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17 items from 2012
'Keeping Up With the Kardashians' recap: Rob Kardashian, Sock Tycoon
10 hours ago | EW.com - PopWatch | See recent EW.com - PopWatch news »
Rob Kardashian has a dream. He doesn’t just want to make socks. He wants to change the way we think about socks. In last night’s episode of Kooling Off With the Kardashians, Rob returned to Los Angeles after a month of scouting out manufacturers in England, which as we all know is the home of many of the world’s great sock factories. Now, this is just a hypothesis based on extensive research, but I assume that Rob™ Brand Socks all come in different shades of neon. They’re emblazoned with conflict diamonds and Yukon gold dust and »
- Darren Franich
What's In Theaters This Weekend: May 18 to May 20
18 May 2012 8:47 AM, PDT | Filmology | See recent Filmology news »
Can seafaring aliens and Tim Riggins take down The Avengers or will the band of mismatched superheroes continue their historic run? Here's what is foolishly trying to keep you cooped up inside a dark theater during what is supposed to be a gorgeous weekend:
Metacritic Score: 41
Box Office Prediction: $30 million
There's going to be an Faq going up soon that answers all of your questions about this highly anticipated blockbuster. But can Battleship pay proper respect to the complex mythology of the game? If it does, it must be a shoo-in for the Oscar right? I know the competition will be stiff this year, but with dazzling actors like Rihanna in their corner, I think this plucky movie just may have a shot
Metacritic Score: 59
Box Office Prediction: $30 million
This has already been in theaters since Wednesday but I know literally no one who has seen it »
- Jonah Gardner
Judd Apatow Reviews 100 Years of Comic Gems That Birthed 'The 40-Year-Old Virgin'
16 May 2012 6:18 PM, PDT | The Wrap | See recent The Wrap news »
Judd Apatow, the modern master of human-scale comedy, sat down with TheWrap to review the Universal Studios archive in honor of the studio’s 100-year anniversary this year. The writer-director of “Knocked Up,” producer of “Bridesmaids” and director of the upcoming “This is 40” imprinted early and often on the comedies produced by the Universal machine, from Abbott and Costello to John Hughes’ “Sixteen Candles.” Here’s a trip down into the vault with one of our era’s most fearless tasteless unfettered explorers of the human condition. 'Duck Soup" Directed by Leo McCarey, 1933 When I think »
- Sharon Waxman
Movie Review: The Dictator Is a Fantastic Farce
16 May 2012 6:00 AM, PDT | Vulture | See recent Vulture news »
With the title character in The Dictator's frequent appearances in a military uniform and a fur-ball beard, Sacha Baron Cohen sets us up for another piece of guerrilla clowning along the lines of Borat and Bruno. But this is a different kind of film, conventionally scripted with room for improvisation, like a Will Ferrell comedy. Many will be disappointed. I’m not. I love most of Baron Cohen’s ambush stunts, but he and director Larry Charles have the skills to make movies that don’t rely on them. (And Baron Cohen will have a tough time hoodwinking people now, given his level of fame.) The good news is that The Dictator is a loose and silly and occasionally exhilarating political farce in the tradition of Chaplin’s The Great Dictator (obviously) and the Marx Brothers’ antiwar masterpiece Duck Soup. And it comes in at a fleet 83 minutes — just right. »
- David Edelstein
100 Facts on Universal Pictures' 100th Birthday
30 April 2012 11:28 AM, PDT | Rope of Silicon | See recent Rope Of Silicon news »
Today marks the 100th birthday of Universal Pictures and to celebrate the studio has released a list of 100 facts based on its first 100 years in existence. I have placed in bold some of the ones I found interesting as well as offered a selection of photo and video accompaniments here and there. 1. Universal Film Manufacturing Company was officially incorporated in New York on April 30, 1912. Company legend says Carl Laemmle was inspired to name his company Universal after seeing "Universal Pipe Fittings" written on a passing delivery wagon. 2. The only physical damage made during the filming of National Lampoon's Animal House was when John Belushi made a hole in the wall with a guitar. The actual Sigma Nu fraternity house (which subbed for the fictitious Delta House) never repaired it, and instead framed the hole in honor of the film. 3. The working title for Et: The Extra Terrestrial was "A Boy's Life. »
- Brad Brevet
'Mad Men' Season 5 Episode 507 'At the Codfish Ball': Summer in the city
30 April 2012 12:15 AM, PDT | Zap2It - From Inside the Box | See recent Zap2It - From Inside the Box news »
In what continues to be "Mad Men's" season of the women (aka Season 5), three of the show's female favourites -- Megan (Jessica Paré), Peggy (Elisabeth Moss) and Sally (Kiernan Shipka, finally returning to the timeline after a noted absence) learn a tough lesson about the world: It's dirty. One is accepting, one resigned and one usettled.
