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The Apprentice 2012 episode eight: live blog
10 May 2012 3:23 PM, PDT | The Guardian - TV News | See recent The Guardian - TV News news »
The candidates attempt to sell street art
Good evening, and welcome to The Apprentice Week 8 Liveblog! Tonight our teams are endeavouring to sell urban street art, a prospect so terrifying that it makes me want to express myself conceptually through the medium of solvents. Their task is to choose two up-and-coming street artists, then exhibit and sell their work to art-loving hipsters. Prime your bullshit-ometers, people, because they're about to go stratospheric.
I'll be here from 9pm documenting every edgy twist and turn - please join in with your philosophical thoughts and visionary musings in the comment box below. Feel free to wear a baseball cap, pop on a Gorillaz album and stroke your post-ironic chin-fuzz – it's what urban artists do, probably.
Ladyribenaberet is back this week, scouring the comment box for comedy masterpieces worthy of exhibition up here, so be funny. Or, you know, transcend the mundane boundaries of »
- Heidi Stephens
Cary Elwes on 'The Princess Bride': 'I'll be Westley the rest of my life. And I'm cool with that.'
17 April 2012 10:44 AM, PDT | EW.com - PopWatch | See recent EW.com - PopWatch news »
In the first five minutes of the classic film The Princess Bride, a very young Fred Savage is playing a 1980s baseball video game. I hadn’t seen the movie since the advent of Playstation, Xbox, and Wii, and it never struck me as something that might stand out. But this week, sitting in a theater of mega Princess Bride fans — including some who were in costume for the occasion and many who had brought youngsters with them for their first big-screen experience of the film — that beginning moment got one of the biggest laughs of the night. That was »
- Laura Hertzfeld
WWE Tag Teams: The Good, The Bad & The Underrated
17 April 2012 3:00 AM, PDT | Obsessed with Film | See recent Obsessed with Film news »
Impact wrestling is currently advertising the return of its most exciting tag team the Motorcity Machine Guns. But who are they actually going to wrestle when they return? Team 3D are long gone. Beer Money are feuding with each other. Morgan and Crimson have gone kaput. Ok, there’s the obvious choice of tag team champions Samoa Joe and Magnus but should they really be entered into a top feud right off the bat? This only goes to highlight the distinct lack of depth in tag team wrestling as a whole. Tna once had an amazing tag division that helped set it apart from the new champs every week approach of the WWE, but these days they too have seemingly given up the ghost.
It hasn’t always been like this though. Tag teams were once held with great esteem in the business we love, and the tag titles were »
- Matt Aspin
Your next box set: The Six Million Dollar Man
5 April 2012 4:06 PM, PDT | The Guardian - TV News | See recent The Guardian - TV News news »
Steve Austin was Superman, James Bond and Neil Armstrong rolled into one – how could anyone not watch this show?
"Steve Austin … astronaut … a man barely alive. Gentlemen, we can rebuild him. We have the technology. We have the capability to make the world's first bionic man. Steve Austin will be that man. Better than he was before …better, stronger, faster." Those words, familiar to any child of the 1970s, ushered in the weekly adventures of one of the most popular television heroes of all time. Steve Austin was an irresistible creation: a technologically superpowered spy and astronaut (he sometimes wore an unutterably cool jacket emblazoned with Nasa mission patches). He was Superman, James Bond and Neil Armstrong all rolled into one, and $6m was an almost incomprehensibly large amount of money: how could anyone not watch this show?
Running for five seasons, 99 episodes, several movie-length pilots, crossover adventures with the »
- Phelim O'Neill
Top 10: Fighters Turned Actors
30 March 2012 1:55 AM, PDT | Blogomatic3000 | See recent Blogomatic3000 news »
American professional wrestling legend Dave Bautista (The Scorpion King 3: Battle For Redemption) heads an all-star cast in the gritty action-thriller House Of The Rising Sun, which is released on DVD on Monday. The film is based on the novel by formal federal agent Chuck Hustmyre and co-stars Amy Smart (Crank), Danny Trejo (Machete), Craig Fairbrass (The Bank Job) and Dominic Purcell (Prison Break).
