Here are some films I’ve watched recently on DVD.
Shutter Island — This 2010 Martin Scorsese film has its flaws, but if you’re willing to forgive them, this is a pretty compelling psychological horror story, tightly constructed, disorienting,
Autumn is here, and with it comes a flash of despair at the meaninglessness of existence, with a few laughs thrown in. In other words, it’s time for the annual Woody Allen comedy.
This weekend sees the opening of You Will Meet A Tall Dark Stranger,
The belief that it is hard to get films funded that feature black stars is not new. In a recent example, we are now very familiar with the story behind the award-winning movie 'Precious,' which took years to get financed. When it finally was, it was by
See where the stars ended up last night.
Jessie Eisenberg, Justin Timberlake and Aaron Sorkin were joined by Adrien Brody, Donna Karan, Calvin Klein,Cheryl Hines, L.A. Reid, Bridget Moynahan, Tinsley Mortimer, Billy Crudup, Katrina BowdenandGabourey
As I've remarked here before, my youthful appetite for buying DVDs has subsided almost completely; I've got most of my favourites on the shelf, and there's nothing I'm bursting to add to them. But I'll be making an exception for the Criterion Collection
Pixie Lott thinks it's "crazy" that she is to play Sharon Stone's daughter in a new film.
The British singer has landed a role in 'Sweet Baby Jesus' - which follows a pregnant woman and her partner who are mistaken for the bearing the second incarnation
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There were two World War II movies released in 1998. Both were nominated for a slew of Academy Awards. But they couldn’t have been more different.
The first, released that summer, was
War epic The Thin Red Line doesn't just go behind the lines. It infiltrates the minds and souls of soldiers and contemplates grand themes like God, war, nature, death, love, and the meaning of life. Directed by Badlands and Days of Heaven's Terrence
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What do Adrien Brody, Forest Whitaker, and Mickey Rourke have in common? They’ve all starred in movies funded by the Qaddafis.
Matty Beckerman is an unlikely ally for
Halle and Olivier arrived back at her Dark Tides co-star beau Martinez’ home in Paris, France. This hot new hollywood couple has been spending a lot of time together and seem to be enjoying each other’s company.
Halle and Olivier met on the set of their
ABUDHABI // Festival programmers who spent the past year searching the world to find the best features for the fourth Abu Dhabi Film Festival revealed its 170 films yesterday, offering entries from some of the most celebrated names in cinema.
"We work
Charlotte Church asked Gavin Henson for “permission†before embarking on a new relationship. The 24-year-old singer – who has two children, Ruby, three, and 20-month-old Dexter , with her former fiance – first met her current boyfriend,
Paul Maher interviewed the following cast and crew from The Thin Red Line for this essay: John C. Reilly (Sergeant Storm), John Dee Smith (Private Train), Claude Lettesier (Ethnomusicologist) and Brad Shield (Steadicam operator)
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Pixie Lott thinks it’s “crazy” that she is to play Sharon Stone’s daughter in a new film.
The British singer has landed a role in ‘Sweet Baby Jesus’ – which follows a pregnant woman and her partner who are mistaken for the bearing
After Jennifer Grey and Derek Hough topped the Dancing with the Stars leaderboard last week with a 24, rumblings about the Dirty Dancing star's so-called "dance experience" heated up again — an unfair dig at her, Hough tells TVGuide.com. "Would you ask
Emmanuelle Chriqui (Entourage) will guest star on the new SHOWTIME drama series THE BORGIAS in three episodes as “Sancia,” the beautiful and seductive Neapolitan princess who marries the Pope’s youngest son Joffre (Aidan Alexander), even though she has
Actress Jill Flint attends “Howl” screening at the IFC Center in New York City wearing a denim shirt. I like how she adds the belt to the shirt to give it some flair.
