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Cinema’s Greatest Villains: The 1970′s
19 May 2013 4:43 PM, PDT | SoundOnSight | See recent SoundOnSight news »
Recent hot cinema topics such as the portrayal of the Mandarin character in Shane Black’s Iron Man 3 and speculations about what classic Star Trek villain Benedict Cumberbatch’s character in J.J Abrams’ Star Trek: Into Darkness was modeled after leading up to the film’s release, among others, underline the importance of great villains in genre cinema.
Creating a great cinematic villain is a difficult goal that makes for an incredibly rewarding and memorable viewer experience when it is achieved.
We’ll now take a look at the greatest film villains. Other writing on this subject tends to be a bit unfocused, as “greatest villain” articles tend to mix live-action human villains with animated characters and even animals. Many of these articles also lack a cohesive quality as they attempt to cover too much ground at once by spanning all of film history.
This article focuses on the 1970’s, »
- Terek Puckett
Why were the Baftas so white? Because there aren't enough black people on TV | Paterson Joseph
17 May 2013 3:21 AM, PDT | The Guardian - TV News | See recent The Guardian - TV News news »
Having been a juror, I know the problem doesn't lie with Bafta – but with the way that British TV holds back non-white actors
Last Sunday saw the most successful television Baftas ever. An estimated 6.1 million tuned in to watch "us" congratulating … "us". However, some found cause to be disappointed rather than celebratory.
Lenny Henry's comments on how very obviously white this year's ceremony was met with an echo among those of us who notice these too-frequent omissions. "What's the matter with those people? What were the judges doing?" he asked. Good question.
Having had the privilege a few years ago to give Jimmy Nesbitt his best actor award and this year been a juror on the committee that went for Sheridan Smith in Mrs Biggs as best actress, I may be in a decent position to gauge where Bafta stands when it comes to diversity in its awards process »
- Paterson Joseph
Oak Cliff Film Fest Adds End Of The Road, Shadow Of The Bat-man, McCabe & Mrs. Miller And More
15 May 2013 2:00 PM, PDT | Twitch | See recent Twitch news »
For its second edition, the Oak Cliff Film Festival in Dallas, Texas (which produced an amazing bumper video), has added some rarely-seen older films to a lineup built around local premieres of Joe Swanberg's Drinking Buddies and Bobcat Goldthwait's Willow Creek. The repertory screenings, a 35mm specialty of the Texas Theatre, sound fantastic. Robert Altman's McCabe & Mrs. Miller looks absolutely splendid on 35mm -- I saw it a few years ago in Los Angeles and it was revelatory on the big screen -- and this screening will be hosted by muti-talented filmmaker David Lowery (Ain't Them Bodies Saints), with Keith Carradine in attendance. End of the Road (1970), based on a novel by John Barth, stars Stacy Keach and James Earl Jones; Roger Ebert...
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Kathryn Bigelow, Jon Avnet, Anne Coates Tapped For AFI Degrees
14 May 2013 9:00 AM, PDT | Variety - Film News | See recent Variety - Film News news »
The American Film Institute will confer honoraray doctorate of fine arts degrees upon Kathryn Bigelow and Anne V. Coates and a doctorate of communications on Jon Avnet.
Avnet will be recognized for his contributions to AFI while Bigelow and Coates are being heralded for their “contributions of distinction” to the art of the moving image.
The degrees will be presented during the AFI Conservatory’s commencement ceremony on June 12 at the El Capitan Theater.
Previous AFI honorary degrees have been given to Robert Altman, Maya Angelou, Mel Brooks, Clint Eastwood, Roger Ebert, James Earl Jones, Nora Ephron, Jeffrey Katzenberg, Kathleen Kennedy, John Lasseter, Spike Lee, David Lynch, Helen Mirren, Haskell Wexler and John Williams.
Avnet is an AFI alumnus and serves as vice chair of the board of trustees. His credits as a director, writer and producer include “Black Swan,” “Fried Green Tomatoes,” “Risky Business” and “The History Boys.”
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- Dave McNary
May The Fourth Be With You
4 May 2013 5:56 AM, PDT | Huffington Post | See recent Huffington Post news »
Few franchises can compete with the "Star Wars" fan base, so it's no surprise that Jedi lovers all over the world have succeeded in turning May 4th from an average calendar day to the most 'puntastic' unofficial holiday that American pop culture has ever produced. One more time for those slow on the pickup -- May the Fourth Be With You -- get it?
In fact, modern day "Star Wars" fans are not the first to take the line "May the force be with you" to the next level. When late Margaret Thatcher was elected Britain's first female Prime Minister on May 4, 1979, her popculture savvy party placed an ad in The London Evening News reading "May the Fourth Be with You, Maggie. Congratulations."
