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'The English Teacher' review: Julianne Moore earns a C - at best
23 May 2013 6:00 AM, PDT | Pop2it | See recent Pop2it news »
The line between "cute" and "cutesy" is violated, repeatedly, in the sometimes funny, often cloying comedy "The English Teacher." We're treated to the rare talents of Julianne Moore in a gently predictable "dark" comedy sprinkled with the most adorably heavy handed flourishes.
Start with the narration (by the oh-so-British Fiona Shaw). We're told that Linda Sinclair is an unmarried 45-year-old small-town Pennsylvania high school teacher with "no prospects" but with a "life's purpose -- igniting the flames of literary passion in young minds."
Linda teaches and grades kids. And when she dates, she "grades" them too, her red marker jotting judgments all over the screen around them -- "arrogant," "unmotivated," "F."
Then a star pupil (Michael Angarano) returns to town, an Nyu playwriting graduate with a play no one will produce, resigned to do as his father (Greg Kinnear) wants and go to law school. Linda reads the play, weeps over "The Chrysalis, »
- editorial@zap2it.com
The English Teacher Proves that a Good Cast Doesn't Equate to Big Laughs
22 May 2013 9:00 PM, PDT | Village Voice | See recent Village Voice news »
A film seemingly produced only because it boasts enough sizable roles to entice multiple stars, Craig Zisk's The English Teacher reveals that a respectable cast and much noisy boisterousness isn't enough to generate a single laugh. Introduced by a stuffy female British narrator as a spinster with no marriage prospects, high school English teacher Linda (Julianne Moore) finds her staid, solitary life upended when former student Jason (Michael Angarano) returns home from New York with an unpublished play that she and drama teacher Carl (Nathan Lane) adore and demand to stage. Close-minded small-town administrators who'd rather put on Our Town soon prove the least of Linda's problems once she sleeps with Jason and—after he proves to be a two-timing sleazeball—the »
HBO Teases Clear History, Gives Larry David Hair And Beard
22 May 2013 8:03 AM, PDT | We Got This Covered | See recent We Got This Covered news »
HBO have released a teaser trailer for the upcoming Clear History, a film starring and co-written by Larry David and directed by Greg Mottola (Superbad). In it, the usually balding and clean-shaven creator of Curb Your Enthusiasm is given a full head of flowing locks and a giant beard, driving an open-topped sports car and singing along to some classic rock.
Entertainment Weekly revealed that the film will also star Jon Hamm, Bill Hader, Kate Hudson, Eva Mendes, Danny McBride, and Michael Keaton, and will stick to Larry David’s signature style of improvised dialogue over a structured story. Most excitingly of all, J.B. Smoove will also be joining the cast – his chemistry on Curb Your Enthusiasm was electric, and he can always be depended-upon to make a good scene great.
But what’s the story? Well, Larry David plays Nathan, a hipster marketing executive who sells his shares in »
- Rob Batchelor
Larry David Looks Unrecognizable In 'Clear History' Teaser
21 May 2013 11:04 AM, PDT | Huffington Post | See recent Huffington Post news »
Larry David looks downright unrecognizable in a new teaser trailer for his upcoming HBO movie "Clear History." Cruising down the highway sporting shoulder-length hair and a long, scraggly beard, the "Seinfeld" and "Curb Your Enthusiasm" creator looks like he just walked off the set of "Sons Of Anarchy."
The comedy, which is directed by David and "Superbad" director Greg Motolla, also stars Jon Hamm, Eva Mendes, Amy Ryan, Danny McBride, Kate Hudson and Michael Keaton.
According to EW, "David stars as Nathan, a hipster marketing exec who sells all his shares at a start-up over a fight with his boss (Jon Hamm, left), only to miss out on billions when the company’s new product—an electric car—becomes a smashing success." Much like "Curb," the project relied heavily on comedic improvisation.
"Clear History" premieres in August on HBO.
