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Win: Nothing But The Truth Blu-ray
23 hours ago | Obsessed with Film | See recent Obsessed with Film news »
Signature Entertainment will release Nothing But The Truth on Blu-ray from May 20th. We have three copies of the Blu-ray to give away to our readers.
Washington DC political journalist Rachel Armstrong (Kate Beckinsale), writes an explosive story about a government scandal in which she reveals the name of a covert CIA agent (Vera Farmiga). When a special government prosecutor (Matt Dillon) demands she divulge her source, she refuses and finds herself behind bars, struggling to defend the principles she has based her career upon.
Nothing But the Truth is based on the real life story of journalist Judith Miller who was jailed in July 2005 for outing a CIA agent and refusing to reveal her source before a federal grand jury.
Kate Beckinsale (The Aviator) who plays Rachel Armstrong, the journalist in crisis and Oscar-nominated Vera Farmiga (Up in the Air), who stars as the CIA agent, deliver a strong »
- Matt Holmes
Which of Bill Hader's 'Saturday Night Live' characters will you miss most? Poll
14 May 2013 12:51 PM, PDT | EW.com - PopWatch | See recent EW.com - PopWatch news »
First comes denial: “Wait, what? Bill Hader can’t leave SNL — he’s in, like, every sketch! There must be a mistake.” Next is anger: “This is crap. How could you do this to us, Hader? How could you deprive us of Stefon, and James Carville, and a screen presence that single-handedly elevates every dumb game show parody? We’ll never forgive you. Never.”
That’s followed, of course, by bargaining: “Listen — if you stay, we’ll stop complaining that the show hasn’t been funny since . We’ll laugh at all the musical monologues, and sympathize when you’re »
- Hillary Busis
Giveaway - Win Nothing But the Truth on DVD
13 May 2013 4:30 AM, PDT | Flickeringmyth | See recent Flickeringmyth news »
Featuring an all-star cast including Kate Beckinsale (Underworld), Matt Dillon (There's Something About Mary), Alan Alda (M*A*S*H), Vera Farmiga (Bates Motel), Angela Basset (Olympus Has Fallen) and David Schwimmer (Friends), writer-director Rod Lurie's (The Contender, Straw Dogs) thriller Nothing But the Truth arrives on DVD here in the UK this coming Monday, May 20th, and to celebrate the release we have three copies of the film to give away to our readers courtesy of Signature Entertainment.
Read on for a synopsis and details of how to enter the competition...
Washington DC political journalist Rachel Armstrong (Beckinsale), writes an explosive story about a government scandal in which she reveals the name of a covert CIA agent (Farmiga). When a special government prosecutor (Dillon) demands she divulge her source, she refuses and finds herself behind bars, struggling to defend the principles she has based her career upon.
To »
- Flickering Myth
From Pre-History to Ancient Greece and the Arabian Nights: Harryhausen's Latter-Day Efforts
7 May 2013 11:33 PM, PDT | Alt Film Guide | See recent Alt Film Guide news »
Raquel Welch wigs vs. Ray Harryhausen monsters: One Million Years B.C. [See previous post: "Ray Harryhausen: Special Effects Titan Dies."] Without Charles H. Schneer as producer, Ray Harryhausen created the visual effects for the 1966 camp classic One Million Years B.C. — though, admittedly, his work in that movie played second fiddle to Raquel Welch’s physical effects as a blonde-bewigged (?) cavewoman parading around Earth’s pre-history in a cleavage-enhancing fur bikini. Whereas in producer Hal Roach’s 1940 effort One Million B.C., lizards made up as dinosaurs made life difficult for Victor Mature and Carole Landis, in the creationist-style pre-history of the 1966 (sort-of) remake, Raquel Welch and fellow caveman John Richardson had to square off against Harryhausen’s stop-motion models of giant reptiles. (Photo: Raquel Welch One Million Years B.C.) [Please scroll down to check out TCM's beautiful Ray Harryhausen tribute.] Starring James Franciscus and featuring Earth vs. the Flying Saucers‘ Richard Carlson, The Valley of Gwangi (1969) was Harryhausen’s next-to-last mid-level effort. Both The Golden Voyage of Sinbad (1974), with John Phillip Law, »
- Andre Soares
Alan Alda Calls On Scientists To Cut It Out
3 May 2013 6:16 AM, PDT | Huffington Post | See recent Huffington Post news »
Stony Brook, N.Y. -- Among the procedures Army surgeon Hawkeye Pierce performed on "M.A.S.H." was an end-to-end anastomosis.