The Accepting
Peggy is a complicated character. Amidst all of her ambitious angst and banter with Rizzo and Ginsberg, it's easy to forget that this is a woman who comes from a deeply religious Catholic family and just a few short years ago gave birth to a child fathered by her co-worker, Pete Campbell (Vincent Kartheiser). Like most good lapsed Catholics, she's got major issues with guilt and self-esteem. So much so that while she was momentarily blinded enough to believe that Abe was on the cusp of a marriage proposal, she quickly »
- editorial@zap2it.com
Super-8 Giant Monster Movie Madness at the Way Out Club in St. Louis May 1st
26 April 2012 6:36 PM, PDT | WeAreMovieGeeks.com | See recent WeAreMovieGeeks.com news »
Super-8 Giant Monster Movie Madness at the Way Out Club in St. Louis will be held on Tuesday May 1st from 8pm to Midnight. These are Super-8 Sound films condensed from features (they average 15 minutes in length) and will be projected on a large screen at the Way Out Club. Admission is only Three Bucks!!!!
The giant monster movies we’re showing are: War Of The Colossal Beast, The Giant Claw, Mighty Joe Young, Reptilicus, 20 Million Miles To Earth, Yongary Monster From The Deep, Destroy All Monsters, a Stop-Motion Trailer Reel featuring many of Ray Harryhausen’s giant beasts, and a 35 minute cut of The Giant Spider Invasion. The non-giant monster movies we’re showing May 1st are: The Marx Brothers in Duck Soup, Charlton Heston in Ben Hur, W C Fields in It’S A Gift, a Clint Eastwood Trailer Reel, and for the fourth time the Little Rascals »
- Tom Stockman
The Giant Spider Invasion – A Retrospective
24 April 2012 7:11 PM, PDT | WeAreMovieGeeks.com | See recent WeAreMovieGeeks.com news »
A 35-minute cut of The Giant Spider Invasion will be shown on Super-8 sound film at Super-8 Giant Monster Movie Madness next Tuesday, May 1st at The Way Out Club in St. Louis.
Wisconson-based regional filmmaker Bill Rebane’s no-budget wonder The Giant Spider Invasion was a hilariously cheesy 1975 throwback to the giant-monster flicks of the 50s, a trend then enjoying a revival with films like Empire Of The Ants and Food Of The Gods. This outrageous mix of giant monster motifs and backwoods sleaze plays like a hybrid of Tarantula and The Blob with its mixture of giant spiders and falling meteors. I saw The Giant Spider Invasion at the long-shuttered Ellisville Cinema in West St. Louis County (on a double bill with the David Niven vampire comedy Old Dracula). I recall the poster in the lobby which featured a gargantuan spider bearing down on a group of terrified people. »
- Tom Stockman
[Now Streaming] Your ‘Three Stooges,’ ‘Cabin in the Woods’ & ‘Lockout’ Alternatives
12 April 2012 6:30 AM, PDT | The Film Stage | See recent The Film Stage news »
Each week within this column we strive to pair the latest in theatrical releases to worthwhile titles currently available on Netflix Instant Watch. This week we offer alternatives to The Three Stooges, Cabin in the Woods & Lockout.