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- The Huffington Post
'Chuck' And 'Smash' Stars Head To Broadway
20 May 2013 9:27 AM, PDT | Huffington Post | See recent Huffington Post news »
New York — A couple of stars from TV's "Chuck" and "Smash" will soon be dating on Broadway.
Producers said Monday that Zachary Levi and Krysta Rodriguez will headline the new romantic musical comedy "First Date" by "Gossip Girl" writer Austin Winsberg.
The music and lyrics are by Alan Zachary and Michael Weiner.
"First Date" centers on an uptight young investment banker who meets a serial-dater at a local bistro. A chorus of diners become various characters – family members, clergy and old lovers.
The show will be seen at The Longacre Theatre beginning July 9 with an opening set for Aug. 8.
The rest of the cast includes Sara Chase ("Arrested Development"), Kristoffer Cusick ("Wicked"), Blake Hammond ("Sister Act"), Kate Loprest ("Boardwalk Empire," and Vicki Noon ("Wicked").
The show, co-produced by The 5th Avenue Theatre, played at A Contemporary Theatre in Seattle last year. It will be directed by Bill Berry, the producing »
- AP
TV Review: ‘Mel Brooks: Make a Noise’ Captures Comedy Genius
20 May 2013 7:47 AM, PDT | HollywoodChicago.com | See recent HollywoodChicago.com news »
Chicago – I’m a huge Mel Brooks fan, one of those critics who bows at the altar of arguably the two best comedies of all time, “Blazing Saddles” & “Young Frankenstein.” I’ve seen them both a dozen times and can’t wait to watch them again. “The Producers,” “A History of the World,” “High Anxiety,”” “Silent Movie,” “To Be or Not To Be,” “The Twelve Chairs,” his work on “Get Smart” & “Your Show of Shows,” “The 2000 Year Old Man” — the first response that most people should have to “American Masters: Mel Brooks: Make a Noise,” debuting on PBS tonight and releasing on DVD tomorrow, May 21, 2013, is a simple one — What took so long? “American Masters” premiered in 1986 and he should have been one of the first choices.
Television Rating: 4.5/5.0
To be fair, “Make a Noise” doesn’t do much more than confirm what most of us fans »
- adam@hollywoodchicago.com (Adam Fendelman)
5 Best Bets on TV This Week: Season Finales for 'Bates Motel,' 'Nashville' and 'Rectify'
20 May 2013 7:22 AM, PDT | Indiewire Television | See recent Indiewire Television news »
Sure, Sunday tends to be overcrowded with high-end TV, including "Mad Men," "Game of Thrones," "Veep," "The Borgias," "Family Tree," "Nurse Jackie" and more, but what to watch the rest of the time? Every Monday, we bring you five noteworthy highlights from the other six days of the week. "American Masters": "Mel Brooks: Make a Noise" Monday, May 20 at 9pm on PBS Get a look at the life and times of the great Mel Brooks in this documentary portrait of the comedy legend directed by Robert Trachtenberg as part of the "American Masters" series. Matthew Broderick, Nathan Lane, Cloris Leachman, Joan Rivers, Tracey Ullman and Carl Reiner are among the interviewees, as is, of course, Brooks himself -- check out our own Q&A with the man here. "Bates Motel": Season Finale Monday, May 20 at 10pm on A&E Carlton Cuse's warped contemporary "Psycho" prequel ends a »
- Alison Willmore
5 Best Bets on TV This Week: Season Finales for 'Bates Motel,' 'Nashville' and 'Rectify'
20 May 2013 7:22 AM, PDT | Indiewire | See recent Indiewire news »
Sure, Sunday tends to be overcrowded with high-end TV, including "Mad Men," "Game of Thrones," "Veep," "The Borgias," "Family Tree," "Nurse Jackie" and more, but what to watch the rest of the time? Every Monday, we bring you five noteworthy highlights from the other six days of the week. "American Masters": "Mel Brooks: Make a Noise" Monday, May 20 at 9pm on PBS Get a look at the life and times of the great Mel Brooks in this documentary portrait of the comedy legend directed by Robert Trachtenberg as part of the "American Masters" series. Matthew Broderick, Nathan Lane, Cloris Leachman, Joan Rivers, Tracey Ullman and Carl Reiner are among the interviewees, as is, of course, Brooks himself -- check out our own Q&A with the man here. "Bates Motel": Season Finale Monday, May 20 at 10pm on A&E Carlton Cuse's warped contemporary "Psycho" prequel ends a »
- Alison Willmore
What to Watch Monday: Bates Motel, Five-0 and Four Other Finales, Goodwin Games On and More
20 May 2013 4:00 AM, PDT | TVLine.com | See recent TVLine.com news »
On TV this final Monday of May sweeps: Bates Motel has no more vacancies, Hawaii Five-0 books one last case, Rules of Engagement and The Big C call it quits and The Goodwin Games get going. Here are 10 programs to keep on your radar.