To celebrate the launch of the film’s release, we have put together a list of films starring some of sport and fighting’s hardest men…
Enter The Dragon – 1973
No list of fighters turned actor would be complete without Bruce Lee. Widely considered to be the best Martial Arts expert ever, he even invented his own Martial Arts philosophy – Jeet Kune Do. Before dying at the age of 32 Lee starred in a string of Kung Fu movies the best known of which is Enter The Dragon. »
- Phil
New 1984 Adaptation In The Works
21 March 2012 7:54 PM, PDT | cinemablend.com | See recent Cinema Blend news »
John Carter may not have been a hit at the box office, but that doesn't mean that classic science-fiction stories are never going to be pursued for the big screen ever again. Just talk to anyone at Imagine Entertainment. According to THR, the studio, which is run by Brian Grazer and Ron Howard, is currently developing a new film based on George Orwell's 1984 along with Lbi Entertainment. Because the project is in such early stages there isn't a writer or director attached yet, but there is one very interesting name involved: Shepard Fairey. The trade says that the street artist - who is best known for the Barack Obama "Hope" poster as well as the "Obey" campaign with Andre The Giant - was "instrumental" in getting the movie this far and could wind up being credited as a producer. Published in 1949, the novel told the story of a dystopian future »
The Top Five Greatest Movies Starring Pro Wrestlers
22 February 2012 5:00 AM, PST | MTV Movies Blog | See recent MTV Movies Blog news »
by Joel Hanek
With the Oscars coming up just around the corner, it’s time that we pay tribute to some of the most versatile and overlooked actors: professional wrestlers. They are masters of the live performance, can pull out surprisingly funny and heart-felt performances on screen, and have convinced me to eat more processed meat than any other acting demographic on the planet. (Rest in peace, Macho Man!)
While these giant men in tights make cameos as the unidentified goon in every other action movie (I’m looking at you, Kevin Nash), here are my picks for the top five starring roles for pro-wrestlers in film.
5. "Walking Tall" (2004)
Way before Dwayne Johnson starred in PG-rated family friendly flicks and even way before he became the franchise savior, the man formerly known as The Rock was destined to be the new Arnold of the action world. In this remake of »
- MTV Movies Team
Reel Sex: The Top 14 Most Romantic Movie Scenes: Part Two
9 February 2012 7:21 PM, PST | FilmSchoolRejects.com | See recent FilmSchoolRejects news »
As we approach Valentine’s Day (yes, it’s just a few days away) I think it’s only fitting that the topic of romance come into play in anticipation of the day meant to celebrate all things feelings. I’m not sure about you, but I have actually never celebrated Valentine’s Day with a loved one not related to me. Instead I spend the day (or week) loading up on conversational hearts, Reese Peanut Butter cups, and a collection of melodramas so depressing I become skeptical that love can actually end in anything but death. Regardless of my tendency to eat my feelings while crying over the tragic love found in Douglas Sirk films, I do enjoy happy love stories and tend to pair the sadder movies with some of my must-have romances. In honor of the big V-Day, I’d like to share my favorite 14 romantic scenes and also open it up the floor »
- Gwen Reyes
The Morning Round-Up: 'The Middle,' 'Suburgatory,' 'Modern Family' & 'Happy Endings'
9 February 2012 8:11 AM, PST | Hitfix | See recent Hitfix news »
It's morning round-up time, with quick reviews of all four of ABC's Wednesday night comedies, going in chronological order — "The Middle," then "Suburgatory," "Modern Family" and "Happy Endings" — coming up just as soon as as I explain the reverse Andre the Giant to you... "The Middle" is one of those shows that I tend to let sit on the DVR for a while, so by the time I've seen an episode, it's long past time for any interesting discussion here. But they've been having a very strong, consistent season — with the exception of the unfortunate Passat commercial disguised »
- Alan Sepinwall
Robert Greene, “Fake It So Real”
13 January 2012 11:12 AM, PST | Filmmaker Magazine - Blog | See recent Filmmaker Magazine news »
Big-time professional wrestling has long been a lucrative business, but for the men of Lincolnton, North Carolina’s Millenium Wrestling Federation, the social cohesion and outlet for their imagination the sport provides is their primary compensation. As chronicled in director Robert Greene’s fantastic new documentary Fake It So Real, wrestling has never seemed as intense and physically costly. Yet Greene is not interested in mining the sport for tales of snake-bitten men reaching for a glory that will never come; this isn’t a doc version of The Wrestler. Woebegone men are few and far between in this world, despite the fact that Lincolnton seemingly doesn’t provide much in terms of career prospects. A sense of community and mutually-appreciated craft pervades the scene.
Fake It So Real is Greene’s second festival hit in as many years. His debut film Kati with an I was nominated for the »
- Brandon Harris
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