A review of tonight's "Masters of Sex" coming up just as soon as I try a special tonic straight from India... "You think it's enough to fix the outside. That's the easy part." -Frank Last week's episode squeezed the passage of three years into a single hour. "Mirror, Mirror" takes place over only a week or so, yet in some ways feels like it's taking just as big a leap forward — if not always gracefully. Over the course of the episode, Virginia not only convinces Bill to start examining sexual dysfunction, but to find ways to treat it. And when Barbara proves beyond Virginia's ability to treat — and when Bill points out that her dream of becoming a trained psychologist will take her years to fulfill — Ginny comes up with the unorthodox (and guaranteed to blow up in her face) plan to impersonate Barbara while meeting with a local shrink...
- 9/1/2014
- by Alan Sepinwall
- Hitfix
boredpanda.com
Ever played tennis on the wing of a flying plane? Played hockey with Hitler? Taken your pet bear for a walk? No? Well, what are you doing with your life? Plonked on the couch, watching Netflix and reading this – no doubt. Things change over time, but some things, like, Really change over time. Things like snapping shots of your kid with unchained reptilian predators and letting crows tuck them in at night (yes, really) – child protection has ruined all the fun. Nowadays, a kid sniffs a peanut and they’re rushed to A&E.
In an era where people pay thousands for butt implants and openly have sex on reality TV; where animals are still exploited by humans and innocent children have bombs callously dropped onto their schools, it’s difficult to say the world isn’t still completely screwed. Perhaps people will look back at photos from...
Ever played tennis on the wing of a flying plane? Played hockey with Hitler? Taken your pet bear for a walk? No? Well, what are you doing with your life? Plonked on the couch, watching Netflix and reading this – no doubt. Things change over time, but some things, like, Really change over time. Things like snapping shots of your kid with unchained reptilian predators and letting crows tuck them in at night (yes, really) – child protection has ruined all the fun. Nowadays, a kid sniffs a peanut and they’re rushed to A&E.
In an era where people pay thousands for butt implants and openly have sex on reality TV; where animals are still exploited by humans and innocent children have bombs callously dropped onto their schools, it’s difficult to say the world isn’t still completely screwed. Perhaps people will look back at photos from...
- 8/8/2014
- by Nina Cresswell
- Obsessed with Film
National Public Radio on Tuesday morning confirmed the death Margot Adler, a signature voice on NPR for more than three decades. She died July 28 at her home in New York City. She was 68 and had been battling cancer, according to the public radio consortium. A granddaughter of famed Viennese psychiatrist Alfred Adler, Margot Adler was a journalistic polymath who joined NPR in 1979 as a general assignment reporter. Her stories, invariably suffused with a humanist bent, ranged from the beginnings of the AIDS epidemic to confrontations involving the Ku Klux Klan in Greensboro, N.C., to the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001. […]...
- 7/29/2014
- Deadline
Sylvester Stallone is set to play hitman Gregory Scarpa in Brad Furman’s (The Lincoln Lawyer) upcoming film Scarpa.
The script was written by Nicholas Pileggi, who also wrote the Oscar nominated screenplay Goodfellas. This project will reunite Stallone with Rocky prodcuer Irwin Winkler, who is onboard to produce Scarpa along with Millennium Films’ Avi Lerner.
Gregory Scarpa, also known as The Grim Reaper, worked as an enforcer for the Colombo family for many years before becoming an FBI informant after his family was murdered. According to Scarpa himself, while under the employment of the Colombo family he killed at least 50 people.
The script was written by Nicholas Pileggi, who also wrote the Oscar nominated screenplay Goodfellas. This project will reunite Stallone with Rocky prodcuer Irwin Winkler, who is onboard to produce Scarpa along with Millennium Films’ Avi Lerner.
Gregory Scarpa, also known as The Grim Reaper, worked as an enforcer for the Colombo family for many years before becoming an FBI informant after his family was murdered. According to Scarpa himself, while under the employment of the Colombo family he killed at least 50 people.
- 7/8/2014
- by Chancellor Agard
- EW - Inside Movies
Sylvester Stallone has been cast in Scarpa.
The actor will play hitman Gregory Scarpa, also known as 'The Grim Reaper', in the mob tale, reports New York Post.
The film will focus on career criminal Scarpa and his work as an FBI informant, as he helps to solve the Mississippi Burning case by allegedly kidnapping a member of the Ku Klux Klan in 1964.
In 1993, Scarpa pleaded guilty to three murders and died a year later in prison of complications from AIDS.
The Lincoln Lawyer's Brad Furman has signed on to direct, with Goodfellas' Irwin Winkler producing.
Stallone is also due to write and star in Rambo V, after Splendid Film bought the rights to a sequel.
The actor will play hitman Gregory Scarpa, also known as 'The Grim Reaper', in the mob tale, reports New York Post.
The film will focus on career criminal Scarpa and his work as an FBI informant, as he helps to solve the Mississippi Burning case by allegedly kidnapping a member of the Ku Klux Klan in 1964.
In 1993, Scarpa pleaded guilty to three murders and died a year later in prison of complications from AIDS.
The Lincoln Lawyer's Brad Furman has signed on to direct, with Goodfellas' Irwin Winkler producing.
Stallone is also due to write and star in Rambo V, after Splendid Film bought the rights to a sequel.
- 7/8/2014
- Digital Spy
On a cold night in January, George R.R. Martin sits inside the Jean Cocteau Cinema, a revival theater that he owns in Santa Fe, New Mexico, where he has lived since 1979. The Cinema had been showing the first three seasons of HBO's megahit series Game of Thrones, which is based on Martin's still-in-the-works saga A Song of Ice and Fire. After viewing the ninth episode, "Baelor," in which the story's apparent hero, Ned Stark, is unexpectedly beheaded, with the screen falling to black, Martin sits quietly for several moments,...
- 6/13/2014
- Rollingstone.com
Justin Bieber's mentor Usher is siding with the embattled pop star following some videos leaked that show the singer using racial slurs.
Justin Bieber's mentor Usher is siding with the embattled pop star following some videos leaked that show the 20-year-old singer using racial slurs.
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On Saturday, the 35-year-old Voice judge posted an old photo of he and Bieber on Instagram, writing: "At my core, I am a person that supports growth and understands without judgement, that growth often comes as a result of pain and continues effort. As I have watched Justin Bieber navigate difficult waters as a young man, I can tell you that he hasn't always chosen the path of his greatest potential, but he is unequivocally not a racist. What he was 5 years ago was a naive child who did not understand the negative power and degradation that comes from playing with racial slurs. What he...