Jill is best known for her role of Jill Casey in USA Network’s series Royal Pains.She
Some might be enthused about the arrival of “Iron Man 2’’ (2010) on disc because it’s the year’s biggest action flick, but comic book fans are hoping to grab a few new hints about Marvel Studios’ summer 2012 event movie “The Avengers,’’ a hero-palooza
Memorialize Bill Hicks, Win Essential Box Set
The late, great Bill Hicks carpet-bombed comedy convention before prematurely succumbing to Cancer in 1991 at age 32. But his hilarious and Controversial legacy gets compiled at last in
Bill Hicks: The
Actually, apart from its sheer surreal awesomeness, this is like a dream in another sense: It’s completely ephemeral. There’s no feature-length film or TV pilot from which the scenes were drawn; it’s a trailer created from scratch for a book, one of
There’s something about Terrence Malick—everyone wants to
work with him. Take for example his 1998 war drama The Thin Red Line, where
stars like Sean Penn, Adrien Brody, Jim Caviezel, John Cusack, George Clooney, Woody
Harrelson, Nick Nolte and John
These are Roger Ebert's mini-reviews (unless otherwise noted) of some of the films currently playing in the Quad-Cities.
"Legend of the Guardians: The Owls of Ga'Hoole" (PG, 85 minutes). A young owl must gather a mythic band of winged warriors to fight
For an example of Blu-ray technology at its best -- as well as the opportunity to rediscover an overlooked masterpiece -- check out the new disc of Terrence Malick's World War II meditation The Thin Red Line (Criterion Collection, $40, also on DVD, in
At Stanford University in 1971, a team of psychology department researchers recruited twenty-four undergraduate students to take part in a mock prison experiment to study what would happen when individuals are randomly selected to either be stripped of
Doc in Back to the Future epitomises the cuddly, but socially inept stereotype of a scientist. Photo: Kobal Collection/Amblin/Universal
There is little that irritates scientists more than the idea of the "boffin". This century-old meme has at least two
London, Sep 22 (ANI): Oscar-winner Adrien Brody has revealed that he survived a freezing night outdoors eating berries and bugs to prepare for his new role in the movie 'Wrecked'.
The 'Pianist' actor plays a car crash survivor who is stranded in the
LOS ANGELES, CA – (September 22, 2010) – Emmanuelle Chriqui (Entourage) will guest star on the new SHOWTIME drama series THE BORGIAS in three episodes as “Sancia,” the beautiful and seductive Neapolitan princess who marries the Pope’s youngest son
SAN SEBASTIAN, Spain -- Spanish indie film producer-distrib Vertice Cine has inked distribution rights to three upcoming Spanish pics, underscoring its increasing focus on third-party local movie rights acquisition.
Two of VC's pickups from Spain are
Oscar winner Adrien Brody fears he's overlooked for fun, action roles - because Hollywood executives think he's too serious.
The Pianist star, who is famous for the extremes he takes in preparing for gritty roles, admits he had to fight for the lead in
Adrien Brody has said that he suffered while preparing for his role in Wrecked.
The actor ate bugs and berries during an overnight stay in the Canadian woods in order to better understand his role as a stranded crash survivor in the film, reports the
Oscar winner Adrien Brody is an odd choice to front the latest issue of Cigar Aficionado magazine because he quit smoking a decade ago.
The Pianist star was asked to pose with a cigar for the photoshoot accompanying his new interview but he refused to
Oscar-winner Adrien Brody has told how he spent a night in the freezing wilderness and ate insects to prepare to get into character for his new film Wrecked.
Brody plays a car crash survivor who is stranded out in the wilds in the film and the actor
The Pianist star, who is famous for the extremes he takes in preparing for gritty roles, said most Hollywood executives ignore him for fun, action roles because he wouldnt fit the bill as an action hero.
"I think I established myself as someone who is
“Woody Allen has be-come a kind of grave, gray Buddha. All the energy flows to him, and he just absorbs it.”