Most of the viewers, actor Alan Alda concedes, had no idea he was talking about removing a damaged piece of intestine and reconnecting the healthy pieces.
Today, the award-winning film and television star is on a mission to teach physicians, physicists and scientists of all types to ditch the jargon and get their points across in clear, simple language.
The former host of the long-running PBS series "Scientific American Frontiers" is a founder and visiting professor of journalism at the Stony Brook University Center for Communicating Science, which has just been named in his honor.
"There's no reason for the jargon when you're trying to communicate the essence of the science to the public because you're talking what amounts to gibberish to them," Alda said in a recent interview with The Associated Press. »
- AP
10 Spoilers: Doppelganger drama on 'Vampire Diaries,' an 'Arrow' first encounter, and 'New Girl' gets it on
29 April 2013 12:39 PM, PDT | Zap2It - From Inside the Box | See recent Zap2It - From Inside the Box news »
Since Mondays are just the worst, we here at Zap2it have decided to give your week a much-needed wake-up call with 10 TV teasers -- just to remind you that when the work day is over, your DVR waits to welcome you home.
This week, our Monday Kickstart includes "Arrow" dish from Colton Haynes, "Supernatural" scoop from Jeremy Carver, and "Beauty and the Beast dish from Jennifer Levin.
"Arrow": We've all been waiting for the moment when Roy Harper meets Oliver Queen without his hood... and it's coming. Thea confides in Oliver that she and Roy have been looking for the vigilante. "He comes and confronts me and pretty much tells me that it's a bad idea. He's a little stern with Roy. Roy, of course, does his eye-roll, and isn't happy with Oliver, and kind of still thinks Oliver's kind of a wimp," Colton Haynes tells us. Roy »
- editorial@zap2it.com
The Big C Hereafter: 7 Reasons to Watch
29 April 2013 7:30 AM, PDT | TVfanatic | See recent TVfanatic news »
Dying and death are topics typically reserved for A Very Special Episode of a particular series.
But Showtime’s The Big C is a drama that, from the very start, has built its foundation on these frightening/sad/troubling subjects.
And it kicks off its final run tonight with the opener of The Big C: Hereafter, mini-series that is guaranteed to deliver laughter, tears and reflection for all viewers.
Will Laura Linney's Cathy Jamison get her life in order as her cancer continues to wreak havoc on her body? How will her family react to what she goes through? And will she triumph in the end? Here is are seven reasons why you should grab some Kleenex and tune in...
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Bow Down To Laura Linney Watching this amazing actress play the highs and lows of Cathy Jamison is a marvel. Gabriel Basso - who plays her teenage son, »
- jimhalterman@gmail.com (Jim Halterman)
'The Big C' review: The paradox of Cathy Jamison's tart yet flavorless 'hereafter'
29 April 2013 6:30 AM, PDT | EW - Inside TV | See recent EW.com - Inside TV news »
The Big C is bringing closure to cancer-stricken Cathy Jamison (Laura Linney) with a four-episode miniseries. Subtitled hereafter, even the opening credits have a nostalgic air, scrapbooking through Cathy’s journey through illness. Gone along with her tranquil opening swim in her home pool, the too-good-to-be-true serenity of season’s 3 Puerto Rican escape (when Cathy quite literally jumped ship to make a new life with a fisherman) is quickly overwritten. Like a rock plunking into the aforementioned pool and creating ripples, the sometimes jarring opener was fun to watch at times, though viewers’ pleasure is slightly diminished by the fact »
- Lanford Beard
Jim's Notebook: Bones, The Big C and More!
