soon if we can remember to write something.
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- 2/20/2011
- by Uncle Creepy
- DreadCentral.com
We expect extraterrestrials to look the same as each other yet alien from ourselves. Where on Earth did that idea come from?
The Paul in Paul is a little green man. As an archetypal extraterrestrial, he would be, wouldn't he? But where did we get the idea that beings from outer space would most likely be dwarfish, verdant hominids?
Paul himself offers an explanation. He claims his race deliberately drenched our culture with images of themselves to ensure that when they eventually made contact, we wouldn't have "a spaz attack". On the face of it, this makes sense. Our comics, pulp books and screen fare were indeed awash with small, green, humanoid aliens from the 1890s until relatively recently.
All the same, only a fool would take at face value the word of an extraterrestrial, especially one fashioned by CGI. Paul fancies himself as a bit of a wag, and he may just be joking.
The Paul in Paul is a little green man. As an archetypal extraterrestrial, he would be, wouldn't he? But where did we get the idea that beings from outer space would most likely be dwarfish, verdant hominids?
Paul himself offers an explanation. He claims his race deliberately drenched our culture with images of themselves to ensure that when they eventually made contact, we wouldn't have "a spaz attack". On the face of it, this makes sense. Our comics, pulp books and screen fare were indeed awash with small, green, humanoid aliens from the 1890s until relatively recently.
All the same, only a fool would take at face value the word of an extraterrestrial, especially one fashioned by CGI. Paul fancies himself as a bit of a wag, and he may just be joking.
- 2/18/2011
- by David Cox
- The Guardian - Film News
It's amazing how much fear and fright Mr. Sid Haig can convey with just a simple look and a smile. In these three exclusive new clips from Fred M. Andrews' creature feature Blood is Blood we get that and much more! Why three clips? Because it's Valentine's Day weekend, and Sid and I love you!
Blood is Blood (formerly Lockjaw) from writer/director Fred M. Andrews stars “True Blood” co-star Mehcad Brooks (aka "Eggs"), Serinda Swan (Tron Legacy), Sid Haig (The Devil's Rejects), and Daniel Bernhardt (The Matrix Reloaded).
The flick revolves around a group of family and friends who, while en route to New Orleans, are sidetracked in the Louisiana bayou and encounter a monster named Lockjaw who is revered by the locals as a god. When will people ever learn to just stick to the damned road? Natural selection I guess!
In the movie Brooks will play...
Blood is Blood (formerly Lockjaw) from writer/director Fred M. Andrews stars “True Blood” co-star Mehcad Brooks (aka "Eggs"), Serinda Swan (Tron Legacy), Sid Haig (The Devil's Rejects), and Daniel Bernhardt (The Matrix Reloaded).
The flick revolves around a group of family and friends who, while en route to New Orleans, are sidetracked in the Louisiana bayou and encounter a monster named Lockjaw who is revered by the locals as a god. When will people ever learn to just stick to the damned road? Natural selection I guess!
In the movie Brooks will play...
- 2/11/2011
- by Uncle Creepy
- DreadCentral.com
Remember that teaser trailer from a while back featuring a badass swamp creature getting ready to really do a number on a poor helpless victim? Come on, kids! Those are the best kind! In any event we are happy to bring you the latest trailer for Fred M. Andrews' Blood is Blood.
Blood is Blood (formerly Lockjaw) from writer/director Fred M. Andrews stars “True Blood” co-star Mehcad Brooks (aka "Eggs"), Serinda Swan (Tron Legacy), Sid Haig (The Devil's Rejects), and Daniel Bernhardt (The Matrix Reloaded).
The flick revolves around a group of family and friends who, while en route to New Orleans, are sidetracked in the Louisiana bayou and encounter a monster named Lockjaw who is revered by the locals as a god. When will people ever learn to just stick to the damned road? Natural selection I guess!
In the movie Brooks will play a Navy Seal...
Blood is Blood (formerly Lockjaw) from writer/director Fred M. Andrews stars “True Blood” co-star Mehcad Brooks (aka "Eggs"), Serinda Swan (Tron Legacy), Sid Haig (The Devil's Rejects), and Daniel Bernhardt (The Matrix Reloaded).