That’s what somebody remarked watching the famous filmmaker, Mr. Allen, at a special screening of his latest movie, “You Will Meet a Tall Dark
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After a strong week of new releases on home video last Tuesday, we return to a relatively mediocre offering this week. While several popular new TV shows (e.g. Modern Family, Community, Spartacus, Human Target) saw first-season compilations released
Head's up, Prison Break fans: that show's creator, Paul Scheuring, is back behind bars again for his latest project. This time it's The Experiment, starring Forrest Whitaker and Adrien Brody in a thriller inspired by the Stanford prison experiment. If
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Oscar-winner Adrien Brody suffered for his art on the set of new movie Wrecked - he survived a freezing night
A remake of the 2001 German thriller Das Experiment, The Experiment has the star power of a major theatrical release -- including Adrien Brody and Forest Whitaker -- but it's going straight to home video this week. Don't assume that that's an indication
For many students, summer flicks provided a welcome distraction from the monotony of office jobs. But for a select few, movies were their jobs.
Several students used the summer to get their feet wet in the moviemaking industry, getting a front-row
It's hard to believe that "The Experiment," a film with two Academy Award best actors in it, barely got a theatrical release, but that's the business these days. Adrien Brody (2002 Oscar winner for "The Pianist") and Forest Whitaker (2006 best actor
Sitting in the sun-dappled courtyard of Hollywood’s famous Chateau Marmont hotel, Lady Victoria Hervey looks every inch the movie industry insider.
Now 33, the elder daughter of the 6th Marquess of Bristol and former ‘It Girl’ has turned up an hour
I remember always being hypnotized by the real life story of Stanford psychologists who, in 1971, recruited students to partake in an experiment designed to test how quickly -- and fully -- human beings conform to roles. In this case, prison guards and
Ben Affleck's new film The Town hits theatres this weekend and here are 10 films highlighting the career of the much publicized actor, writer and director.
This weekend sees the new release of Ben Affleck's second feature film as director, The Town, a
There are a couple different ways to approach reviewing . I can look at it from the mainstream audience's point of view, or I can look at it from the point of view of a long-time Wes Anderson fan -- which, coincidentally, I happen to be. The first thing
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"The girl said, 'I know who you are. You're Adrien Brody!' I said, 'Well, you're half right. I'm Adrian, but not Brody!'" Adrian Grenier is frequently mistaken for The Pianist star. (JMA/UO/CL)
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If there's a soul left on the globe still anticipating Dario Argento's latest blunder, GIALLO, perhaps a new Japanese one-sheet will pique your interest as well. Remember, the flick finally arrives in the states via DVD/VOD on October 19th, so it seems
Condé Nast U.K. is the latest publisher to translate its glossy pages into digital devices.
Places to frolic around the city.
A runway photographer and photographer’s assistant were pickpocketed during the Michael Kors show.
Amanda Brooks and Leighton
Lucy Punch does it again. After a scene-stealing performance in this summer's "Dinner for Schmucks," the British blonde swipes the show in Woody Allen's latest, "You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger," as a home-wrecking floozy. (Freida Pinto [left] is
Hewitt and line producer BJ Rack, co-producer of Terminator 2, arrived in Detroit in August to begin location scouting. “We never did any pre-production, it was a total joke,” Hewitt says. After two weeks of what Hewitt describes as “hanging around”,
(NEW YORK) For those of us who’ve been furiously running to eleven fashion shows a day, two hours in the dark with Woody Allen perhaps might be the ultimate cure for Fashion Week fatigue. The Cinema Society and BlackBerry Torch hosted a screening of You
New Delhi, Sep 14 (IANS) Bollywood stars Akshay Kumar and Salman Khan are set to share screen space in Farah Khan’s “Tees Maar Khan”.
“Looking forward to our shoot after so long… Enjoy brother,” Akshay posted on Salman’s Twitter page.