The classic comedy team gets a reboot at the hands of the Farrelly Brothers. Will Sasso, Chris Diamantopoulos and Sean Hayes co-star.
Craving more classic comedy teams?
Duck Soup (1933) The iconic Marx Bros. front this comedy classic. Here Groucho plays Rufus T. Firefly, the recently appointed dictator of the country Freedonia. Masterful slapstick and sharp political satire ensue. Chico, Zeppo, and Harpo Marx co-star.
Laurel & Hardy: Flying Deuces (1939) One of the most critically heralded comedy double acts, Laurel and Hardy made an art out of slapstick. In this winsome misadventure they parody the war stories that were all the rage with a wacky tale of two American idiots who get caught up in »
- jpraup@gmail.com (thefilmstage.com)
Yahoo! Lists the 100 Funniest Movies to See Before You Die
10 April 2012 11:00 AM, PDT | FilmJunk | See recent FilmJunk news »
It's not easy to put together a top 100 of just about anything, but the folks over at Yahoo! Movies have really thrown down the gauntlet this time with a list of the 100 Funniest Movies to See Before You Die. In describing the list, they maintain that their goal was to choose the "funniest" movies out there, not necessarily the "best" comedies. With that in mind, you might think they'd stay away from critically acclaimed classics and lean more toward low brow, quick and easy laughfests. But you'd be wrong. There are a lot of classics on this list, everything from The Apartment to Dr. Strangelove to Charlie Chaplin's Modern Times and Buster Keaton's The General. There are also movies on here that aren't really "comedies" per se, such as Pulp Fiction and Martin Scorsese's After Hours. More than anything, this serves as a reminder that what is »
- Sean
'Dumb & Dumber' Sequel: Oh, It's Happening!
3 April 2012 2:50 PM, PDT | Extra | See recent Extra news »
Things are about to get even dumberer with Jim Carrey and Jeff Daniels.
Director Peter Farrelly confirmed to ComingSoon.net he and brother Bobby will be shooting a sequel to their 1994 comedy "Dumb & Dumber," with Carrey and Daniels reprising their roles.
At the junket for their latest comedy, "The Three Stooges," Peter Farrelly said, "We're getting set to shoot 'Dumb & Dumber 2' in September. It's the first sequel we've ever done and we've got Jim Carrey and Jeff Daniels back. »
Michael Monahan Talks Horror Hosts and More
7 March 2012 10:22 PM, PST | DreadCentral.com | See recent Dread Central news »
Horror fans today are spoiled. With the vast array of films available on DVD and Blu-ray via storefronts like Best Buy and Fye, online outlets like Amazon and Deep Discount, and rental/streaming services such as Netflix, there are few films that are unattainable. Virtually anything one might hear of is available some way, somewhere. But it wasn't always so...
Back at a time before disc (or VHS for that matter), the only way - and I mean the Only way - to see classic and not so classic genre pictures was on broadcast television. As a kid, I remember getting the local TV Guide and a yellow highlighter and systematically going through the listings, marking each and every show time of movies I'd heard about either from friends or ones that were obliquely mentioned in Forry Ackerman's Famous Monsters of Filmland . I would meticulously go over each entry »
- Carnell
Jiang Wen's "Let the Bullets Fly"
2 March 2012 9:21 AM, PST | MUBI | See recent MUBI news »
You can sense that Grady Hendrix, writing for Slate, relishes the fact that "the most savage anti-corruption movie ever made in China, and the most cynical comedy about state-sponsored criminality, has not only received an official release, it has become the most popular Chinese movie of all time. Let the Bullets Fly came out in December 2010 and by the end of January 2011 it had shattered the previous record for highest-grossing Chinese language movie and become the second-highest-grossing movie ever released in China, second only to James Cameron's Avatar."
