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At Last! 'Foxy Brown' Is Finally Coming To Blu-Ray (There's One Catch Though...)
4 hours ago | ShadowAndAct | See recent ShadowAndAct news »
Well like it’s about bloody time! Finally a Pam Grier film is going out on blu-ray DVD and It’s Foxy Brown. If you’ve seen it, then you know what the big deal is. And if you haven’t then, 1) there is no excuse, and 2) I can’t help you. And check out these extra features, including a restored high definition presentation “for the first time in the world”, audio commentary by director Jack Hill, the documentary "From Black and White to Blaxploitation" in which actor Sid Haig speaks about his long and influential friendship with Hill, and another doc "A Not So Minor Influence" which is an interview with Bob Minor, the first black member of the Stuntman's »
- Sergio
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
Pam Grier Is Playing Assassins In 2 Upcoming Feature Projects (One w/ Olympia Dukakis)
3 April 2013 2:12 PM, PDT | ShadowAndAct | See recent ShadowAndAct news »
The interview itself is certainly worth listening to, so you don't have to skip ahead to the key few minutes when she talks about what projects she's currently attached to star in. It's part of the Film Society of Lincoln Center's film series, Foxy, The Complete Pam Grier, a retrospective of all her films, which took place 2 weekends ago here in NYC. Grier herself was present for several of the screenings, after which she sat with a moderator for a Q&A session. I encourage you to watch them all. Just go to the Film Society's YouTube channel and you'll find most of them. The below embed features the Q&A session that followed the screening of Coffy, which »
- Tambay A. Obenson
'Real Housewives of Atlanta' Season 5 finale recap and poll: Vote for best and worst housewives
31 March 2013 7:45 PM, PDT | Zap2It - From Inside the Box | See recent Zap2It - From Inside the Box news »
Another dynamic season of "The Real Housewives of Atlanta" has come to an end in suitably eventful fashion.
Newcomer Kenya Moore has been shaking things up all season long, so it figures that tensions came to a head at her Hollywood costume party intended to "honor black iconic women in film." Kenya assigned each of the Housewives a costume personally selected to suit their personality: Kandi was Angela Bassett as Tina Turner from "What's Love Got To Do With It,' Cynthia was Diana Ross from "Mahogany," NeNe was Grace Jones from "Boomerang" and Phaedra was Eartha Kitt's Catwoman from the "Batman" TV series. Kenya kept her own costume a secret but ultimately revealed her choice: Pam Grier from "Foxy Brown"
But the season's other newbie, Porsha Stewart, was so offended by Kenya's choice for her -- Halle Berry from "B*A*P*S" -- that she decided to »
- editorial@zap2it.com
'2 Broke Girls' star Garrett Morris on his love of women and 'CSI'
27 March 2013 12:07 PM, PDT | Pop2it | See recent Pop2it news »
Comedian Garrett Morris is a show business veteran. Following his first TV role, an appearance on the soap opera "General Hospital" in 1963, Morris hit it big as a member of the original "Saturday Night Live" cast.
In addition acting, Morris is an accomplished singer. After training at the prestigious Juilliard School of Music, he performed as a soloist for the Harry Belafonte Singers, and appeared in numerous Broadway musicals.
Now, viewers can tune in to see Morris weekly on CBS's "2 Broke Girls" as Earl, the cashier at the Williamsburg Diner and father figure to Max (Kat Dennings). He's also the man behind Garrett Morris' Downtown Blues & Comedy Club. Located in Los Angeles, Cal., the club offers a unique mix of live music performances and stand up comedy.
Recently, Morris sat down to answer some of Zap2it's Survey Says questions. Read on to find out about his celebrity crush, »
- editorial@zap2it.com
When Pam Grier Met Federico Fellini And Taught Him How To Make Fried Pigeon...
