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Mel Brooks: Exclusive Cinema Retro Interview
21 hours ago | 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)
New Girl Review: “Elaine’s Big Day” (Season 2, Episode 25)
16 May 2013 8:48 AM, PDT | We Got This Covered | See recent We Got This Covered news »
As the second season finale of New Girl, “Elaine’s Big Day” has a lot to cover. Like “Winston’s Birthday” before it, there’s a lot of story to get out of the way. Unlike “Winston’s Birthday”, however, parts of this episode feel rushed and skirted over to ensure that we hit all the major plot points required for the show to move forward into what will hopefully be an equally strong third season.
For that to happen, a certain amount of threads need to be tied up by the end of “Elaine’s Big Day” – Cece has to either marry Shivrang or reveal that she still loves Schmidt; Jess and Nick need to face up to how they really feel about each other; and Winston needs to somehow get to grips with his love of pranks. The show needs to do all this in an interesting, funny, »
- Rob Batchelor
New Girl, Ep. 2.25, “Elaine’s Big Day” ends the season with a poorly executed cliffhanger
15 May 2013 3:58 AM, PDT | SoundOnSight | See recent SoundOnSight news »
New Girl, Season 2, Episode 25: “Elaine’s Big Day”
Written by Brett Baer & Dave Finkel
Directed by Christian Magalhᾶes & Bob Snow
Airs on Tuesdays at 9pm on Fox
It’s been a big year already for TV comedy wedding, Parks and Recreation, Happy Endings, The Office, How I Met Your Mother (kind of), and even Community with its marriage/graduation mashup. And last night it was time for New Girl to take a stab at nuptials with the doomed-from-the-start ceremony between Cece and Shivrang.
However, what everyone really wants to see is the conflict between Nick and Jess. Since Jess’ father Bob (Rob Reiner) has arrived, things have been pretty tough for our quirky and adorable couple. With Cece’s wedding happening and with it being the finale, Nick has one final chance to prove he can be a decent human being and not cause any trouble (at least for »
- Catstello
'New Girl' season finale: Always a Bridesmaid!
14 May 2013 6:30 PM, PDT | EW.com - PopWatch | See recent EW.com - PopWatch news »
It’s closing time, Newbies. Hard to believe 25 episodes have come and gone this quickly. But as a wise man once said, “Every new beginning comes from some other beginning’s end.” What that means for Jess, Nick, Schmidt, Winston, Cece, Schivrang, and… Taylor Swift? Well, you’ll just have to click through. Fair warning for everyone who hasn’t seen tonight’s episode: Stop now because there are Spoilers Ahead!
It was the day of Cece and Shivrang’s wedding. Maid of Honor Jess was in a gorgeous aqua and coral sari, Schmidt and Winston were looking predictably dapper as well, »
- Lanford Beard
'New Girl' star Jake Johnson takes the EW Pop Culture Personality Test -- Video
14 May 2013 11:30 AM, PDT | EW.com - PopWatch | See recent EW.com - PopWatch news »
Tonight’s New Girl finale sees a definitive conclusion to the will-they-won’t-they saga between Jess (Zooey Deschanel) and Nick (Jake Johnson). “They come to a point where they’re at a crossroads together,” Johnson recently told EW, “and they address it and do something about it.” After last week’s episode, when Jess’s opinionated father (Rob Reiner) returned and put a wrench in the almost-couple’s relationship, there are a lot of questions to answer: “Yes, they’ve got a thing together; yeah, they like each other a lot, and there’s chemistry,” says Johnson, “but is that enough to try dating? »
- Lanford Beard
'New Girl' Season 2 finale preview: 5 things to know about 'Elaine's Big Day'
14 May 2013 6:44 AM, PDT | Zap2It - From Inside the Box | See recent Zap2It - From Inside the Box news »
It's sad to say that the end of "New Girl" Season 2 has arrived. The finale episode, "Elaine's Big Day," takes place at the wedding of Cece and Shivrang and has everything you could want from the show. Kissing. Break-ups. Pranks gone horribly wrong. Horses and badgers.
We are going to have a long, sad summer without this show. But before then, we have the finale, and here are five spoilers to preview that episode.
1. Taylor Swift is indeed in "Elaine's Big Day," and she does have a speaking part. What she says and why she is there, however, must remain a mystery until the wedding itself.
2. Remember how Winston (Lamorne Morris) loves pranks but is incredibly bad at them (often with near-tragic consequences)? That comes into play in a big way in the finale. A badger gets involved.
