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Film Review: ‘Angels Crest’ Takes Lead-Footed Trip Down Misery Lane
30 December 2011 6:06 AM, PST | HollywoodChicago.com | See recent HollywoodChicago.com news »
Chicago – Six years after her sentimental debut feature, “On a Clear Day,” filmmaker Gaby Dellal has gotten mired in the wintry sludge of her sophomore effort, “Angels Crest.” This is the sort of film that doesn’t stand a chance of being embraced by many viewers, particularly during an awards season crowded with gems. There’s little to recommend here beyond the icily beautiful cinematography and a few strong performances.
Rating: 2.5/5.0
What starts out as an intriguing mystery reminiscent of “Twin Peaks” quickly unravels into a familiar trudge through bleak lives and bad parenting. It’s set in the isolation of a working-class mountain town haunted by drunken souls who mope about while making bone-headed decisions. The ending fails to leave an impact because it’s no less dreary and inevitable than anything that precedes it. This isn’t a story about transformation and discovery, but rather the acceptance of one’s own demise. »
- adam@hollywoodchicago.com (Adam Fendelman)
Woody Allen lists the five iconic actresses he wishes he could go back in time to direct -- Exclusive
20 December 2011 5:30 AM, PST | EW - Inside Movies | See recent EW.com - Inside Movies news »
If you had to choose one director to bring out a career performance in any actress, you can’t do much better than Woody Allen. During his amazing 45-year career as a director, he’s worked with many of the best, and Oscar has always been impressed. Diane Keaton, Penélope Cruz, Mira Sorvino, and Dianne Wiest all have trophies from their collaborations with Allen, to say nothing of the nominated performances from Samantha Morton, Judy Davis, Geraldine Page, and others.
In Midnight in Paris, Allen’s comedy-fantasy about a 21st-century writer (Owen Wilson) high on the nostalgic fumes of 1920s »
- Jeff Labrecque
Catch up TV Guide: From Roger Mellie to The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo
9 December 2011 4:07 PM, PST | The Guardian - TV News | See recent The Guardian - TV News news »
Online: Roger Mellie
Are you ready for Roger Mellie: Man On The Internet-Only Comedy Blap? Channel4.com's promising series of funny shorts finds the Viz newsreader hosting this (while trying to understand what a "blap" is). Expect Top Tips, new entries for the Profanisaurus ("Alcotroll", "Agatha Christie") and some very silly readers' letters. Steve Coogan is on voice duties as Roger, with Sarah Millican.
comedyblaps.channel4.com
More complimentary online viewing from BBC4's All American season. This blues history was first shown in 1979, and features a great collection of footage from Houston Stackhouse, Laura Dukes and Billy Boy Arnold And The Aces – but it's just as worth watching for the introductions from British bluesman host Alexis Korner; he's every bit as smooth as The Fast Show's Jazz Club host Louis Balfour, down to the unlit cigar in his hand. Nice.
BBC iPlayer
TV: Beautiful »
- Rebecca Nicholson, Richard Vine, Martin Horsfield
Mike Leigh: Berlin Film Festival 2012 Jury President (Better Not Invite Isabelle Adjani)
2 December 2011 2:28 PM, PST | Alt Film Guide | See recent Alt Film Guide news »
Mike Leigh will chair the jury of the 2012 Berlin Film Festival. Among the 68-year-old filmmaker's best known efforts are the Oscar-nominated Secret and Lies, New York Film Critics Circle Best Film winner Topsy-Turvy, Naked, Vera Drake, Another Year, and Happy-Go-Lucky. "Over the course of his nearly 40-year film career, Mike Leigh has distinguished himself as one of the most outstanding film-makers of auteur cinema and protagonists of New British Cinema," the festival said in a statement. "Leigh portrays British society in a bluntly realistic but humorous style. His films have received countless international awards and several Oscar nominations." Writing for The Guardian / The Observer, Leigh said the following about Secrets and Lies and the Oscars: Secrets and Lies then went on to be nominated for five Oscars, my first nominations. We lost out on everything to the blimmin' English Patient, which seems horrid to say now that poor Anthony [Minghella] is dead, »
- Anna Robinson
Black & Blue Films’ M.D. brings indie horror to the UK with ‘Jonathan Sothcott Presents’
1 December 2011 5:13 AM, PST | Blogomatic3000 | See recent Blogomatic3000 news »
Black and Blue FIlms Managing Director Jonathan Sothcott is a busy man, besides producing eight films over the past two years he’s now capitalising on the success of his own independent productions – films such as the forthcoming Elfie Hopkins and Strippers vs. Werewolves – and has teamed up with distributor 4Digital Media to bring independent international genre films to the UK home entertainment market through his all-new “Jonathan Sothcott Presents” imprint.