The flick revolves around a group of family and friends who, while en route to New Orleans, are sidetracked in the Louisiana bayou and encounter a monster named Lockjaw who is revered by the locals as a god. When will people ever learn to just stick to the damned road? Natural selection I guess!
In the movie Brooks will play a Navy Seal...
- 1/19/2011
- by Uncle Creepy
- DreadCentral.com
Stephen Kay ('Boogeyman', 'Get Carter'), mostly known more recently for his TV directorial credits such as 'Friday Night Lights' and 'Sons of Anarchy', has a new feature to add to his belt in the form of new horror flick 'Isolation'. The Natural Selection production is currently in post and stars the hot Eva Amurri - below (whom you may know as the topless stripper Jackie in Showtime's 'Californication'). Well Eva may not be revealing her boobs in this one but she is joined by 'The Green Hornet's David Harbour along with Joshua Close, Gregg Henry, Robert Wu and Michelle Greathouse. You can check out some new sales art for 'Isolation' below along with a titillating clip of Miss Amurri in near naked pole-dancing action....
- 1/18/2011
- Horror Asylum
Well, we guess a tiny teaser is better than no teaser at all, and that's exactly what we've gotten in terms of the new absent-minded horror flick, Isolation. Dig it!
The film directed by Stephen T. Kay and starring Eva Amurri ("Californication") and David Harbour (Revolutionary Road) is now is post-production and is prepping itself for festival screenings later this year. Amurri plays a medical student who awakens in a hospital isolation room, having been exposed to an unknown disease, desperately ill and with no recollection of how she got there.
Natural Selection fully financed the movie and produced with David Greathouse, Principal Entertainment's Danny Sherman and Josh Kesselman, as well as John Baca. Chris Billett has penned the screenplay.
Look for more soon if we can remember to write something.
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The film directed by Stephen T. Kay and starring Eva Amurri ("Californication") and David Harbour (Revolutionary Road) is now is post-production and is prepping itself for festival screenings later this year. Amurri plays a medical student who awakens in a hospital isolation room, having been exposed to an unknown disease, desperately ill and with no recollection of how she got there.
Natural Selection fully financed the movie and produced with David Greathouse, Principal Entertainment's Danny Sherman and Josh Kesselman, as well as John Baca. Chris Billett has penned the screenplay.
Look for more soon if we can remember to write something.
- Uncle Creepy
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- 1/17/2011
- by Uncle Creepy
- DreadCentral.com
Monsters. We love them, man. We've been saying for years the world needs more monster movies. Thankfully there's another one coming our way with a pretty stellar cast attached, and we have the trailer for your perusal right here!
Blood is Blood (formerly Lockjaw) from writer/director Fred M. Andrews stars “True Blood” co-star Mehcad Brooks (aka "Eggs"), Serinda Swan (Tron Legacy), Sid Haig (The Devil's Rejects, pictured), and Daniel Bernhardt (The Matrix Reloaded).
The flick revolves around a group of family and friends who, while en route to New Orleans, are sidetracked in the Louisiana bayou and encounter a monster named Lockjaw who is revered by the locals as a god. When will people ever learn to just stick to the damned road? Natural selection I guess!
In the movie Brooks will play a Navy Seal back from the Middle East; Swan will play his fiancee, who is abducted...
Blood is Blood (formerly Lockjaw) from writer/director Fred M. Andrews stars “True Blood” co-star Mehcad Brooks (aka "Eggs"), Serinda Swan (Tron Legacy), Sid Haig (The Devil's Rejects, pictured), and Daniel Bernhardt (The Matrix Reloaded).
The flick revolves around a group of family and friends who, while en route to New Orleans, are sidetracked in the Louisiana bayou and encounter a monster named Lockjaw who is revered by the locals as a god. When will people ever learn to just stick to the damned road? Natural selection I guess!
In the movie Brooks will play a Navy Seal back from the Middle East; Swan will play his fiancee, who is abducted...