3. Jess' (Zooey Deschanel) father, Bob (Rob Reiner), is still sleeping on that »
- editorial@zap2it.com
The Tuesday Playlist: New Girl, Other Finales as a New Dance Begins
14 May 2013 6:16 AM, PDT | TVGuide - Breaking News | See recent TVGuide - Breaking News news »
Famous last words: "Nothing can go wrong," says Jess on Cece's lavish wedding day ‑ not accounting for the runaway horse, the badger on the loose, and the inappropriate soundtrack that factors into the buds plotting a "sabo" (Schmidt-speak for "sabotage") in a pivotal and blissfully funny second-season finale of Fox's New Girl (Tuesday, 9/8c). Schmidt has brought Elizabeth (Nurse Jackie's delightful Merritt Wever) as a date while having "eye conversations" with the conflicted bride, and with Jess's disapproving dad (Rob Reiner) amplifying the insecurities underlying his daughter's romance with Nick, there's plenty of relationship drama amid the raucous comedy. And while Fox hasn't made a secret of the celebrity cameo amid the wedding crowd, it makes for a fun twist and even better joke, a grace note for an episode that will leave fans happily awaiting next season. ... On the finale of its companion piece The Mindy Project (9: »
- Matt Roush
Buzz Titles For Sale at the Cannes Film Festival
13 May 2013 9:00 AM, PDT | Variety - Film News | See recent Variety - Film News news »
Director: Rob Reiner
Producers: Alan Greisman, Rob Reiner, Mark Damon
Cast: Michael Douglas, Diane Keaton
An egocentric real estate agent’s life is turned upside down when he takes in a granddaughter he never knew, and unexpectedly falls in love with his neighbor.
Intl. sales: Foresight Unlimited
Director: Stephen Gaghan
Producers: Stephen Gaghan, Allison Shearmur
Key Cast: Omar Sy,
Criminal world thriller set in Brighton Beach, Brooklyn.
Intl. sales: Good Universe
Director: Derick Martini
Producers: Oren Segal, Jason Dubin and Chiara Trento
Cast: Bella Heathcote, Lucas Till
For the past eight years, a Downers Grove high school senior has met a mysterious end right before graduation — coincidence or curse?
Intl. sales: Myriad
Director: Brad Anderson
Cast: Kate Beckinsale, Jim Sturgess, Ben Kingsley
Thriller about a new doctor at a mental institution who falls in love with a patient. »
- Carole Horst and Dave McNary
Nicolas Cage To Star In Thriller “Hotel 33″
10 May 2013 5:33 PM, PDT | FamousMonsters of Filmland | See recent Famous Monsters of Filmland news »
Nicolas Cage has signed onto star in Hotel 33, a film written by newcomer Kellie Madison. Check the below press release for the deets.
Los Angeles, CA (May 10th, 2013) – Following their successful collaboration on 2 Guns and Lone Survivor, Foresight Unlimited, Envision Entertainment and Emmett/Furla Films are joining forces to produce the surreal thriller Hotel 33, starring Oscar®-winning actor Nicolas Cage (Leaving Las Vegas), it was announced today by Foresight CEO Mark Damon and Emmett/Furla’s Randall Emmett.
Foresight Unlimited will handle international sales for Hotel 33, which will be produced by Randall Emmett and George Furla, and executive produced by Envision Entertainment’s Remington Chase, Stepan Martirosyan and Vitaly Grigoriants, and Foresight’s Mark Damon. Malek Akkad is also an executive producer on the film.
Newcomer Kellie Madison wrote the script and will direct Hotel 33 which will start production in September 2013.
