The Challenge’s Trishelle Cannatella is fresh off her first-ever win on a reality TV competition show, with a significant victory on The Traitors 2.
She didn’t win alone, as fellow Challenger, five-time champion Chris “Ct” Tamburello also shared in the victory and the $200,000-plus in prize money.
With that, speculation surfaced that the two MTV stars were plotting to win together throughout the season, including them voting the only other remaining Faithful, Mercedes “Mj” Javid, out at the end.
Another rumor that popped up due to Trishelle and Ct’s time on The Traitors 2 involved Trishelle having an affair with her castmate.
Ct appeared on the show following a messy divorce from Lilianet Solares, while Trishelle is currently married.
She recently spoke about those juicy rumors while appearing on Bravo’s Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen.
Trishelle addressed claims alleged affair with Ct
During Watch What Happens Live,...
She didn’t win alone, as fellow Challenger, five-time champion Chris “Ct” Tamburello also shared in the victory and the $200,000-plus in prize money.
With that, speculation surfaced that the two MTV stars were plotting to win together throughout the season, including them voting the only other remaining Faithful, Mercedes “Mj” Javid, out at the end.
Another rumor that popped up due to Trishelle and Ct’s time on The Traitors 2 involved Trishelle having an affair with her castmate.
Ct appeared on the show following a messy divorce from Lilianet Solares, while Trishelle is currently married.
She recently spoke about those juicy rumors while appearing on Bravo’s Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen.
Trishelle addressed claims alleged affair with Ct
During Watch What Happens Live,...
- 3/17/2024
- by Matt Couden
- Monsters and Critics
Vault Comics is one of the biggest stories on the indie comics scene this year. With publisher Damian Wassel and editor-in-chief Adrian Wassel at the helm, Vault has created a line of science fiction and fantasy comics with seasoned veterans like Tim Daniel doing design and art direction as well as books like Fissure and rising stars including David Booher on Powerless and Alien Bounty Hunter (with producer Mark Wahlberg) and Natasha Alterici on Heathen.
This past week I was able to chat with Deniz Camp and Vittorio Astone about their new comic at Vault, Maxwell’s Demons.
Joe: What’s the elevator pitch for Maxwell’s Demons? What’s the hook?
Deniz: Maxwell’s Demons is the story of Maxwell Maas, the greatest mind of his generation. Told in a series of standalone stories, each focused on Max at a different point in his life and arranged non-chronologically, it...
This past week I was able to chat with Deniz Camp and Vittorio Astone about their new comic at Vault, Maxwell’s Demons.
Joe: What’s the elevator pitch for Maxwell’s Demons? What’s the hook?
Deniz: Maxwell’s Demons is the story of Maxwell Maas, the greatest mind of his generation. Told in a series of standalone stories, each focused on Max at a different point in his life and arranged non-chronologically, it...
- 9/26/2017
- by Joe Corallo
- Comicmix.com
Joe Jonas wants you to relive his "worst date ever" in a story that's completely reenacted by puppets. Yes, you read that last part correctly: puppets.
It's all for Wilmer Valderrama's new TV show on Fuse, The Hollywood Puppet Sh!tshow. Each week, celebrities recount true tales of their wildest adventures as they are reenacted by their very own doppelgänger marionette puppets -- and on tonight's all new episode, Jonas' "racy" puppet is recounting the date that almost got the Dnce singer arrested!
"If you've ever been curious to know what I look like as a puppet, then this will answer your questions," Jonas said with a laugh on a recent phone call with Et. "This is a true story, as crazy as it may sound. The puppets make things a little bit more extravagant, so some of it is a little fabricated, but it's all based on a real date. I hope you...
It's all for Wilmer Valderrama's new TV show on Fuse, The Hollywood Puppet Sh!tshow. Each week, celebrities recount true tales of their wildest adventures as they are reenacted by their very own doppelgänger marionette puppets -- and on tonight's all new episode, Jonas' "racy" puppet is recounting the date that almost got the Dnce singer arrested!
"If you've ever been curious to know what I look like as a puppet, then this will answer your questions," Jonas said with a laugh on a recent phone call with Et. "This is a true story, as crazy as it may sound. The puppets make things a little bit more extravagant, so some of it is a little fabricated, but it's all based on a real date. I hope you...
- 8/1/2017
- Entertainment Tonight
“Reality is fractured” — think about those words for a second. Reality is supposed to be the one thing that’s absolute. It’s a state of existence we all must face, whether we’re waking up to a cold reality or embracing the reality of now. For it to be fractured, to be broken, is an impossibility. Reality simply is, and what is cannot be undone.
Unless, of course, you’ve been watching the third season of “Fargo.”
Throughout its television saga, Noah Hawley’s period drama about unexpected violence in small town America has been framed as a “true story.” It’s not, of course — that’s merely an appropriation from the Coen brothers’ film. Specifically, like the 1996 movie each episode begins with the statement: “This is a true story,” even though, like the film, it’s not.
Read More: ‘Fargo’: Noah Hawley Explains the Season 3 Connections to Past Seasons, ‘The Leftovers,’ and ‘The Big Lebowski’
But Season 3 has doubled down on its tricky typeface: Hawley, through characters like former police chief Gloria Burgle (Carrie Coon) and a mysterious crime lord named V.M. Varga (David Thewlis), has broken down the meaning of truth in modern America.
“At a basic level, I have to be aware that I’m saying it’s a true story and that reality rarely ties itself up neatly; that reality is subject to randomness and coincidence and all of those things,” Hawley said in an interview with IndieWire. “I felt like our first season, the story basically played itself out until the very last scene. […] The second year, the ninth hour was really the big hour, […] and yet, in the end, it was a tragedy with a happy ending — just like the movie and just like the first season.”
“You’ll see how it turns out this year, but I’ll say I don’t want to take anything for granted like ‘Oh, it’s okay, it always wraps up neatly,'” he said. “There is a sense to which this year’s ‘Fargo’ is really a mirror reflecting our reality back to us at this moment in time, but we don’t know how it’s gonna end or how it’s gonna play out.”
Speaking the day after James Comey testified before the Senate Intelligence Committee, Hawley was quick to point to relevant parallels between “Fargo” and our current cultural status.
Read More: ‘Fargo’ Creator Noah Hawley On Whether There Will Be a Season 4
“At the end of the day, everyone said, ‘Well James Comey testified and said a lot of damning things for the President of the United States.’ Then this morning the President of the United States tweets that he’s totally vindicated by the testimony yesterday and you go, ‘These two things are completely opposite — only one of them can be true.'”
And yet they’re both true. Objectivity has been tossed aside and much of the news, much of the world, is interpreted solely through the eye of the beholder. In 2017, alternate facts form alternate realities, and the same can be said of “Fargo’s” 2011 world.
“I think that the most jarring impact of this last year — on storytelling in general but certainly on this season of ‘Fargo’ — is the sense that our sense of reality is fractured and that what you think is real and true can be completely opposite from what someone next to you thinks is real and true,” Hawley said.
As an example, Hawley brought up a key scene from Season 3: After a particularly jarring experience, Sy Feltz (Michael Stuhlbarg) returns home to his wife, hugs her, and says, “The world is wrong. It looks like my world but everything is different.”
Read More: ‘Fargo’ and ‘The Leftovers’ Collide as Damon Lindelof Interviews Noah Hawley, Ewan McGregor and Carrie Coon
“I think there are a lot of people who feel that way [right now],” Hawley said. “Like, ‘Wait what? I went to bed in one America and I woke up in a different America.’ And there’s something violent to that.”