So unless the British parliament is more clued into American entertainment, you're well aware of the significance behind the phrase "may the force be with you." However, »
- Irina Dvalidze
Potential Tony Contenders Include Weaver, Hanks, Midler, Rudd
29 April 2013 7:25 PM, PDT | Alt Film Guide | See recent Alt Film Guide news »
Tony Award 2013 nominations: Broadway-Hollywood connections include Sigourney Weaver, Tom Hanks, Paul Rudd, Bette Midler (photo: Sigourney Weaver in Vanya and Sonya and Masha and Spike) The 2013 Tony Award nominations will be announced tomorrow, April 30. Among this year’s potential Tony nominees are a number of film-related performers, ranging from Academy Award nominees and winners such as Sigourney Weaver, Tom Hanks, and Jessica Chastain to The Avengers‘ Scarlett Johansson, Our Idiot Brother and Dinner for Schmucks‘ Paul Rudd, and Tom Cruise’s ex-wife Katie Holmes. Two-time Oscar winner Tom Hanks (Philadelphia, Forrest Gump) may be up for a Best Actor in a Play Tony Award for Nora Ephron’s Lucky Guy. Ephron, who died last year, directed Hanks in two of his biggest box-office hits: Sleepless in Seattle (1993) and You’ve Got Mail (1998), both co-starring Meg Ryan. Another potential Best Actor nominee is David Hyde Pierce (Nixon, Down with Love) for »
- Andre Soares
Watch: Conan's Full Speech
28 April 2013 8:09 AM, PDT | Huffington Post | See recent Huffington Post news »
Conan O'Brien was the featured performer at the White House Correspondents' Dinner on Saturday night, and he had fun at the expense of Democrats, Republicans, CNN, North Korea, Al Roker, and, yes, HuffPost.
Some of Conan's best lines:
On CNN:
"CNN's ratings are so low, now James Earl Jones says, 'You're watching CNN?!'"
On Twitter:
"If any of you are live tweeting this event, please use the hashtag #incapableoflivinginthemoment."
On the NRA:
"How freakin' crazy do you have to be to be the actual president of the NRA."
On Obama:
"Your hair is so white, it could be a member of your cabinet."
And finally, he gave it up for his hometown, Boston:
"If you're going to pick on a city, don't pick one where 9 out of 10 people are related to a cop."
This was the second time O'Brien was the performer at the dinner, 18 years after his »
- Ross Luippold
White House Correspondents' Dinner: President Obama on NBC, 'The Bible,' and Taylor Swift. Plus: Conan O'Brien's best jokes
27 April 2013 11:12 PM, PDT | EW.com - PopWatch | See recent EW.com - PopWatch news »
C-Span insistently stamped the hashtag “NerdProm” on their coverage of this year’s White House Correspondents’ Dinner, but the annual political roast looked more like Washington’s answer to the Golden Globes. By which I mean, there were several pointed jokes and untold gallons of booze. Conan O’Brien was the official comedy diplomat of the night — a return trip for the late-night host, who slung jokes in President Clinton’s direction back in 1995. But O’Brien was overshadowed by his opener: President Barack Obama, who took the opportunity to make several jabs at NBC, CNN, and even Taylor Swift. »
- Darren Franich
Apropos of nothing: Sequels you had no idea existed, from 'Ace Ventura 3' to 'Air Bud 8'
27 April 2013 6:00 AM, PDT | EW.com - PopWatch | See recent EW.com - PopWatch news »
Bless you, direct-to-dvd industry, for churning out endlessly amusing extensions of movies that never should have been franchises in the first place. An EW staffer casually mentioned the third Ace Ventura movie earlier today, inspiring a group of us to reminisce about the most random sequels we could think of — sequels many of us were hearing about for the first time.
And so, in honor of both these little-discussed gems and the gift that is Friday afternoon, here’s a list of the genre’s most unassuming entries. Caution: It’s about to get all nostalgic up in here. (Like that’s a surprise. »
- Hillary Busis
British actors as Hollywood villains: Alan Rickman, Jason Isaacs, more
22 April 2013 1:01 AM, PDT | Digital Spy | See recent Digital Spy - Movie News news »
In the Hollywood handbook of character shorthand, a British actor is pretty high up on the list of ways to swiftly establish somebody as a bad'un. As villain clichés go, it's just above 'underground lair' and slightly below 'unexpectedly offing a loyal henchman'.
Ben Kingsley's doing his bit to keep the stereotype alive this month, playing the formidable Mandarin who makes it his mission to destroy Tony Stark's world in Iron Man 3.
Plus, just in case you've been living under a rock or in a coma, Benedict Cumberbatch plays much-discussed villain John Harrison in next month's Star Trek Into Darkness, and he's dominated Paramount's entire marketing campaign so completely that the character already feels weirdly iconic.