Kicking off in Spring 2012, the imprint will see the release of films we here at Blogomatic3000 deem our bread and butter – low budget, full of ideas, sometimes cheesy horror. And the first two films announced sound right up my street!
First up is Two Headed Shark Attack (awesome title Fyi) starring Carmen Electra and the daughter of the Hulster himself, Brooke Hogan. Sothcott notes
I love shark movies, Jaws is my favourite film, and I see every one that comes out. »
- Phil
DVD Review of Tom Provost's ghost drama The Presence
30 November 2011 12:43 AM, PST | QuietEarth.us | See recent QuietEarth news »
Tom Provost.s feature film debut The Presence starts with a tranquil scene of a boat traveling up river. The imagery is relaxing and beautiful but it.s accompanied by Conrad Pope.s original score which is anything but. There.s a sense of dread as the song plays on and Mira Sorvino.s character, whose name is never revealed, arrives on a remote island. The house she.s headed to hasn.t been modernized: there.s no fridge, no lights, no faucet and no bathroom. The woman arrives by herself but she.s not alone and it.s not quite clear who the film.s title refers to because there.s also more than one ghostly entity.
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Brit Producer To Bring Home American Horrors
29 November 2011 11:55 AM, PST | The Hollywood News | See recent The Hollywood News news »
British film producer and MD of Black and Blue Films, Jonathan Sothcott, will be importing a number of Us films to the UK via his new ‘Jonathan Sothcott Presents’ imprint. Teaming with distributor 4Digital Media, Sothcott will be bringing to DVD films that may have otherwise overlooked in the British market.
Sothcott is best known as producer of Stalker, Devil’S Playground and Strippers Vs Werewolves.
Here’s the press release:
Prolific UK horror producer Jonathan Sothcott (Strippers Vs Werewolves, Elfie Hopkins) is bringing some very different genre films to the British home entertainment market in 2012 through his ‘Jonathan Sothcott Presents’ imprint with leading indie distributor 4Digital Media.
First up, and in keeping with the spirit of Sothcott’s own instant camp classic Strippers Vs Werewolves is Two Headed Shark Attack starring uber-babes Carmen Electra and Brooke Hogan. Sothcott notes “I love shark movies, Jaws is my favourite film, and »
- Tom Fordy
Two-Headed Shark Attack and The Presence Storm the UK
29 November 2011 11:44 AM, PST | DreadCentral.com | See recent Dread Central news »
The UK's Jonathan Sothcott is one of those filmmakers who we swear does not sleep. Every time we turn around the man is working on something else, and now instead of just making movies, he's busy importing them across the pond!
From the Press Release
Prolific UK horror producer Jonathan Sothcott (Strippers Vs Werewolves, Elfie Hopkins) is bringing some very different genre films to the British home entertainment market in 2012 through his ‘Jonathan Sothcott Presents’ imprint with leading indie distributor 4Digital Media.