- 12/7/2010
- by Uncle Creepy
- DreadCentral.com
Retribution. While “Ns” may stand for many things, as befits Kurt Sutter’s love of symbolism and hidden meanings, the Sons of Anarchy Season 3 finale came down to one principal – Natural Selection. ‘Survival of the fittest.’ Yes, the two letters have obvious story implications as they relate to Jax’s (Charlie Hunnam) ring and John Teller’s (Nicholas Guest) grave, but we’ll get back to that. For now, the philosophies of Charles Darwin and Herbert Spencer are king. In one major play, Samcro killed two prominant players in the Sons of Anarchy story. Agent Stahl (Ally Walker) and Jimmy O. (Titus Welliver) were murdered at the hands of Opie (Ryan Hurst) and Chibs (Tommy Flanagan). Clay (Ron Perlman) knew about it. Gemma (Katey Sagal) didn’t. Perhaps you could say you saw it coming. With Hale (Jeff Kober) moving into a mayoral position, it was time for Charming to evolve.
- 12/1/2010
- by Bags
- BuzzFocus.com
Richard .Iceman. Kuklinski is probably the most proficient and feared killer in the history of New York. Not some bumfuck town in the middle of nowhere, New York City. Claiming to have killed over two hundred people by methods ranging from guns to poison to bare-handed beatings because he .liked the exercise., Richard Kuklinski terrorized the criminal underground for forty years until his eventual capture. Now he.s the subject of two competing biopics. One of them must disappear. Seems like the perfect subtext to Kuklinski.s life. According to Deadline, the first project from Nu Image would star Michael Shannon as the Iceman with Benicio Del Toro and possibly James Franco in support. The second is from Natural Selection and has Mickey Rourke attached to play the title role. How do you even pick between these two projects? Michael Shannon owns on Boardwalk Empire, but this role has Rourke...
- 11/6/2010
- cinemablend.com
Two movies are in work based on the story of Richard Kuklinski, the cold blooded American contract killer. Mickey Rourke will play Kuklinski in a film based on Philip Carlo's biography The Ice Man, Confessions of a Mafia Contract Killer. The film was expected to start shooting in spring 2010 in New York, New Jersey and Florida but was delayed. Natural Selection that has access to the life rights of Barbara Kuklinski his wife and Pat Cane, the cop who brought him in will produce with no director attacked to the project at this time.Also Michael Shannon will play Kuklinski in a film based on Anthony Bruno's book The Iceman: The True Story of a Cold-Blooded Killer. The film will also star Benicio Del Toro and James Franco, this version of the story is produced by Bleiberg Entertainment and Ariel Vromen is set to direct.For the...
- 11/4/2010
- Films N Movies
As Back to the Future celebrates its 25th anniversary, Catherine Shoard examines just what it was about this genre-defying time-travel caper that captured her generation's imagination
For me, a time before Back to the Future exists only in theory. Some films embed themselves so early and deep in your psyche they take on the status not of works of art, nor even cultural relics from your childhood. They feel like vital organs. Remove their influence and the whole structure constructed on top could collapse. Erase my early exposure to Back to the Future and I fear I'd disappear from existence, like Marty McFly at the Enchantment Under the Sea ball in 1955, when his parents still haven't kissed and his fingers slip from the frets of his cherry-red Gibson 335 guitar and start to fade in front of his eyes (a scene I laboriously immortalised in poster paints at primary school).
I'm not alone.
For me, a time before Back to the Future exists only in theory. Some films embed themselves so early and deep in your psyche they take on the status not of works of art, nor even cultural relics from your childhood. They feel like vital organs. Remove their influence and the whole structure constructed on top could collapse. Erase my early exposure to Back to the Future and I fear I'd disappear from existence, like Marty McFly at the Enchantment Under the Sea ball in 1955, when his parents still haven't kissed and his fingers slip from the frets of his cherry-red Gibson 335 guitar and start to fade in front of his eyes (a scene I laboriously immortalised in poster paints at primary school).
I'm not alone.
- 9/16/2010
- by Catherine Shoard
- The Guardian - Film News
While in Toronto hawking “Passion Play”, it was announced that Mickey Rourke is going to play a notorious hitman in an adaptation of celebrated crime author Philip Carlo’s bestselling “The Ice Man: Confessions of a Mafia Contract Killer”. “The Ice Man: Confessions of a Mafia Contract Killer” is the true story of Richard “The Ice Man” Kuklinski who for over 40 years led a completely secretive double life as both a notorious professional assassin and a doting husband and father in suburban New Jersey. Natural Selection will produce and finance the film, and David McKenna (“Blow”, “American History X”) will write the screenplay. Rourke is also rumored to be on tap to play Hell’s Angels founder Sony Barger in another biopic, and there is no timeline announced for this project. At one point the Hughes Brothers were also said to be involved, but their names do not appear on this newest announcement.