So with Brit baddies more in vogue than ever, Digital Spy takes a look back over six of the best...
1. Alan Rickman as Hans Gruber, Die Hard (1988)
"You oughta be on f**king TV with that accent, »
Nina Shaw Has Repped the Leading Players in TV and Furthered Their Careers
16 April 2013 6:00 AM, PDT | Variety - TV News | See recent Variety - TV News news »
Nina Shaw has demonstrated a keen eye for emerging talent over the years, from Oscar-winner Jamie Foxx, signed when he was ensemble player on Fox TV’s sketch comedy “In Living Color” in the early 1990s, to Ava DuVernay, whom she helped transition from publicist to best director winner at Sundance for “Middle of Nowhere” in 2012.
But according to Shaw — who’s being honored on April 16 as 2013 Entertainment Lawyer of the Year by the Beverly Hills Bar Assn. — the secret to her success is more elemental. “I’m incredibly tenacious, but I also try so hard in my work to really listen to people and address their point of view,” says Shaw, who co-founded the firm Del, Shaw, Moonves, Tanaka and Finkelstein with Ernest Del in 1989. “In the end I always remember who I’m an advocate for.”
Recent beneficiaries of that advocacy include talkshow host Arsenio Hall, whom she »
- Todd Longwell
Why Morgan Freeman And His CV Deserve Your Respect
15 April 2013 5:08 AM, PDT | Obsessed with Film | See recent Obsessed with Film news »
There is a bit of a controversy going on over in America (where else?) that besides the Obamacare controversy, Obama gun control controversy, Obama is black controversy, North Korea controversy, the Iraq invasion controversy, Lincoln didn’t win the Oscar controversy, music/video pirating controversy, the immigrant controversy, bank bail out controversy, drone controversy, oil pipeline controversy, Ray-j controversy, baseball doping controversy, legalized marijuana controversy and FBI spying on the internet controversy some people still have the energy to be indignant at Morgan Freeman’s Ama (Ask Me Anything) interview on Reddit recently, claiming that it seems the interview itself was a hoax and that was not the 70 year old award-winning actor but some PR shill pretending to be Morgan Freeman.
Reddit’s Ama format has become quite popular as of late for celebrities to try and reach or get back new fans that have tuned out of the usual »
- jay royston
Catching A Buzz: Melissa Harris-Perry Grabs Olbermann’s Baton, Makes Waves For MSNBC
10 April 2013 6:30 PM, PDT | Mediaite - TV | See recent Mediaite - TV news »
“Just get buzz…” That’s what a former MSNBC anchor recently told me is the primary objective of network President Phil Griffin. Create some noise, get some free press—good or bad—doesn’t matter. It’s all about drawing people to a place they otherwise wouldn’t visit. In the words of James Earl Jones, “Oh…people will come, Ray. People will most definitely come. “ »
- Joe Concha
Idiot's Guide to the 'Scary Movie' Movies
9 April 2013 11:00 AM, PDT | NextMovie | See recent NextMovie news »
Warning: Calling the following piece an "Idiot's Guide" is a bit of a misnomer. You may or may not be aware of what happens in the "Scary Movie" movies, but there's no way you will emerge from reading this a smarter person overall. I just watched all four "Scary Movie" movies consecutively and my brain is currently curled up in a ball shivering in a far corner of my skull, asking what it did to deserve that.
That said, it is true that you will know more about the "Scary Movie" franchise — a Lot more — after having read this piece. We here at NextMovie would hate to see you go into "Scary Movie 5" without having a lick of knowledge about the first four movies. Imagine the embarrassment in front of your friends! "Ugh, you didn't know that The Oracle, played by Queen Latifah in a spoof of 'The Matrix, »
- Nick Blake
Blu-ray Review: ‘The Sandlot’ Still Charms, But Rerelease Disappoints
9 April 2013 7:06 AM, PDT | HollywoodChicago.com | See recent HollywoodChicago.com news »
Chicago – 1993 will be nostalgically remembered by many members of my generation as the summer of “Jurassic Park” and the spring of “The Sandlot.” If you were a movie-loving kid during this year, it’s highly likely both of these films occupied a corner of your imagination. I clearly remember how the junkyard dog, dubbed by neighborhood pals in “The Sandlot” as “the Beast,” seemed as terrifying as any T-Rex.
Since I was seven years old in 1993, my parents wouldn’t allow me to be traumatized by Spielberg’s monster movie (I later saw it on VHS during a snow day, and was absolutely spellbound). But I did see “The Sandlot,” and prided myself on being able to handle the gleefully scary scenes where a group of boys attempts to snatch a prized baseball from the jaws of the Beast. Viewed 20 years later, I now see why it was so effortless »
- adam@hollywoodchicago.com (Adam Fendelman)
Best Movie Ever?: "The Sandlot"
8 April 2013 11:24 AM, PDT | The Backlot | See recent The Backlot news »
What, you're too good for a kiddy movie about baseball? You're killing me, Smalls.