First up, and in keeping with the spirit of Sothcott’s own instant camp classic Strippers Vs Werewolves is Two-headed Shark Attack starring uber-babes Carmen Electra and Brooke Hogan. Sothcott notes, “I love shark movies, Jaws is my favourite film, and I see every one that comes out. This one is destined to become a DVD favourite with its deliriously satisfying visual buffet of stunning babes, outrageous gore and a truly brilliant monster. »
- Uncle Creepy
‘Beginners’ and ‘Tree Of Life’ Split The Honours For Best Feature At The 2011 Gotham Awards
29 November 2011 7:38 AM, PST | SoundOnSight | See recent SoundOnSight news »
While the reviews for Beginners were almost all positive, very few people have had a chance to see the film. I myself watch over 100 new releases each year and it still took me a few months to catch up on the movie. I finally got around to seeing Beginners this week and called it the most overlooked film of 2011. I guess I can no longer say this. Last night, the Gotham Independent Film Awards surprised everyone with a tie for Best Feature Film with Mike Mills‘ Beginners and Terrence Malick‘s The Tree of Life taking the top prize. Who would have ever guessed?
Best Feature winners from the past several years include Frozen River, Winter’s Bone, and The Hurt Locker. Hit the jump for the full press release.
via The Collider
Gotham Independent Film Awards™
Winners Announced
New York, NY (November 28, 2011) – The Independent Filmmaker Project (Ifp), the nation »
- Ricky
Our 15 Favorite Idiots (in Movies)
28 November 2011 3:00 PM, PST | NextMovie | See recent NextMovie news »
They say the U.S. doesn't make things anymore -- that we've lost our way and are no longer No. 1.
Well, "they" are wrong. No country on Earth is capable of producing the quantity, quality and quantity of idiots that our fair land churns out with alarming regularity.
Affable favorite Paul Rudd continues the proud tradition of representing our country's most common commodity in "Our Idiot Brother," nwe on DVD and Blu-ray this week. But can he be stupid enough to join the ranks of elite morons, or does he still have a few more brain cells to kill? Let's review his imbecilic competition.
15. Chevy Chase as Clark Griswold in 'National Lampoon's Vacation' (1983)
Sample Quote: "Russ, it's really great that I can spend time with you and... uh... uh..."
Why He's an Idiot: In this poetic ode to the summer vacation, family man and buffoon Clark tries to »
- Ben Freiburger
Exclusive: Angels Crest First Look Featurette
28 November 2011 1:09 PM, PST | MovieWeb | See recent MovieWeb news »
We have an exclusive first look featurette for Angels Crest, which is currently available on VOD formats before its theatrical release December 30. Click on the video player below for a five-minute featurette with actors Mira Sorvino and Thomas Dekker taking you behind-the-scenes of this gripping drama.
Click to watch Exclusive: First Look Featurette!
The small working-class town of Angels Crest is a tight-knit community resting quietly in one of the vast and stunningly beautiful valleys of the Rocky Mountains. Ethan (Thomas Dekker), one of the town's residents, is a young father but not much more than a kid himself. He has no choice but to look after his three-year-old son Nate, since mom Cindy (Lynn Collins) is an alcoholic. But one snowy day, Ethan's good intentions are thwarted by a moment of thoughtlessness, resulting in tragedy. A local prosecutor (Jeremy Piven) haunted by his past goes after Ethan, and the »
- MovieWeb
DVD Playhouse--November 2011
25 November 2011 10:45 AM, PST | The Hollywood Interview | See recent The Hollywood Interview news »
DVD Playhouse—November 2011
By Allen Gardner