26 April 2013 8:34 AM, PDT | TVfanatic | See recent TVfanatic news »
It’s that time of year when some shows are wrapping up their seasons, while others are wrapping up forever.
This week I’m emptying out the Notebook with Emily Deschanel talking the Bones Season 8 finale, while The Big C concludes its final four episodes airing starting Monday. And Nurse Jackie is giving us more reasons to love Thor this season. Let’s dive in!
Bones With Monday’s season finale, Executive Producer Stephen Nathan already told TV Fanatic that Pelant will be targeting Booth. But how far will Brennan go to protect him and the people she loves?
“As you see in this coming episode, Brennan is willing to go farther than she's ever gone to protect somebody that she loves," Deschanel said on a press call this week. "And now, you'll see that she'll do the same for other people that she loves to protect them, to protect her life with them. »
- jimhalterman@gmail.com (Jim Halterman)
Allan Arbus obituary
25 April 2013 8:17 AM, PDT | The Guardian - Film News | See recent The Guardian - Film News news »
Character actor who played the psychiatrist Major Sidney Freedman in the TV comedy M*A*S*H
The long-running Us television comedy M*A*S*H, set during the Korean war, was often perceived as an allegorical look at the Vietnam war, which was still being fought when it began in 1972. But the television show focused less on the specific mindsets of Vietnam which had driven the nihilistic Robert Altman film on which it was based, and in tone was much closer to Joseph Heller's novel Catch-22, with its comedic take on the intrinsic absurdity of war.
No character brought that home more clearly than Major Sidney Freedman, the psychiatrist who appeared in 12 episodes over the show's 11-year run. Freedman was played by Allan Arbus, who has died aged 95. His approach to the mental health of the soldiers, and medics, at the 4077th mobile army surgical hospital unit relied »
- Michael Carlson
Allan Arbus obituary
25 April 2013 8:17 AM, PDT | The Guardian - TV News | See recent The Guardian - TV News news »
Character actor who played the psychiatrist Major Sidney Freedman in the TV comedy M*A*S*H
The long-running Us television comedy M*A*S*H, set during the Korean war, was often perceived as an allegorical look at the Vietnam war, which was still being fought when it began in 1972. But the television show focused less on the specific mindsets of Vietnam which had driven the nihilistic Robert Altman film on which it was based, and in tone was much closer to Joseph Heller's novel Catch-22, with its comedic take on the intrinsic absurdity of war.
No character brought that home more clearly than Major Sidney Freedman, the psychiatrist who appeared in 12 episodes over the show's 11-year run. Freedman was played by Allan Arbus, who has died aged 95. His approach to the mental health of the soldiers, and medics, at the 4077th mobile army surgical hospital unit relied »
- Michael Carlson
M*A*S*H Star Allan Arbus Dead at 95
24 April 2013 6:07 AM, PDT | E! Online | See recent E! Online news »
Allan Arbus, the photographer turned actor best known for playing acerbic psychiatrist Sidney Freedman on M*A*S*H, died Friday at his home in Los Angeles. He was 95. His daughter, Amy Arbus, told The Los Angeles Times the cause of death was complications of congestive heart failure. Arbus only appeared on the long-running CBS series in a dozen episodes but made quite a memorable mark, as his alter ego was known for hurling trademark zingers while tending to the psychic wounds at the fictional 4077th Mobile Army Surgical Hospital. In fact, the thesp did such a good job as Freedman that costar Alan Alda, who played Capt. "Hawkeye" Pierce," often hit him up for some therapeutic advice between »
'M*A*S*H' star Allan Arbus dies at 95
23 April 2013 10:19 PM, PDT | RealBollywood.com | See recent RealBollywood news »
London, Apr 24: Allan Arbus, who played psychiatrist Maj. Sidney Freedman on popular TV show 'M*A*S*H,' died at his home in Los Angeles on Friday. He was 95.