8 pm Dancing With the Stars (ABC) | Jacoby, Kellie, Aly and Zendaya leave it all on the floor before Tuesday night’s season finale.
8:30 pm The Goodwin Games (Fox) | Series premiere: Scott Foley (Scandal), Becki Newton (Ugly Betty) and T.J. Miller (Cloverfield) play estranged siblings who return home after the death of their father (Beau Bridges, »
- Kimberly Roots
Movie Review - The English Teacher (2013)
19 May 2013 11:06 AM, PDT | Flickeringmyth | See recent Flickeringmyth news »
The English Teacher, 2013.
Directed by Craig Zisk.Starring Julianne Moore, Lily Collins, Michael Angarano, Greg Kinnear, and Nathan Lane.
Synopsis:
An English teacher's life is disrupted when a former student returns to her small town after failing as a playwright in New York.
For a writer, failure is inherently less sexy than adversity - it’s adversity that is the catalyst for change. Failure comes with characters having exhausted all their avenues and accepted their reality, but it’s here that The English Teacher paints its triptych of bruised and broken dreams. Opening with the austere tones of Fiona Shaw’s narrator we’re introduced to our bashful hero through a montage of her forays into romance with a series of idiots, aided by on-screen assessments in red pen with a grade befitting their failings. Ms. Sinclair, we’re told, is a passionate woman; a romantic who found sanctuary in »
- Flickering Myth
Mel Brooks and Anne Bancroft Shared Love and Laughs
19 May 2013 8:00 AM, PDT | PEOPLE.com | See recent PEOPLE.com news »
On the surface it seemed one of the stranger matches of the 20th century: the serious, award-winning dramatic actress Anna Maria Louisa Italiano, and the man whose fertile imagination introduced both flatulence around an Old West campfire and a singing-dancing Adolf Hitler to the silver screen, Melvin Kaminsky. Or, as the world knew them, Anne Bancroft and Mel Brooks. Asked about the couple's marriage, which lasted from 1964 until her death from uterine cancer in 2005, an introspective Brooks says in the new PBS American Masters documentary Mel Brooks: Make a Noise, "You know, it took because Anne and I both grew up during the marriage, »
- Stephen M. Silverman
Julianne Moore Tells Us About Getting In Touch With Her Inner Bookworm in 'The English Teacher'
18 May 2013 6:31 AM, PDT | Indiewire | See recent Indiewire news »
After romancing Joseph Gordon-Levitt in the Sundance/Berlinale hit "Don Jon," Julianne Moore is again putting the moves on a much younger co-star (Michael Angarano) in the indie comedy "The English Teacher," currently playing in select theaters and available on VOD. In the Cinedigm/Tribeca Film release, Moore plays Linda, a 40-year-old unmarried high school English teacher who mounts a play by a former student (Angarano), only to find herself falling for him. Greg Kinnear co-stars as the aspiring playwright's overbearing father, while Nathan Lane pops up as a wacky colleague. Read More: Julianne Moore On Playing a Troubled Rock Star in 'What Maisie Knew' and Why Acting Doesn't Scare Her Indiewire sat down with Moore and Angarano to discuss working together, that age difference and Moore's busy year (she also stars is "What Maisie Knew," currently out in limited release). Michael, when you learned that you were »