Justin Bieber's mentor Usher is siding with the embattled pop star following some videos leaked that show the 20-year-old singer using racial slurs.
Related Pics: Star Shots--What's On Instagram?
On Saturday, the 35-year-old Voice judge posted an old photo of he and Bieber on Instagram, writing: "At my core, I am a person that supports growth and understands without judgement, that growth often comes as a result of pain and continues effort. As I have watched Justin Bieber navigate difficult waters as a young man, I can tell you that he hasn't always chosen the path of his greatest potential, but he is unequivocally not a racist. What he was 5 years ago was a naive child who did not understand the negative power and degradation that comes from playing with racial slurs. What he...
- 6/7/2014
- Entertainment Tonight
Just days after Justin Bieber issued a formal apology for using the N-word in a joke from a recently unearthed video, more footage of the young star using racial slurs has leaked. In a new clip obtained by TMZ, Bieber infuses his song “One Less Lonely Girl” with the N-word and jokes about joining the Ku Klux Klan.
Throughout all the drama this week, Bieber’s mentor, Usher, has remained quiet. Despite coming to his defense during past controversy, Usher has yet to make a statement on Bieber’s racist videos. But what about his ex-girlfriend Selena Gomez? An insider reveals that Selena wants to offer her support to Justin during this difficult time even if her team wants her to stay away. According to Bieber’s reps, the singer will not offer another apology or speak publicly on the matter. In the hours that followed the second video leak,...
Throughout all the drama this week, Bieber’s mentor, Usher, has remained quiet. Despite coming to his defense during past controversy, Usher has yet to make a statement on Bieber’s racist videos. But what about his ex-girlfriend Selena Gomez? An insider reveals that Selena wants to offer her support to Justin during this difficult time even if her team wants her to stay away. According to Bieber’s reps, the singer will not offer another apology or speak publicly on the matter. In the hours that followed the second video leak,...
- 6/5/2014
- by VH1
- TheFabLife - Movies
Source: Getty / Steve Granitz Leonardo DiCaprio didn't want to be filmed for Keeping Up With the Kardashians. When he was at the same night club as Bruce and Brody Jenner, he "waited until they were done" before hanging out with his friends inside. Justin Bieber apologized after his second offensive n-word video surfaced, in which he turns his song "One Less Lonely Girl" into "One Less Lonely N-Word" and jokes about joining the Ku Klux Klan. After explaining how he needs to take responsibilities for his mistakes, he said, "At the end of the day I just need to step up and own what I did." Gwyneth Paltrow spoke out about negativity again. She thinks it changes the structure of water. Katy Perry opened up about her exes, talking about "going through all this sh*t" with ex-husband Russell Brand and the potential of getting back together with John Mayer.
- 6/5/2014
- by Alyse Whitney
- Popsugar.com
Justin Bieber is apologizing yet again. The "Confident" singer, 20, found himself in hot water this week, when a video surfaced of a 14-year-old Biebs making racially insensitive comments. The clip, which was posted by TMZ, shows the moppy-haired teen star singing his 2009 hit single "One Less Lonely Girl," but replacing the word girl with the N-word, as he jokes about killing African-Americans and joining the Ku Klux Klan. The controversial figure has issued an apology, following the firestorm over his racist song. "Facing my mistakes from [...]...
- 6/5/2014
- Us Weekly
He can’t seem to escape controversy and Justin Bieber's latest snafu involves a second video clip in which he spouts off racial slurs.
Displayed on TMZ, the newly-surfaced footage shows the “As Long As You Love Me” crooner singing a modified version of his hit “One Less Lonely Girl.”
The alternate lyrics include “One less lonely n*gger,” and Justin discusses the killing of African Americans and signing himself up for the Ku Klux Klan.
Furthermore, Bieber is wearing a dog tag necklace with a dark blue shirt as he sits alone and sings to the camera.
A previous video depicted Justin telling a racist joke five years ago and he’s since apologized for the error. "Five years ago I made a reckless and immature mistake, and I'm grateful to those close to me who helped me learn those lessons as a young man. Once again … I'm sorry.
Displayed on TMZ, the newly-surfaced footage shows the “As Long As You Love Me” crooner singing a modified version of his hit “One Less Lonely Girl.”
The alternate lyrics include “One less lonely n*gger,” and Justin discusses the killing of African Americans and signing himself up for the Ku Klux Klan.
Furthermore, Bieber is wearing a dog tag necklace with a dark blue shirt as he sits alone and sings to the camera.
A previous video depicted Justin telling a racist joke five years ago and he’s since apologized for the error. "Five years ago I made a reckless and immature mistake, and I'm grateful to those close to me who helped me learn those lessons as a young man. Once again … I'm sorry.
- 6/4/2014
- GossipCenter
A second video of Justin Bieber allegedly making racist jokes has reportedly surfaced. Photos: Justin Bieber Turns 20: The Superstar's Life and Career in Pictures British tabloid newspaper The Sun reports that the new footage features the singer using the N-word in "One Less Lonely Girl" (altering the hook to be "One Less Lonely N-----"), joking about killing black people and entertaining the idea of joining the Ku Klux Klan. Though the undated video is not included in the online report, The Sun claims that that it shows Bieber seated and wearing a dog tag and a dark blue shirt, and
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- 6/4/2014
- by THR Staff
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
This week on Trailers from Hell, Joe Dante talks about Archie Mayo's controversial 1937 film "Black Legion," starring Humphrey Bogart. One of the more provocative entries in Warner Bros.' line of socially conscious potboilers, "Black Legion" is based on the real events surrounding a murderous splinter group of the Ku Klux Klan that, though numbering only around 30,000 members, still managed to rattle the nerves of a large portion of the populace in the late thirties. Humphrey Bogart stars as the ill-fated pawn of the black-hooded vigilantes and he's supported by Warner Bros.' favorite gum-cracking girlfriend, Ann Sheridan, along with future Universal contractor Dick Foran as his best friend. Directed by Archie Mayo with some uncredited help from Michael Curtiz. From the Believe It or Not Dept., the Ku Klux Klan sued Warners for using their patented logo in the film.
- 4/14/2014
- by Trailers From Hell
- Thompson on Hollywood
The man accused of killing three people in attacks at a Jewish community center and Jewish retirement complex near Kansas City is a well-known white supremacist and former Ku Klux Klan leader who was once the subject of a nationwide manhunt. Frazier Glenn Cross, 73, of Aurora, Mo., was booked into Johnson County jail on a preliminary charge of first-degree murder after the attacks Sunday in Overland Park. At a news conference Sunday afternoon, Overland Park police Chief John Douglass declined to publicly identify the man suspected in the attacks. But an official at a suburban Kansas City jail, speaking on...