The film is based on the presumed event surrounding »
- Andy Greene
Christopher Guest Applies His Faux Documentary Formula to TV With the Perfectly Pleasant 'Family Tree'
10 May 2013 12:41 PM, PDT | Indiewire Television | See recent Indiewire Television news »
Fundamental to any Christopher Guest film is the deep dedication its characters have to their subculture of choice, be it purebred dogs ("Best in Show"), heavy metal ("This is Spinal Tap"), community theater ("Waiting for Guffman") or folk music ("A Mighty Wind"). The scenarios can get ridiculous -- like the "Guffman" musical devoted to the largely drama-free history of Blaine, Missouri -- but the emotional investment is real, and for the figures on screen the stakes are immense, whether they be in the large scale arenas of the Oscar campaigns of "For Your Consideration" or the smaller ones of the canine competitions of "Show." It's an appreciation of that blind devotion that shifts Guest's films from straightforward mockery to something gentler that requires us to invest in the fate of these people even as we find them hilarious -- like Nigel Tufnel playing a beautiful Bach and Mozart-inspired piano composition »
- Alison Willmore
Christopher Guest Applies His Faux Documentary Formula to TV With the Perfectly Pleasant 'Family Tree'
10 May 2013 12:41 PM, PDT | Indiewire | See recent Indiewire news »
Fundamental to any Christopher Guest film is the deep dedication its characters have to their subculture of choice, be it purebred dogs ("Best in Show"), heavy metal ("This is Spinal Tap"), community theater ("Waiting for Guffman") or folk music ("A Mighty Wind"). The scenarios can get ridiculous -- like the "Guffman" musical devoted to the largely drama-free history of Blaine, Missouri -- but the emotional investment is real, and for the figures on screen the stakes are immense, whether they be in the large scale arenas of the Oscar campaigns of "For Your Consideration" or the smaller ones of the canine competitions of "Show." It's an appreciation of that blind devotion that shifts Guest's films from straightforward mockery to something gentler that requires us to invest in the fate of these people even as we find them hilarious -- like Nigel Tufnel playing a beautiful Bach and Mozart-inspired piano composition »
- Alison Willmore
Mud – review
9 May 2013 4:05 PM, PDT | The Guardian - Film News | See recent The Guardian - Film News news »
Jeff Nichols' slice of Americana is rich and engaging, and Matthew McConaughey is getting better all the time
Writer-director Jeff Nichols serves up a rich and traditional slice of Americana, a movie built on the time-honoured device of witnessing a crisis in the adult world from the viewpoint of children.
It's contrived but nicely shot, and has a strong performance from Matthew McConaughey, who is getting better all the time. Ellis (Tye Sheridan) and Neckbone (Jacob Lofland) are teens who one summer take a boat out to a deserted island in the Mississippi where a flood has surreally dumped another boat up in the trees.
The boys are set to make it their own private treehouse, but find food and dirty magazines. Somebody else is there: a grinning, garrulous but tough-looking guy called Mud (McConaughey) who makes it clear he could be pretty scary if he wanted – but not with kids. »
Review: Christopher Guest turns slightly sincere with HBO's 'Family Tree'
9 May 2013 12:00 PM, PDT | Hitfix | See recent Hitfix news »
Christopher Guest has spent much of his brilliant career exploring the fine line between stupid and clever, as one his bandmates in “This Is Spinal Tap” put it. The characters in the Guest school of improvised mockumentary comedy are inevitably delusional about something, whether their talent, their level of celebrity, or their romantic life. Yet even though his movies — notably “Spinal Tap” (directed by Rob Reiner but co-written by Reiner, Guest, Michael McKean and Harry Shearer) and his late ‘90s/early ‘00s trio of “Waiting for Guffman,” “Best in Show” and “A Mighty Wind” — feature ridiculous, oblivious people, there’s almost always »
- Alan Sepinwall
New Girl Review: “Winston’s Birthday” (Season 2, Episode 24)
9 May 2013 9:10 AM, PDT | We Got This Covered | See recent We Got This Covered news »
Through the myriad gems that this triumphant second season has provided us with (“Models”, “Neighbors”, “Quick Hardening Caulk” all being highlights), who could have expected that the penultimate episode would be so strong? This is doubly impressive considering the multiple plates that writers Brett Baer & Dave Finkel throw at us in this episode, all staying deftly aloft like, well, spinning plates.
The very first shot of “Winston’s Birthday” is The Morning After, so we’re in the immediate aftermath of Nick-and-Jess-have-now-had-sex territory. Nick’s in a state of disbelieving surprise that it’s happened, and in a nice opening gag he suddenly looks worried and checks her pulse – “You were very still”, he explains when she wakes up laughing. It’s a subtler version of the “immediate Nick overreaction”, in which he goes to bizarre lengths to remedy a situation that doesn’t need it – see when he drove »
- Rob Batchelor
Great Gatsby Actor Joins Ben Kingsley For Our Robot Overlords
9 May 2013 7:20 AM, PDT | cinemablend.com | See recent Cinema Blend news »