Tree Of Life (20th Century Fox) Terrence Malick’s latest effort is both the best film of 2011 and the finest work of his (arguably) mixed, but often masterly canon. A series of vignettes, mostly set in 1950s Texas, capture the memory of a man (Sean Penn) in present-day New York who looks back on his life, and his parents’ (Brad Pitt, Jessica Chastain) troubled marriage, when word of his younger brother’s suicide reaches him. Almost indescribable beyond that, except to say no other film in history so perfectly evokes the magic and mystery of the human memory, which both crystalizes (and sometimes idealizes) the past. Like Stanley Kubrick’s 2001, this is a challenging, polarizing work that you must let wash over you. If you go along for the ride, you’re in for a unique, rewarding cinematic experience. Also available on Blu-ray disc. »
- The Hollywood Interview.com
Peter Fonda Photo: Governors Awards 2011
24 November 2011 3:22 PM, PST | Alt Film Guide | See recent Alt Film Guide news »
Peter Fonda, Parky Fonda Oscar-nominated Actor Peter Fonda (Ulee's Gold) and wife Parky attend the 2011 Governors Awards in the Grand Ballroom at Hollywood & Highland in Hollywood, on Saturday, November 12. [Photo: Matt Petit / ©A.M.P.A.S.] Actor James Earl Jones (The Great White Hope, the voice of Darth Vader in the Star Wars movies) was a long-distance Honorary Oscar recipient, as Jones is co-starring with Vanessa Redgrave in Driving Miss Daisy on the London stage. Veteran makeup artist Dick Smith (The Cardinal, Death Becomes Her, The Exorcist), however, was present at the ceremony to receive his Honorary Oscar. TV talk show hostess Oprah Winfrey, a 1985 Best Supporting Actress nominee for Steven Spielberg's The Color Purple, was handed the Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award. Son of Oscar winner Henry Fonda (On Golden Pond) and brother of two-time Oscar winner Jane Fonda (Klute, Coming Home), among Peter Fonda's credits are The Wild Angels, The Trip, Easy Rider, with »
- D. Zhea
Woody Allen: A Documentary Trailer: Manhattan Master Mystery
17 November 2011 5:00 PM, PST | Movieline | See recent Movieline news »
PBS's American Masters series is shining their "Viewers Like You"-funded spotlight on Woody Allen, who is decidedly uninterested in being a part of Academy consideration this year. In the trailer for the star-studded doc, we field gushy soundbites from Diane Keaton, Sean Penn, Larry David, Scarlett Johansson, Mariel Hemingway, Mira Sorvino, and more. Oh, and Woody also shows up. »
Blu-ray Review: Mimic – Directors Cut
8 November 2011 1:02 PM, PST | Blogomatic3000 | See recent Blogomatic3000 news »
Mimic: Directors Cut
Stars: Mira Sorvino, Jeremy Northam, Alexander Goodwin, Giancarlo Giannini, Charles S. Dutton, Josh Brolin | Written by Guillermo Del Toro, Matthew Robbins | Directed by Guillermo Del Toro
Originally released in 1997, Mimic was acclaimed director Guillermo Del Toro’s first steps into American cinema following his success with quasi-vampire movie Cronos and provided audiences with the first glimpses of what we now know as typical Del Toro genius. This new directors cut, released last month to coincide with Halloween, has been totally re-cut by the director in the hopes of reclaiming a film which was, for the most part, a heavy compromise between Del Toro’s vision and the studios demands. And whilst a lot of the original ideas Del Toro had for the film were lost in production through studio interference, what survived – and is presented here in the new Blu-ray from StudioCanal – is much closer to »
- Phil
Union Square: Austin Film Festival Reviews
1 November 2011 9:37 PM, PDT | Cinelinx | See recent Cinelinx news »
Union Square, closing night film at the Austin Film Festival, is a unique kind of film with equal parts charm and flaws. While Mira Sorvino shows depth and complexity as grief-stricken, spontaneous Lucy, the film suffers from a plot that is both too simple to make an impact and too complicated to provide many answers. It is a film with potential that ultimately leaves unsatisfied.