- 9/12/2010
- by Brent McKnight
- Beyond Hollywood
When "Wall Street's" Gordon Gekko (Michael Douglas) calmly said, "Greed is, for lack of a better word, good," a quotable star was born!
Here are some of Gekko's choice lines from Oliver Stone's 1987 classic movie about (what else?) money! Written by Stanley Weiser & Oliver Stone.
Watch out for more quotes from Gekko when Douglas reprises his role in "Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps," opening Sept. 24.
Gordon Gekko: The Money QuotesMeals
"Lunch is for wimps.
Here are some of Gekko's choice lines from Oliver Stone's 1987 classic movie about (what else?) money! Written by Stanley Weiser & Oliver Stone.
Watch out for more quotes from Gekko when Douglas reprises his role in "Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps," opening Sept. 24.
Gordon Gekko: The Money QuotesMeals
"Lunch is for wimps.
- 9/1/2010
- Extra
I have been saving this pitch article for quite some time, only to bring it out now. Why, you ask? Well…now is good a time as any, right? The other day on the Eo Podcast, Mr. Goodman talked about watching Jurassic Park for the first time almost 17 years after the fact. Nobody can deny that this ’93 film from Spielberg still holds up now, from its acting to its thrilling take of real dinosaurs in modern day.
After that film, original book author Michael Crichton wrote a sequel called The Lost World: Jurassic Park, prompting Spielberg and the studio to do another film, too. Unfortunately, Crichton’s novel merely served as a starting point for the finished product the film became, both of which are two completely different animals. I prefer the novel because it’s twice as thrilling as the first book and the characters are a lot more interesting.
After that film, original book author Michael Crichton wrote a sequel called The Lost World: Jurassic Park, prompting Spielberg and the studio to do another film, too. Unfortunately, Crichton’s novel merely served as a starting point for the finished product the film became, both of which are two completely different animals. I prefer the novel because it’s twice as thrilling as the first book and the characters are a lot more interesting.
- 8/30/2010
- by Kevin Coll
- FusedFilm
Here's the thing ... if you've just committed a crime and you're on the run you may not want to stash your haul someplace that will draw even more heat on you in the way out outlaw murderers. Then again, if people didn't do stupid stuff we'd have nothing to watch. So by all means! Have at it! Natural selection is fun and entertaining!
According to The Hollywood Reporter the trio of Elisabeth Rohm (pictured right; "Heroes", "Law & Order"), Harold Perrineau ("Lost", The Matrix) and Diora Baird (Night of the Demons, 30 Days of Night: Dark Days) have been cast in After Dark Films' latest thriller Transit.
The flick tells the tale of a band of thieves on the run from a bank robbery and the suburban family they come across during their escape. When the criminals stash their stolen money in the family's SUV at a rest stop, the road trippers...
According to The Hollywood Reporter the trio of Elisabeth Rohm (pictured right; "Heroes", "Law & Order"), Harold Perrineau ("Lost", The Matrix) and Diora Baird (Night of the Demons, 30 Days of Night: Dark Days) have been cast in After Dark Films' latest thriller Transit.
The flick tells the tale of a band of thieves on the run from a bank robbery and the suburban family they come across during their escape. When the criminals stash their stolen money in the family's SUV at a rest stop, the road trippers...
- 8/24/2010
- by Uncle Creepy
- DreadCentral.com
Well, here we are in the last week of June and… what the? Holy crap! There are a metric ton of games coming out this week. What gives? If ever there was a time that you needed a handy guide to keep track of all the new titles hitting store shelves, that time is now. And this is that guide. Take a look at the new releases for June 27 through July 3, 2010, broken out by platform and date.
Mac
Puzzle Agent 6/30
Microsoft Xbox 360
DeathSmiles 6/29 Lego Harry Potter: Years 1-4 6/29 N3II: Ninety-Nine Nights 6/29 Singularity 6/29 Sniper: Ghost Warrior 6/29 Auditorium 6/30 Bomberman Live: Battlefest 6/30 Bonk: Brink of Extinction 6/30 Dream Chronicles 6/30 Metalocalypse: Dethgame 6/30 NatGeo Quiz! Wild Life 6/30 Puzzle Quest 2 6/30 Radiangames Crossfire 6/30 Raskulls 6/30 Super Meat Boy 6/30 Yu-Gi-Oh! 5D’s Decade Duels 6/30 Zero Point 6/30
Nintendo Wii
Sin and Punishment: Star Successor 6/27 Harley Davidson 6/28 Jett Rocket 6/28 Pong Toss Pro: Frat Party Games 6/28 Robin Hood: The Return of Richard...