Fighting back against the violence is Gloria Burgle, embodying the world’s general symbol of truth, as well as “Fargo’s”: a police officer. Gloria’s journey in Season 3 has filled her with tremendous doubt, and there are many, many scenes of a flustered, frustrated, but resolute Gloria fighting for truth in a world ready to accept a lie. Whether she was rejecting her new chief’s theory that there was a serial killer targeting people with the last name “Stussey” or resisting the transition to technology over one-on-one human interaction, Gloria is both a dying breed and a beacon of hope.
“The war Gloria is really fighting is for the truth itself, that a case can be solved, that we can look objectively back into the past and say, ‘This happened,'” Hawley said. “This idea that you would be presented with a reality that you fundamentally don’t believe in is something that I think a lot of people who live in other countries are more familiar with, but as Americans we’re really not.”
Who wins the war between facts and alternative facts will be revealed in the “Fargo” finale, but the casualties have been clear throughout the season. For now, we wait to see who else will join the list and pray, for the sake of our country, that Gloria is not among the fallen.
The “Fargo” Season 3 finale airs Wednesday, June 21 at 10 p.m. on FX.
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Unless, of course, you’ve been watching the third season of “Fargo.”
Throughout its television saga, Noah Hawley’s period drama about unexpected violence in small town America has been framed as a “true story.” It’s not, of course — that’s merely an appropriation from the Coen brothers’ film. Specifically, like the 1996 movie each episode begins with the statement: “This is a true story,” even though, like the film, it’s not.
Read More: ‘Fargo’: Noah Hawley Explains the Season 3 Connections to Past Seasons, ‘The Leftovers,’ and ‘The Big Lebowski’
But Season 3 has doubled down on its tricky typeface: Hawley, through characters like former police chief Gloria Burgle (Carrie Coon) and a mysterious crime lord named V.M. Varga (David Thewlis), has broken down the meaning of truth in modern America.
“At a basic level, I have to be aware that I’m saying it’s a true story and that reality rarely ties itself up neatly; that reality is subject to randomness and coincidence and all of those things,” Hawley said in an interview with IndieWire. “I felt like our first season, the story basically played itself out until the very last scene. […] The second year, the ninth hour was really the big hour, […] and yet, in the end, it was a tragedy with a happy ending — just like the movie and just like the first season.”
“You’ll see how it turns out this year, but I’ll say I don’t want to take anything for granted like ‘Oh, it’s okay, it always wraps up neatly,'” he said. “There is a sense to which this year’s ‘Fargo’ is really a mirror reflecting our reality back to us at this moment in time, but we don’t know how it’s gonna end or how it’s gonna play out.”
Speaking the day after James Comey testified before the Senate Intelligence Committee, Hawley was quick to point to relevant parallels between “Fargo” and our current cultural status.
Read More: ‘Fargo’ Creator Noah Hawley On Whether There Will Be a Season 4
“At the end of the day, everyone said, ‘Well James Comey testified and said a lot of damning things for the President of the United States.’ Then this morning the President of the United States tweets that he’s totally vindicated by the testimony yesterday and you go, ‘These two things are completely opposite — only one of them can be true.'”
And yet they’re both true. Objectivity has been tossed aside and much of the news, much of the world, is interpreted solely through the eye of the beholder. In 2017, alternate facts form alternate realities, and the same can be said of “Fargo’s” 2011 world.
“I think that the most jarring impact of this last year — on storytelling in general but certainly on this season of ‘Fargo’ — is the sense that our sense of reality is fractured and that what you think is real and true can be completely opposite from what someone next to you thinks is real and true,” Hawley said.
As an example, Hawley brought up a key scene from Season 3: After a particularly jarring experience, Sy Feltz (Michael Stuhlbarg) returns home to his wife, hugs her, and says, “The world is wrong. It looks like my world but everything is different.”
Read More: ‘Fargo’ and ‘The Leftovers’ Collide as Damon Lindelof Interviews Noah Hawley, Ewan McGregor and Carrie Coon
“I think there are a lot of people who feel that way [right now],” Hawley said. “Like, ‘Wait what? I went to bed in one America and I woke up in a different America.’ And there’s something violent to that.”
Fighting back against the violence is Gloria Burgle, embodying the world’s general symbol of truth, as well as “Fargo’s”: a police officer. Gloria’s journey in Season 3 has filled her with tremendous doubt, and there are many, many scenes of a flustered, frustrated, but resolute Gloria fighting for truth in a world ready to accept a lie. Whether she was rejecting her new chief’s theory that there was a serial killer targeting people with the last name “Stussey” or resisting the transition to technology over one-on-one human interaction, Gloria is both a dying breed and a beacon of hope.
“The war Gloria is really fighting is for the truth itself, that a case can be solved, that we can look objectively back into the past and say, ‘This happened,'” Hawley said. “This idea that you would be presented with a reality that you fundamentally don’t believe in is something that I think a lot of people who live in other countries are more familiar with, but as Americans we’re really not.”
Who wins the war between facts and alternative facts will be revealed in the “Fargo” finale, but the casualties have been clear throughout the season. For now, we wait to see who else will join the list and pray, for the sake of our country, that Gloria is not among the fallen.
The “Fargo” Season 3 finale airs Wednesday, June 21 at 10 p.m. on FX.
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- 6/20/2017
- by Ben Travers
- Indiewire
Every episode of “Fargo” starts with the text, “This is a true story.” The use of that card dates back to the original 1996 film, but it’s never been truly true. In Episode 5, though, “Fargo” includes a little piece of reality in the form of the story of Laura Buxton and her balloon. Sheriff Dammick (Shea Whigham) tells the short story as a way to illustrate why he doesn’t buy her version of the events surrounding the death of Ennis Stussy (Scott Hylands). In the story, a girl in England releases a balloon with a note attached. The note.
- 5/18/2017
- by Phil Hornshaw
- The Wrap
“You don’t have to have a true story to make a true story movie.”
Noah Hawley’s acclaimed midwestern crime anthology Fargo returns to FX this week, along with my enthusiasm for saying oh yah and you betcha to anyone with the gall to speak to me when I would rather be watching Fargo. In my defence there are not one, but two, gloriously bad Ewan McGregor wigs. Truly, Hawley is doing the Lord’s work. Season three is set in the not too distant past of 2010, and follows the tried-and-true template of a ridiculously stacked ensemble of endearing (and woefully misguided) ne’er do wells gradually bungling their way into a shit show of their own design. As with each of the previous installments, least of all the Coen Brothers’ original 1996 film, the opening of this week’s episode features the following superimposed text:
This is a true story. The...
Noah Hawley’s acclaimed midwestern crime anthology Fargo returns to FX this week, along with my enthusiasm for saying oh yah and you betcha to anyone with the gall to speak to me when I would rather be watching Fargo. In my defence there are not one, but two, gloriously bad Ewan McGregor wigs. Truly, Hawley is doing the Lord’s work. Season three is set in the not too distant past of 2010, and follows the tried-and-true template of a ridiculously stacked ensemble of endearing (and woefully misguided) ne’er do wells gradually bungling their way into a shit show of their own design. As with each of the previous installments, least of all the Coen Brothers’ original 1996 film, the opening of this week’s episode features the following superimposed text:
This is a true story. The...
- 4/20/2017
- by Meg Shields
- FilmSchoolRejects.com
Most showrunners have their own particular ways of coming up with storylines or charting full seasons for returning series. For Noah Hawley, the process usually starts with taking a nap. "It's kind of always been like this," he says sheepishly, calling in from a chilly set in Calgary, Alberta. "I mean, what became Fargo started when I lied down one afternoon while I was writing and dreamed about two men, one civilized and one not, meeting in an emergency room. For the second season, same thing – only it was a...