- 4/14/2014
- by Associated Press
- PEOPLE.com
One of the more provocative entries in Warner Bros.’ line of socially conscious potboilers, Black Legion is based on the real events surrounding a murderous splinter group of the Ku Klux Klan that, though numbering only around 30,000 members, still managed to rattle the nerves of a large portion of the populace in the late thirties. Humphrey Bogart stars as the ill-fated pawn of the black-hooded vigilantes and he’s supported by Warner Bros.’ favorite gum-cracking girlfriend, Ann Sheridan, along with future Universal contractor Dick Foran as his best friend. Directed by Archie Mayo with some uncredited help from Michael Curtiz.
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- 4/14/2014
- by TFH Team
- Trailers from Hell
Three people were killed when a gunman opened fire outside two Jewish Community centers near Kansas City Sunday, April 13, in what is believed to have been a hate crime.
Three Dead From Shootings
Reat Griffin Underwood, 14, was shot and killed in the parking lot of the Jewish Community Center of Greater Kansas City. He was in the car with his grandfather, William Lewis Corporon, who also died as a result of his injuries. Underwood, who was not Jewish himself, was there to audition for “Kc Superstar,” a singing competition for Kansas City area high school students. His grandfather, a doctor, had recently moved to Kansas City to be closer to his grandchildren.
Underwood’s mother and Corporon’s daughter, Mindy Corporon, spoke at a vigil for the victims of the shootings, hosted by the United Methodist Church of the Resurrection, the church the family belongs to.
“I was there before...
Three Dead From Shootings
Reat Griffin Underwood, 14, was shot and killed in the parking lot of the Jewish Community Center of Greater Kansas City. He was in the car with his grandfather, William Lewis Corporon, who also died as a result of his injuries. Underwood, who was not Jewish himself, was there to audition for “Kc Superstar,” a singing competition for Kansas City area high school students. His grandfather, a doctor, had recently moved to Kansas City to be closer to his grandchildren.
Underwood’s mother and Corporon’s daughter, Mindy Corporon, spoke at a vigil for the victims of the shootings, hosted by the United Methodist Church of the Resurrection, the church the family belongs to.
“I was there before...
- 4/14/2014
- Uinterview
Three people were killed when a gunman opened fire outside two Jewish Community centers near Kansas City Sunday, April 13, in what is believed to have been a hate crime.
Three Dead From Shootings
Reat Griffin Underwood, 14, was shot and killed in the parking lot of the Jewish Community Center of Greater Kansas City. He was in the car with his grandfather, William Lewis Corporon, who also died as a result of his injuries. Underwood, who was not Jewish himself, was there to audition for “Kc Superstar,” a singing competition for Kansas City area high school students. His grandfather, a doctor, had recently moved to Kansas City to be closer to his grandchildren.
Underwood’s mother and Corporon’s daughter, Mindy Corporon, spoke at a vigil for the victims of the shootings, hosted by the United Methodist Church of the Resurrection, the church the family belongs to.
“I was there before...
Three Dead From Shootings
Reat Griffin Underwood, 14, was shot and killed in the parking lot of the Jewish Community Center of Greater Kansas City. He was in the car with his grandfather, William Lewis Corporon, who also died as a result of his injuries. Underwood, who was not Jewish himself, was there to audition for “Kc Superstar,” a singing competition for Kansas City area high school students. His grandfather, a doctor, had recently moved to Kansas City to be closer to his grandchildren.
Underwood’s mother and Corporon’s daughter, Mindy Corporon, spoke at a vigil for the victims of the shootings, hosted by the United Methodist Church of the Resurrection, the church the family belongs to.
“I was there before...
- 4/14/2014
- Uinterview
Of all "The Americans" episodes in this excellent Season 2, "Behind the Red Door" might best encapsulate the passion, fear and danger of espionage. It's hard to remember sometimes that these are people who have literally given up everything for a cause -- and that makes them some of the most fascinating and dangerous people on the planet.
Even in this fictional version, it's fascinating to watch them try to change the world.
The most dangerous game
Philip and Elizabeth are finally ready to target Marshall Larick, the military guy who they suspect may have killed Emmett and Leanne. Unfortunately for them, Larick is both highly intelligent and rather angry about this whole being-blackmailed-by-the-communists-because-he's-gay thing.
While Larick is quite convincing about not being the killer, he also lets slip that he's involved with the training of Nicaraguan Contra leaders on Us soil. It's safe to say that the Soviet Union wants...
Even in this fictional version, it's fascinating to watch them try to change the world.
The most dangerous game
Philip and Elizabeth are finally ready to target Marshall Larick, the military guy who they suspect may have killed Emmett and Leanne. Unfortunately for them, Larick is both highly intelligent and rather angry about this whole being-blackmailed-by-the-communists-because-he's-gay thing.
While Larick is quite convincing about not being the killer, he also lets slip that he's involved with the training of Nicaraguan Contra leaders on Us soil. It's safe to say that the Soviet Union wants...
- 4/3/2014
- by editorial@zap2it.com
- Zap2It - From Inside the Box
Marvel
When you think of the Marvel hero Black Panther (also known as T’Challa), you generally don’t immediately associate any iconic villains with him. When you think of Thor, you think of Loki. When you think of Captain America, you think of Red Skull. When you think of Iron Man, you think of the Mandarin. With Black Panther, the mind goes blank – especially if you aren’t a big comic book fan.
And it goes blank with good reason. His rogues gallery just isn’t that recognisable. The Wakandan hero has, of course, been seen battling the more iconic and recognisable villains, like Doctor Doom and Rhino, but he generally only comes up against them as part of a team like the Avengers – and an origin movie for the character will most likely not see him as part of a team.
However, that’s not to say his rogues gallery is poor,...
When you think of the Marvel hero Black Panther (also known as T’Challa), you generally don’t immediately associate any iconic villains with him. When you think of Thor, you think of Loki. When you think of Captain America, you think of Red Skull. When you think of Iron Man, you think of the Mandarin. With Black Panther, the mind goes blank – especially if you aren’t a big comic book fan.
And it goes blank with good reason. His rogues gallery just isn’t that recognisable. The Wakandan hero has, of course, been seen battling the more iconic and recognisable villains, like Doctor Doom and Rhino, but he generally only comes up against them as part of a team like the Avengers – and an origin movie for the character will most likely not see him as part of a team.