18 March 2013 4:11 PM, PDT | ShadowAndAct | See recent ShadowAndAct news »
Over the weekend, I learned that Pam Grier follows Shadow & Act! Needless to say, that made my day. It was also over the weekend (March 15-17) that the Film Society of Lincoln Center (NYC) ran its film series, Foxy, The Complete Pam Grier, a retrospective of all her films, several of them highlighted by the attendance of Grier herself, ending on Sunday with a live conversation with Ms Grier, during which she took the stage to discuss her storied career, illustrated by clips from some of her most audacious and unforgettable performances. I wasn't able to attend that conversation (although I was present for earlier functions), but the folks at Flavorwire were there, and they »
- Tambay A. Obenson
Super-8 Politically Incorrect Movie Madness Coming April 2nd to St. Louis
18 March 2013 10:33 AM, PDT | WeAreMovieGeeks.com | See recent WeAreMovieGeeks.com news »
April 2nd at The Way Out Club will be a night of racism, sexism, homophobia, and perversion! It’s Super-8 Politically Incorrect Movie Madness where we’ll be showing a dozen films on Super-8 Sound Film (most in condensed format) guaranteed to offend the sensibilities of everyone in attendance. Prepare to be outraged!
We’re not out to insult or anger anyone with Super-8 Politically Incorrect Movie Madness but to show the ways Hollywood has presented a host of now-taboo topics over the past 80 years. We have two of the infamous censored Looney Tunes cartoons long-banned from broadcast due to their racial stereotyping: Jungle Jitters (1938) and All This And Rabbit Stew (1941) featuring Bugs Bunny hunted by a slow-witted Black hunter who sounds and looks like Stepin Fetchit. We’re showing two of the bizarre pre-code Baby Burlesque shorts: in Kid N’ Africa (1933) Shirley Temple is terrorized by cannibals played by »
- Tom Stockman
K-11 | Review
15 March 2013 7:00 AM, PDT | ioncinema | See recent ioncinema news »
Hamshank Redemption: Stewart’s Debut a Trashy, Lurid Queersploitation Effort
Jules Stewart, mother of that actress Kristen Stewart, makes a curious and fascinatingly trashy exploitation grindhouse directorial debut with K-11, which plays like one of those women in prison shockers made in the 70s with names like Pam Grier or Mercedes McCambridge headlining. Here we see a number of familiar faces populating the queer and transgendered ward of a Los Angeles County Prison, and while the end result is not actually empowering, it does have a lurid and arresting appeal, not unlike an overtly insistent train wreck.
Raymond Saxx Jr. (Goran Visnjic) is a highly successful record producer that gets thrown into county in the middle of a hellish drug binge. When he finally recovers consciousness, he learns that he has been accused of killing one of his more famous musical clients in some sort of drug induced rage of jealousy. »
- Nicholas Bell
Linky Brown
15 March 2013 4:40 AM, PDT | FilmExperience | See recent FilmExperience news »
Vulture "How to Hug a Puppy" by Tom Hardy
Cinema Blend one man Disney Princess meets real world musical... after the ever after part
Pajiba best performances from SXSW films
Chud Veronica Mars and the invention of "pay to pay for play"
i09 producers "notes" on Blade Runner... which they hated
NPR on real life Ginger & Rosas in the 60s
Empire on the latest big project director shuffle - Ang Lee considering a Spielberg drop and Tom Hooper looking at the Sacha Baron Cohen Freddie Mercury biopic
Coming Soon star portraits from the final day of The Wolverine production. Hugh Jackman and the ladies
Guardian the writer of the fake Haneke twitter account on Michael Haneke
Finally, if you're in Gotham, you should know that Pam Grier, Jackie Brown and Foxy Brown herself, is getting the weekend festival treatment at the Walter Reade right now. She'll be appearing tonight for »
- NATHANIEL R
Starting This Friday: 'Foxy, The Complete Pam Grier,' A Retrospective At Lincoln Center (NYC)
12 March 2013 9:48 AM, PDT | ShadowAndAct | See recent ShadowAndAct news »
I was watching Foxy Brown again last night, and remembered that this starts this week - on Friday to be exact! So I thought I'd post a reminder for all you New Yorkers, or those of you who'll be in New York this weekend! Something to do... Even though I've seen almost every one of Pam Grier's films, I actually haven't seen most of them on the big screen, in a theatrical setting (especially the older films), so this is a retrospective I'll make an effort to attend. Plus, Pam Grier will be present, in-person, for several of the screenings, as well as for a one-on-one conversation with Grier, which is all only icing on the cake. All the details, including the films that'll screen, as »
- Tambay A. Obenson
'Leprechaun' Star Warwick Davis: An Unofficial Biography
11 March 2013 5:00 AM, PDT | NextMovie | See recent NextMovie news »
Warwick Davis has been a part of our lives as movie fans for three decades, starring as Wicket the Ewok in "Return of the Jedi" and later as the title character in "Willow" before starring in the "Leprechaun" movies and in every "Harry Potter" film in the franchise. Quite the career!