- 4/19/2017
- Rollingstone.com
One episode was provided prior to broadcast.
Noah Hawley is a genius. With two seasons of Fargo under his belt — not to mention the just-finished, all-awesome Legion — the showrunner is one of the few currently working in TV whose style and tone feels unique, refreshing, and incredibly artful when compared to his peers. His shows have a penchant for the bizarre and plots that unfold in unorthodox ways, leading to arcs that don’t just sit there and tell you everything. They dare you; they test you; they oppose you more than some might enjoy; they challenge you.
That challenge returns with a cold snap in Fargo‘s third season. The show, which feels even more disconnected than ever from the previous seasons and original Coen Brothers film, is a minor miracle in tension building and storytelling. Or so it has been for nearly three years; with only the premiere sent out for review,...
Noah Hawley is a genius. With two seasons of Fargo under his belt — not to mention the just-finished, all-awesome Legion — the showrunner is one of the few currently working in TV whose style and tone feels unique, refreshing, and incredibly artful when compared to his peers. His shows have a penchant for the bizarre and plots that unfold in unorthodox ways, leading to arcs that don’t just sit there and tell you everything. They dare you; they test you; they oppose you more than some might enjoy; they challenge you.
That challenge returns with a cold snap in Fargo‘s third season. The show, which feels even more disconnected than ever from the previous seasons and original Coen Brothers film, is a minor miracle in tension building and storytelling. Or so it has been for nearly three years; with only the premiere sent out for review,...
- 4/3/2017
- by Mitchel Broussard
- We Got This Covered
This much we know after two years in Minnesota: Choosing to embark on a new season of “Fargo” is akin to inviting tragedy unto yourself. Each year, the opening disclaimer originated by the Coen Brothers in their 1996 film promises bodies: “This is a true story… At the request of the survivors… Out of respect for the dead…” And each year we’ve come to love and lose characters within a very short amount of time. You know what you’re getting yourself into, even if — like the UFOs in Season 2 — you can never predict exactly what you’ll see.
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As Season 3 begins, what’s oft-referred to as a black comedy, midwestern drama, or anthology crime story, feels better suited for another genre:
Horror.
Going in, you know any number of the...
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As Season 3 begins, what’s oft-referred to as a black comedy, midwestern drama, or anthology crime story, feels better suited for another genre:
Horror.
Going in, you know any number of the...
- 4/3/2017
- by Ben Travers
- Indiewire
Often referred to as the “Citizen Kane of bad movies,” Tommy Wiseau’s The Room wrote its name in cinema’s history books for all the wrong reasons back in 2003. A spluttering mess of plot holes and cringe-worthy dialogue, Wiseau’s self-confessed passion project – one which he wrote, directed and starred in – has since gone on to become something of a cult classic, and soon James Franco and Co. will introduce moviegoers to the story behind the so-called misguided masterpiece.
Its title? The Disaster Artist, a big-screen rendition of Greg Sestero’s novel of the same name. Those already familiar with Sestero’s source material will know all too well that the author pulls no punches in his autopsy of The Room, which is hardly surprising given he co-starred in the cult original as conflicted best friend Mark. Fast forward to 2017 and it is Dave Franco that will be playing the part of Mark,...
Its title? The Disaster Artist, a big-screen rendition of Greg Sestero’s novel of the same name. Those already familiar with Sestero’s source material will know all too well that the author pulls no punches in his autopsy of The Room, which is hardly surprising given he co-starred in the cult original as conflicted best friend Mark. Fast forward to 2017 and it is Dave Franco that will be playing the part of Mark,...
- 2/13/2017
- by Michael Briers
- We Got This Covered
Welcome to the first, hopefully annual, Weekend Warrior Sundance Awards, where I go through the couple dozen movies I had a chance to see over the course of the past week and pick some of my favorite things.
I ended up seeing roughly thirty movies in total, only walking out of a couple (that won’t be mentioned), and overall, it was a generally decent Sundance, although only a few movies really stood out and will be remembered later in the year when we start talking about next year’s Oscars.
Oddly, I missed many of the movies that won actual awards at Sundance, so I’ve decided to give a few of my own.
Salma Hayek as Beatriz in Beatriz At Dinner
Most Literal Use of a Movie Title
1. Beatriz at Dinner (starring Salma Hayek as a Mexican healer named Beatriz who is invited to stay for dinner at...
I ended up seeing roughly thirty movies in total, only walking out of a couple (that won’t be mentioned), and overall, it was a generally decent Sundance, although only a few movies really stood out and will be remembered later in the year when we start talking about next year’s Oscars.
Oddly, I missed many of the movies that won actual awards at Sundance, so I’ve decided to give a few of my own.
Salma Hayek as Beatriz in Beatriz At Dinner
Most Literal Use of a Movie Title
1. Beatriz at Dinner (starring Salma Hayek as a Mexican healer named Beatriz who is invited to stay for dinner at...
- 1/30/2017
- by Edward Douglas
- LRMonline.com
Our 22 Favorite Movies Directed by Women in 2016Looking to support great female-directed films? Start here.
Over the years, we’ve heard from our readers that one of the most important things we can do is to help you discover movies that may have slipped by mainstream audiences. And often just as important, our readers ask that we highlight voices that are in the minority in Hollywood. While we’re known for not taking ourselves very seriously, we take this part of our work seriously. Because as many studies have shown, there are some voices that aren’t as well-represented as others. Them’s the facts.
Beyond that, our team has a passion for seeking out and celebrating films directed by women. This is where we often find, as you’re about to see in this list, some of the most unique and interesting stories in the whole of cinema. Another thing we hear often from readers is...
Over the years, we’ve heard from our readers that one of the most important things we can do is to help you discover movies that may have slipped by mainstream audiences. And often just as important, our readers ask that we highlight voices that are in the minority in Hollywood. While we’re known for not taking ourselves very seriously, we take this part of our work seriously. Because as many studies have shown, there are some voices that aren’t as well-represented as others. Them’s the facts.
Beyond that, our team has a passion for seeking out and celebrating films directed by women. This is where we often find, as you’re about to see in this list, some of the most unique and interesting stories in the whole of cinema. Another thing we hear often from readers is...
- 1/18/2017
- by Film School Rejects
- FilmSchoolRejects.com
Though he was just 25 years old when Phantasm hit theaters, many don't know that the cult 1979 horror film was actually director Don Coscarelli's third movie. In fact, at the age of 19, he became the youngest director ever to have a film distributed by a major studio (a statistic that's often been alleged but which I cannot independently confirm) when Universal acquired his teen drama Jim, the World's Greatest for distribution. That film, which was financed by Coscarelli's father -- who put up the money for production after having "a good year in the stock market," in Coscarelli's words -- landed the teenage filmmaker and his co-director Craig Mitchell an office on the studio's lot to finish the movie. It was an unusually auspicious Big Hollywood start to a career that ended up taking a less-mainstream turn as the years went on. "I've been working my way downward ever since,...
- 10/7/2016
- by Chris Eggertsen
- Hitfix
“Hillary’s America,” the third documentary from author, filmmaker and convicted felon Dinesh D’Souza, begins with an undeniably fascinating premise: What if a Twitter egg made a movie? While D’Souza’s previous feature-length attacks on the Democratic Party were similarly falsified and foaming at the mouth (remember the part in 2014’s “America” when he argued that Hillary Clinton wants to use Nasa to turn the United States into her own personal panopticon of terror?), “Hillary’s America” is different — this time, it’s personal.