However, that’s not to say his rogues gallery is poor,...
- 4/2/2014
- by Kev Stewart
- Obsessed with Film
Judith Light returns to TV, Chris Brown is staying in jail, Almost Home has voices of Rihanna, Jim Parsons and Steve Martin
As Glee prepares for their 100th episode, they’re saying goodbye to Lima – for now. And the creative team is looking forward to telling more grownup stories for the adults of the cast, especially Kurt and Blaine. Executive Producer Brad Falchuk says he likes “seeing that relationship get tested and strengthened and sort of the adult version of those characters having real conversations about stuff and really making adult choices. They’re really having fun together.”
For someone like me, who really doesn’t like people, Cloak is the perfect app. It keeps track of your friends’ locations via Foursquare and Instagram so you can avoid running into them. Now if my friends were just more connected.
Game of Thrones actress Sibel Kekilli has joined her costar Carice van Houten...
As Glee prepares for their 100th episode, they’re saying goodbye to Lima – for now. And the creative team is looking forward to telling more grownup stories for the adults of the cast, especially Kurt and Blaine. Executive Producer Brad Falchuk says he likes “seeing that relationship get tested and strengthened and sort of the adult version of those characters having real conversations about stuff and really making adult choices. They’re really having fun together.”
For someone like me, who really doesn’t like people, Cloak is the perfect app. It keeps track of your friends’ locations via Foursquare and Instagram so you can avoid running into them. Now if my friends were just more connected.
Game of Thrones actress Sibel Kekilli has joined her costar Carice van Houten...
- 3/18/2014
- by Ed Kennedy
- The Backlot
Jason Sudeikis has been pencilled in to step into the scruffy basketball sneakers of Irwin M Fletcher in Warner Bros’ Fletch Won. Based on the 1970s mystery novels of Gregory McDonald, the original Fletch saw Chevy Chase as an investigative reporter with a penchant for elaborate disguises, getting in over his head when an La businessman arranges to have himself murdered…by him. A big hit in 1985, Michael Ritchie’s film spawned a sequel four years later, Fletch Lives, in which Chase confronts murder, TV Evangelism and the Ku Klux Klan.
Since then, several attempts have been made to kick-start the franchise, notably by Kevin Smith who was announced as writer and director of Fletch Won for Miramax back in 2000. Now, Warners have given the green light to a new script that has attracted the attention of Jason Sudeikis. It is unknown at this stage if the film will be...
Since then, several attempts have been made to kick-start the franchise, notably by Kevin Smith who was announced as writer and director of Fletch Won for Miramax back in 2000. Now, Warners have given the green light to a new script that has attracted the attention of Jason Sudeikis. It is unknown at this stage if the film will be...
- 3/12/2014
- by Cai Ross
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
As horror fans, we make it our business to know the most obscure details about our favorite films. We watch the bonus features on the Special Edition releases of our favorite DVDs; we read retrospectives and interviews in support of our most beloved titles. But even the most diligent fan is bound to miss something along the way. So, to help you get the lowdown, we're launching a new segment that rounds up some lesser-known trivia from your favorite horror films. For this installment, we're setting our sights on the 1996 Wes Craven classic Scream. Scream is one of the most commercially and critically successful slasher films, and the thirteenth-highest grossing horror film of all time. There is a wealth of interesting information surrounding the film’s production, as you'll soon discover... 1. The Michael & Janet Jackson Song of the Same Name Inspired the Film’s Title Scream was originally planned for...
- 2/26/2014
- by Tyler Doupe
- FEARnet
James Franco is one of the most magnetic and ambitious young actors of his generation. He has the chops to play James Dean, Hugh Hefner, Alan Ginsberg and the trapped-between-a-rock-and-a-hard-place thrill seeker Aron Ralston in 127 Hours. He is also compulsively busy, with acting (he has 13 films completed, in production or in the works, according to his IMDb page), as well as writing and directing. He made three films last year, is working on three more and recently signed on to adapt the hilarious bestseller The Disaster Artist, about the making of the cult phenomenon The Room. It would not be big news if Franco pulls a Prestige-like twist and reveals that he’s had a twin helping him complete his mountains of acting and filmmaking work.
Franco may suffer from terminal exhaustion by the time he is 40, but at least he is choosing interesting roles. He gave one of 2013′s...
Franco may suffer from terminal exhaustion by the time he is 40, but at least he is choosing interesting roles. He gave one of 2013′s...
- 2/11/2014
- by Jordan Adler
- We Got This Covered
New York, Feb 11: James Franco will reportedly star as the leader of a cult in his next project.
Sidney and Thurman Sewell, the 35-year-old actor's 'Spring Breakers' co-stars, said that they will team-up with Franco on a film based on Harmony Korine's book "A Crackup at the Race -Riots," which describes a world run by Mc Hammer and Vanilla Ice, the New York Post reported.
The twins asserted that Franco is going to be like a Ku Klux Klan-clan leader and they will be his goons. (Ani)...
Sidney and Thurman Sewell, the 35-year-old actor's 'Spring Breakers' co-stars, said that they will team-up with Franco on a film based on Harmony Korine's book "A Crackup at the Race -Riots," which describes a world run by Mc Hammer and Vanilla Ice, the New York Post reported.
The twins asserted that Franco is going to be like a Ku Klux Klan-clan leader and they will be his goons. (Ani)...
- 2/11/2014
- by Smith Cox
- RealBollywood.com
A series of condolence messages sent after President John F. Kennedy was assassinated 50 years ago, on Nov. 22, 1963, was released Tuesday from the personal papers of his widow, including a letter from the mother of one of four girls killed in the bombing of a Baptist church in Alabama during the civil rights movement. The mail released by the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum in Boston comes from the personal papers of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis. The series contains approximately 22,000 letters, telegrams and cards from people around the world. One of the letters was sent by Maxine McNair, the mother of Denise McNair,...
- 1/15/2014
- by Associated Press
- PEOPLE.com
The third part of his 'bodily fluids triptych' is an antidote to Hollywood's aversion to addressing slavery, but there is a whole dimension of charisma, approachability and likability missing from McQueen's work
12 Years A Slave is easily the most impressive movie that Steve McQueen has made yet, but that doesn't necessarily mean I like or admire it any more than I did his first two features. They were the first two panels in what I think of as his Precious Bodily Fluids Triptych: Hunger was all about shit, Shame was semen, and 12 Years A Slave is about blood and sweat. I really hope the next one isn't about brain matter.