Mac
Puzzle Agent 6/30
Microsoft Xbox 360
DeathSmiles 6/29 Lego Harry Potter: Years 1-4 6/29 N3II: Ninety-Nine Nights 6/29 Singularity 6/29 Sniper: Ghost Warrior 6/29 Auditorium 6/30 Bomberman Live: Battlefest 6/30 Bonk: Brink of Extinction 6/30 Dream Chronicles 6/30 Metalocalypse: Dethgame 6/30 NatGeo Quiz! Wild Life 6/30 Puzzle Quest 2 6/30 Radiangames Crossfire 6/30 Raskulls 6/30 Super Meat Boy 6/30 Yu-Gi-Oh! 5D’s Decade Duels 6/30 Zero Point 6/30
Nintendo Wii
Sin and Punishment: Star Successor 6/27 Harley Davidson 6/28 Jett Rocket 6/28 Pong Toss Pro: Frat Party Games 6/28 Robin Hood: The Return of Richard...
- 6/28/2010
- by Jeff Schille
- GameRant
There’s a new heavyweight player in the film business and his name is Saadi Gaddafi, the son of Libyan director Muammar Gaddafi and it was announced at Cannes that he’s formed his own movie production fund at the tune of $100 million called Natural Selection.
The CEO of the production company is Matt Beckerman, a Brooklyn born Jew who made the announcement at Cannes and who secured Saadi’s backing just a year ago with plan to finance 20 films over the next five years. According to Beckerman, Saadi: “…loves movies. He’s seen ‘Lost’ 30 times. He has stacks of DVDs of American films.”
The strange story about how Beckerman became the very unlikely bedfellow of Saadi can be read Here.
Hey, stranger things have happened and as they say in The Godfather: “It’s not personal. It’s just business”.
The CEO of the production company is Matt Beckerman, a Brooklyn born Jew who made the announcement at Cannes and who secured Saadi’s backing just a year ago with plan to finance 20 films over the next five years. According to Beckerman, Saadi: “…loves movies. He’s seen ‘Lost’ 30 times. He has stacks of DVDs of American films.”
The strange story about how Beckerman became the very unlikely bedfellow of Saadi can be read Here.
Hey, stranger things have happened and as they say in The Godfather: “It’s not personal. It’s just business”.
- 5/22/2010
- by Sergio
- ShadowAndAct
By Sharon Waxman
Previously: Gadhafi to Hollywood: Dictator’s Son Gets in With $100M
Jersey boy Matthew Beckerman is no world traveller.
And when he set out to start a movie investment fund, he didn’t really plan to go much further than his cousins. The 33-year-old former music promoter raised about $1 million from friends and family to get Natural Selection started in 2008. And he succeeded in securing $20 million in further commitments to launch a proper film production fund later that year. That was in August 2008. By September 2008, as the global financial meltdown shook t...
Previously: Gadhafi to Hollywood: Dictator’s Son Gets in With $100M
Jersey boy Matthew Beckerman is no world traveller.
And when he set out to start a movie investment fund, he didn’t really plan to go much further than his cousins. The 33-year-old former music promoter raised about $1 million from friends and family to get Natural Selection started in 2008. And he succeeded in securing $20 million in further commitments to launch a proper film production fund later that year. That was in August 2008. By September 2008, as the global financial meltdown shook t...
- 5/21/2010
- by Josh Dickey
- The Wrap
Here at Dread Central we love us some indie features. Mainly because things made off of Hollywood's grid have a tendency to exhibit a bit more balls than your standard fare. Especially when said feature is rockin' some horror star power!
According to The Hollywood Reporter's Heat Vision Blog, “True Blood” co-star Mehcad Brooks (aka "Eggs"), Serinda Swan (Tron Legacy), Sid Haig (The Devil's Rejects), and Daniel Bernhardt (The Matrix Reloaded) are starring in an indie horror movie from Bubble Factory with the working title of Lockjaw.