In January of 2014, D’Souza was indicted for violating campaign finance laws after it was discovered that he made illegal contributions to Wendy Long’s Senate bid (she wound up losing by more than 40 percentage points). He was found guilty, and accused the court of selective persecution on the basis that the Obama administration was supposedly trying to silence its dissidents.
“It all began...
In January of 2014, D’Souza was indicted for violating campaign finance laws after it was discovered that he made illegal contributions to Wendy Long’s Senate bid (she wound up losing by more than 40 percentage points). He was found guilty, and accused the court of selective persecution on the basis that the Obama administration was supposedly trying to silence its dissidents.
“It all began...
- 7/19/2016
- by David Ehrlich
- Indiewire
Here's the second trailer for the new drug thriller The Infiltrator, which stars Bryan Cranston as an undercover agent who attempts to take down cocaine kingpin Pablo Escobar. I like this trailer a little more than the first one, because it seems better edited and faster-paced. This is a true story that's been told many, many times already, but as is often the case in genre movies, it all comes down to the execution. We'll see if director Brad Furman (The Lincoln Lawyer) can elevate the final movie above its familiar setting.
Cranston, John Leguizamo, Benjamin Bratt, Diane Kruger, Amy Ryan, and Joseph Gilgun (who plays Cassidy on AMC's Preacher) all star, and The Infiltrator hits theaters on July 15, 2016.
Based on a true story, Federal agent Robert "Bob" Mazur (Bryan Cranston) goes deep undercover to infiltrate Pablo Escobar's drug trafficking scene plaguing the nation in 1986 by posing as slick, money-laundering businessman Bob Musella.
Cranston, John Leguizamo, Benjamin Bratt, Diane Kruger, Amy Ryan, and Joseph Gilgun (who plays Cassidy on AMC's Preacher) all star, and The Infiltrator hits theaters on July 15, 2016.
Based on a true story, Federal agent Robert "Bob" Mazur (Bryan Cranston) goes deep undercover to infiltrate Pablo Escobar's drug trafficking scene plaguing the nation in 1986 by posing as slick, money-laundering businessman Bob Musella.
- 5/25/2016
- by Ben Pearson
- GeekTyrant
Of all the many, many projects cramming up James Franco’s bustling slate, The Masterpiece has our vote for the most tantalizing pick of the bunch. Having wrapped production earlier this year, we now have our first official peek at the cast in costume.
Billed as a true-life depiction of the creation process behind Tommy Wiseau’s cult drama The Room, the biopic formerly known as The Disaster Artist has pulled together a star-studded ensemble as Franco et al. look to shed light on the romantic drama first released in 2003.
Derided and celebrated almost in equal measure, The Room was written, directed and produced by Wiseau – who will also have a cameo appearance in Franco’s feature film – and that troubled production was chronicled in Greg Sestero’s nonfiction novel, The Disaster Artist: My Life Inside The Room. Indeed, that book will act as the primary source of inspiration...
Billed as a true-life depiction of the creation process behind Tommy Wiseau’s cult drama The Room, the biopic formerly known as The Disaster Artist has pulled together a star-studded ensemble as Franco et al. look to shed light on the romantic drama first released in 2003.
Derided and celebrated almost in equal measure, The Room was written, directed and produced by Wiseau – who will also have a cameo appearance in Franco’s feature film – and that troubled production was chronicled in Greg Sestero’s nonfiction novel, The Disaster Artist: My Life Inside The Room. Indeed, that book will act as the primary source of inspiration...
- 4/18/2016
- by Michael Briers
- We Got This Covered
For his previous directing efforts, James Franco has adapted the likes of Cormac McCarthy and William Faulkner, but he may have found a perfect match for an upcoming project: a film depicting the making of Tommy Wiseau‘s cult drama (comedy?) The Room. Based on actor Greg Sestero‘s book The Disaster Artist: My Life Inside The Room, Franco and company wrapped up production earlier this year, and now we have the first look.
Seen above, there’s Franco as Wiseau, Seth Rogen as script supervisor Sandy Schklair, and Dave Franco as Sestero. The image comes from a test screening notice happening in La tonight, in which they reveal the film’s new title of The Masterpiece, previously titled The Disaster Artist.
Also starring Josh Hutcherson, Ari Graynor, Jacki Weaver, Hannibal Buress, June Diane Raphael, Zac Efron, Nathan Fielder, Alison Brie, Sharon Stone, Paul Scheer, Bryan Cranston, Judd Apatow,...
Seen above, there’s Franco as Wiseau, Seth Rogen as script supervisor Sandy Schklair, and Dave Franco as Sestero. The image comes from a test screening notice happening in La tonight, in which they reveal the film’s new title of The Masterpiece, previously titled The Disaster Artist.
Also starring Josh Hutcherson, Ari Graynor, Jacki Weaver, Hannibal Buress, June Diane Raphael, Zac Efron, Nathan Fielder, Alison Brie, Sharon Stone, Paul Scheer, Bryan Cranston, Judd Apatow,...
- 4/18/2016
- by Jordan Raup
- The Film Stage
Inspired by a conversation with Trick 'r Treat and Krampus director Michael Dougherty, writer/director Chris McQuarrie just shared a cool story on Twitter about a time he visited Devil's Tower in Wyoming, and I wanted to pass it along to you in case you don't follow him on social media. You probably know McQuarrie as the writer of The Usual Suspects, The Way of the Gun, Valkyrie, Edge of Tomorrow, Jack Reacher, and Mission: Impossible — Rogue Nation (and the director of the latter two). I won't bother with any more preamble — here's the story:
At the request of @Mike_Dougherty: My trip to Devils Tower (eavesdrop @ #DevilsTower)
— ChristopherMcQuarrie (@chrismcquarrie) April 6, 2016
@Mike_Dougherty #DevilsTower (1)
This is a true story, told without embellishment. I will spare you the read by stating up front:
— ChristopherMcQuarrie (@chrismcquarrie) April 6, 2016
@Mike_Dougherty #DevilsTower (2)
It is neither amazing nor funny. It's just a thing that happened exactly as I'll tell it.
At the request of @Mike_Dougherty: My trip to Devils Tower (eavesdrop @ #DevilsTower)
— ChristopherMcQuarrie (@chrismcquarrie) April 6, 2016
@Mike_Dougherty #DevilsTower (1)
This is a true story, told without embellishment. I will spare you the read by stating up front:
— ChristopherMcQuarrie (@chrismcquarrie) April 6, 2016
@Mike_Dougherty #DevilsTower (2)
It is neither amazing nor funny. It's just a thing that happened exactly as I'll tell it.
- 4/6/2016
- by Ben Pearson
- GeekTyrant
Fargo: Celebrate the 20th Anniversary with 15 Things You Didn't Know About the Film Turned TV Series
Snow. Blood. Accents. And a woodchipper. That's Fargo.
What with Fargo having re-entered the pop culture zeitgeist in 2014 with the debut of the FX anthology series of the same name, fans of the original movie might be surprised to learn that it's turning 20 years old this week. Fargo – that is, the original 1996 version, starring Frances McDormand and directed by Joel and Ethan Coen – first opened in American theaters on March 8, 1996.
Two decades later, this little indie film about polite people involved in some very impolite circumstances is heralded as one the better movies of the 1990s. In honor of its anniversary,...