Let me clarify: there are things in 12 Years A Slave that warrant the highest admiration and respect. Simply by virtue of showing, in graphic and unsparing detail, the hitherto insufficiently explored horrors of slavery, McQueen and his team have stepped...
12 Years A Slave is easily the most impressive movie that Steve McQueen has made yet, but that doesn't necessarily mean I like or admire it any more than I did his first two features. They were the first two panels in what I think of as his Precious Bodily Fluids Triptych: Hunger was all about shit, Shame was semen, and 12 Years A Slave is about blood and sweat. I really hope the next one isn't about brain matter.
Let me clarify: there are things in 12 Years A Slave that warrant the highest admiration and respect. Simply by virtue of showing, in graphic and unsparing detail, the hitherto insufficiently explored horrors of slavery, McQueen and his team have stepped...
- 1/6/2014
- by John Patterson
- The Guardian - Film News
Tom Laughlin: ‘Billy Jack’ movie franchise comes to an end; U.S. government, Hollywood studios blamed (See previous post: “‘Billy Jack’: Tom Laughlin Revolutionized Film Distribution Sytem.”) In 1975, Tom Laughlin’s self-produced Western The Master Gunfighter — a remake of Hideo Gosha’s samurai actioner Goyokin, co-starring Ron O’Neal and Barbara Carrera — bombed at the box office after opening at more than 1,000 locations. Laughlin reportedly had spent $3.5 million to market the $3.5 million production, having hired John Rubel, assistant secretary of defense under Robert McNamara, to plan the film’s distribution tactics. Financially depleted and embroiled in more lawsuits against Warner Bros., Laughlin embarked on the Billy Jack series’ fourth — and, as it turned out — final film, Billy Jack Goes to Washington. A 1977 Frank Capra Jr.-produced reboot of Frank Capra’s 1939 classic Mr. Smith Goes to Washington, Laughlin’s final directing effort was barely seen even in its drastically edited form.
- 12/19/2013
- by Andre Soares
- Alt Film Guide
Joan and Pauline Collins' collaboration on a new buddy movie has been hailed as inspired. So which other stars with the same last name ought to get together pronto?
Joan Collins and Pauline Collins – very much the gatekeeper and keymaster of famous people called Collins – are finally making a film together. Their collaboration, a British comedy called The Time of Their Lives, has been described by at least one person named Collins as a "buddy movie along the lines of Thelma & Louise, with a hint of The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel".
While the world prays that The Time of Their Lives will be successful enough for Joan Collins and Pauline Collins to finally pair up with Lily Collins and produce that Phil Collins-soundtracked remake of Michael Collins that we've all been waiting for, here are six more Hollywood namesake collaborations in the making.
Michael and Roger Moore in...
Joan Collins and Pauline Collins – very much the gatekeeper and keymaster of famous people called Collins – are finally making a film together. Their collaboration, a British comedy called The Time of Their Lives, has been described by at least one person named Collins as a "buddy movie along the lines of Thelma & Louise, with a hint of The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel".
While the world prays that The Time of Their Lives will be successful enough for Joan Collins and Pauline Collins to finally pair up with Lily Collins and produce that Phil Collins-soundtracked remake of Michael Collins that we've all been waiting for, here are six more Hollywood namesake collaborations in the making.
Michael and Roger Moore in...
- 12/10/2013
- by Stuart Heritage
- The Guardian - Film News
The Representative Council of Croat Institutions (Criccf) in France is suing prolific singer/songwriter Bob Dylan for comments he made in the September 2012 issue of the French Rolling Stone. In the article, Dylan compares Croatians to Nazis, something the Criccf asserts could provoke hatred against the Croatian people. In the interview, Dylan is asked if he “sees any parallels between the 1860s and present day America.” Dylan’s response (which can be found in full here) is predominantly about slavery and racism in the U.S., but at the end, he compares the Ku Klux Klan to Nazis and Croatian war criminals, without differentiating between those particular criminals and the rest of Croatia. [ Read More ]
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- 12/6/2013
- by owen
- ShockYa
London, December 4: Bob Dylan has been charged with inciting racial hatred in France.
A complaint had been lodged against the 72-year-old American musician, after an interview with Rolling Stone magazine in 2012 discussing racism, by the Council of Croats, and prosecutors will decide if the case should go to trial, the Mirror reported.
The 'Farewell' singer commented that "blacks" can sense people who have "a slave master or Ku Klux Klan" in their blood just like "Jews can sense Nazi blood and the Serbs can sense Croatian blood" and added "that stuff lingers to this day".
The charges are embarrassing for the French.
A complaint had been lodged against the 72-year-old American musician, after an interview with Rolling Stone magazine in 2012 discussing racism, by the Council of Croats, and prosecutors will decide if the case should go to trial, the Mirror reported.
The 'Farewell' singer commented that "blacks" can sense people who have "a slave master or Ku Klux Klan" in their blood just like "Jews can sense Nazi blood and the Serbs can sense Croatian blood" and added "that stuff lingers to this day".
The charges are embarrassing for the French.
- 12/4/2013
- by Smith Cox
- RealBollywood.com
After a summer filled with George Zimmerman and Paula Deen news coverage, racism in America is still a hot topic. Yet, the media is struggling to determine what constitutes racism, so “The Daily Show” lent a helping hand on Wednesday by launching a new segment, “Racist or Not Racist?” Correspondents Aasif Mandvi, Jason Jones, Jessica Williams joined Jon Stewart to analyze whether recent race-related stories are in fact as racist as the media is portraying them to be. Also read: Republican Dropped Over ‘Daily Show’ Comments, Uses N-Word Again Remember that Virginia mother who let her boy wear a Ku Klux Klan costume for.
- 11/14/2013
- by Greg Gilman
- The Wrap
It really needs to stop. Race-baiting for ratings. Unfounded charges of racism. Invoking the Kkk and tying it to the tea party. It's time to take the country back--because this is getting seriously old already--and tell anyone who engages in this ridiculous conversation to offer an ounce of proof that that Ku Klux Klan is a huge influence in the Tea Party movement.
- 10/25/2013
- by Joe Concha
- Mediaite - TV
From ’The Birth of a Nation’ to ’Iron Man’: The love affair between Hollywood and the Pentagon (photo: Lillian Gish and her Ku Klux Klan saviors in ’The Birth of a Nation’) In TomDispatch.com’s excellent March 2008 article "The Golden Age of the Military-Entertainment Complex: Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon, Pentagon-Style," journalist and author Nick Turse (The Complex: How the Military Invades Our Everyday Lives) traces the mutually rewarding — and very close — ties between the American film industry and the American military complex throughout the decades. And there goes Hollywood’s reputation as a liberal enclave filled with unpatriotic, treacherous, anti-flagwaving pacifists. As author and professor Tom Engelhardt explains in his introduction to Turse’s article, "Hollywood and the Pentagon have been in an intricate dance of support and cross-promotion for almost a century, from a time when the Department of Defense was still quaintly — if more accurately — known as the War Department.