His daughter Amy confirmed her father's death to The New York Times, Fox News reported.
Abrus had served as a military photographer in the army and ran a fashion photography business before becoming an actor.
However, he was so convincing in his role as Maj. Freedman, that co-star Alan Alda often found himself opening up to Arbus.
Alda said in an interview with the Archive of American Television that he was so convinced that the late actor was a psychiatrist. »
- Diksha Singh
TV Reviews: Showtime’s ‘The Big C,’ ‘Nurse Jackie,’ ‘The Borgias’
12 April 2013 7:15 AM, PDT | Variety - TV News | See recent Variety - TV News news »
Although Showtime vaulted into rarefied air with its Emmy win for “Homeland,” the channel continues to offer a spate of shows that clearly have admirers and boast billboard-worthy stars but amount to utility players, failing to reach cable’s elite tier. Two of those, “Nurse Jackie” and “The Borgias,” return April 14, while “The Big C” has been granted the TV equivalent of a dignified death, with four hourlong episodes to conclude the series. A new showrunner hasn’t changed “Jackie” — worth recommending for Edie Falco and not much else — while “Borgias” proves that even papal intrigue and debauchery can grow tiresome.
So if there’s one worth discussing, it’s “The Big C: hereafter” — not because it works, but because the ways in which these episodes fall short illuminate how a promising premise can go wrong, squandering a provocative idea. Even so, credit Showtime with committing to this limited run, »
- Brian Lowry
'50 Children': Alan Alda narrates Holocaust tale for HBO
8 April 2013 12:00 PM, PDT | Zap2It - From Inside the Box | See recent Zap2It - From Inside the Box news »
Were it not for a Philadelphia lawyer and his wife, 50 more children likely would have perished at the hands of the Nazis.
While 50 may sound trifling considering 1.5 million children were killed in the Holocaust, the 50 brought to America represented the largest number of children saved at one time.
The little-known story is told in "50 Children: The Rescue Mission of Mr. and Mrs. Kraus," airing on HBO Monday, April 8, which is Holocaust Remembrance Day.
Alan Alda narrates the well-done documentary, which weaves entries from Eleanor Kraus' journals, read by Mamie Gummer. Interviews with survivors and scholars are interspersed with clips and photos detailing the heartbreak of parents begging strangers to take their children.
"Fundamentally, the most important component of it is you see two individuals recognizing the situation in which they might do something or might not," Paul Shapiro, director of the Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, »
- editorial@zap2it.com
Alan Alda and Steve Pressman talk about HBO's 50 Children: The Rescue Mission Of Mr And Mrs Kraus
8 April 2013 7:15 AM, PDT | eyeforfilm.co.uk | See recent eyeforfilm.co.uk news »
HBO and the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum presented the New York premiere screening of 50 Children: The Rescue Mission Of Mr And Mrs Kraus last week. The documentary is narrated by Alan Alda, with Mamie Gummer reading from the memoir of Mrs Kraus. Attending the screening were two of the rescued children, Henny Wenkart and Dr Erwin Tepper. At the reception, I had a chance to speak with director Steve Pressman and Alan Alda.
The film tells the story of a Jewish couple from Philadelphia, Gilbert and Eleanor Kraus, who traveled to Austria and Germany in 1939 and managed to repurpose unused visas to bring 50 Jewish children back to America. The single largest-known group of children to emigrate to the Us during the Nazi regime, it is astonishing that the story is practically unknown. The director Steve Pressman explains how he got started with this important »
- Anne-Katrin Titze
HBO Documents Unlikely Saviors Of 50 Holocaust Children
4 April 2013 7:10 PM, PDT | Huffington Post | See recent Huffington Post news »
By Lauren Markoe
Religion News Service
(Rns) Gilbert and Eleanor Kraus lived a comfortable life in 1930s Philadelphia, where he made a good living as a lawyer, and she kept a stylish house.