The flick revolves around a group of family and friends who, while en route to New Orleans, are sidetracked in the Louisiana bayou and encounter a monster named Lockjaw who is revered by the locals as a god. When will people ever learn to just stick to the damned road? Natural selection I guess!
In the movie Brooks will play a Navy Seal...
According to The Hollywood Reporter's Heat Vision Blog, “True Blood” co-star Mehcad Brooks (aka "Eggs"), Serinda Swan (Tron Legacy), Sid Haig (The Devil's Rejects), and Daniel Bernhardt (The Matrix Reloaded) are starring in an indie horror movie from Bubble Factory with the working title of Lockjaw.
The flick revolves around a group of family and friends who, while en route to New Orleans, are sidetracked in the Louisiana bayou and encounter a monster named Lockjaw who is revered by the locals as a god. When will people ever learn to just stick to the damned road? Natural selection I guess!
In the movie Brooks will play a Navy Seal...
- 4/30/2010
- by Uncle Creepy
- DreadCentral.com
Here's a tip for your travelers out there ... If a place is known to be either remote, secluded, away from it all, and or Uninhabited, it may not be the best of places to pick for your holiday. Why? Because seldom are they as advertised. You could be getting yourself into just about anything with no one to call for help. Make sense? Of course it does, but by all means -- please continue to be adventurous! Natural selection yields meat for the beast!
The first two bits of artwork for writer/director Bill Bennett's first stab at the horror genre, Uninhabited, have made their way online, and as always we have a look at them for you.
This new supernatural horror flick tells the story of what happens when ”a young couple go to a remote and deserted coral island for a camping holiday, only to find that...
The first two bits of artwork for writer/director Bill Bennett's first stab at the horror genre, Uninhabited, have made their way online, and as always we have a look at them for you.
This new supernatural horror flick tells the story of what happens when ”a young couple go to a remote and deserted coral island for a camping holiday, only to find that...
- 4/22/2010
- by Uncle Creepy
- DreadCentral.com
How well do we truly know someone? That was the question posed on House this week.
And while guest star Laura Prepon stood out in her role as the blogging patient of the week, and while there were a few memorable exchanges between House and Wilson, both the message and the episode "Private Lives" fell short.
First: Wilson was in a porno?!? The beauty of the House/Wilson relationship lies in how they can turn a simple issue (such as a crush on a neighbor) into a hilarious competition. It's just not necessary to set up such an over-the-top premise. I don't buy that Wilson took part in any adult movie and I'm not as entertained by the obvious jokes that came from it.
I'm certainly more intrigued by House's biological father, but that storyline left me with a question I often have about the show:
Is this going anywhere?...
And while guest star Laura Prepon stood out in her role as the blogging patient of the week, and while there were a few memorable exchanges between House and Wilson, both the message and the episode "Private Lives" fell short.
First: Wilson was in a porno?!? The beauty of the House/Wilson relationship lies in how they can turn a simple issue (such as a crush on a neighbor) into a hilarious competition. It's just not necessary to set up such an over-the-top premise. I don't buy that Wilson took part in any adult movie and I'm not as entertained by the obvious jokes that came from it.
I'm certainly more intrigued by House's biological father, but that storyline left me with a question I often have about the show:
Is this going anywhere?...
- 3/9/2010
- by matt@iscribelimited.com (M.L. House)
- TVfanatic
Variety reports that director Stephen T. Kay began shooting the horror pic Isolation on January 25th for production company Natural Selection. The movie scripted by Chris Billett stars Eva Amurri ( Californication ) and David Harbour ( Revolutionary Road ). Amurri plays a medical student who awakens in a hospital isolation room having been exposed to an unknown disease, desperately ill and with no recollection of how she got there. Natural Selection is fully financing the pic and producing with David Greathouse, Principal Entertainment's Danny Sherman and Josh Kesselman, as well as John Baca.
- 2/5/2010
- shocktillyoudrop.com
A film that keeps us from taking the theory of evolution for granted. Darwin paid for those words Paul Bettany plays immortal scientist Charles Darwin in Jon Amiel.s dramatic tour-de-force .Creation.. The film is one of many events marking the 150th anniversary of the publication of Darwin.s book .On the Origin of the Species . By Means of Natural Selection.. The book and the thought process in it would change the thinking of scientists forever. The book would also begin a pitted battle that wages today between those who believe in divine creation as described in the bible and the biological process described by Darwin. Bettany played the ship.s doctor who played the cello to Russell Crowe.s fiddle in...