What with Fargo having re-entered the pop culture zeitgeist in 2014 with the debut of the FX anthology series of the same name, fans of the original movie might be surprised to learn that it's turning 20 years old this week. Fargo – that is, the original 1996 version, starring Frances McDormand and directed by Joel and Ethan Coen – first opened in American theaters on March 8, 1996.
Two decades later, this little indie film about polite people involved in some very impolite circumstances is heralded as one the better movies of the 1990s. In honor of its anniversary,...
- 3/7/2016
- by Drew Mackie, @drewgmackie
- People.com - TV Watch
Fargo: Celebrate the 20th Anniversary with 15 Things You Didn't Know About the Film Turned TV Series
Snow. Blood. Accents. And a woodchipper. That's Fargo. What with Fargo having re-entered the pop culture zeitgeist in 2014 with the debut of the FX anthology series of the same name, fans of the original movie might be surprised to learn that it's turning 20 years old this week. Fargo - that is, the original 1996 version, starring Frances McDormand and directed by Joel and Ethan Coen - first opened in American theaters on March 8, 1996. Two decades later, this little indie film about polite people involved in some very impolite circumstances is heralded as one the better movies of the 1990s. In honor of its anniversary,...
- 3/7/2016
- by Drew Mackie, @drewgmackie
- PEOPLE.com
Fargo: Celebrate the 20th Anniversary with 15 Things You Didn't Know About the Film Turned TV Series
Snow. Blood. Accents. And a woodchipper. That's Fargo. What with Fargo having re-entered the pop culture zeitgeist in 2014 with the debut of the FX anthology series of the same name, fans of the original movie might be surprised to learn that it's turning 20 years old this week. Fargo - that is, the original 1996 version, starring Frances McDormand and directed by Joel and Ethan Coen - first opened in American theaters on March 8, 1996. Two decades later, this little indie film about polite people involved in some very impolite circumstances is heralded as one the better movies of the 1990s. In honor of its anniversary,...
- 3/7/2016
- by Drew Mackie, @drewgmackie
- PEOPLE.com
Has it really been 20 years since the release of "Fargo?" Yah, you betcha.
The snowbound crime comedy-drama, released March 8, 1996, marked the first mainstream smash for Joel and Ethan Coen. It also gave Frances McDormand and William H. Macy their signature roles, spawned the acclaimed FX drama series, and sparked a brief fad that had everyone talking with exaggerated Minne-soh-ta accents.
Still, two decades after the film's debut, there's still a lot of confusion about what in "Fargo" was truth, what was fiction, and what was an elaborate in-joke. Here, then, are the far-fetched facts behind the film.1. The opening title card claims the movie is based on a true story, but in fact, it's almost completely fictional. There was, however, a real-life crime with some superficial similarities. The victim was Helle Crafts, a Connecticut woman who disappeared in 1986. Her husband was ultimately convicted of her murder; investigators determined that he'd...
The snowbound crime comedy-drama, released March 8, 1996, marked the first mainstream smash for Joel and Ethan Coen. It also gave Frances McDormand and William H. Macy their signature roles, spawned the acclaimed FX drama series, and sparked a brief fad that had everyone talking with exaggerated Minne-soh-ta accents.
Still, two decades after the film's debut, there's still a lot of confusion about what in "Fargo" was truth, what was fiction, and what was an elaborate in-joke. Here, then, are the far-fetched facts behind the film.1. The opening title card claims the movie is based on a true story, but in fact, it's almost completely fictional. There was, however, a real-life crime with some superficial similarities. The victim was Helle Crafts, a Connecticut woman who disappeared in 1986. Her husband was ultimately convicted of her murder; investigators determined that he'd...
- 3/7/2016
- by Gary Susman
- Moviefone
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Michael Bay brings a true story to the big screen in 13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers Of Benghazi. Here's our review...
“This is a true story,” Michael Bay tells us via one of those military telex-style captions at the start of 13 Hours. Then he blows a lot of stuff up. It’s a misreading of the supposed impact of letting the viewer know they’re witnessing an account of true events. The point is that you then deliver something remarkable, stranger than fiction, leaving us shaking our heads in wonder that this really happened. But I can easily wrap my head around the premise that, in a collapsed Middle Eastern state with no government, overrun by mercenaries and Islamist extremists, a fair bit of stuff might get blown up. As early as the opening captions, Michael Bay has failed.
Some context: I think Michael Bay is great when...
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Michael Bay brings a true story to the big screen in 13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers Of Benghazi. Here's our review...
“This is a true story,” Michael Bay tells us via one of those military telex-style captions at the start of 13 Hours. Then he blows a lot of stuff up. It’s a misreading of the supposed impact of letting the viewer know they’re witnessing an account of true events. The point is that you then deliver something remarkable, stranger than fiction, leaving us shaking our heads in wonder that this really happened. But I can easily wrap my head around the premise that, in a collapsed Middle Eastern state with no government, overrun by mercenaries and Islamist extremists, a fair bit of stuff might get blown up. As early as the opening captions, Michael Bay has failed.
Some context: I think Michael Bay is great when...
- 1/27/2016
- by simonbrew
- Den of Geek
13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers of Benghazi
Written by Chuck Hogan
Directed by Michael Bay
U.S., 2016
After the box-office success of Lone Survivor and American Sniper, the cottage industry of military themed January releases continues to go strong. Whereas those films came from Peter Berg and Clint Eastwood, directors known for taking a backseat to the material when it was called for, 2016’s entry, 13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers of Benghazi, comes from a director with the least tact ever observed over a career. Early speculation around the film had it that 13 Hours would be Michael Bay’s most grown-up film, but those rumors were incorrect.
As the screen opens with the text “This is a true story,” Michael Bay wants viewers to know right away that 13 Hours is the truest account of the biggest news story of 2012. Pointed blame isn’t passed around openly (Clinton and Obama aren’t mentioned...
Written by Chuck Hogan
Directed by Michael Bay
U.S., 2016
After the box-office success of Lone Survivor and American Sniper, the cottage industry of military themed January releases continues to go strong. Whereas those films came from Peter Berg and Clint Eastwood, directors known for taking a backseat to the material when it was called for, 2016’s entry, 13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers of Benghazi, comes from a director with the least tact ever observed over a career. Early speculation around the film had it that 13 Hours would be Michael Bay’s most grown-up film, but those rumors were incorrect.
As the screen opens with the text “This is a true story,” Michael Bay wants viewers to know right away that 13 Hours is the truest account of the biggest news story of 2012. Pointed blame isn’t passed around openly (Clinton and Obama aren’t mentioned...
- 1/15/2016
- by Colin Biggs
- SoundOnSight
An awkward thing happened to the Leonardo DiCaprio film The Revenant as it trekked into theaters last last year in hopes of picking up award show nominations: A rumor put the film in headlines but for reasons that none of its publicists were happy about. In early December, 20th Century Fox spokespeople were forced to clarify that no, the film does not feature a scene in which its star is raped by a bear. DiCaprio himself later weighed in on the rumor, calling it "absurd," and when the film finally hit theaters on Christmas Day, audiences saw that the rumor...
- 1/5/2016
- by revenant-bear-scene-leonardo-dicaprio-rumor
- PEOPLE.com
"This is a true story."When the Season 2 finale opened, we were given a hoodwink as a signal. By panning over the dead bodies of all the Gerhardt family members, director Adam Arkin and creator, writer and showrunner Noah Hawley first made us think — when we arrived at Betsey's unconscious body — that she, too, might be dead. Then her eyes opened, and relief washed over us all. Yet the omen wasn't foreshadowing her death or even remarking on the good fortune of her life. It told us two things: First, it indicated her vision of the future was going to come true — just as we knew it would from watching Season 1. More importantly to the diegetic present, though, Betsey being alive indicated to the audience that there wasn't going to be much more bloodshed in "Palindrome." Yes, Ed (Jesse Plemmons) died, but his was more of a symbolic loss than...