Let's start with the most shocking statistic of all: This is the third baseball movie I've considered for "Best Movie Ever?" status. Unsettling, right? A League of Their Own and The Bad News Bears are worthy candidates, but it's still dubious news. I didn't even pick the baseball movie with Glenn Close in it! Why, Louis, why?! (That movie is terribly boring is why. Even Glenn thinks her role was "orbitally written." Also, Robert Redford does nothing for me. Or You. Unless he's directing Timothy Hutton to break our hearts, of course.)
The Sandlot is a juvenile movie with a buttery nostalgic glow, but its starring team of ragtag 12-year-olds is never saccharine, corny, or phony. These kids chew tobacco, use swear words, and embarrass themselves constantly, and therefore The Sandlot is a very effective, nostalgic »
- virtel
TV on Tap: "The Carrie Diaries" Wraps, a "Vampire Diaries" Fave Returns and "S.H.I.E.L.D." Becomes an "Angel" Reunion
8 April 2013 5:28 AM, PDT | The Backlot | See recent The Backlot news »
The Carrie Diaries wraps its first season with brunch.
ABC's S.H.I.E.L.D. pilot (now titled Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. so that fanboys can start asking when does Kitty Pride show up) has turned into an Angel reunion with J. August Richards joining the cast in an undisclosed role.
CNN is reviving Crossfire because, at this point, the show Jon Stewart once described as "hurting America" and James Earl Jones' voice is all CNN has left.
Shonda Rhimes gets a lot of praise for the racial diversity in her shows, but there's another admirable trend in her work, all of her shows have included adoptive parents.
EW reports that American Dad is planning an episode where Stan and Francine team up with a quartet of Charlie's Angels-style flight attendants played by Becki Newton, Thandie Newton, CSI: Miami's Megalyn Echikunwoke and Gillian Jacobs. »
- LyleMasaki
CNN’s ‘Crossfire’ Back In June; Cancelled In 2005
6 April 2013 3:44 PM, PDT | Deadline TV | See recent Deadline TV news »
After the failed week long experiment of (Get To) The Point and the unsteady The Lead With Jake Tapper, Jeff Zucker is looking for a blast from the past to revive CNN. The ratings-struggling cable new network is bringing back Crossfire in June, network insiders tell me. No hosts have been chosen yet, the sources say. Nor is it clear if the show will definitely remain a half hour, as the original Crossfire was, or go longer. Right now it seems that Crossfire 2.0 is slated to have a variety of CNN personalities and contributors taking up the “left” and “right” roles on the new version of the political debate show. A CNN standard almost from the begining, Crossfire ran on the network in both daytime and primetime from 1982 until it was cancelled in 2005. Crossfire isn’t the first piece of CNN history Zucker has brought back since taking over in January. »
- DOMINIC PATTEN
The 9 Most Badass Artificial Limbs in Movies
5 April 2013 1:36 PM, PDT | NextMovie | See recent NextMovie news »
At this point, it's common knowledge that fighting off herds of the undead or intergalactic rebels requires more than just a few hand-held weapons. In fact, sometimes it requires more than just hands.
Sure, our limbs accomplish a myriad number of essential tasks every day – walking, kicking holding things, pointing, giving people the finger – but the sad truth is that they'll never be able to spray a hail of bullets or eviscerate enemies on their own. For those special battle-ready features, the body requires a few extra enhancements beyond what God gave you. After all, why replace a leg with a dopey wooden peg when a fully-loaded machine gun will do just fine?
In honor of the "Evil Dead" reboot and the franchise's longtime celebration of weaponized extremities, we've compiled a list of nine characters who turned a lost limb or imminent threat into an opportunity to upgrade their bodies »
- Nick DeSantis
American Masters Review - Joe Papp in Five Acts (2010)
4 April 2013 3:21 PM, PDT | Flickeringmyth | See recent Flickeringmyth news »
For those attending the 2013 Toronto Jewish Film Festival, they will be able to see the documentary Joe Papp in Five Acts (2010) which is to be aired as part of the PBS series American Masters back in 2010. The story is as educational as the man who decided to bring the plays of William Shakespeare to the masses by orchestrating free stage performances. “I believe that great art is for everyone--not just the rich or the middle class," stated Papp. "When I go into East Harlem or Bedford-Stuyvesant and see the kids who come to see our shows, I see nothing so clearly as myself.”
Not only did the theatre company on wheels entertain audience members it also proved to be a fertile training ground for developing actors, playwrights, and future Broadway productions. The multi-tasking duo of Tracie Holder and Karen Thorsen who produced, directed and wrote the project have assembled a »
- Trevor
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