- 1/22/2010
- by Ron Wilkinson
- Monsters and Critics
Earlier this week R&B songstress Kelis was spotted in NYC staying warm by sporting this chinchilla getup. Well once PETA got a look at the photo they decided to send a letter informing her how its not okay to wear animals as coats and ridiculous looking hats.
Well Kelis doesn’t care what PETA represents because she wrote them back and gave those animal saving vegetarians a piece of her mind. Take a look:
There is no humane way to kill anything, let me start there. It’s unfortunate but it’s part of life. With that being said, I would eat pterodactyl if you found some and you told me it was meaty and delicious. And after doing a very minimal amount of research……. I found out that the founder Ingrid Newkirk is completely batty. I had a feeling but she far exceeded my expectations. I mean certifiably insane!
Well Kelis doesn’t care what PETA represents because she wrote them back and gave those animal saving vegetarians a piece of her mind. Take a look:
There is no humane way to kill anything, let me start there. It’s unfortunate but it’s part of life. With that being said, I would eat pterodactyl if you found some and you told me it was meaty and delicious. And after doing a very minimal amount of research……. I found out that the founder Ingrid Newkirk is completely batty. I had a feeling but she far exceeded my expectations. I mean certifiably insane!
- 1/14/2010
- by Porsche Simpson
- ReelLoop.com
I was looking forward to watching Creation as I hoped it would illuminate the facts and enable me to examine my views on Evolution. As a Religious Studies teacher I get many
questions about how the universe came into being, and I was hoping that as a film lover, (and understanding that many of my students would see this film), it may answer some of
those questions.
Creation stars Paul Bettany, Jennifer Connelly, Jeremy Northam, Toby Jones, Jim Carter, Benedict Cumberbatch, Martha West and is directed by Jon Amiel.
Sadly, as the film unfolded I became more and more disappointed. it was useful to understand the plight of Darwin himself, his own wrestle with faith and perhaps God himself, however it did not reflect his theory of Evolution and Natural Selection as I would have wished. I was hoping to see his experiments and procedures come to life on the screen,...
questions about how the universe came into being, and I was hoping that as a film lover, (and understanding that many of my students would see this film), it may answer some of
those questions.
Creation stars Paul Bettany, Jennifer Connelly, Jeremy Northam, Toby Jones, Jim Carter, Benedict Cumberbatch, Martha West and is directed by Jon Amiel.
Sadly, as the film unfolded I became more and more disappointed. it was useful to understand the plight of Darwin himself, his own wrestle with faith and perhaps God himself, however it did not reflect his theory of Evolution and Natural Selection as I would have wished. I was hoping to see his experiments and procedures come to life on the screen,...
- 1/10/2010
- by Laraine Sztypuljak
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
During the first press screening here of "Creation," during a scene when Charles Darwin walks out of church during a sermon on the first book of Genesis, an audience member stood up and walked out. Was he offended by the film? There's no way to say. There were an unusually large number of walk-outs, but who knows if they were leaving for theological reasons, or to get in line for the screenings of "Bright Star" or "Fish Tank," or because of boredom? I hope it wasn't boredom. Although it's a movie with a good deal of talk, at least no one shouted out, "You lie!"
Charles Darwin as Paul Bettany
This will adamantly not be a review of "Creation," which will await its opening. It will be a discussion of some of the thoughts it inspires. I expected the film to be focused on Darwin's theory of the origin of...
Charles Darwin as Paul Bettany
This will adamantly not be a review of "Creation," which will await its opening. It will be a discussion of some of the thoughts it inspires. I expected the film to be focused on Darwin's theory of the origin of...
- 9/11/2009
- by Roger Ebert
- blogs.suntimes.com/ebert
This article may contain spoilers. Now that the show has revealed that Donner and Ted have been selected to replace Rollie and Ajay simply because the mysterious .it. deems it necessary, we are all wondering what or who .it. actually is. Eve Shaw refers to it as Beta. However, whatever -- or whoever -- Beta is remains a mystery. We simply learn that Beta is calling the shots. It is the one who convinced them to do the 6 year mission and it has been directing them from the start: which of the astronauts were selected not only into the program, which passed their testing, and which were ultimately selected for the space mission . or rejected from it, in the case of Rollie and Ajay. Additionally, now that Beta.s dream team is assembled, it seems to want to test them to see what they ...