- 12/15/2015
- by Ben Travers
- Indiewire
"This is a true story."Um...aliens? In case anyone was still taking the opening statement of "Fargo" literally, the UFO sighting near the end of "The Castle" should persuade people to take the happenings of this series with a grain of salt. Sure, we've encountered plenty of otherworldly elements so far in Season 2, most notably when Rye Gerhardt (Kieran Culkin) looked to the sky after shooting three people in the Waffle Hut — a decision that cost him his life. But the motif had been just that until Episode 9: a distinct feature of the show, not an involved element of it. Rye could have been hallucinating, on drugs or, even if he actually saw a UFO, it was just a means to an end (i.e., the Blomquists' involvement in this story). Now everything has changed. Multiple people saw the giant spacecraft fly above the Motor Motel, including our...
- 12/8/2015
- by Ben Travers
- Indiewire
"This is a true story."After a week away from Peggy, Ed and Dodd (Jeffrey Donovan), "Fargo" spent an entire episode filling us in on what they've been doing. And wouldn't you figure, it was a lot. In another 90-minute entry (60 minutes without commercials), we watched as Peggy had the most self-assured nervous breakdown possible, Ed made a quick decision to sell Dodd for his family's protection and Ohanzee hunted down his boss. By the end of it, though, Peggy seemed to be her happiest self, Ed's deal was in the toilet and Ohanzee was on his own (or at least ready to go on the run). "Loplop" marked an eventful, streamlined hour-plus of television, marked with perfectly-placed moments of levity that helped break up some truly tense scenes. In likely the best episode since the first, director Keith Gordon and credited writer Bob Delaurentis started us on the beginning of the end.
- 12/1/2015
- by Ben Travers
- Indiewire
"This is a true story."The question lying wait in the background of "Did You Do This? No, You Did It!" — an on-point "Fargo" name if I've ever heard one — was also its most pressing quandary: Where's Dodd? It's not that it didn't matter where Dodd was, it's that his absence was more productive than his presence for this extended episode of Noah Hawley's ever-more-engaging crime thriller. The payoff at the end was expected, with the Blomquists keeping the Gerhardt family's least forgiving member locked up in their trunk. But had Dodd been around, odds are that Bear wouldn't have killed his brother's daughter. If, in fact, he did kill her. In today's day-and-age, unless we see a bullet fly through the head of its victim, that person could still be alive. The dramatic overhead shot followed by a distanced angle and the sound of a gunshot certainly implied Simone got got,...
- 11/24/2015
- by Ben Travers
- Indiewire
Crossing the halfway point of this brilliant second season, we reach what could be considered a transitional episode. It's filled with cliffhangers and unanswered questions, but amplified with enough tension to also entertain. "Rhinoceros" is the most functional episode of the season, often playing out in actual time as if it were 24 — which is a crossover I would totally watch. "This is a true story. Events take place in real time, ya know.""Rhinoceros," named after the Eugène Ionesco's play about groupthink and conformity, picks up minutes after the end of episode five. Lou (Patrick Wilson) and Hank (Ted Danson) have arrived at the Blumquist home, where they take Ed (Jesse Plemons) into custody, much to the protestation of Peggy (Kirsten Dunst). "You're not gonna prove my Ed did anything wrong! It's un-provable!" she yells. It's not that he didn't do anything wrong, though. They just can't prove it.
- 11/17/2015
- by Brian Tallerico
- Vulture
"This is a true story."While "Rhinoceros" didn't bring out the tip of the horn, so to speak, the tense episode did introduce a number of wanted dynamics. First and foremost, how exciting was it to see Peggy (Kirsten Dunst) and Hank (Ted Danson) engage in a discussion on decisions in crises? Peggy, the progressive-minded woman who doesn't know exactly what she wants to progress to — "These are modern times. A woman just doesn’t have to be a wife and a mother no more. She can be-- There’s nothing she can’t be." — was finally asked directly about her peculiar choices, and it was a classic, old school American man who asked them. I could've gone for another 20 minutes or more of those two, but then Dodd (Jeffrey Donovan) and his boys had to intervene. (But hey, at least Ted Danson didn't die. He could've done far worse...
- 11/17/2015
- by Ben Travers
- Indiewire
Review: 'Fargo' Season 2 Episode 5 'The Gift of the Magi' Watches the American Dream Go Up in Flames
"This is a true story."And the first casualty of the great war of '79 between the North and South was... a zoning commissioner? Joe Bulo's (Brad Garrett) bow-and-arrow-wielding contact took a shot to the head with a good ol' fashioned rifle before the rest of the hunting party met their maker — including Joe himself, who was later delivered in a gift box to Mike Milligan (Bokeem Woodbine). Things went quiet for a bit after that as both families plotted their next move, but the bloodshed wasn't over. Ed "The Butcher" Blomquist (Jesse Plemons) was Charlie Gerhardt's (Allan Dobrescu) first target; a fine choice for a gunshy kid unsure of what he himself is capable of, but one that went awry when the surprisingly spry big man killed one more of the Gerhardt clan before "saving" Charlie (who's also wounded). Now the cops are coming for the indecisive Peggy (Kirsten Dunst) and her more-than-capable husband,...
- 11/10/2015
- by Ben Travers
- Indiewire
"This is a true story."Who wants to bet Episode 5 begins with Ohanzee (Zahn McClarnon) doing his own, less pleasant interrogation of Mr. and Mrs. Blomquist (Jesse Plemons and Kirsten Dunst, respectively)? The war is underway, and knowing exactly what happened to Rye Gerhardt (Kieran Culkin) has to be at the top of the family's list. The Native American veteran — who we learned honed his skills via missions too dangerous for his white brothers in arms — may have been spooked by Lou Solverson's presence (Patrick Wilson), but he's also proven to be a patient man with a talent for hiding out. Plus, no one asked him to leave (not that he would listen). Last Week's Review: 'Fargo' Season 2 Episode 3, 'The Myth of Sisyphus,' Gives a Few Too Many Facts More importantly, "Fear and Trembling" officially kicked off the battle between the Gerhardt family and the Kansas City Syndicate,...
- 11/3/2015
- by Ben Travers
- Indiewire
"This is a true story."It's only fair to frame one "true story" by referencing another, and that's what "Fargo" has done with "The Myth of Sisyphus." The title of the third episode calls to mind an essay by Albert Camus of the same name, first published in 1942 and introducing the philosophy of the absurd. Camus — using an example from Greek mythology of Sisyphus rolling a boulder up a hill, letting it fall down and then repeating the process — makes the argument that the only way to embrace and understand life is by treating it as an absurd adventure; to regard the search for meaning as a futile task and instead choose to embrace the difficulties of everyday life. "The struggle itself [...] is enough to fill a man's heart," Camus concludes about the eternal damnation of the King of Ephyra. "One must imagine Sisyphus happy." Last Week's Review: 'Fargo' Season 2 Episode 2 'Before the Law' Asks,...