And now that Bullets has begun its slow roll-out across North America, Hendrix is wondering how Americans (and Canadians) will take to it: "It's rare for a movie this mean-spirited to be such a crowd-pleaser, but Chinese audiences took up the cause of Bullets with a vengeance. Analyses of its symbolism and its fast-paced, double-talk dialogue jammed the Internet. Some critics »
The Forgotten: Uneasy Street
29 February 2012 8:24 PM, PST | MUBI | See recent MUBI news »
Charley Chase is, I suppose, fated to remain outside the first rank of silent comics, and that's probably fair enough: leading the second rank is no disgrace, especially in a field containing authentic geniuses like Chaplin and Keaton. The problem is simply one of amnesia: a lot of people, even among hardcore cinephiles, simply don't have time for anything outside the elite circle of the very best. That's understandable: life is short and film history is both long and broad, but if you're missing Chase you're missing some serious hysteria in your life.
What should help the Chase case is his work with Leo McCarey, an auteur whose star is on the rise, thanks to the availability (at last!) of melancholy masterpiece Make Way for Tomorrow (1937) and the Timeless Classic status of Duck Soup, The Awful Truth and several others. With a bit of scrounging around, official releases can be »
Thoughts on... The Long Riders (1980)
29 January 2012 3:26 AM, PST | Flickeringmyth | See recent Flickeringmyth news »
The Long Riders, 1980.
Directed by Walter Hill.
Starring James Keach, Stacy Keach, David Carradine, Keith Carradine, Robert Carradine, Randy Quaid, Dennis Quaid, Christopher Guest, Nicholas Guest, James Remar and Savannah Smith Boucher.
Synopsis:
The story of the legendary bank raids of the James-Younger Gang.
Last year saw the end of Bin Laden and Gaddafi, and a curious morbidity in certain circles made bloodthirsty calls for pictures of the corpses, the likes of which haven’t been seen since the days of the old West. Back when photographs of bullet-ridden cadavers sold for the price of a keepsake locket, there was one man the collectors wanted to see dead more than any other. Schooled by Quantrill’s Raiders in the probably-not-that-noble art of bushwhacking, his name, of course, was Jesse James.
For the James-Younger gang, Missouri after the Civil War was a mess of unsettled old scores. Knocking off Union-owned banks, »
- flickeringmyth
“California Solo” | director, Marshall Lewy
19 January 2012 12:13 PM, PST | Filmmaker Magazine - Blog | See recent Filmmaker Magazine news »
[Premiere Screening: Wednesday, January 25 9:45 pm –EcclesTheatre, Park City]
I remember watching the end of Hannah and her Sisters as a teenager, when Woody Allen finds out he’s not going to die from a terminal illness and then fails at a suicide attempt. How does he find the will to live again? He walks past a theater where a Marx Brothers comedy is playing, he slips in and loses himself in the magic of Duck Soup, and all his problems melt away.
Of course, right? I mean, what better way for a person to celebrate life than to go sit in a dark room in the middle of the day for two hours and watch other people hit one another over the head on a giant screen?
I used to get choked up at the end of Hannah and her Sisters every time I watched it – which was far more frequently than your average teenager, by the way »
- Filmmaker Staff
Classic Comedy Toppers
17 January 2012 10:00 PM, PST | Leonard Maltin's Movie Crazy | See recent Leonard Maltin's Movie Crazy news »
A movie collectible doesn’t have to be old to appeal to me: it simply has to evoke happy thoughts of a film I care about. I never dreamed anyone would reproduce the fezzes worn by Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy in their classic 1933 comedy Sons of the Desert…but that’s just what Fez-o-Rama has done, along with a model that bears the symbol of Freedonia, the mythical kingdom depicted in the Marx Brothers comedy gem Duck Soup, also from 1933. (I don’t think anyone actually wears such a hat in the film, to the best of my recollection, but let’s not split hairs—pun intended. The fez looks great and so does the Freedonia emblem.) Apparently, the folks at...
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