- 8/8/2009
- GeekNation.com
Established 1974! Our news column makes a (forlorn) attempt at Being Human.
Sequels/Prequels
As rumored for months, Ridley Scott—who made the first one 30 years ago—is going to return to direct an Alien (pictured left on the cover of Starlog #23) prequel for 20th Century Fox. At one point earlier this year, Scott was considering only Producing a new Alien project. This one, Variety reports, will have a script by John Spaihts (who’s very busy writing genre film fare). For the rest of Spaihts’ Sf agenda, see this.
Folks at Pixar Animation Studios are contemplating a Monsters, Inc. sequel. Follow-ups to Toy Story and Cars are already in the works.
Sci-fi TV
HBO has renewed True Blood for a third season, airing in summer 2010. Looks like it’s pre-empted this Sunday though.
This weekend’s genre TV highlights include the usual reruns: Ghost Whisperer (“Slow Burn” with a ghostly Mom,...
Sequels/Prequels
As rumored for months, Ridley Scott—who made the first one 30 years ago—is going to return to direct an Alien (pictured left on the cover of Starlog #23) prequel for 20th Century Fox. At one point earlier this year, Scott was considering only Producing a new Alien project. This one, Variety reports, will have a script by John Spaihts (who’s very busy writing genre film fare). For the rest of Spaihts’ Sf agenda, see this.
Folks at Pixar Animation Studios are contemplating a Monsters, Inc. sequel. Follow-ups to Toy Story and Cars are already in the works.
Sci-fi TV
HBO has renewed True Blood for a third season, airing in summer 2010. Looks like it’s pre-empted this Sunday though.
This weekend’s genre TV highlights include the usual reruns: Ghost Whisperer (“Slow Burn” with a ghostly Mom,...
- 7/31/2009
- by no-reply@starlog.com (David McDonnell)
- Starlog
If you're a fan of sci-fi and haven't yet heard of the new summer filler, Defying Gravity, premiering on ABC on August 2, catch up fast. The series is well put together and fantastic! More on that later. For now, I have a few episode summaries for the two-hour premiere, as well as the third episode that will air on 8/9. The series starts on ABC on Sunday, August 2, from 9pm to 11pm (Eastern standard time) and then will fall into a normal Sunday timeslot at 10pm/9 central.
Premiere
The Space Program Sets Its Sights On A New Frontier When Eight Astronauts Set Their Course For A Six-year Discovery Mission Into Space, On ABC's "Defying Gravity"
The Antares crew launches into space, on "Defying Gravity," Sunday, August 2 (9:00-11:00 p.m., Et) on the ABC Television Network. In the first hour, "Pilot" (9:00-10:00 p.m.), a team of eight astronauts,...
Premiere
The Space Program Sets Its Sights On A New Frontier When Eight Astronauts Set Their Course For A Six-year Discovery Mission Into Space, On ABC's "Defying Gravity"
The Antares crew launches into space, on "Defying Gravity," Sunday, August 2 (9:00-11:00 p.m., Et) on the ABC Television Network. In the first hour, "Pilot" (9:00-10:00 p.m.), a team of eight astronauts,...
- 7/22/2009
- by SpoilerGuy
- TVovermind.com
Tonya Plank--and whoever's bullying her, knock it off--reports on the Guggenheim's Ethan Stiefel/Larry Keigwin combo platter, which I'll be catching tonight (tickets are sold out). If there's a Q & A session afterwards, I hope there'll be time permitting to ask Ethan what his character's "motivation" was in Center Stage: Turn It Up, a question I will pose with the utmost sincerity so that his admirers in the audience won't take offense and bat me senseless with their ballet slippers. His fan base can be quite ferocious when poked with a stick. Update: Taylor Gordon also reports in on Sunday's performance demo. I had a good time last night, the section from Keigwin's "Natural Selection" was thrilling, but was nearly stampeded by senior citizens barreling to the refreshments tables as if they were storming Omaha Beach. I'm not a stickler for deportment and decorum, but I think stacking tiny sandwiches...
- 3/16/2009
- Vanity Fair
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