The following mini-biography marks a few significant dates in Davis' life, complete with fun facts that you may not have known about the esteemed English thespian.
February 3, 1970: Born to narcissist parents Warren and Harwick Davis in Epsom, Surrey, UK.
April 25, 1977: Sees "Star Wars" for the first time with his older brother, Meriweather. During the show, he allegedly points to the screen and whispers something to Meriweather that would seem to have amazingly prophesied his future: "One day, Meriweather, I'm going to play a murderous leprechaun in a film franchise that will launch the career of a promising young actress named Jennifer Aniston. »
- Nick Blake
Blu-ray Review: ‘The Man with the Iron Fists’ Scrapes Bottom of Kung Fu Barrel
22 February 2013 4:00 AM, PST | HollywoodChicago.com | See recent HollywoodChicago.com news »
Chicago – “The Man with the Iron Fists” is the most tedious picture in many a moon. How, you may ask, can wall-to-wall action possibly by tedious? Two reasons: 1.) The action is nonstop, and 2.) The characters are impossible to care about. The single take of Uma Thurman’s devastated outburst upon awakening from her coma is the emotional hook that keeps the audience engaged as she wreaks her path of vengeance through both volumes of “Kill Bill.”
RZA’s unfortunate directorial debut lacks that crucial moment designed to spur an audience’s emotional involvement. Instead, it hurls the viewer headfirst through an assortment of blood-spattered plot threads so needlessly complicated and breathlessly detailed that they are rendered quickly incoherent. The plot doesn’t matter anyway, since it serves solely as a clothesline for gratuitous action sequences recycled from older, vastly superior kung fu blockbusters—the kind that RZA and his pal »
- adam@hollywoodchicago.com (Adam Fendelman)
Music in Film: Django Unchained
19 February 2013 1:21 AM, PST | Den of Geek | See recent Den of Geek news »
Feature Ivan Radford 21 Feb 2013 - 07:47
Quentin Tarantino's use of pre-recorded songs comes under the spotlight in Ivan's latest Music in Film...
“I don’t normally use original score. I don’t trust any composer to do it.”
That’s Quentin Tarantino in a nutshell: his love of music rivals his love of film. A new Tarantino album is now an event in itself, so it’s hard not to devote an entire column to the director with Django Unchained in cinemas.
Eclectic is the word most used to describe Tarantino’s soundtracks, which hop around his record collection like an excited teenager who just snuck into his parent’s bedroom. Django is no exception, but marks the largest amount of original music in any of his films to date.
Just how big a deal is that?
The director’s use of music has changed over the years. Back »
- ryanlambie
The Oscar for most criminally ignored performances by the Academy - Actress Nominations
18 February 2013 11:24 AM, PST | Flickeringmyth | See recent Flickeringmyth news »
Tom Jolliffe on the female acting performances criminally overlooked by the Academy for Oscar recognition...
It’s often said that the men in the acting world, particularly Hollywood, have monopolised the best roles. Most biopics are about great (or heinous) men from history. We see more heroes than we see heroines and so on. Some actresses do their level best to break down the wall that often greets them, such as Meryl Streep. That said there are often some truly memorable performances by the ladies which still get overlooked by the Academy, unless of course you’re Meryl Streep, who can get an Oscar nomination just by getting out of bed in the morning!
Here are a few of the sadly overlooked...