- 10/19/2013
- by Andre Soares
- Alt Film Guide
Greg Gutfeld kicked off Fox's Red Eye with perhaps to only piece of good news to come out of the government shutdown. The Ku Klux Klan was forced to cancel a planned rally in Pennsylvania this week due to the closure of Gettysburg National Military Park. "The shutdown can't be all bad if it causes a Klan rally to be canceled," Gutfeld said.
- 10/5/2013
- by Matt Wilstein
- Mediaite - TV
Drunk History, which recently ended its first season on Comedy Central, was made for the Gif age. Every episode featured a different hip comedian or actor mugging it up as one of history's most famous and notorious personalities, so it was only right that we preserve them for, well, history.Episode 1, San Francisco: Bob Odenkirk as President Nixon and Jack McBrayer as agreeable Chief of Staff H.R. Haldeman. Also, Jack Black as Bureau of Narcotics and Dangerous Drugs badge holder Elvis Presley. Episode 2, Chicago: Adam Scott as Lincoln assassin John Wilkes Booth and Will Forte as his blinky actor brother, Edwin Booth. Episode 3, Atlanta: Bill Hader as Coca-Cola inventor John Pemberton. Also, Jason Ritter as Ku Klux Klan infiltrator Stetson Kennedy (giving Matt Walsh the secret fishy handshake) and Kevin Nealon as the Kkk's Grand Dragon. Episode 4, Boston: Winona Ryder, as Quaker martyr Mary Dyer, showing what she learned...
- 9/11/2013
- by Lindsey Weber
- Vulture
★★★★★ It would be something of an understatement to label D.W. Griffith's American Civil War epic, The Birth of a Nation (1915), as controversial. The film became infamous due to its overt racism and negative stereotypical portrayals of African-Americans, coupled with the rampant glorification of the Ku Klux Klan, causing widespread outcry. Such was the strength of the reaction against it that Griffith was driven to produce Intolerance (1916) the next year, partly as a response to heavy criticism. This was not before the Kkk had embraced the film and its sources as inspiration for the organisation's resurgence.
This is a film littered with dualities: two families (the Stonemans and the Camerons) in parallel interconnected stories; two opposing sides of the war; two races in conflict. The film's structure reflects this with the narrative cleaved into two parts - one presenting America before and during the war, and the other concerned with the post-war union.
This is a film littered with dualities: two families (the Stonemans and the Camerons) in parallel interconnected stories; two opposing sides of the war; two races in conflict. The film's structure reflects this with the narrative cleaved into two parts - one presenting America before and during the war, and the other concerned with the post-war union.
- 7/30/2013
- by CineVue UK
- CineVue
Dw Griffith's silent epic lionised the Ku Klux Klan and depicted black Americans as ignorant rapists, but cinema still owes a debt to the director's pioneering techniques
The birth of cinema was brutal and ugly, and the photographic evidence comes with a health warning attached. The Birth of a Nation, directed by Dw Griffith back in 1915, has a reputation as one of the greatest movies ever made – and one of the most purely vile. In the past few decades it has been rarely screened and hard to find. This, perhaps, is akin to physicists discovering the God particle and deciding not to tell us – on account of the God particle actually being a murderous old bigot.
Until this week I confess I'd seen only snippets from Griffith's film (the same film, remember, that is reputed to be the forefather of every other film). Then, as luck would have it, The Birth of a Nation...
The birth of cinema was brutal and ugly, and the photographic evidence comes with a health warning attached. The Birth of a Nation, directed by Dw Griffith back in 1915, has a reputation as one of the greatest movies ever made – and one of the most purely vile. In the past few decades it has been rarely screened and hard to find. This, perhaps, is akin to physicists discovering the God particle and deciding not to tell us – on account of the God particle actually being a murderous old bigot.
Until this week I confess I'd seen only snippets from Griffith's film (the same film, remember, that is reputed to be the forefather of every other film). Then, as luck would have it, The Birth of a Nation...
- 7/29/2013
- by Xan Brooks
- The Guardian - Film News
Dw Griffith's silent epic lionised the Ku Klux Klan and depicted black Americans as ignorant rapists, but cinema still owes a debt to the director's pioneering techniques
The birth of cinema was brutal and ugly, and the photographic evidence comes with a health warning attached. The Birth of a Nation, directed by Dw Griffith back in 1915, has a reputation as one of the greatest movies ever made – and one of the most purely vile. In the past few decades it has been rarely screened and hard to find. This, perhaps, is akin to physicists discovering the God particle and deciding not to tell us – on account of the God particle actually being a murderous old bigot.
Until this week I confess I'd seen only snippets from Griffith's film (the same film, remember, that is reputed to be the forefather of every other film). Then, as luck would have it, The Birth of a Nation...
The birth of cinema was brutal and ugly, and the photographic evidence comes with a health warning attached. The Birth of a Nation, directed by Dw Griffith back in 1915, has a reputation as one of the greatest movies ever made – and one of the most purely vile. In the past few decades it has been rarely screened and hard to find. This, perhaps, is akin to physicists discovering the God particle and deciding not to tell us – on account of the God particle actually being a murderous old bigot.
Until this week I confess I'd seen only snippets from Griffith's film (the same film, remember, that is reputed to be the forefather of every other film). Then, as luck would have it, The Birth of a Nation...
- 7/29/2013
- by Xan Brooks
- The Guardian - Film News
London, July 27: Kim Kardashian has revealed why she didn't follow family tradition and give her baby daughter a name beginning with the letter 'K', saying that she didn't want to be compared to the Ku Klux Klan.
During a preview from an episode of 'Keeping Up With the Kardashians', the reality star admitted that she and West had thought about monikers beginning with 'K' because it was also the initial of their first names, the Mirror reported.
In the clip, the new mom asserted that she realised people may joke that the three of them are the Kkk, a controversial white supremacist group in America that aimed to suppress the.
During a preview from an episode of 'Keeping Up With the Kardashians', the reality star admitted that she and West had thought about monikers beginning with 'K' because it was also the initial of their first names, the Mirror reported.
In the clip, the new mom asserted that she realised people may joke that the three of them are the Kkk, a controversial white supremacist group in America that aimed to suppress the.