- 10/27/2015
- by Ben Travers
- Indiewire
"This is a True Story""And girls grow up to be women…and change boys' diapers." So says Floyd Gerhardt (Jean Smart), in response to her son claiming a woman couldn't lead the family simply because "she's a girl." Floyd's calm, reasonable and calculated response set forward everything that followed in an extraordinarily tense Episode 2. (It's only the second episode, and yet investment is already peaking.) "Before the Law" seemed keen to examine reactions and how different people from different backgrounds respond differently to various scenarios. Sure, Floyd's thoughtful analysis of the Kansas City syndicate's offer was directly contradicted by her power-hungry — not family first — son's temperamental call to war, but the theme continued throughout the episode. Peggy (Kirsten Dunst) — after claiming she didn't steal the toilet paper from work and, more importantly, that she got her bump on the head from a car accident — was busted by...
- 10/20/2015
- by Ben Travers
- Indiewire
Review: 'Fargo' Season 2 Episode 1 'Waiting for Dutch' Shows How Small Crimes Can Cause Big Problems
"This Is a True Story"We know now — after a memory lapse last year — that "Fargo" is not, in fact, based on facts. It's a coy play on a fictitious tale that still manages to feel real, despite some truly oddball antics and extreme scenarios. That authenticity carved out of a mad world is what we were looking for in a very-nearly brand new Season 2 story, and it's exactly what was delivered tonight. Noah Hawley masterfully sets the stage for what's to come, introducing the common elements making up a "Fargo" story and setting them on a collision course. First and most destructive early on is Rye Gerhardt (Rory Culkin), a baby brother with a bad case of short-man syndrome who, after stealing money from his family, tries to threaten a judge into overturning an order for his investment partner. This beautifully captured confrontation ending in bloodshed — both innocent and...
- 10/13/2015
- by Ben Travers
- Indiewire
This is a true story. Though I wasn't there when it happened, I fully trust the source. You may even know it already, as I've told it before on this site in abbreviated form. The reason I'm about to tell it again is because I told it to someone last week, and we both got a good laugh out of it. So heck, why not share it with you all? And then I'll shut up about it, promise. This took place just over twelve years ago, when a colleague of mine had bought himself a Home Cinema. And when I say Home Cinema, I'm serious: we're talking about a silver screen which could be unrolled from the ceiling, a DVD player with two trays, and...
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- 9/8/2015
- Screen Anarchy
Picking the best movies that come out in any given year is no easy feat. With over 800 movies released theatrically, there’s plenty to digest. As we reach the halfway point of the year, we decided to publish a list of our favourite movies thus far, in hopes that our readers can catch up on some of the films they might have missed out on. Below, you shall find the list of the top 30 films of 2015 to date, a list that ranges from independent horror films to documentary to foreign films and so much more. Here is part one of our three part list.
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25. Predestination
Effective time travel films must be able to set clear, established rules and be a means of achieving greater, emotional weight . Without the two, a film can be eviscerated by plot holes or become an unruly, empty spectacle. Predestination, an adaptation of an Robert A. Heinlein’s short story,...
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25. Predestination
Effective time travel films must be able to set clear, established rules and be a means of achieving greater, emotional weight . Without the two, a film can be eviscerated by plot holes or become an unruly, empty spectacle. Predestination, an adaptation of an Robert A. Heinlein’s short story,...
- 6/3/2015
- by Staff
- SoundOnSight
On ‘Cinderella’ and feminism; How Branagh and Weitz altered the glass slipper
We find ourselves in a time and place where the voice of feminism has never been louder. Issues like Gamer Gate, sexism in Cosplay, a woman’s right to an opinion on fantasy, comics, or horror, as well as a myriad of issues outside the realm of pop culture like slut shaming, and blame for being raped flood news outlets on a daily basis. As a result, there’s been a constant cry for change from men and women alike, internationally. We’re seeing stronger representations of women in cinema, and on television. 2013’s Frozen offered a very necessary shift to the Disney Princess dynamic, suggesting that one saves oneself, that love is genderless, and that the kind of love that saves need not strictly be romantic… read the full article.
SXSW 2015: ‘The Overnight’ is an insightful,...
We find ourselves in a time and place where the voice of feminism has never been louder. Issues like Gamer Gate, sexism in Cosplay, a woman’s right to an opinion on fantasy, comics, or horror, as well as a myriad of issues outside the realm of pop culture like slut shaming, and blame for being raped flood news outlets on a daily basis. As a result, there’s been a constant cry for change from men and women alike, internationally. We’re seeing stronger representations of women in cinema, and on television. 2013’s Frozen offered a very necessary shift to the Disney Princess dynamic, suggesting that one saves oneself, that love is genderless, and that the kind of love that saves need not strictly be romantic… read the full article.
SXSW 2015: ‘The Overnight’ is an insightful,...
- 3/21/2015
- by Ricky
- SoundOnSight
Kumiko, The Treasure Hunter
USA, 2015
Written by David and Nathan Zellner
Directed by David Zellner
Once upon a time, there was a Japanese woman who watched the movie Fargo. The movie begins with a title card pronouncing, “This Is A True Story,” and the fact that the Coen Brothers were playing a little prank with that statement was covered in American media only. So it came to pass that the woman believed the film to be true, and carried her belief to such a degree that she travelled to Minnesota alone, in search of the ransom money hidden by the Steve Buscemi character near the end of the film.
That preceding paragraph is an urban legend, birthed as a result of a real Japanese woman’s odd journey to Minnesota for reasons unrelated to Fargo or the Coen Brothers, and was later exaggerated into an Internet fairy tale (this person...
USA, 2015
Written by David and Nathan Zellner
Directed by David Zellner
Once upon a time, there was a Japanese woman who watched the movie Fargo. The movie begins with a title card pronouncing, “This Is A True Story,” and the fact that the Coen Brothers were playing a little prank with that statement was covered in American media only. So it came to pass that the woman believed the film to be true, and carried her belief to such a degree that she travelled to Minnesota alone, in search of the ransom money hidden by the Steve Buscemi character near the end of the film.
That preceding paragraph is an urban legend, birthed as a result of a real Japanese woman’s odd journey to Minnesota for reasons unrelated to Fargo or the Coen Brothers, and was later exaggerated into an Internet fairy tale (this person...
- 3/20/2015
- by Mark Young
- SoundOnSight
Kumiko, the Treasure Hunter has one of the most intriguing set-ups of any film to emerge in recent years: what if that eerie urban legend about the woman who, upon seeing Fargo and taking its "This Is A True Story" card at face value, traveled to Minnesota seeking the money dumped by Steve Buscemi's character but died while completely lost, was an actual event?...
- 3/17/2015
- by Nick Newman
- The Film Stage
Drama even before Bravo! Lisa Rinna revealed during Live! with Kelly and Michael on Wednesday, Feb. 25, that her husband Harry Hamlin initially threatened to throw their marriage out the window if she joined The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills. "This is a true story. I went to Harry and said I'm thinking about [doing Rhobh] and he looked at me and said, 'If you do this show, I will divorce you,'" Rinna, 51, told co-hosts Kelly Ripa and Michael Strahan. "And I said, 'Okay,' and I walked [...]...
- 2/26/2015
- Us Weekly
Save The Last Dance was one of my favorite movies when I was growing up. It wasn't just because Julie Stiles looked awesome dancing in circles, but the combination of dance and a struggling environment was a powerful one*. And that's what Desert Dancer, a new film by Richard Raymond, seems to bring to the table: dance and struggle.
The setting is Iran, and the story follows Afshin Ghaffarian and some friends (one of which is Elaheh, played by Frieda Pinto) who risk their lives and form an underground dance company. This is a true story, set during the volatile climate of the 2009 presidential election, where many cultural freedoms, like dance, were threatened.