They were secular Jews who sent their children to a Quaker school, and unlikely candidates for the mission they assigned themselves. Gilbert revealed the plan to his wife as he was shaving in the bathroom, so their young son and daughter would not hear.
He wanted to go to Vienna and save 50 Jewish children from the Nazis.
In 1939, most of the world had not yet learned of Hitler's "Final Solution" to exterminate the Jews of Europe. But the Krauses knew the Nazis had already passed a myriad of laws to harass, ghettoize and impoverish European Jews, who were being brutalized in the streets.
Would she go with him?
From Eleanor Kraus' memoir, and from a documentary to »
- Jahnabi Barooah
Wac's 4th-Year Anniversary Releases Include Star Vehicles for Reynolds, Garfield, Barthelmess
26 March 2013 7:45 PM, PDT | Alt Film Guide | See recent Alt Film Guide news »
Warner Archive Collection 4th anniversary DVD / Blu-ray releases The Warner Archive Collection (aka Wac), which currently has a DVD / Blu-ray library consisting of approximately 1,500 titles, has just turned four. In celebration of its fourth anniversary, Wac is releasing with movies featuring the likes of Jane Powell, Eleanor Parker, and many more stars and filmmakers of yesteryear. (Pictured above: Greer Garson, Debbie Reynolds, Ricardo Montalban in the sentimental 1966 comedy / drama with music The Singing Nun.) For starters, Jane Powell and Debbie Reynolds play siblings in Richard Thorpe's Athena (1954), whose supporting cast includes Edmund Purdom, Vic Damone, frequent Jerry Lewis foil Kathleen Freeman, Citizen Kane's Ray Collins, Tyrone Power's then-wife Linda Christian, former Mr. Universe and future Hercules Steve Reeves, veteran Louis Calhern, not to mention numerology, astrology, and vegetarianism. As per Wac's newsletter, the score by Hugh Martin and Martin Blane "gets a first ever Stereophonic Sound remix for this disc, »
- Andre Soares
Aniston Finds Support For Nude Scene
20 March 2013 5:47 AM, PDT | SneakPeek | See recent SneakPeek news »
Actress Jennifer Aniston confirmed it was not her choice to delete her semi-nude scene from the 2012 Judd Apatow-produced 'rom-com' feature "Wanderlust".
This confirms what Universal Pictures has said all along that "...the scene was shot a bunch of different ways, and we have the best possible version."
The original scene featured Aniston going topless in front of TV news cameras.
In "Wanderlust", directed by David Wain ("Role Models"), Aniston and Paul Rudd are a married couple who try to escape modern society by leaving their 'cushy lives' behind in New York :
"...'George' and 'Linda' are an overextended, stressed out Manhattan couple. After George is downsized out of his job, they find themselves with only one option: to move in with George’s awful brother in Atlanta.
"On the way there, they stumble upon 'Elysium', an idyllic community populated by colorful characters who embrace a different way of looking at things. »
- Michael Stevens
A chat with TV archivist Karen Herman on M*A*S*H, 30 years later (Videos)
1 March 2013 4:27 PM, PST | Monsters and Critics | See recent Monsters and Critics news »
It's hard to believe that 30 years ago, over 100 million viewers tuned in to watch "Goodbye, Farewell, and Amen" . the final episode of M*A*S*H. With a 60.3 rating and 77 share, the 2 ½ hour series finale of the television classic remains the most-watched series finale in history. The Archive of American Television, a key program of the Academy of Television Arts & Science Foundation, has extensive assets surrounding this seminal moment in pop culture, including interviews with Alan Alda, Walter Dishell, Jamie Farr, Burt Metcalfe and more. The videos are available on the Foundation.s website. We were fortunate to chat with television archivist, Karen Herman yesterday about TV and this great series. Monsters and Critics: »
- April Neale
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