- 7/27/2013
- by Machan Kumar
- RealBollywood.com
It may be a family tradition, but Kim Kardashian and Kanye West decided to steer clear of giving their baby a name that starts with the letter “K” for a rather, well, unique reason.
In a sneak peek of Sunday’s (July 28) episode of “Keeping Up with the Kardashians,” Kim tells her family about her concerns, saying, “If we name our kid with a ‘K’ name, which is kind of what we want mainly just because Kanye and I are ‘K’ names, then our kid, if it’s a ‘K’, they’ll call us the Kkk.”
The reality star is apparently referring to the notorious white supremacist group, the Ku Klux Klan. However, Kim's half-brother Brody Jenner doesn't think that's an issue responding, “That’s a little crazy.”
In the episode, which was taped when Kardashian was still pregnant, the name North (which was ultimately chosen) is already a favorite.
In a sneak peek of Sunday’s (July 28) episode of “Keeping Up with the Kardashians,” Kim tells her family about her concerns, saying, “If we name our kid with a ‘K’ name, which is kind of what we want mainly just because Kanye and I are ‘K’ names, then our kid, if it’s a ‘K’, they’ll call us the Kkk.”
The reality star is apparently referring to the notorious white supremacist group, the Ku Klux Klan. However, Kim's half-brother Brody Jenner doesn't think that's an issue responding, “That’s a little crazy.”
In the episode, which was taped when Kardashian was still pregnant, the name North (which was ultimately chosen) is already a favorite.
- 7/27/2013
- GossipCenter
In a new clip from ‘Kuwtk,’ Kim actually discusses why she and Kanye decided to go against the family tradition and not name their daughter a with a K-name! Watch the video here to see why Kim thought naming her daughter with a K-name might start horrible Kkk nicknames!
The Kardashians are big fans of K-names, so we were all at least a little surprised when Kim Kardashian named her and Kanye West‘s daughter North West – there’s not a K in sight! Though Kim considered starting her baby girl’s name with a K — in true Kardashian style — she actually feared comparisons to the white supremacist group, the Ku Klux Klan.
Kim Kardashian Reveals Fear Of Being Called ‘The Kkk’
In the teaser video for Keeping Up With The Kardashians, a still-pregnant Kim explained that she and boyfriend Kanye West ”kind of” wanted to name their baby with...
The Kardashians are big fans of K-names, so we were all at least a little surprised when Kim Kardashian named her and Kanye West‘s daughter North West – there’s not a K in sight! Though Kim considered starting her baby girl’s name with a K — in true Kardashian style — she actually feared comparisons to the white supremacist group, the Ku Klux Klan.
Kim Kardashian Reveals Fear Of Being Called ‘The Kkk’
In the teaser video for Keeping Up With The Kardashians, a still-pregnant Kim explained that she and boyfriend Kanye West ”kind of” wanted to name their baby with...
- 7/26/2013
- by Kristine Hope Kowalski
- HollywoodLife
It turns out the name "North" was one that Kim Kardashian and Kanye West had been mulling over for a while before bestowing it on their daughter -- but one of the reasons they decided on the name is pretty out there.
In a clip from an upcoming episode of "Keeping Up With the Kardashians," the family can be heard throwing around potential baby names while on a vacation in Greece earlier this year. When the name North comes up, it's a name the family all say they like.
Kim then revealed that she and Kanye "kind of" want to give their child a K name since both of their names start with K, but she's worried that it will draw comparisons to the white supremacist group the Ku Klux Klan:
"Our kid, if it's a K, then they'll call us the Kkk," she said.
"That's a little crazy,...
In a clip from an upcoming episode of "Keeping Up With the Kardashians," the family can be heard throwing around potential baby names while on a vacation in Greece earlier this year. When the name North comes up, it's a name the family all say they like.
Kim then revealed that she and Kanye "kind of" want to give their child a K name since both of their names start with K, but she's worried that it will draw comparisons to the white supremacist group the Ku Klux Klan:
"Our kid, if it's a K, then they'll call us the Kkk," she said.
"That's a little crazy,...
- 7/26/2013
- by Stephanie Marcus
- Huffington Post
Sometimes sleep isn't even an option until you find out whodunnit. Tell us what you think of the books that have our staffers hooked - and let us know what you're reading. Betsy Gleick, Executive Editor Her Pick: The Cuckoo's Calling by John Galbraith (aka J.K. Rowling) I've been completely sucked in by Rowling's new book (written under a pseudonym) - I wish it weren't too heavy to carry on the subway every day. As if we didn't know it already, the woman knows how to tell a story. And this one is just fun, an old-fashioned detective tale about...
- 7/25/2013
- PEOPLE.com
Andrew Pendergraft is the grandson of Thomas Robb, the modern-day Ku Klux Klan's national director. As a young boy with floppy blond hair and a slight speech impediment, Pendergraft hosted a number of short episodes of his very own amateur talk show, "The Andrew Show," which presents the Klan's ideology in a format aimed at kids -- more specifically, white kids.
Viewable on YouTube, the first episodes of the series were apparently filmed several years ago when Pendergraft was around 9 or 10 years old. The segments use pop culture references to relay advisories against race-mixing and other controversial beliefs promoted by the Kkk.
Although its not clear when the last episode of "The Andrew Show" was produced, videos from the series were posted on YouTube as recently as April. This week the program caught the eye of several bloggers, thrusting the show back into the national spotlight.
The third episode...
Viewable on YouTube, the first episodes of the series were apparently filmed several years ago when Pendergraft was around 9 or 10 years old. The segments use pop culture references to relay advisories against race-mixing and other controversial beliefs promoted by the Kkk.
Although its not clear when the last episode of "The Andrew Show" was produced, videos from the series were posted on YouTube as recently as April. This week the program caught the eye of several bloggers, thrusting the show back into the national spotlight.
The third episode...
- 7/2/2013
- by The Huffington Post
- Huffington Post
In what is sure to be one of the year's most significant Blu-ray releases, Eureka Entertainment is bringing D.W. Griffith's controversial silent epic The Birth Of A Nation to Blu-ray and DVD, courtesy of its excellent Masters of Cinema series.Originally released in 1915, Griffith's 3-hour saga recounts the building tensions between the North and South of the United States that led to the American Civil War, the assassination of President Abraham Lincoln and the rise of the Ku Klux Klan. Nearly 100 years after it was originally released, the film continues to divide audiences, championed for its breakthroughs in filmmaking and advances of cinematic technique, yet reviled for its overtly racist subject matter and skewed retelling of history.Released on 22 July, this beautiful new 1080p...