Are you one of the many complaining about the lack of original stories being made into movies? Well, then you might appreciate the upcoming British offering Our Robot Overlords, a coming-of-age tale set in the midst of a dramatic battle between man and machine. Co-written and directed by Jon Wright, who has previously helmed the alien invasion comedy Grabbers and the horror-comedy Tormented, this sci-fi adventure centers on a teen boy who with the help of his peers goes in search of his long lost father as a war between mankind and robots rages around them. But the teen boy is encouraged to join the fray when he uncovers the secret to bringing these brawling bots down! THR reports Wright has landed Aussie up-and-comer Callan McAuliffe to front the film as its teen protagonist. McAuliffe has appeared in a couple of American productions, including Rob Reiner's 2010 romance Flipped, DreamWorks' »
New Girl, Ep. 2.24, “Winston’s Birthday” kind of wraps things up before next week’s finale
8 May 2013 7:12 AM, PDT | SoundOnSight | See recent SoundOnSight news »
New Girl, Season 2, Episode 24: “Winston’s Birthday”
Written by Brett Baer & Dave Finkel
Directed by Max Winkler
Airs on Tuesdays at 9pm on Fox
New Girl picks up where we left off last week by opening with the morning after for Nick and Jess. Nick wakes up with a big, goofy smile completely unfazed and overcome with happiness. Nick eventually leaves to make breakfast, after which Jess finds a huge soft pretzel under his pillow (this is pretty random but also pretty funny). In the kitchen, we see Nick rush to put together what he considers a romantic breakfast – undercooked eggs, a badly prepared grapefruit, a slice of pie? (“dessert!”), a glass of Oj, and a Heisler beer. The audience see a really sweet side of Nick in his scene, as he rushes to put together breakfast in bed for Jess and contemplates where to incorporate a flower into »
- Catstello
'New Girl': The Return of Yolanda Winston
7 May 2013 9:30 PM, PDT | EW.com - PopWatch | See recent EW.com - PopWatch news »
This season’s penultimate episode really felt like a moment to breathe, didn’t it Newbies? With last week’s major gearshift in play and next week’s season finale in the wings, it was nice to have the chance to process. Even better, this moment was accompanied by some unexpected sweetness from Nick and a reminder that Jess is more than just an object to be desired — not to mention some independent romantic developments between Cece/Shivrang and Schmidt/Elizabeth that will make next week’s wedding-stravaganza more complicated and dynamic. It wasn’t the most high-octane episode, but »
- Lanford Beard
'New Girl' recap: Daddy issues, henna mistakes and Schmidt's crazy dance in 'Winston's Birthday'
7 May 2013 8:56 PM, PDT | Zap2It - From Inside the Box | See recent Zap2It - From Inside the Box news »
"Winston's Birthday" is not a "New Girl" episode about Winston (Lamorne Morris). Not surprisingly, this most-neglected of roommates remains neglected, even though it is indeed his special day. But that's what happens when everything else happens all at once.
What exactly was more important that Winston having a birthday?
Jess and Nick and Bob
"Winston's Birthday" picks up only a few hours after the last episode left off. Jess (Zooey Deschanel) and Nick (Jake Johnson) are still in bed and still pretty darn happy about their sex. Nick even gets up to make Jess breakfast! She doesn't have to eat the soft pretzel that shared the bed with them!
Unfortunately for the new lovers, Jess' dad, Bob (Rob Reiner), picks this morning to show up unexpectedly for Cece's wedding. Jess manages to hide her recent indiscretion, but a sudden job opportunity leaves Nick alone with Bob for a day.
Of course, »
- editorial@zap2it.com
New Girl Review: Frogetaboutit
7 May 2013 7:30 PM, PDT | TVfanatic | See recent TVfanatic news »
It was a fluffy confection, for sure, but "Winston's Birthday" continued New Girl Season 2's winning streak.
Though this episode was full of comedic delights of all sorts - Rob Reiner! Schmidt doing the running man! - I was most struck by, well, how well Jess and Nick's relationship is going.
After their 1.5 seasons worth of confusion and ambivalence and aquarium-damaging make-out sessions, I thought their relationship would be just as sloppy and full of indecision as the flirting that proceeded it.
But this week, both Nick and Jess spoke quite highly of their potential for a serious relationship together - and made it clear that they planned on moving forward with things.
I had anticipated one (or both!) or them freaking out/ getting weird in the aftermath of the Boning Heard Round the (TV) World, so their ability to deal with sleeping together like mature adults who dig each »
- gabrielle.moss@gmail.com (Gabrielle Moss)
New Girl Exclusive First Look: The Morning After
3 May 2013 7:27 AM, PDT | TVLine.com | See recent TVLine.com news »
As singer-actress Maureen McGovern once opined, there’s got to be a morning after. And where New Girl‘s freshly-sexed Nick and Jess are concerned, you just know it’s got to be messy.
Related | May Sweeps/Season Finale Scoopapalooza: More Than 100 Spoilers on New Girl, Castle, Revenge and More of Your Favorite Series
In next Tuesday’s episode of Fox’s comedy hit, Nick and Jess’ post-coital afterglow is darkened when her pop (the returning Rob Reiner) shows up on her doorstep unannounced. “They haven’t even had a chance to talk about it,” notes Reiner in the following sneak peek, »
- Michael Ausiello
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