Akshay is playing
On a weekend that Hollywood cedes to football and late-summer barbecues, Sony-Screen Gems' "Resident Evil: Afterlife" led the box office.
The 3-D horror film earned $27.7 million, a total that exceeded expectations. It's the fourth "Resident Evil" film,
And the US director was given free access to film in any part of the capital he wanted, an investigative website has claimed.
Carla, 42, is making her big screen debut in the film in the tiny role.
Director Allen had to re-do a scene where Carla goes
Luca Guadagnino’s “I Am Love” (Oct. 12), starring Tilda Swinton as a Russian-born Italian bourgeoise who falls in love with a rough-hewn young chef, lends an upstairs-downstairs twist and a dose of high style to romantic melodrama.| Birgit Minichmayr
TORONTO—Woody Allen loves shooting in Paris. He doesn't care for the gossip about one of his co-stars, France's first lady, Carla Bruni-Sarkozy.
Allen said he was shocked at gossip column reports that Bruni-Sarkozy was a handful on the set of his
The playwright and drama critic Mario Fratti -- best-known for hisadaptation from the Italian of the Tony Award-winning musical NINE - will presentTRIO, three one act plays about sex religion and politics beginning previewsOctober 7 prior to an official
As co-writer of The Hobbit and director of a 3D adaptation of At the Mountains of Madness, Guillermo del Toro plays often in Hollywood's big budget sandbox. But his heart still beats for foreign film indies. He has two at Toronto: the Alejandro Gonzalez
The actress Noomi Rapace, above left, who portrayed Lisbeth Salander in the Swedish film adaptations of Stieg Larsson’s “Millennium” book trilogy, has been signed to play the lead female character in the coming movie “Sherlock Holmes 2,” according to
Red hot Christina Hendricks has just landed a role in the crime drama Drive starring Ryan Gosling, Carey Mulligan, Albert Brooks, Bryan Cranston, and Oscar Isaacs reports Variety. Hendricks has gained quite a following as Joan Holloway in Mad Men, and
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Check out our run down of the week's best televised films including District 9, SororityRow and Singin' In The Rain.
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District 9
This phenomenal film put director Neil Blomkamp on the map in 2009 and rightfully so. Telling the
“Splice,” a very good horror movie, and “The Last Exorcism,” a decent one, end on about the same note. This note sounds logically after a long, slow creep toward the abyss in “Splice,” while it is banged out at the last minute in “The Last Exorcism,”
The bulk of Stone, the film, is as much a mystery as the mysteries people of faith are challenged with from time to time. Presented in some respect as a lingering con game and equally meditative on man's connection to commit evil deeds, Stone is never
Just as the latest series of Mad Men begins on British television, it seems one of the award-winning show's top stars Christina Hendricks is
enjoying a blossoming big screen career.
According to Variety, Hendricks (pictured with her 'Mad Men' co-star
Image Credit: Jeffrey Mayer/WireImage.comWe’ll soon be seeing a lot more of Christina Hendricks — and, even if that prospect doesn’t send your mind straight into the gutter, it’s bound to be a good thing, right? Hot off her recent Emmy nomination, the
These are Roger Ebert's mini-reviews (unless otherwise noted) of some of the films currently playing in the Quad-Cities.
"Flipped" (PG, 90 minutes). Juli (Madeline Carroll) has adored Bryce (Callan McAuliffe) ever since he moved into the neighborhood in
Travis (Adrien Brody, The Darjeeling
Limited) has just been laid off from his job. It's not because of poor
performance; Travis is a good guy who cares for the elderly people he works with
and spends his free time as a political activist. While marching
There have been a lot of casting and directing rumors swirling around the FANTASTIC FOUR reboot recently, so I figured I should jump on it before anything official gets announced.