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- 6/27/2013
- Screen Anarchy
It's hard to get Stephen Colbert to admit that he was wrong, but the Ku Klux Klan has finally done it. All they had to do was build a laser ray gun and prove that there's a lot more to them than their hateful bigotry -- such as the technical know-how to carry out their hateful bigotry.
Although it looks as if the Kkk's supposed "death ray" isn't real after all, that didn't stop Colbert from being impressed with their commitment to their cause by inventing a gun that would shoot concentrated amounts of radiation at a target. They even offered their invention to Jewish groups to help wipe out Muslims. "I believe this is what Martin Luther King was talking about when he dreamt of a day when people of all creeds and colors could sit together at the table of brotherhood to discuss microwaving Arabs," he joked.
So in the end,...
Although it looks as if the Kkk's supposed "death ray" isn't real after all, that didn't stop Colbert from being impressed with their commitment to their cause by inventing a gun that would shoot concentrated amounts of radiation at a target. They even offered their invention to Jewish groups to help wipe out Muslims. "I believe this is what Martin Luther King was talking about when he dreamt of a day when people of all creeds and colors could sit together at the table of brotherhood to discuss microwaving Arabs," he joked.
So in the end,...
- 6/25/2013
- by Ross Luippold
- Huffington Post
Ever since the dawn of the medium, film has been borrowing from outside sources as inspiration for its cinematic endeavors. D.W. Griffith’s controversial Reconstruction epic, The Birth of a Nation, was based on Thomas Dixon’s racist ode to the Kkk, “The Clansman: A Historical Romance of the Ku Klux Klan.” F.W. Murnau’s Nosferatu was based on Bram Stoker’s classic horror novel, Dracula (although the film failed to receive permission from the Stoker estate to do so, which almost led to the complete obliteration of the film after a court ordered the destruction of every copy of the movie). Thomas Edison’s The Sneeze is said to have been influenced greatly by Fydor Dostoyevsky’s Notes from Underground.
Okay, so this last one isn’t true, but nevertheless, you get the picture. Hollywood loves to borrow ideas for their films from other narrative-bound arts, always have and always will.
Okay, so this last one isn’t true, but nevertheless, you get the picture. Hollywood loves to borrow ideas for their films from other narrative-bound arts, always have and always will.
- 6/21/2013
- by Christopher Lominac
- Obsessed with Film
This review was originally published in February. Mumia: Long Distance Revolutionary: A Journey With Mumia Abdul-jamal never played theatrically in St. Louis (thankfully) and my review has been amended to include a look at the extras on the new DVD of the film.
Mumia: Long Distance Revolutionary: A Journey With Mumia Abdul-jamal is a documentary from producer, director, cinematographer Stephen Vittoria about convicted cop killer and former Black Panther Mumia Abdul-Jamal (real name: Wesley Cook), an articulate, relatively intelligent radical with a distinctive speaking voice and a passion for public relations. Slickly produced, and with an excellent original score by Robert Guillory, the film is presented as a collective form of tribute to Mumia, with dozens of “witnesses” including Amy Goodman, Angela Davis, Dick Gregory, Ruby Dee, Cornel West, Peter Coyote, Lydia Barashango, Juan Gonzalez, and Linn Washington, all testifying on-camera to the brilliance of the subject’s writing skills.
Mumia: Long Distance Revolutionary: A Journey With Mumia Abdul-jamal is a documentary from producer, director, cinematographer Stephen Vittoria about convicted cop killer and former Black Panther Mumia Abdul-Jamal (real name: Wesley Cook), an articulate, relatively intelligent radical with a distinctive speaking voice and a passion for public relations. Slickly produced, and with an excellent original score by Robert Guillory, the film is presented as a collective form of tribute to Mumia, with dozens of “witnesses” including Amy Goodman, Angela Davis, Dick Gregory, Ruby Dee, Cornel West, Peter Coyote, Lydia Barashango, Juan Gonzalez, and Linn Washington, all testifying on-camera to the brilliance of the subject’s writing skills.
- 6/18/2013
- by Tom Stockman
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
Parents of victims murdered in December 2012 have launched a petition against the publication of 'gruesome' images
Michael Moore has been forced to deny suggestions he called for the release of gruesome photographs from the Sandy Hook school shootings, after parents of victims launched an online petition berating the Us documentary film-maker for his alleged insensitivity and calling for new laws to keep them out of the public domain.
Moore blamed a reporter at Fox News for trying to "stir up the pot" in Newtown, Connecticut, where 20 children and six adults were murdered by killer Adam Lanza on 14 December last year, in a massacre that reignited debate over American gun control laws. The director spoke to the Hollywood Reporter after parents of several murdered children launched a petition on the Change.org platform berating "Michael Moore and the hoaxers" for wanting "to publish this gruesome information" and calling on Connecticut legislators...
Michael Moore has been forced to deny suggestions he called for the release of gruesome photographs from the Sandy Hook school shootings, after parents of victims launched an online petition berating the Us documentary film-maker for his alleged insensitivity and calling for new laws to keep them out of the public domain.
Moore blamed a reporter at Fox News for trying to "stir up the pot" in Newtown, Connecticut, where 20 children and six adults were murdered by killer Adam Lanza on 14 December last year, in a massacre that reignited debate over American gun control laws. The director spoke to the Hollywood Reporter after parents of several murdered children launched a petition on the Change.org platform berating "Michael Moore and the hoaxers" for wanting "to publish this gruesome information" and calling on Connecticut legislators...
- 6/4/2013
- by Ben Child
- The Guardian - Film News
Controversy has always existed in cinema. Perhaps the first controversial film was Dw Griffith’s The Birth of a Nation from 1915 which glorified the Ku Klux Klan and was a hateful, racist piece of work. Controversy can come to directors by accident if a film is greatly misunderstood or because of the political climate at the time of contemporary release, only to recover its reputation later. Many films are also deliberately provocative, often either in a way to express a political point or in a self-indulgent way that is far too common.
Some directors have made a career out of controversy and have themselves become more individually famous than their films. A way to establish a reputation and to get noticed in the film industry is by being controversial and it worked for numerous directors all over the globe.
Controversy can be a good and a bad thing. It can...
Some directors have made a career out of controversy and have themselves become more individually famous than their films. A way to establish a reputation and to get noticed in the film industry is by being controversial and it worked for numerous directors all over the globe.
Controversy can be a good and a bad thing. It can...
- 5/30/2013
- by Sam Moore
- Obsessed with Film
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