Spacek has had a fantastic career, often portraying characters with a quiet complexity that thoroughly transfixes the audience. The film which brought her to attention, »
- Flickering Myth
Pam Grier, Park Chan-wook in person and more NYC screenings
12 February 2013 12:32 PM, PST | Fangoria | See recent Fangoria news »
• The Film Society of Lincoln Center just announced the lineup for its “Foxy, The Complete Pam Grier” series, running Friday-Sunday, March 15-17 at the Walter Reade Theater (165 West 65th Street) and the Elinor Bunin Munroe Film Center (144 West 65th Street, noted with a below). While not every one of the cult-fave actress’ movies are showing, it’s a very healthy selection, with Grier herself attending several of the screenings. Here’s the complete rundown:
Friday, March 15
2 p.m.: Black Mama, White Mama
4 p.m.: Foxy Brown
6 p.m.: The Big Bird Cage with Grier in attendance
8:15 p.m.: Jackie Brown with Grier in attendance
11:59 p.m.: Scream, Blacula, Scream (pictured above) with Grier in attendance*
Saturday, March 16
4:45 p.m.: Above The Law
7 p.m.: Greased Lightning with Grier in attendance
9:30 p.m.: Coffy with Grier in attendance
Sunday, »
- gingold@starloggroup.com (Michael Gingold)
Pam Grier, Park Chan-wook in person and more NYC screenings
12 February 2013 12:32 PM, PST | Fangoria | See recent Fangoria news »
• The Film Society of Lincoln Center just announced the lineup for its “Foxy, The Complete Pam Grier” series, running Friday-Sunday, March 15-17 at the Walter Reade Theater (165 West 65th Street) and the Elinor Bunin Munroe Film Center (144 West 65th Street, noted with a below). While not every one of the cult-fave actress’ movies are showing, it’s a very healthy selection, with Grier herself attending several of the screenings. Here’s the complete rundown:
Friday, March 15
2 p.m.: Black Mama, White Mama
4 p.m.: Foxy Brown
6 p.m.: The Big Bird Cage with Grier in attendance
8:15 p.m.: Jackie Brown with Grier in attendance
11:59 p.m.: Scream, Blacula, Scream (pictured above) with Grier in attendance*
Saturday, March 16
4:45 p.m.: Above The Law
7 p.m.: Greased Lightning with Grier in attendance
9:30 p.m.: Coffy with Grier in attendance
Sunday, »
- gingold@starloggroup.com (Michael Gingold)
'Foxy, The Complete Pam Grier' - A Retrospective Coming To Lincoln Center (NYC) In March
12 February 2013 10:18 AM, PST | ShadowAndAct | See recent ShadowAndAct news »
This is great! Even though I've seen almost every one of Pam Grier's films, I actually haven't seen most of them on the big screen, in a theatrical setting (especially the older films), so this is a retrospective I'll make an effort to attend. Plus, Pam Grier will be present, in-person, for several of the screenings, which is only icing on the cake. All the details, including the films that'll screen, as well as their screening days and times, via press release from The Film Society of Lincoln Center below: The Film Society of Lincoln Center announces Foxy, The Complete Pam Grier March 15-17 In-person at The Big Bird Cage; Coffy; Greased Lightning; »
- Tambay A. Obenson
New DVD Blu-Ray: 'Skyfall,' 'Perks of Being a Wallflower'
11 February 2013 11:03 AM, PST | Moviefone | See recent Moviefone news »
Moviefone's New Release Pick of the Week "Skyfall" What's It About? Daniel Craig returns as the perma-suave agent who is charged with protecting MI6 and M (Judi Dench) from a ridiculously coiffed villain (Javier Bardem) hell-bent on revenge. See It Because: The movie has been heralded as the best Bond ever. And indeed, "Skyfall" gives fans everything they ever wanted from a 007 flick: a fresh take on the franchise, with a nod to bygone tropes. Click here for your chance to win the 20 Film Best Picture Collection From Warner Bros. Click here for your chance to win the 20 Film Musical Collection From Warner Bros. New on DVD & Blu-ray "Bully" What's It About? A startlingly frank documentary looks into the lives of several small-town teenagers and the daily harassment they receive from school tormentors. Unfortunately, so much media uproar was made about the movie's potential R-rating, that the actual content of the film became an afterthought. »
- Eric Larnick
Mafia is a Bitter Pill to Swallow: A Movie Review
6 February 2013 9:31 AM, PST | 28 Days Later Analysis | See recent 28 Days Later Analysis news »
*full disclosure: a screener of this film was provided by Ketchup Entertainment. Director/writer: Ryan Combs. Cast: Ving Rhames, Pam Grier, Sean Derry and Robert Patrick. Tagline: "He crossed the wrong cop." Mafia is a film from writer and director Ryan Combs. Combs has delivered films such as The Wrath of Cain, Double Tap and other titles you have not heard of. However, cinema fans have likely heard of many members of the cast in this film, which are listed above. These actors struggle with some very weak material. The script is near plotless and the focal point, Ving Rhames as Renzo, is an undeveloped character. Mafia proves that almost every film, good or bad, can have its time in the sun. The story for this film is thin. Renzo is a lackluster crime boss. Renzo's criminal activities involve owning a strip bar and murder. But, he wants to take out the local drug competition, »
- noreply@blogger.com (Michael Allen)
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