Lucy arrives in the city to surprise a lover who refuses to see her. Left with nowhere to go, she visits estranged sister Jenny (Tammy Blanchard) whom she hasn’t spoken to in several years. Jenny lives a very restrained, organized lifestyle in an apartment which serves as the center of her and fiancée Bill’s (Mike Doyle) organic food business. Lucy is free and outspoken and promptly takes over Jenny’s space, to her great horror. The sisters quickly make up for lost time »
Blu-ray Review: Mimic Director’s Cut – Del Toro’s First, Flawed Attempt At Mainstream
1 November 2011 11:41 AM, PDT | Obsessed with Film | See recent Obsessed with Film news »
Lurking somewhere within the half-decent little B-movie that is Mimic there is a far better little B-movie. It’s curious that this new Blu-Ray edition comes advertised as the ‘Director’s Cut,’ a designation which director Guillermo Del Toro seems to approve of. What he means, I suppose, is that this is his cut of the movie he made; it’s just, he planned on making another movie. Del Toro hit the genre movie scene with his debut Cronos (1993), a reinterpretation of the vampire myth made in his homeland of Mexico. This he followed in 1997 with “Mimic,” an adaptation of a short story about big killer insects lurking under Manhattan. Del Toro wanted to bring his personal quirks to the material, but the studio had other ideas and he ended up making a fairly standard Hollywood product, which he virtually disowned at one point. It taught him an important lesson, »
- Adam Whyte
Contest: Mimic: The Director’S Cut (1997) Blu-ray: Guillermo Del Toro
1 November 2011 2:30 AM, PDT | Film-Book | See recent Film-Book news »
Mimic: The Director’s Cut Blu-ray Contest Giveaway Sweepstakes. This Mimic Blu-ray contest, giveaway, sweepstakes illustrates Mimic‘s release on Blu-ray on September 27, 2011.
Guillermo del Toro‘s Mimic: The Director’s Cut stars Mira Sorvino, Jeremy Northam, Giancarlo Giannini, Charles S. Dutton, Alix Koromzay, F. Murray Abraham, Norman Reedus, and Josh Brolin.
Mimic‘s plot synopsis: “Three years ago entomologist Dr. Susan Tyler genetically created an insect to kill cockroaches carrying a virulent disease, now the insects are out to destroy their only predator, mankind.”
For more Mimic reviews, photos, videos, and information, visit our Mimic Page.
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- (1) Mimic: The Director’s Cut Blu-ray
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*Only confirmed Email Subscriptions will be used to randomly select a winner from all of the subscribers. The winner will »
- filmbook
What To Buy This Week: DVD and Blu-ray releases for October 31st
31 October 2011 4:02 AM, PDT | Blogomatic3000 | See recent Blogomatic3000 news »
Well it’s the start of another week, so you know what that means – yet more DVD and Blu-ray releases hit the high street, ready and waiting to swallow up all your hard-earned cash! Not as many Halloween-themed releases this week but no matter, here’s the rundown of what’s available to buy from today, October 31st 2011.
Pick Of The Week
Maniac Cop (Blu-ray)
Notorious video nasty creator William Lustig (Vigilante; Maniac) and B-Movie legend Larry Cohen(Q The Winged Serpent; It’s Alive) combine their directorial and writing talents, respectively, for a unique high-speed collision of the slasher movie and police thriller in Maniac Cop. When reports come in of a man in a police uniform committing gore drenched bloody murder on the city streets, officer Jack Forrest (Bruce Campbell) stands accused. Now, with few friends, powerful enemies and a psychopathic slayer still at large, it’s up »
- Phil
Kate Walsh and Elizabeth McGovern couple up in the new "Angels Crest" trailer
27 October 2011 12:25 PM, PDT | AfterEllen.com | See recent AfterEllen.com news »
If you’ve ever thought to yourself, “Self, what would Kate Walsh and Elizabeth McGovern look like as a lesbian couple in a super serious drama about how the death of a child affects a small town?” you both 1) have very specific hypothetical dream inquiries and 2) are in luck. The actresses play a couple in the new film Angels Crest, which recently released its first trailer. Warning: It looks sad – and cold.
However what looks less sad – and downright hot – are Private Practice’s Walsh and Downton Abbey’s McGovern sharing a bed. If anything will get me to sit through what looks to be a chilly, depressing exercise in grief, it’s those two together.
Previous reports on the film discussed Walsh playing a “gruff, no nonsense” lesbian with a partner, but never named her partner. Learning that it will be McGovern playing against her makes this project even more attractive, »
- Dorothy Snarker
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