- Nigel M Smith
Mel Brooks: Exclusive Cinema Retro Interview
17 May 2013 11:03 AM, PDT | Cinemaretro.com | See recent CinemaRetro news »
Mel Brooks: Comedy As The Currency Of Friendship
By Eddy Friedfeld
(Photo copyright Steven R. Stack)
Mel Brooks is profiled in a superb American Masters documentary entitled Mel Brooks: Make a Noise, which premieres nationally on PBS stations on May 20th. One of 14 Egot (Emmy, Grammy, Oscar and Tony) winners, he has earned more major awards than any other living entertainer, and shows few signs of slowing down. With new interviews with Brooks, his friends and colleagues, including Matthew Broderick, Nathan Lane, Cloris Leachman, Joan Rivers, Tracey Ullman, Rob Reiner, and his close friend, with whom he created The 2000 Year Old Man, Carl Reiner. A DVD with bonus material will be available Tuesday, May 21 from Shout Factory.
"When they called me to say I had been chosen as the next 'American Master,' I thought they said I was chosen to be the next Dutch Master. So I figured what the hell, »
- nospam@example.com (Cinema Retro)
See This, Skip That: From Star Trek to The English Teacher - Your Weekend Movie Plan
17 May 2013 8:00 AM, PDT | PEOPLE.com | See recent PEOPLE.com news »
The final frontier, or the final exam? Star Trek Into Darkness and The English Teacher hit theaters at warp speed this weekend, but People's critic gives only one of them a good grade. Here's what to see, what to skip and what to seek out this weekend at the movies. See This:• Star Trek Into Darkness: Why bother with calendars? (They're so predictable anyway.) This is how you know summer's arrived - with a blockbuster at the cineplex. J.J. Abrams's second voyage at Star Trek's helm is very nearly as good as the first, with zippy action sequences, »
- Alynda Wheat, PEOPLE Movie Critic
Mel Brooks’s Career Goal Was to Please Himself
17 May 2013 4:13 AM, PDT | Speakeasy/Wall Street Journal | See recent Speakeasy/Wall Street Journal news »
Writer and director Mel Brooks said his aim in his work always was to please himself and he hoped the audience would enjoy it as well. Brooks, 86, is the subject of a new "American Masters" documentary called "Mel Brooks: Make a Noise," which will be broadcast nationwide on PBS stations starting Monday. It features new interviews with Brooks; comedian Carl Reiner, with whom he created "The 2000 Year Old Man" more than 50 years ago; and actors Matthew Broderick, Nathan Lane, »
- Kathy Shwiff
The English Teacher Review
16 May 2013 5:38 PM, PDT | We Got This Covered | See recent We Got This Covered news »
Born from mostly pleasant parts, Craig Zisk’s The English Teacher is a frothy foil to most mainstream comedies masquerading as such. It nicely blends a coming of (old) age tale with what is clearly a love/hate relationship with the emotions associated with writing and theater, chiefly seeing one’s work realized in the fashion originally envisioned. Lead by a company of fine thesps doing equally fine work, this dramedy is an easy watch even when those aforementioned amiable parts are far less effective when singled out.