Through banned online videos, the group learn from timeless legends who cross all cultural divides, such as Michael Jackson, Gene Kelly and Rudolf Nureyev. Afshin and Elaheh also learn much from each other, most importantly how to...
The setting is Iran, and the story follows Afshin Ghaffarian and some friends (one of which is Elaheh, played by Frieda Pinto) who risk their lives and form an underground dance company. This is a true story, set during the volatile climate of the 2009 presidential election, where many cultural freedoms, like dance, were threatened.
Through banned online videos, the group learn from timeless legends who cross all cultural divides, such as Michael Jackson, Gene Kelly and Rudolf Nureyev. Afshin and Elaheh also learn much from each other, most importantly how to...
- 1/27/2015
- by Laura Frances
- LRMonline.com
Plot: During World War II, a former Olympic track star by the name of Louis .Louis. Zamperini is shot down with his crew over the Pacific Ocean on a search and rescue mission. Along with two other survivors, he finds himself stranded at sea. Waiting for rescue, he is ultimately brought to shore only to be placed in a Pow camp. This is a true story of one man.s survival, and it sure is one hell of a powerful one. Review: There is no question that Angelina Jolie had very respectable...
- 12/23/2014
- by JimmyO
- JoBlo.com
"Foxcatcher" isn't a film about trapping animals, but it is captivating, and in its own way extremely wild. Based on a true story involving Olympic wrestlers, an heir to a great fortune, and a smouldering conflict that soon caught fire, this is a challenging-yet-rewarding film with some impeccable performances.
This is the one with Steve Carell wearing a funny nose, right?
Yeah, that's the one. It also stars Channing Tatum and Mark Ruffalo. In fact, if there's three things to recommend about the film, it's these actors. Performance-wise the film is incredible, with each actor stretching in ways that put them all at the top of their game.
Carell's quiet sociopathy is riveting, and he portrays John du Pont with an unsettling air that's intoxicating. That snout he wears may be costume affectation, but it gives his face just the right amount of arrogant aloofness to give the film its core tonality.
This is the one with Steve Carell wearing a funny nose, right?
Yeah, that's the one. It also stars Channing Tatum and Mark Ruffalo. In fact, if there's three things to recommend about the film, it's these actors. Performance-wise the film is incredible, with each actor stretching in ways that put them all at the top of their game.
Carell's quiet sociopathy is riveting, and he portrays John du Pont with an unsettling air that's intoxicating. That snout he wears may be costume affectation, but it gives his face just the right amount of arrogant aloofness to give the film its core tonality.
- 11/28/2014
- by Jason Gorber
- Moviefone
Like a lot of you, I imagine, my ongoing crime story obsession this fall comes not from TV, but from a podcast: "Serial," a "This American Life" spin-off where reporter Sarah Koenig looks into a 15-year-old Baltimore murder case in which teenager Adnan Syed was convicted of murdering his ex-girlfriend Hae Min Lee. "Serial" has become the podcast that launched a thousand think pieces — as well as a second podcast at Slate devoted to analyzing each "Serial" episode. The podcast's fans can't stop discussing the holes in the prosecution's case, whether Adnan is trying to pull an Ed Norton in "Primal Fear" on Sarah (a notion she wisely addressed in last week's episode) and, most importantly, whether the show is going to actually "solve" the case (even if that means confirming Adnan's guilt) — and, if not, how it's going to end. It's that last part that's going to be the sticking point,...
- 11/13/2014
- by Alan Sepinwall
- Hitfix
Ipo Man sounds like it has a story that will make for a very entertaining movie. Jason Batman is set to star in and direct the film, which is based on a Wired magazine article titled, "Meet The Man Who Sold His Fate To Investors At $1 A Share." This is a true story, and Bateman will play a man who put himself up for public offering. This little experiment that he did created some interesting problems for the guy, Mike Merrill. Especially when "shareholders demanded control over life decisions like whether to have a vasectomy or even whether he should move in with his longtime girlfriend (and minority shareholder)." That doesn't sounds like the best way to live your life, but to each their own!
Sometimes real life is stranger than fiction, and this story is sure to make for a fantastically fascinating film. The script is being written by Micah Fitzerman-Blue and Noah Harpster,...
Sometimes real life is stranger than fiction, and this story is sure to make for a fantastically fascinating film. The script is being written by Micah Fitzerman-Blue and Noah Harpster,...
- 11/2/2014
- by Joey Paur
- GeekTyrant
Never again, TV Academy. Never again. I don't care if NBC has to do the Emmys in August because of football and if NBC is scared of going head-to-head with a competing award show. Doing the Emmys on Monday is just wrong. But we shall trudge on! Seth Meyers is hosting. Some fantastic TV shows and actors are nominated. Follow along. Comment below. Join the fun. Make the fun. 8:00 p.m. Et. That was some of the worst Red Carpet pre-show I've ever watched between E! and NBC. I never thought I'd miss Ryan Seacrest, but there ya go! 8:00 p.m. Seth Meyers was just outside being interviewed by Billy Bush just two minutes ago. How will he make it inside? How?!?!? 8:00 p.m. A countdown! 20 seconds to go. 8:00 p.m. And now Seth is inside on-stage. How Is That Possible, Billy Bush?!? 8:01 p.m.
- 8/25/2014
- by Daniel Fienberg
- Hitfix
Peter Capaldi remembers the car that came to his London home last August to drive him to the live TV special that revealed him to be Doctor Who's newest star. Because it only took him to a parking lot. "Like in a cheap British spy movie, I was dropped off and told to wait for another car to pick me up," says the actor, whose first full episode in the title role is the Season 8 premiere, airing August 23. "Then I was put in the backseat, covered in a blanket, and taken away to become the Doctor. This is a true story."
Here's the thing about Doctor Who: Its hero is a time-traveling alien (species: Time Lord) who periodically regenerates into a whole new being. Many actors have portrayed the "numbered" Docs — First...
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Here's the thing about Doctor Who: Its hero is a time-traveling alien (species: Time Lord) who periodically regenerates into a whole new being. Many actors have portrayed the "numbered" Docs — First...
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- 8/19/2014
- by Aubry D'Arminio
- TVGuide - Breaking News
To celebrate the release of Into the Storm, hitting UK cinemas on the 20th August, we have put together our favourite extreme weather films.
The Perfect Storm
This film reminds us that all extreme weather is 100 times worse when experienced at sea. The Perfect Storm is about the crew of the Andrea Gail, a small sword boat that fishes for swordfish. The crew decide to ignore weather warnings and risk one last fishing expedition, after a poor season of catch. Little do the crew know, they are heading into the perfect storm, one they are unlikely to survive. Watching this film will show you how far visual effects have come since it was released in 2000. However, as it stars George Clooney, we can forget the visual effects in favour of watching his face.
The Day After Tomorrow
The Day after Tomorrow is one big lesson about global warming and a...
The Perfect Storm
This film reminds us that all extreme weather is 100 times worse when experienced at sea. The Perfect Storm is about the crew of the Andrea Gail, a small sword boat that fishes for swordfish. The crew decide to ignore weather warnings and risk one last fishing expedition, after a poor season of catch. Little do the crew know, they are heading into the perfect storm, one they are unlikely to survive. Watching this film will show you how far visual effects have come since it was released in 2000. However, as it stars George Clooney, we can forget the visual effects in favour of watching his face.
The Day After Tomorrow
The Day after Tomorrow is one big lesson about global warming and a...
- 8/14/2014
- by Phil Wheat
- Nerdly
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