James McTiegue, Joe Carnahan and David Yates are all being considered to
The Experiment, based on a real-life psychology experiment at Stanford University (The Stanford Prison Experiment), is a shocking film about people becoming roles. There are many deviations from the facts of the study, but its results are startlingly
The swirl of parties celebrating the 62nd Annual Emmy Awards began long before the actual prizes were handed out on Sunday, Aug. 29 — and naturally it all began with primping, sipping and (of course) swag-collecting.
evening bags and shoes by
Although Maya Entertainment is going to officially release Dario Argento's Giallo on DVD October 19, Blockbuster members get to see it early.
As of today, the video chain is renting this title exclusively. Thanks to Steve for tipping us off to that.
The
The trials and tribulations of families with teenage children are a staple of movies and TV sitcoms but things get hairy and interesting in Vincenzo Natali’s Splice when that child is genetically engineered. As Critic After Dark Noel Vera calls it,
BEVERLY HILLS, CA, September 05, 2010 /24-7PressRelease/ -- Christine Heathman, LMT, ME, "Legend" in American Aesthetics, Industry Innovator, and CEO and Founder of GlyMed Plus, today announced the 2010 Emmy Awards Luxury Celebrity Lounge featuring
M. Night Shyamalan has been teasing us with thoughts of a sequel to UNBREAKABLE since the film was released. As he just told MTV, "Literally, that's the question I get asked the most anywhere around the world." OK fans, your wait is over. UNBREAKABLE 2
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Who is Pixie Lott, you may ask? Now that the young U.K. star has come stateside, you'll be hearing a lot more of Pixie Lott following the U.S. release of her debut single, "Boys and Girls", this week via Interscope. For those not in the
As Hollywood types take off this last week of the summer season and possibly prepare for festival trips to Venice, Telluride and Toronto, movie news was particularly slow and sparse. The stories that did emerge include casting rumors for Guillermo del
Lame family comedy" was how The Independent's Anthony Quinn described
Marmaduke, Hollywood's latest child-friendly caper. Other reviewers have
been less kind: "It's suitable for kids, but only as a punishment";
"the human performances are utterly dismal"
LITTLE ROCK At area theaters 85 AVATAR SPECIAL EDITION, PG-13 The rerelease of James Cameron’s blockbuster in 3-D with about nine minutes of extra footage. (169 minutes) 75 CHARLIE ST. CLOUD, PG-13 Zac Efron plays a cemetery caretaker who has daily
The only men you're allowed to love – together at last," intones the trailer for The Expendables, which teams Sylvester Stallone, Bruce Willis, Arnold Schwarzenegger and Dolph Lundgren for a trip back to a time when men drove jeeps through plate-glass
Chace Crawford looked like a "schoolboy" as he attempted to impress a waitress on Sunday.
The 'Gossip Girl' star reportedly spent hours trying catch the eye of an employee at exclusive New York nightspot GoldBar, where he attended a birthday party.
An
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Chace Crawford graces the front cover of the winter issue of “GQ Style” magazine, looking pretty hot!
Chace appears on the black and white cover in a bit of a retro style. It’s the suit and the slicked back hair,
Conan O'Brien and Jack White's Third Man Records are releasing not one, but two new pieces of vinyl that the comedian made on a June stopover in Nashville.
The label announced Wednesday that "Conan O'Brien Live at Third Man" and a spoken-word 7-inch
Speaking briefly with MTV, Moyer claimed he knew "nothing about" the rumors, though he did call the rumors "great" and, perhaps ironically, "fantastic."
When asked if Moyer would be interested in the role, the actor responded: "I don't know...Yeah,
"Gossip Girl" star Chace Crawford spent hours Sunday night trying to get a leggy cocktail waitress at GoldBar to notice him. "It was pretty funny," a spywitness tells Page Six. "He was like a schoolboy looking to give the teacher an apple." GoldBar
Chace Crawford reportedly spent hours trying to catch the attention of a pretty cocktail waitress on a recent night out.
The handsome actor is best known for his role as ladies man Nate Archibald in the hit US television series Gossip Girl where has