From the opening scene The English Teacher suggests we’re in for a completely different film from what ultimately unfolds, due in no small part to the disembodied, whimsical voiceover narration which is snatched right from the clutches of wonderful entertainment such as Pushing Daises and Stranger Than Fiction. Unsurprisingly, simply extracting effective elements from other, better fare does not a good decision make, »
- Simon Brookfield
TV Review: ‘Mel Brooks: Make a Noise’
16 May 2013 5:00 PM, PDT | Variety - TV News | See recent Variety - TV News news »
For a guy in his mid-80s, Mel Brooks has been on quite a roll — featured in two HBO specials holding forth about his career, and now a loving American Masters documentary, “Mel Brooks: Make a Noise,” in advance of a DVD release. And why not? A raconteur of the first order, Brooks is also gifted with near-total recall, and a wit that hasn’t ebbed with the passage of time. In Robert Trachtenberg’s film, Brooks concedes every bad review is like “a knife through your heart.” In savoring this valentine, that organ and every other can rest easy.
Granted, Trachtenberg doesn’t break a lot of new ground, but that’s in part because Brooks has remained so vital and active in telling and retelling his own story. (In the recommended-viewing department, hunt down the first of his recent HBO specs, “Mel Brooks and Dick Cavett: Together Again. »
- Brian Lowry
English Teacher, The | Review
16 May 2013 10:00 AM, PDT | SmellsLikeScreenSpirit | See recent SmellsLikeScreenSpirit news »
From the onset of The English Teacher, one thing is made abundantly clear, Linda (Julianne Moore) always has been and always will be a romantic. A dreamer with fictional expectations of love, Linda is destined to live a life of solitude as an aging spinster. She buries her head in Merchant-Ivory films and classic literature whenever she is not lecturing to her high school English class about A Tale of Two Cities, a job she finds to be enjoyably fulfilling. It is important to note that Linda is neither pathetic nor cartoonish; embodied perfectly by Julianne Moore, Linda's homely plainness seems perfectly natural. One night, Linda accidentally pepper-sprays Jason (Michael Angarano), a former student who has recently returned to his quaint hometown of Kingston. A graduate of Nyu's prestigious writing program, Jason has already lost his faith in writing as a viable career option; his return home serves a chance for him to switch gears, »
- Don Simpson
Weekend Movies: 'Star Trek Into Darkness,' 'Black Rock,' and More
16 May 2013 9:01 AM, PDT | Moviefone | See recent Moviefone news »
"Star Trek Into Darkness" beams into theaters Thursday, May 16, facing very little competition. The follow up to J.J. Abrams's 2009 "Star Trek" reboot catches back up with the USS Enterprise and its illustrious crew as they zoom off on another epic quest. This time around, Spock (Zachary Quinto), Captain Kirk (Chris Pine), Uhura (Zoe Saldana), and Sulu (John Cho) are summoned home, only to find Starfleet in ruins. The crew soon ventures into a war zone to find villain John Harrison (Benedict Cumberbatch) responsible for the devastation. The 3D spectacle lands in theaters Thursday, May 16, and also stars Alice Eve, Simon Pegg, and Karl Urban. As we mentioned, "Into Darkness" holds somewhat of a monopoly over the box office this weekend. The sci-fi flick's only notable competition are two small limited releases, which happen to star some big-name actors. (Then there's always the previously released "Great Gatsby" and "Iron Man 3. »
- Dana Taddeo
Nick Offerman On Role He Almost Got On 'Will & Grace'
16 May 2013 4:55 AM, PDT | Huffington Post | See recent Huffington Post news »
Nick Offerman is a big part of NBC's Thursday night lineup with his role as Ron Swanson on "Parks & Recreation." On "The Tonight Show," he revealed that he was almost a major part of that lineup more than ten years ago. This was back when he was dating Megan Mullally, who is now his wife. He was hanging around the set of her hit show, "Will & Grace," a lot and got an opportunity to try for a major role.
“They said, okay, we love you for this part. We can’t give it to you yet. We’ll call you tomorrow," Offerman said. "The next day they called and said, Jim Burroughs had called Woody Harrelson on Monday. Woody just called back, he’s gonna take the part. But you woulda got it if he didn’t call back."
Harrelson played Grace's long-term boyfriend, Nathan, in season four. But Offerman »
- Jason Hughes
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